COVID-19 — Coronavirus

[MillionMilesAway]

Indeed. You can catch viruses through your eyes and ears and any cuts you have (a spot you’ve just popped in the mirror, for example), so these masks are only protective to a certain extent.

My understanding is that for non-specialist use, they're more useful if given to those who already have COVID19, as it reduces the spread of particles from coughing.

 

[1.618034]

I know mate hence the crack about half of us being booked in to Gravitas.

I think you mean Dignitas...

 

[aguero93:20]

I think you mean Dignitas...

No, Gravitas. It's the budget mass-scale version where they just push you off a tall building. Developed to deal with excess of capacity bookings from the former.

 

[denislawsbackheel]

Thing is if your young and healthy and you have cold symptoms will they go to the doctor? Can see it going from 53 to at least 5000 in the next 2 months. It is easier to catch and % wise is more fatal!

Flu in this country though stats wise over the last 10/15 years-

In the UK it is estimated that an average of 600 people a year die from complications of flu. In some years it is estimated that this can rise to over 10,000 deaths (see for example this UK study from 2013 , which estimated over 13,000 deaths resulting from flu in 2008-09).

what study?

 

[Cityfan]

Apparently potential vaccines are currently being tested on animals. Clearly that might identify nasty side effects. But how do they establish if the vaccines are effective if animals can’t catch it?

They can't know until they field test in humans, but they can see if they induce an antibody response which should be protective, though they won't know for certain and as you say they can also look at side effects.

 

[inchy14]

No, Gravitas. It's the budget mass-scale version where they just push you off a tall building. Developed to deal with excess of capacity bookings from the former.

Can we use the bodies to fill in all the fucking potholes around Manchester?

 

[1.618034]

No, Gravitas. It's the budget mass-scale version where they just push you off a tall building. Developed to deal with excess of capacity bookings from the former.

Or...

 

[TheRemainsOfTheDave]

going by Italy's figures this morning they pretty much match at 3.5% of known cases stated by the WHO. 2,260 cases and 79 deaths so far. which is 3.49%

Edit: South Korea though, 5600 cases and only 28 deaths which is down in the 0.5% range

Yes, that's the concern, I think, when they can't trace a patient zero.

 

[denislawsbackheel]

patient zero.

He’s getting about that bastard isn’t he?

 

[Uffa]

Yes, that's the concern, I think, when they can't trace a patient zero.

At this point they have given up tracing a patient zero, they're just trying to reconstruct when the virus arrived in Italy.