COVID-19 — Coronavirus

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denislawsbackheel said:
We don’t know the infection rate.
We only know the rate of infection SERIOUS ENOUGH TO BE REPORTED.
There may be many more so mild it isn’t reported, or not.
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We can only collectively (and incrementally) go off the best available data right now, as we won’t know the ‘true’ R0, infected totals, severe case rate, and CFR until after the outbreak is over... and may be not even then, unfortunately, as depending on where the infection clusters of the virus are ultimately located and whether it becomes an annual pandemic, we may never have truly perfect statistics (much like the Spanish Flu and a few other viral outbreaks in history).

Researchers, doctors, and public health professionals have to use incomplete information in order to make vital, time-sensitive decisions and plan for the future.

I do think it is important to point out obviously incorrect or maliciously false information in this thread, though, to keep everyone on track.
 
Coronavirus was predicted in 1981 as Wuhan-400 | The Eyes of Darkness by Dean Koontz


Not mentioned in above video, Koontz also wrote that it would erupt into the world “around 2020”.
 
SuperstarNeilC said:
Coronavirus was predicted in 1981 as Wuhan-400 | The Eyes of Darkness by Dean Koontz


Not mentioned in above video, Koontz also wrote that it would erupt into the world “around 2020”.
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Coronavirus is a well known virus. There are various forms, ranging from the common cold to SARS and MERS.
 
Imagine booking tickets to Milan a week ago thinking going to watch Inter would be a decent lads trip away.

Timed that and chose the location well.
 
SuperstarNeilC said:
Coronavirus was predicted in 1981 as Wuhan-400 | The Eyes of Darkness by Dean Koontz


Not mentioned in above video, Koontz also wrote that it would erupt into the world “around 2020”.
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covered earlier, it’s a partial fake.

he wrote about a pneumonia decease in 2020, but it wasn’t named Wuhan-400.

edit: sorry had it wrong way round.
 
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denislawsbackheel said:
We don’t know the infection rate.
We only know the rate of infection SERIOUS ENOUGH TO BE REPORTED.
There may be many more so mild it isn’t reported, or not.
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there are a number of modelling techniques used here too based on previous outbreaks of things.

what we do know is known cases are doubling every 6.5/7 days.
 
Not in the best health myself at the moment so going to skip Madrid. Couldn’t be arsed getting coughed on my Ryanair flight haha
 
bobmcfc said:
Just when I thought it might be tapering off we have all this in Italy .
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We had one of the worst possible initial situations: patient 1 (not patient 0) went to the hospital, not having been to China or to a risk zone and not knowing he had the virus. A hospital is one of the worst places to spread a virus.
Then when the cases began to amp up, people and government became way more alert and, by looking for them specifically, discovered a lot more infected people.
Unfortunately we still don't know who the hell is patient 0.
 
Uffa said:
We had one of the worst possible initial situations: patient 1 (not patient 0) went to the hospital, not having been to China or to a risk zone and not knowing he had the virus. A hospital is one of the worst places to spread a virus.
Then when the cases began to amp up, people and government became way more alert and, by looking for them specifically, discovered a lot more infected people.
Unfortunately we still don't know who the hell is patient 0.
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My husband was supposed to be meeting clients who were coming in from Italy this morning. I’ve had to ring him and let him know about the breaking news this morning regarding anyone coming from northern Italy being told to self isolate. He has no idea if they have travelled or not yet. I’m pretty worried incase they ignore the advise and travel anyway
 
Zombie apocalypse inbound, would t surprise me if champions league gets cancelled this year if we make it to the final
 
Just been trying to call him. If he met with them I think I’m going to have to banish him to a Travelodge for the next 2 weeks
 
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