COVID-19 — Coronavirus

[SebastianBlue]

So forgive me if I’m wrong. Once you have the virus and develop antibodies for it, you’ll become immune to it?
Having had the virus you could become a sleeping time bomb (when ever you have a cold, sneezes or coughs this virus will always be in your system).
My thoughts are, unless a vaccine is found this virus will keep coming back until everyone has been infected.

Something like the Spanish/ Dutch/ British and Portugués voyages in the 15th 16th centuries?

I was a bit confused about that section - does that mean it’s airborne or just stays suspended in the air in droplets from coughs and sneezes? I naively thought the droplets would drop to whichever surface they landed on.

Current findings are iffy about the possibility of reinfection or dormant transmission and from what I have seen from WHO, HERE, CDC, and NIH, there is very little indication that those that have recovered spread the virus (unless they are infected with a second, different strain).

Transmission seems to occur only during the periods of incubation and illness, like many other similar viruses.

However, the WHO has stated many times they they do worry that the virus will become endemic, leading us to need to change ‘cold and flu season’ to ‘cold, flu, and COVID-19’ season. That is because, like other coronaviruses, this strain will mutate and eventually become another strain that our bodies do not have sufficient antibodies to combat.

For now, it think it is just safe to assume current guidance is fairly accurate to the best way to prevent transmission and infection.

 

[SWP's back]

Weren’t there reports that some Chinese had contracted it more than once or was that misinformation?

Still confusion at present.

 

[Mid Wales blue]

What about it bud?

I don’t know! That’s why I put a ? Wasn’t it one of the viral diseases carried to the new world?

 

[Ban-jani]

Still confusion at present.

Guessed so, reading that had me worried.

It would make it infinitely worse if it was the case.

We need a vaccine ASAP.

 

[Fordyboy46]

May as well just close them for the 3 weeks then I suppose. A nice 5-week holiday!

It would be terrible mate, lol.

 

[SWP's back]

I don’t know! That’s why I put a ? Wasn’t it one of the viral diseases carried to the new world?

Oh right yeah. It wiped out half of South America. It was eradicated in the 60’s though thanks to vaccines.

 

[SebastianBlue]

I was a bit confused about that section - does that mean it’s airborne or just stays suspended in the air in droplets from coughs and sneezes? I naively thought the droplets would drop to whichever surface they landed on.

Aerosol testing means they were looking to see if the virus could be detected in the air (rather then just on surfaces) after initial introduction, which unfortunately it could be.

They found that viable virus could be detected up to three hours later in the air

 

[PragueBlue]

It would be terrible mate, lol.

It would be great for me to have 5 weeks not having to get up to take the kids to school!!

 

[Fordyboy46]

It would be great for me to have 5 weeks not having to get up to take the kids to school!!

But on the flip side you'd have them at home all day.

 

[Vic]

I think all of the figures for the uk are wrong. They are barely testing anyone - pretty much only people who have been to places like China or Italy.

the 111 questionnaire is ridiculous

26000 tested - presumably mostly of people who are aware of some risk - and 25700 not infected.