worried about coronavirus (covid19) part 15

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Helpful links

WHO media speech for world plan of action

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

Italy reports 1,247 new cases of coronavirus and 36 new deaths, raising total to 5,883 cases and 233 dead t.co/eUoE2b20hL

Also, did Singapore ever have a significant community outbreak other than in that church group? They knew the source of that cluster and contact-traced assiduously.

Are people stopping going out?

We are still going to a couple of long standing things over the next week but nothing that we don't have to go to. We wouldn't be choosing to go down the pub or go out for sunday lunch. I am not making social commitments beyond next week.

I'm not stopping going out yet but I imagine this will change within a couple of weeks.

Our neighbour is in his 70's, single, no nearby family and not in the best of health (COPD), we told him to knock on if he needs anything and gave him our phone numbers.

My PILS are similar age but far better health. They live 2 hours away but my SIL lives 10 minutes from them, so we know they'll be looked after.

Check your neighbours please. Same as you would in bad weather.

Its clear.from that graph that trajectories are not actually the same, but that is for soo many reasons.

All I can see from watching the stats is that hubs of intense movements bring greater cases (like london and southeast, whereas movement significantly restricted in Japan for instance, who shut their borders very early on)

We haven’t stopped yet

Going out that is

are people stopping going out
I haven't been out for 10 days
My son has a severe immune deficiency issue

What are Japan and Singapore doing differently then? Or is it climate related

No idea about Singapore though previous posters suggestion of very good initial contact tracing is plausible. Rumour has it japan just aren’t testing very well.....that they need to keep numbers down because of the olympics. I hope that’s just a rumour and they wouldn’t put a sporting event above the lives of people.

I have only just finished watching the Contagion programme on iPlayer (thanks to whoever recommended that) and it was clear, if unsurprising, from their final maps that large cities and travel routes radiating from them bear the brunt of pandemic infection.

The U.K. numbers don’t make sense. Germany is up to almost 1000 cases now in a week, same for France.

Singapore also has an excellent healthcare system.

Contagion is good I watched it again when this all started. The end of one of the Planet of the Apes movies shows the spread via a plane map, effective thinking of that now.

I've only been to GP and essential as I've been so ill for so long.

When I say essential, that does include getting out for exercise or other activities that are away from others as Im still short of breath.

We haven't stopped going out, still done regular activities with the kids that we do every week (ballet, gymnastics etc) but we haven't made an effort to go anywhere. DD1 has her birthday next week and we were planning to go to a smaller theme park. It seems an overreaction to say we won't go at the moment, but we have 2 weeks before we need to decide and the situation may make the decision easier by then.

Can someone put Italy new fig into context?

1247 new cases?

Dc have parties coming up and they’ll still go.

Singapore also has to be one of the cleanest bug free spaces on the planet (people bugged spaces that is).

Countries that have armies of cheap slave labour can utilise at far lower cost if they choose.

What do you think about my long planned and waited for trip to Norway first week of April.....cancellations likely or not? 🤞🏻

@orangeicecream

See OP for risks/travel considerations (gathered wisdom across the threads)

I think by the first week of April everywhere will be peak fucked.

Those Italy figures are terrifying.

It’s just been on the news that there is a Corona patient being treated at the hospital I work in.

It’s getting too close for comfort now.

Singapore only has a population of 5 million. It’s a small, super clean, wealthy nation.

I am surprised by the figures in Japan though. They have a massive population - 126 million.