COVID-19 — Coronavirus

[Cityfan]

Viral load is most commonly used by virologists etc to refer to the amount of virus an infected person has if you can estimate it during the infection. In this respect it is related to severity of the illness.

Viral load is sometimes used to refer to the initial dose which someone is infected with and is often referred to like this in the press. There is almost certainly a threshold below which most people won't become infected. Whether or not if you go above this the dose is related to the severity of the infection is uncertain. This includes whether you get multiple doses from different people or from one person.

 

[Mon Autre]

Not sure football behind closed doors would be a great idea, what are everyone’s thoughts on this?

Football being played out behind closed doors is nothing more than a business arrangement. They could declare Liverpool champions tomorrow for me but this is all about deciding champs league spots and relegation spots so the people involved can decide how to divvy up the obscene levels of wealth they're fighting over. Them pretending that this is something fans should give a shit about is getting on my nerves if anything.

 

[A J Styles]

I understand from previous posts that a few on here, Karen7 being one I have seen that some believe they could have caught it from the trip to Wembley and that was the 1st March

I came back from the Madrid game on the 28th Feb, the game was the 26th Feb and from then I had a cough like I have never had before for a good three weeks. I also had a few night sweats where I was drenched and had to get up and have a shower. A few loose shits but no other symptoms.

At the time I put this down to excess of Madrid and the games afterwards as I went to Wembley and i also went to the Derby game and we make occasions of them. The virus was then starting to et headlines but we will never know

Maybe I am clinging

I'm the same as you with the maybe had, maybe haven't category. I went Madrid and Wembley like yourself but the night of the Sheff Weds cup game, started to feel a bit of a cold coming on. Woke up the next day whole body was aching with a bit of a dodgy throat which got worse throughout the day till I got sent home from work, with a very very high temperature yet shivering. The thing I don't get is the bad symptoms only lasted maybe a day or so but I had a really chesty cough for a week and I couldn't run with it at all and no one in my house ended up with anything either.

 

[route46]

No, that's not what I am telling you.

If there's 100 people in the room and 1 person is infected, then you don't get double the viral load if there are 2 infected people in the room. You just have double the chance of chatting with 1 of them.

And apart from anything else, there's debate about whether viral load is even a factor.

I have not asked the chances of you coming into contact with an infected person

I asked if you come into contact with 10 infected people is the viral load the same as coming into contact with 1​

 

[Cityfan]

I have not asked the chances of you coming into contact with an infected person

I asked if you come into contact with 10 infected people is the viral load the same as coming into contact with 1​

See my post above.

 

[Fame Monster]

People returning from holiday in Italy and Spain at half term should have been quarantined. Both countries had enough cases to warrant it. But nothing was done. Worse, air travel is STILL an open door.
I know the advice from SAGE was it only delayed things by a month but the advice was bad then and is clearly dreadful when looking through the 20-20 hindsight retrospectoscope.

I'm glad even the staunchest defenders of the Gov't are even beginning to see the truth and be critical of them. Well, almost :)

 

[hgblue]

I'm glad even the staunchest defenders of the Gov't are even beginning to see the truth and be critical of them. Well, almost :)

Mustn’t take the bait ;)

 

[The Light Was Yellow Sir]

And probably why nearly 1 month after the peak and 6 full weeks after lockdown, we still have 400 people dying every day. A 100% lockdown would have resulted in zero deaths per day at this point. I know that was never practicable, I am just putting it out there.

Quite a few thousand more would have starved to death though.

 

[route46]

See my post above.

Could the virus not have been around in Jan with people getting minimal virus loads? minimal virus load 0.1% death rate

Come March u are now getting a higher virus load not just off the Missus but the Butcher the Supermarket worker the Pub landlord etc now the death rate has jumped to 1%

Or am I just barking up the wrong tree?

 

[west didsblue]

I understand from previous posts that a few on here, Karen7 being one I have seen that some believe they could have caught it from the trip to Wembley and that was the 1st March

I came back from the Madrid game on the 28th Feb, the game was the 26th Feb and from then I had a cough like I have never had before for a good three weeks. I also had a few night sweats where I was drenched and had to get up and have a shower. A few loose shits but no other symptoms.

At the time I put this down to excess of Madrid and the games afterwards as I went to Wembley and i also went to the Derby game and we make occasions of them. The virus was then starting to et headlines but we will never know

Maybe I am clinging

Sounds like you’re the one that spread it round Wembley ;-)