to be worried about coronavirus part 3

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starting this in case ivybush is busy

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So that makes a total 3 deaths from Diamond Princess

www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/#countries

Do we have any news on the one case in Britain that was still in hospital?

I remember with the swine flu outbreak the government issued lots of planning that was happening. They had a massive stick of tamiflu which would be issued for any swine flu cases. It was reassuring that there was a treatment plan in place. The worrying thing with coronovirus is that there isn’t really any treatment. Once you are admitted to icu I wonder what the chances are of recovery at that point

*stock, not stick

The remaining case in a UK hospital is the Uber lady I think? Presumably there won’t be any announcements until there’s an outcome - hopefully of recovery and discharge from hospital.

The Iranian health minister has said that their outbreak started with a “merchant from Qom”, now deceased from the virus, who travelled frequently to and from China.

It is puzzling that WHO person mentioned Italy should have stopped flights. I can't seem to find his comments now. But have I misunderstood that their position all along has been don't panic and cut countries off?

Any news on the Abel's today?

Here are the comments re Italy from Walter Ricciardi of the WHO.

I wonder whether Ricciardi’s remarks are the official line of the WHO - perhaps, since he is Italian, he has been asked questions there and expressed personal views.

I was also wondering about the Abels today in light of another death from the ship

The new Diamond Princess death was a man in his 80s (so not David Abel, 74). I haven’t seen further news of the Abels’ condition.

Of Italy’s 134 known cases, “at least” 26 are in critical condition according to Worldometers. Up from 18 as of yesterday.

Thanks @LarkDescending.

I read a short quote and misunderstood his wider meaning. He is unambiguously saying Italy should have followed WHO advice re flights from China!

I'm not sure he's right about UK. I think we were perhaps lucky Brighton man reported himself as a contact. Again maybe I've missed if UK authorities did actually trace him after Singapore informed them.

The Singaporean government seems most transparent at a superficial glance.

The young Chinese doctor who has died aged 29, she had been ill for a month. So I am very worried that this virus actually has a much higher death rate, but because it can take people a month or more to die, we are not seeing those figures yet.
Is there any reassuring data on infected people recovering ?

See Singapore figures - look positive.

Stupid question probably but where does worldometers get its info from? Does it have to be a verified official source?

Come on everyone this is such mass hysteria and overreaction. Flu has chalked up far more deaths this season.

Come on everyone this is such mass hysteria and overreaction. Flu has chalked up far more deaths this season.

@MrFumble this is in no way similar to flu.

A fact can be true and irrelevant at the same time.

Flu has a much lower death rate. Also flu does not normally kill young people. Yes, we have a higher number of deaths from flu so far, because the flu season has been around for some months. That doesn’t mean that taking this very seriously is hysteria, everything is pointing to a pandemic now.

Come on everyone this is such mass hysteria and overreaction.

Even if it is, that doesn't mean it won't cause problems. Italy has closed schools, and told people not to go to work. That will have consequences and it's bizarre to think it won't. Maybe it won't ever happen here, but I imagine the people currently on lockdown in Italy didn't think it would happen there until about 48-72 hours ago.

Any news on the Abel's today?

The son and daughter in law are streaming on the YouTube channel at the moment- . I haven't watched it, but they both seem in good spirits so I assume the parents are getting on OK.

Do the people who think it's an over reaction ever give a rationale for why countries take these supposedly extreme measures? Countries do not self sabotage for no reason.

A cold can kill if you have never come across it and that is what is so dangerous about this we have no antibodies or immunity to it

Flu we get vaccinated against and the majority have come across before so we have a blueprint of how to deal with it so the infection rate is much lower.

So the infection rate is higher and that’s the issue. Personally I don’t think we will know if it has a higher mortality rate til much later because of the sheer numbers infected

That said thankfully it is like Bird flu that one is scary