COVID-19 — Coronavirus

[Gaylord du Bois]

There's more about it here.
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0924857920301643?via=ihub#

 

[SWP's back]

Apologies mate, I wasn’t clear; I meant deaths not cases.
Having said that, I was still wrong - just checked the JHU dashboard and were are still behind Italy for deaths (just), but ahead of Spain now.

We’re behind both, and Belgium plus a few others on deaths per million population though.

 

[chesterbells]

We’re behind both, and Belgium plus a few others on deaths per million population though.

Yeah, a fairer measure that.

 

[route46]

I understand people want to have had it around christmas, cos that'd be great! It'd mean more would have had it... but I've still not seen any viable explanation why loads of people weren't dying around christmas then too? Why are the death tallies only what they are now? There's gonna have to be some undeniable evidence for many to take it seriously that it was around in the UK then, other than anecdotes about how everyone felt shite around flu season.

Would the virus be noticeable early on or would it be put down to the Flu season?

How do you test for something u don't know exists?

 

[Marvin]

Sir Patrick vallance been speaking to a select committee. Subtext is a 2nd peak and UK is working to mitigate against that.

I closed my FTSE deal for small profit but had to double-up on a dip to do it which was nerve-wracking as I had a large position which was under-water for a while. Going long after the market opened up 90 points was a big call. This is an easy market to trade at the moment but I am very wary of going short now. Don't want to get caught out by Covid news which could massively move the market. You could go short and then get stranded which I don't intend doing.

 

[twosips]

Would the virus be noticeable early on or would it be put down to the Flu season?

How do you test for something u don't know exists?

Regardless of that, there would be excess deaths in the way there is now. There simply wasn't. That's the bit that goes against this idea. Unless there's an explanation for why it wasn't killing people then, but decided to start doing it now, then it doesn't add up.

 

[grunge]

Would the virus be noticeable early on or would it be put down to the Flu season?

How do you test for something u don't know exists?

Once the deaths started spiking above the averages then tests for other pathogens would have kicked in I assume.

but we had less deaths in the 1st 10 weeks of the year than the averages. not more. the spike in deaths started in last week in March.

See graphs of the ONS data.
https://forums.bluemoon-mcfc.co.uk/threads/covid-19-—-coronavirus.344314/page-3832#post-12635839

If we saw a spike like that unexpectedly there is no way they wound't have been testing the hell out of things to work out what killed them.

 

[SilverFox2]

This is the thing I don't understand. Are the immunisuppressents just for kmlatter stage Covid? I am in the most vunerable category because I am using 40mg of Prednisolone. Ored is a steroid that suppresses my immune system in the hope it will stop it attacking my digestive tract.

Do you need a healthy immune system from the off, so it can fight it off, in the hope it does not go mad? Then if it develops too much, they dampen the immune system with suppressents?

Well my daughter who has rare form of arthritis was taking a drug which she self injects daily when she contracted CV. She had all the symptoms. except breathing problems so was treated ftom hospital to her home via 2 hourly apart telephone calls. She recovered without the need to be ventilated.
I understand her drug was normally a cancer drug and was stopped during her illness. Her joints did not give her problems during CV attack so possibly it sufficient in her system to help with CV immune system problem.?

 

[Claytop]

Something we’re good at..



A lot of interesting tweets from him about the data released today.

 

[sir baconface]

Could be fun, not everybody in.my contacts has thier real name.

Is chaddertonslut69 not an actual name then?