AIBU to ask if you are worried about the new coronavirus? - continued

[IvyBush123]

Here is the old thread:
www.mumsnet.com/Talk/am_i_being_unreasonable/3813759-AIBU-to-ask-you-if-you-are-worried-about-the-new-Coronavirus?pg=40

Here is a twitter video from Wuhan I want to share because it so heartbreaking. People happily celebrating shortly before it became known that there was a virus outbreak. There already were some rumors but people didn’t believe them:
twitter.com/WLaowai8/status/1225637845508837377

@Yourtunbridgewells: The info you are sharing (472000 deaths in the UK) is very scary. Is this a worst case scenario.

@justdeckingthehalls: Epidemiologist Eric Feigl-Ding writes that it is airborne on twitter: twitter.com/DrEricDing/status/1226236552059260928
N95 masks help against airborne transmission don’t they?

Where did you hear that watersheep? That is reassuring

Zorona on the Guardian

The man from Brighton thought to have passed the coronavirus to at least 11 other people after attending a conference in Singapore has issued a statement via St Thomas’s Hospital in London, where he is in quarantine. Steve Walsh, 53, said he had fully recovered.

Also mentioned on Sky News: news.sky.com/story/identity-of-man-linked-to-11-british-coronavirus-cases-revealed-11931336

The poor chap must feel awful. Mentally, I mean

The poor chap must feel awful. Mentally, I mean

I agree. I can only imagine how guilty you would feel thinking about how many people you have been in contact with, and potentially infected, prior to self isolatation.

He seems to have got better very quickly? does that mean he had a mild case?

Also reports from Wuhan are that this infection takes a month to kill and leaves many survivors in a terrible state.

Are people registered as ‘recovered’ if they made it out alive but are in massive lung distress? What’s the criteria?

He seems to have got better very quickly? does that mean he had a mild case?

According to the Sky article, he caught it during a conference that took place 20th and 23rd January and infected those in the chalet between 24 and 28th January, so he's had it a few weeks.

I don't think he was ever said to have severe symptoms.

I think I read that you are 'recovered' if you test negative twice in a row (I think the tests are to be 24 or 48 hours apart - can't remember exactly, hopefully someone else can confirm).

@lemon

So if you’re tested twice and it’s negative but you’re in chronic lung distress then you’re considered ‘recovered’? Sounds dodgy

Yeah, I think it's less 'recovered' and more 'probably no longer infectious'.

According to this article, China is considering someone recovered if they haven't had a fever for a number of days ...

I’m not going to stop freaking out until we see the realities of these survivors. Why are none of them speaking out?

The footage leaked from china is terrifying

How much info do we have on people having mild cases and recovering? The thing that worries me is we hear reports on coronovirus cases, then all goes quiet. No update on their condition improving.

Guardian article this morning with quotes from guy who spread it from Singapore to France etc, has recovered and is fine.

I mean really, did you mean to sound so fucking racist and stupid?!

ah thanks lemonjumper for that info.

'No longer infectious' has got to be good, but as others have said we don't know how the virus leaves people afterwards.

The cruise ship will be a decent test to see what types of people get ill from this and how much it spreads/death rate outside of China

Early reports have stated that it seems to affect males more than females

Might this be because women have less access to medical care in China? I don't know, it just occurred to me that perhaps women are less valued.

There’s also less women than men in China.
But I believe that’s been accounted for and it is still disproportionality affecting men.

Thanks for the second thread. Checking in.

I heard it has to do with certain receptor (called ACE2) and that men have more of those than women and whites have less of those than Asians (or Africans for that matter). I heard white people if Jewish ancestry had the lowest amount of those receptors.
I heard it on twitter and am not sure if this is true. Even if true it does not mean that all whites are immune. The user who twittered it said over 90 percent of Asians had a high amount of that receptors but 30 percent of whites of non Jewish ancestry and 10 percent of whites of Jewish ancestry had an high amount of those receptors.

I am not sure if it is true. Just something I heard on twitter.

If diabetes and high blood pressure runs in your family you most likely have a high amount of those receptors because they also increase you diabetes risk. Wonder if they have any benefits apart from making you Probe to diabetes and high blood pressure and to catching the corona virus. Why do so many Asian men have them?