That's good to hear. Thanks mate. Probably some other virus I've got but in the current times have to treat any kind of symptoms you have with caution. My 19yr old Grandson who lives with me will be made up, he'll be able to go fishing tomorrow.All negative thankfully. Hope you get better soon
Puttimg aside the issue that many viruses e.g. Ebola are not too fussy about you having to ve old or frail, the actual details of how we get from step A to step Z are rather important.Viruses arrive, spread rapidly, finish off a lot of frail and elderly people, then disappear as the population acquires immunity. I see no reason to believe this one will be any different.
When it's reliable I'm sure it will be, but its pointless having a test that could be wrong, and since it doesn't prove immunity anyway, it could encourage more cummings and goings because people feel safer knowing they've had it.
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Puttimg aside the issue that many viruses e.g. Ebola are not too fussy about you having to ve old or frail, the actual details of how we get from step A to step Z are rather important.
Will this take months or years or many, many years ? Will hundreds of thousands have died? Or millions? Will the economy be completely trashed for years or will it quickly recover?
Your implied "don't worry it will go away eventually" is not exactly reassuring.
And just to add, viruses don't usually go away due to herd immunity. Colds or flu never did, nor Ebola nor HIV. In fact the only one I can think of where herd immunity killed it off is smallpox and that was herd immunity entirely through vaccination. We never developed natural herd immunity to smallpox. I struggle to think of any viruses where humans naturally developed herd immunity. I guess there may be some?
With treatments available that will lessen the numbers who die from the pneumonia element.Covid-19 is here to stay.
What we will do is learn to live with the fact that thousands will die from the pneumonia that sadly develops for the unlucky ones.
With treatments available that will lessen the numbers who die from the pneumonia element.
Its spreading there because their government is more concerned with the economy than people.
That’s always going to be the case, but we have poured bigger resources into this worldwide than ever before which should help us understand these causes of death like flu, pneumonia now covid that cause death in those with other conditions better. Just the trials in different treatment with existing drugs will lead to new methods, any new drugs would be a bonus. Even ICU teams have learnt new techniques from this experience the BBC reporting yesterday that survival rates of ventilated patients have gone up from ,if I remember about 35% to over 50%, less are also going onto ventilation now because of earlier intervention using CPAP machines.Hopefully mate. We have all lost elderly relatives and in my case it's always been 0neumonia in the end in top of existing conditions, strokes, cancer, COPD that has finally overcome them.
Medicine just can't save those people.
After sadly losing seven residents to Covid, it appears that my wifes place is now clear. They had two residents recover, in house, after testing positive. The rest of the residents have now tested negative. They had four members of staff off positive, at one time who'd contracted it in the home. All safely returned to duties and all carers and staff have now received negative test results.
It's amazing how they've managed to contain it. My wife is convinced some this is partly down to having a cleaner with OCD!
It's been a superb team effort and although there's still much work to be done, they should all feel rightly proud of their mindful and focused approach, towards the safety of those in their care.