Coronavirus are you worried?

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So this virus has infected 600+ already and seems to be picking up pace. It’ll be in the UK any day, if it’s not already. AIBU to think this is going to have a big fallout and are you concerned?

amp.theguardian.com/science/live/2020/jan/23/coronavirus-china-virus-flu-scotland-testing-wuhan-live-news-updates

As of this morning, they're reporting 106 deaths and 58 recoveries in China.

You need to provide a source/link with figures like that @WhoWants2Know

Ok have found on BBC
www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-china-51259649
So I’m assuming that’s of the people who were admitted to hospital.

I read an interesting article about Chinese healthcare which does help for some context. They only have hospitals so no doctor’s appointment so literally everyone is going to hospitals (can’t find the link now) and in flu season they often queue overnight. It helps for some context

Yes. Especially for my brother and niece who live in China.

Nope, not worried at all and I’m flying to Hong Kong via mainland with my in-laws and DH for QuingMing in a few weeks. I have family in China and they aren’t worried either.

This site is giving continuous updates and locations of all cases.

gisanddata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/opsdashboard/index.html#/bda7594740fd40299423467b48e9ecf6

@Quartz2208 that is a different perspective on the whole thing

www.nytimes.com/2020/01/27/world/asia/27china-coronavirus-health.html

Found it! It is interesting - I think we look at this from our perspective forgetting how China is still a communist country

Also the infected numbers are jumping far quicker than anything else.

Advice is now not to travel to mainland China at all.

I will be concerned if it spreads within UK as I am immunosuppressed and have loved ones (including DGS) with asthma and a pregnant DD who is a HCP in London with many Chinese patients.

@atomicblonde30 I don't think you will be...

Won’t be what? @KenAdams

After saying I'm not worried, its dawned on me that it could be over here in a few months and ds has his GCSEs this year.

I hate it when we all get I'll at once. We all had noro except dh once. Took two weeks to fully recover, then a further two weeks to get the house properly back to normal.

I'm going to keep a few weeks dried food in just in case. But I'm.still not scared. The death stats so far look the same as flu. Luckily we have no major health issues and rarely get ill ( having four kids and a unprisine house has raised good immune systems so the mud eating as kids might finally pay off!)

The mortality rate may be on a par with flu buy we mitigate our flu deaths risk with vaccines, That isn't currently an option.
But we need to also compare the living conditions of people at greatest risk in China and those at greatest risk here.

The hospital /gp centres being built up is interesting because do they have the medical personnel to staff them if those people are working to capacity already in other centres. I don't imagine China has a load of under utilised or unused nurses and Drs stashed away in a cupboard

Didkdt

The mortality rate may be on a par with flu buy we mitigate our flu deaths risk with vaccines

Except that every year they say they got the wrong strain and that the vaccines were ineffective. It might stop people worrying about catching flu, but doesn't actually stop them catching flu.

The number of infected cases has now exceeded sars at 5327

British Airways has suspended all flights to mainland China.

Finally!

Should have done it ages ago.

56,000 people die every year from flu. That's 153 per day. If flu was just discovered now it would be much more feared and yet people get flu and get on with it.
Flu is also much much more infectious than corona virus.
Unless there is something the Chinese government isn't telling us there is nothing more to worry about than the brain space you give to worrying about flu.
So unless you are elderly or immune compromised no worry at all.

Flu is also much much more infectious than corona virus.

What is this data you seem to have access to that world’s top infectious diseases experts aren’t yet aware of?

It's not me or the infectious disease experts. They agree. The incubation period is 1-2 days. If it were as contagious as flu we would have seen many more cases in many more countries. Experts agree.

More infectious than flu as you can infect for up to 14 days without symptoms!
Plus it gives you viral pneumonia, something that can hospitalise even a fit and young person.

Doctors don't suit up if you go to your GPs with suspected influenza nor do world leaders wear masks at a press conference in HK.

Peppa, I'd like to see some sources to prove your assertions. Which experts?

Doctors don't suit up if you go to your GPs with suspected influenza nor do world leaders wear masks at a press conference in HK.

I think they would if flu had only just been discovered. They don't know the full extent of CV yet. With flu we have methods to deal with it and understand it much more.