COVID-19 — Coronavirus

[BosnianBlue]

I would disagree that the health system is awful, it's just insanely expensive. A lot of middle American Trumpers will be getting a shock, that's for sure

yeah, that's what I thought. It's obvious good if you have the money, but it's out of range for lot of Americans.

 

[idahoblues]

The US healthcare system itself is one of the best in the world.

As you allude to, it’s the access to healthcare in the US (which is just as, if not more important), that is a shambles.

How is access difficult?

 

[kaz7]

The coronavirus outbreak has now been declared a pandemic by the World Health Organisation (WHO).

According to the WHO website, a pandemic is defined as the worldwide spread of a new disease.


It can also refer to a disease which is prevalent over a whole country.

In contrast to a pandemic, an epidemic refers to the spread of illness in a "community or region...clearly in excess of normal expectancy".

According to a 2017 report, the WHO has four phases to describe the outbreak of a pandemic

According to a 2017 report, the WHO has four phases to describe the outbreak of a pandemic.

• Interpandemic phase - this is the period between pandemics
• Alert phase - this is when a new virus has been identified and risk assessments are carried out at local, national and global levels
• Pandemic phase - this is the period of global spread of the virus. Some experts say this is obviously happening with coronavirus.
• Transition phase - this is when the global risk reduces and countries begin to recover

https://news.sky.com/story/coronavirus-number-of-uk-cases-rises-to-456-11955298

 

[TheRemainsOfTheDave]

Italy death toll jumps alarmingly again.

Where are you seeing the data? Thought they were holding their daily briefing at 5pm GMT.

 

[The blue phantom]

You get the feeling this guy is telling every country to get their act together as this is fuckin serious. He ain't pulling any punches.

This is from the head of the World health organisation.

 

[PragueBlue]

Just thought it might be possible to identify a statistically significant sample of people who had been in the same environment for a few days. Might provide useful information

Diamond Princess passengers? Perhaps not a large enough group but the only one where we know accurate figures.

 

[SebastianBlue]

How is access difficult?

I was referring to the healthcare coverage setup in the US, as you referenced.

It creates barriers to healthcare that do not exist for most other developed nations in the world.

 

[kaz7]

Where are you seeing the data? Thought they were holding their daily briefing at 5pm GMT.

Just said it on sky

 

[Tricky_Trev]

Where are you seeing the data? Thought they were holding their daily briefing at 5pm GMT.

Watching Sky News. From memory I think it jumped up by about 150 deaths, maybe more.

 

[SebastianBlue]

I don't know about that. It seemed like a thinly veiled attack on certain governments to me.

I don’t think it was thinly veiled, mate. But I am not sure how that makes my post any less true?