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

Don't know if this has been posted yet, from the Telegraph. Regional breakdown of the latest 164 cases.

That’s not accurate @CrunchyCarrot as I know there are at least two cases in Northamptonshire which have been confirmed... perhaps they come under the ‘unknown’ locations

Birmingham, too

Hmmm.. seems to be some counties missing from that map where we know there are confirmed cases (eg Tyne and Wear)

I look at so many people around me just getting on with their lives, booking holidays, planning the future, carrying on as normal and I so wish I could be like them.
I almost can’t stand it anymore.
Anxiety will kill me before this virus does.

Alka Are there more in Birmingham then than the one reported in the news?

3 or 4 confirmed in South Yorkshire and they are not on there either

I've signed up to ww, 1st meeting is Sunday morning and apparently the group is very small.

I hate that instead of just worrying about the diet I'm more worried about potentially exposing myself to more people than necessary.

But my asthma need to be gotten under control and losing weight will help enormously, so it is necessary I feel. I can always reassess and do it from home if shtf.

I almost wish I was more like the GP and not a care in the world, rather than having to think through every decison with a little CV shadow lurking in the back of my mind!

Ahh okay. I guess there are a lot that fall in the 'Unknown' category.

Do we know if they are going to be publishing the results daily or if they are only going to do them Monday to Friday ?

The New York Times has calculated that the number of cases in Europe has more than doubled in the last 3 days.

Let's not forget that Donald Trump is more wealthy businessman than public servant and probably cares more about his share prices than a few elderly and ill peoples lives. That's probably why he is downplaying it, all other countries he sees panicking and talk of recession and he can't be seen to be taking America into recession. The fact that people are dying is neither here nor there, people die everyday of illnesses, ya know - the flu kills more

@cz123 thanks for that, I was listening to Polish radio to see how they were dealing with it (and I was scared /impressed at how seriously they were taking it) but my Polish is very basic and I couldn't understand about the giant rosary, I knew the presenters found it funny but couldn't work it out.

Kent has 2 confirmed cases, not 1.

Oh, I wish I hadn’t just looked at the worldometers news:

“ 778 new cases and 49 new deaths in Italy. Total cases: 4,636. Total deaths: 197. Active cases: 3,916.

• Among the 3,916 active cases, 2,394 (61%) are hospitalized, 462 of which (representing 12% of active cases) are in intensive care.
• Among the 720 closed cases, 523 (73%) have recovered, 197 (27%) have died.”

😭😭

On the positive side, fat elderly men are a high risk category.

Which means Trump.

Essex has 2 confirmed cases, not one. One in Harlow, one in Southend.

@furrytoebean I don't think many on this thread understand how precarious lots of business are, and how dependant they are on cash flow. Obviously if employed by the state they worry less but wait until tax revenues start dropping and then see how the government pays everyone.

She thought the panic was hilarious, and boasted that she'd had everyone and his dog in this week worried about a 'just' a temp and a cough. And CV is just like a cold.

I think your GP should be held to account for her negligent attitude.

My son has a college trip next wednesday to various museums in London.
As I look after my elderly parents, I am wondering whether to cancel the trip and ask if he can just work in college that day.
Am I being over cautious?

@Cismyfatarse😆😆

@MissPoldark I am increasingly concerned about the percentage of hospitalised people with the virus in Italy. Those figures do not suggest that “for most people it is a mild-moderate disease”. Those figures indicate that for most people (i.e 61%), it is a disease requiring hospitalisation.

It looks like Trump is planning to isolate the 3,500 passengers and crew on board the Grand Princess once it has docked at a “non-commercial port”.

In a moment that some commentators have called one of the most “disturbing” and “frightening” remarks of Trump’s response to the public health crisis, the president also said he would prefer that cruise ship passengers exposed to the virus be left aboard so that they don’t add to the number of total infections in the US.

“I like the numbers being where they are,” said Trump, who appeared to be explicitly acknowledging his political concerns about the outbreak: “I don’t need to have the numbers double because of one ship that wasn’t our fault.”

*Source: The Guardian.

Here’s a site that updates regularly.

Interesting but grim reading. Not for the faint hearted.

@zen1 there will be a raft of undetected milder cases to level that down. I'm sure I read a few days ago Italy changed it's criteria for testing which could go someway to explain their cfr and hospitalization rate