COVID-19 — Coronavirus

[DrBlueBob]

hm, not sure. if anything wind would keep it even longer in the air. My hometown is pretty windy too and it's nothing better than other places.

I don't disagree I just had the thought.
My thoughts are still with BosnianBlue jr by the way.

 

[partickthistlelad]

Even if it eases over the summer I think it will come back with a vengeance unfortunately about November time
Until we get a vaccine readily available I won’t fully relax and that’s pets good 18 months away unfortunately

 

[BosnianBlue]

I suppose it depends how accurate the 35,000 tests were.

Have'nt we had thousands of tests that turned out to be useless?

You were pretty unique in that, tbh. Guess Boris was buying it from Del Boy and Rodney.

 

[Rammy Blue]

Even if we did want that testing would bd the only way to find out if it had happened.

Yes, but it’ll be far too late to make any impact in this initial phase.

 

[marco]

crazy=a live feed from Denver anti lockdown meet

 

[BosnianBlue]

crazy=a live feed from Denver anti lockdown meet

the times when you miss good old Kim Yong Un and his bazooka squad.

 

[kaz7]

Lots of debate about whether we can find a vaccine.

An equally important question - maybe even more important - is whether we can find a treatment.

It's a bit of a mystery as to why it kills some people - on accession even young, fit and healthy people - and yet for others they get mild symptoms.

If we can figure that out, and develop a treatment such that if you catch this, you pop down to the docs and he/she says "take 2 of these tablets 3 times a day and come back in a fortnight if it's not cleared up" - then it won't matter whether we have a vaccine if not.

If we can get to a situation where it's no more deadly than flu, then we can get back to normal, vaccine or no vaccine.

Can't treat a virus chips,if we could we would have by now

 

[kaz7]

crazy=a live feed from Denver anti lockdown meet

Well done trump,your instructions to breakout against the governors who are trying to take your rights and your guns will lead to people dying and governors getting attacked,someone please do the right thing

 

[Fame Monster]

Hopefully the UK curve should start rising a lot more slowly now we've possibly reached the peak.

 

[Gaylord du Bois]

Is there any point in testing say, 10000 people that haven't presented any symptoms? Or am I missing something ?
I thought testing was only of use once the symptoms were present.

 

[BlueHammer85]

Because we don’t intend mass testing, we want people getting the virus.

so why have we shut everything down ?

 

[davek1808]

so why have we shut everything down ?

So the NHS can cope, things were moving too fast.

 

[Manc in London]

There's also the strong possibility that SARS-CoV-2 will continue to mutate.

Not sure what point you are trying to make.

 

[BlueAnorak]

Hopefully the UK curve should start rising a lot more slowly now we've possibly reached the peak.

Ah, a10th death map.
Let's hope so.

 

[kaz7]

Not sure what point you are trying to make.

That was what the link said not me,i think we were talking about finding a vaccine

 

[marco]

Is there any point in testing say, 10000 people that haven't presented any symptoms? Or am I missing something ?
I thought testing was only of use once the symptoms were present.

maybe watch the Dr campbel video if you havent seen it,it looks like more people have had this than expected and they have only found this because of testing, those tested in the figure you mention 50% of them could have antibodies, were going for the herd unless otherwise a vacine pops up,so yes the testing is very important

 

[Manc in London]

That was what the link said not me,i think we were talking about finding a vaccine

A virus can mutate and essentially be the same thing. I am not a virologist but everything I have heard from qualified experts suggests they are confident that the virus is stable.

 

[BlueAnorak]

Is there any point in testing say, 10000 people that haven't presented any symptoms? Or am I missing something ?
I thought testing was only of use once the symptoms were present.

They've done this using the expensive test machines at Porton Down and Oxford and Cambridge labs. An antibody rate consistent with 4% of the population was obtained - which suggests that 2 weeks later it is now around 8% of the population who have had the disease.

 

[kaz7]

A virus can mutate and essentially be the same thing. I am not a virologist but everything I have heard from qualified experts suggests they are confident that the virus is stable.

But it has mutated once to get from animals to humans,does that mean it will not change again?

 

[marco]

But it has mutated once to get from animals to humans,does that mean it will not change again?

type S and L, was this proven Karren