COVID-19 — Coronavirus

[UUJblue]

Spain 6100 new cases down from 8100 yesterday and 616 deaths down from over 900 yesterday - lowest since 23rd March.

Are they getting a grip?

 

[grunge]

I'm still loving the idea that this virus can be controlled by current measures.

- At least 20% of those infected are asymptomatic. So they never show any symptoms at all, yet can still infect others. Worse still, evidence is starting to suggest that this figure may be much higher.

- it's looking like the virus can be passed to others up to 18 feet away! So the 6 foot exclusion range is only about 90% effective.

- Thanks to the great and the good in PHE and NHS, the UK has a doctrine of not wearing facemasks. (Apparantly in the immediate response to a possible outbreak of SARS it would have cost the UK too much to keep a stock of them.) So we dont protect those people we meet by wearing one. They only give the wearer 80% protection, but that's not the point - THEY PROTECT OTHERS FROM YOU. There is a reason surgical teams wear them to protect the patient! From the lunchtime news, I also see the BBC is still trying to keep the doctrine going - it is truely pathetic.

And they think testing can control it? Maybe iin a country like China where human rights dont exit, it is an aid. But it won't do much here (except for health service staff of course). To stand a chance you would have to quintruple the level of testing in Germany! The country lauded as doing very well.

The sooner they extract blood plasma from blood donated from survivors and inject it into people at risk the better. Until we get a vacine this is the only way it an be contained and it's effect minimised.

Do you have links for the 18 feet thing please?

 

[marco]

Spain 6100 new cases down from 8100 yesterday and 616 deaths down from over 900 yesterday - lowest since 23rd March.

Are they getting a grip?

Thats good news,i thought it would start to drop now the isolation period is kicking in

 

[AlgarveBlu]

Spain 6100 new cases down from 8100 yesterday and 616 deaths down from over 900 yesterday - lowest since 23rd March.

Are they getting a grip?

That's not current data - was 965 passed away today but infection rate improving

 

[AlgarveBlu]

A new tragic milestone reached with the youngest person to die as 6 week old baby passes away in Conneticut - unknown if there were any underlying issues

https://www.irishpost.com/news/six-...-youngest-person-world-die-coronavirus-182785

 

[kaz7]

COVID-19 testing machines that can make a diagnosis in less than 90 minutes are to be rolled out across the UK.

Ten of the portable machines, called Samba II, are already being used to diagnose coronavirus patients at Addenbrooke's Hospital in Cambridge as of this week.

Developed by a University of Cambridge spin-off company called Diagnostics for the Real World, researchers said their COVID-19 tests had been validated by Public Health England (PHE) - and that they were expected to be launched in hospitals across the country

Researchers said the Samba II - originally developed for early HIV diagnosis - is "extremely sensitive" at detecting active infections, with 98.7% of people correctly identified as having COVID-19

Nasal and throat swabs from patients are loaded into the machines which look for tiny traces of genetic material belonging to the coronavirus.

The machines will be used to test NHS staff and members of the public suspected of having COVID-19

https://news.sky.com/story/coronavi...-accuracy-to-be-rolled-out-across-uk-11967401

 

[johnmc]

569 today

 

[sir baconface]

569 today

What and where?

 

[UUJblue]

That's not current data - was 965 passed away today but infection rate improving

Yeah radio just said over 950 but their gov website -https://covid19.isciii.es/ says different. But yes growth rates are dropping

 

[hilts]

What and where?

U.K. deaths