News Coronavirus Thread

[TennisPlayerAndy]

Easter Saturday

A month too late
Of all the things to happen we cop a bloody pandemic

**** that’s just downright unlucky. I feel for you!

Mine’s the end of October. This shit better be figured out by then.

 

[DesertRoo]

That seems a big assumption - we're not testing anyone with symptoms unless they came from overseas or are linked to a direct confirmed case. It is very reliant on the assumption that we know the confirmed cases.

When target testing is not showing high numbers of returns, I’d expect blanket testing would show less returns.

Should we be testing more?

Absolutely, the more testing the less chance of a break out. But I believe at the moment, they can pretty much track how all the cases are spreading.

 

[Pykie]

That why they weren’t reporting today.

QLD have just reported 50 new cases or a 53% increase since yesterday. They now have close to the same cases as VIC.

 

[year of the roo]

Does QLD have more confirmed cases than Syria JeanLucGoddard?

 

[Passmore]

Hopefully the footy gates will be open, come finals time.

If we’re in them yes. If not, keep ‘em locked.

 

[shintemaster]

When target testing is not showing high numbers of returns, I’d expect blanket testing would show less returns.

I'm not talking about blanket testing. We are painting a very small target that assumes no community spread - which we know isn't true.

 

[Del191229]

..........according to you.

If people want irrelevant hysteria then they are free to take in your bullshit, but don't even begin to think you can school me on this.

 

[Pykie]

WA update.

Which means we’ve basically hit 25% again nationally.

 

[Pykie]

This chart has been almost spot on for the last 3 days.

 

[danj]

Get your peepers on this GG.

Hot off the presses:

Relationship between the ABO Blood Group and the COVID-19 Susceptibility

RESULTS

The ABO group in 3694 normal people in Wuhan showed a distribution of 32.16%, 24.90%, 9.10% and 33.84% for A, B, AB and O, respectively, versus the distribution of 37.75%, 26.42%, 10.03% and 25.80% for A, B, AB and O, respectively, in 1,775 COVID-19 patients from Wuhan Jinyintan Hospital. The proportion of blood group A and O in COVID-19 patients were significantly higher and lower, respectively, than that in normal people (both P < 0.001). Similar ABO distribution pattern was observed in 398 patients from another two hospitals in Wuhan and Shenzhen. Meta-analyses on the pooled data showed that blood group A had a significantly higher risk for COVID-19 (odds ratio-OR, 1.20; 95% confidence interval-CI 1.02~1.43, P = 0.02) compared with non-A blood groups, whereas blood group O had a significantly lower risk for the infectious disease (OR, 0.67; 95% CI 0.60~0.75, P < 0.001) compared with non-O blood groups. In addition, the influence of age and gender on the ABO blood group distribution in patients with COVID-19 from two Wuhan hospitals (1,888 patients) were analyzed and found that age and gender do not have much effect on the distribution.

CONCLUSION

People with blood group A have a significantly higher risk for acquiring COVID-19 compared with non-A blood groups, whereas blood group O has a significantly lower risk for the infection compared with non-O blood groups.

Insert A...O instead of Hey Ho. it kind of works...

 

[krakouers]

Insert A...O instead of Hey Ho. it kind of works...

Blitzkrieg (flu) Shot?

 

[DesertRoo]

Redirect Notice

www.google.com

Billionaire entrepreneur Mark Cuban told CNBC on Wednesday that companies that get federal assistance in response to the coronavirus crisis should be prevented from buying back stock ever again.

"No buybacks. Not now. Not a year from now. Not 20 years from now. Not ever," Cuban said Because effectively you're spending taxpayer money to buyback stock and to me that's just the wrong way to do that."

 

[ozzyoslo]

Over 2,500 Italians, almost all older have died from the virus in the last three weeks.

Even on the most optimistic forecast, this thing is 10 times more lethal than seasonal flu and at least equally as infectious but without a vaccine. It is at least 10 times more dangerous to older Australians than the flu.

thats the reason why its going crazy there many younger people come in contact more often than most there with their grand parents etc

 

[Val Keating]

 

[DesertRoo]

 

[DesertRoo]

Kaaba, Mecca

normally looks like..

 

[giantroo]

Kaaba, Mecca

normally looks like..

The two holy mosques are still open but the locals are praying on the second levels. All other mosques in the country have been closed.

 

[Pykie]

 

[GarnerSmash]

709 cases in Aus now.

 

[koshari]

good old capitalism moving into full swing, "privatise the profits and socialise the losses"

 

[Val Keating]

good old capitalism moving into full swing, "privatise the profits and socialise the losses"

That’s not capitalism, it’s corporate socialism

 

[DesertRoo]

Should we be testing more?

Just following up on this, I posted about this town a while ago.. basically they were able to stop the spread to the point, of nothing now, by simple strategy of test, test and test..

Aggressive testing helps Italian town cut new coronavirus cases to zero

Experiment in Vò underscores WHO’s message to ‘test, test, test’

amp.ft.com

An infection control experiment that was rolled out in a small Italian community at the start of Europe’s coronavirus crisis has stopped all new infections in the town that was at the centre of the country’s outbreak.

Through testing and retesting of all 3,300 inhabitants of the town of Vò, near Venice, regardless of whether they were exhibiting symptoms, and rigorous quarantining of their contacts once infection was confirmed, health authorities have been able to completely stop the spread of the illness there.

 

[Val Keating]

Just following up on this, I posted about this town a while ago.. basically they were able to stop the spread to the point, to the point of nothing now, by simple strategy of test, test and test..

Aggressive testing helps Italian town cut new coronavirus cases to zero

Experiment in Vò underscores WHO’s message to ‘test, test, test’

amp.ft.com

An infection control experiment that was rolled out in a small Italian community at the start of Europe’s coronavirus crisis has stopped all new infections in the town that was at the centre of the country’s outbreak.

Through testing and retesting of all 3,300 inhabitants of the town of Vò, near Venice, regardless of whether they were exhibiting symptoms, and rigorous quarantining of their contacts once infection was confirmed, health authorities have been able to completely stop the spread of the illness there.

That’s cool, but don’t they have to completely remain isolated until a vacation is available? Approx time on Vaccine availability is 12~18 months away. It would only take one infected person to enter the town to start a breakout. How long are they planning to isolate?

Edit- or are they waiting on herd immunity and the virus to fizzle out?

 

[Snake_Baker]

..........and it finally arrives.

https://edition.cnn.com/2020/03/18/world/coronavirus-and-climate-crisis-response-intl-hnk/index.html

 

[DesertRoo]

That’s cool, but don’t they have to completely remain isolated until a vacation is available? Approx time on Vaccine availability is 12~18 months away. It would only take one infected person to enter the town to start a breakout. How long are they planning to isolate?

Edit- or are they waiting on herd immunity and the virus to fizzle out?

Wait what?
it’s showing a strategy in containing the virus. If they can identify and isolate the carriers before they become sick, it’s easier to track and identify spread.

Singapore has similar thing in place but all they do is check temps, anyone who goes over 38 is isolated. So they check all over, entering shopping malls, train stations, schools.

strategy is not hard to implement.