To be worried about coronavirus part 9

[GPwife2411]

A new thread - will delete if another one is around, I can't see any.

Previous thread www.mumsnet.com/Talk/am_i_being_unreasonable/3836309-To-be-worried-about-Coronavirus-Part-8

updated data on this page every day at 2pm until further notice.
www.gov.uk/guidance/coronavirus-covid-19-information-for-the-public#number-of-cases

It's not just like flu www.theguardian.com/world/2020/mar/01/yes-it-is-worse-than-the-flu-busting-the-coronavirus-myths

Why WHO not declaring a pandemic www.newscientist.com/article/2235342-covid-19-why-wont-the-who-officially-declare-a-coronavirus-pandemic/

Worldometer www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/#countries

BNO News bnonews.com/index.php/2020/02/the-latest-coronavirus-cases/

Link to WHO report www.who.int/emergencies/diseases/novel-coronavirus-2019

The Lancet coronavirus hub - latest research and comment www.thelancet.com/coronavirus

JAMA coronavirus research centre jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/pages/coronavirus-alert edited by MNHQ at OP's request

One good trick with pasta is to chill for 24 hours then reheat it and eat it the next day, not the day you cook it - makes its GI and blood sugar spike much smaller.

www.diabetes.org.uk/guide-to-diabetes/enjoy-food/carbohydrates-and-diabetes/carbs-and-cooking

And good luck (if that's appropriate) with your test @HopeIDont .

First case here in NYC confirmed.

We just went grocery shopping - shelves looking a bit bare but it's Sunday. However I think the type of things that are selling out show people are taking this seriously now. Big packs of loo paper pretty much all gone. Not much rice. Still loads of fresh and tinned stuff overall though.

We got the last long life milk, had to settle for bloody fat free but it'll do in a pinch

A second death has been reported in the USA.

Currently in an A n E in Dublin. Waiting to see if my nose 'tampon' has worked or if I'll need my nose cauterised. Warfarin is a crappy drug! Anyway one of the nurses told me that there were no paperups anywhere in the hospital last week! What hope have we if Corona Virus spreads?? And the acute area I was admitted to first had us doubled up two to a cubicle! Where I am now there are patients on trollies lined up against the walls! I'm lucky in that I now have a cubicle to myself! Madness.

Best guesses that maybe 1500 people so far also infected where US hasn't been detecting cases.

Its something like 30m have no health insurance in the US because the US charge a fucking fortune for life saving medicines and treatments,making the great ol' U S of A a huge risk for this getting out of control.

Korea sounds overwhelmed with three having died queueing waiting for beds. This is a travesty.

Back sharing a cubicle now! Woman with an awful cough on a nebuliser.

Holly. Poor woman. You are not at risk from her if shes coughing into a nebuliser. Try not to worry. Although I wouldn't want to be sharing a cubicle!

Keep your back turned.

@Hollyhobbi well that doesn’t sound like a fun time on many different levels. Here’s hoping they get you sorted and home soon!

Unfortunately I'd be 99% sure she's a smoker judging by the cough, the wrinkles and the smell of smoke, so it's self inflicted and not Corona Virus! I definitely wouldn't like to be in the US though. Their health system is scary!

Self inflicted or not, shes struggling to breath if shes on a nebuliser. Poor woman.

I hope you are treated and free to go soon

She's off the nebuliser now and well able to talk to her son do it did the job for her. Just back from a trip to the loo and there is no soap in the dispenser! Had to get soap in the men's loo next door!! For Pete's sake. I can't wait to go home and get some sleep.

#USA- #CORONAVIRUS PATIENT ‘MISTAKENLY’ RELEASED FROM ISOLATION IN #SanAntonio, #TEXAS WAS POSITIVE FOR CORONAVIRUS.

#FLORIDA- 2 cases of #coronavirus

Washington state health officials report second U.S. death from coronavirus t.co/SVvMEl36nR

Washington state reports another case of coronavirus from what is believed to be community transmission; the U.S. has reported 10 new cases so far today t.co/eUoE2b20hL

#SouthKorea now has 4212 cases of #coronavirus. 476 cases reported for today and 1 new death. Total dead at 22. #COVID

NEW: China's National Health Commission reports 202 new cases of coronavirus and 42 new deaths t.co/eUoE2b20hL

NEW: San Marino, one of the world's smallest countries and surrounded by Italy, reports 1st death from coronavirus and 7 new cases t.co/eUoE2b20hL

#Indonesia announces 2 cases of #Coronavirus

Well it’s on my doorstep in Essex now. Apparently The person hasn’t travelled or been in contact with anyone who has which is worrying

Checking in

Influenza spreads by droplets of infected respiratory secretions which are produced when an infected person talks, coughs or sneezes.

This is from The UK Influenza Pandemic Preparedness Strategy 2011 which was mentioned on thread 8 >> assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/213717/dh_131040.pdf

So even if a person doesn't cough or sneeze, talking to you at close quarters is enough to infect. The article is written for influenza but I presume this detail applies to this virus too.

The devil is in the detail.

@SirChing

No one is 'whining' about it. With all due respect, if you don't work in a school, you can't see the logistics. You can't just move a summer holiday, unless everyone is dying, at which point none of the school closure thing is relevant anyway!

On radio - over 60s advised to stay away from crowds. I was in a busy supermarket yesterday and a crowded hospital clinic last week. From now on I can stay in house and garden, and have my own car. So can avoid public transport. We have food, and my appt went well.

DGC live with me. One doesn’t mind washing when reminded, the other has SN and hygiene is poor, very resistant to any suggestion. I can keep them off school till we figure out what to do. I’m the only one awake, and don’t know how to deal with this. Most winters I get a heavy cold around this time of year, and it often goes into my chest.

Very frightened.