The Lancet coronavirus hub - latest research and comment www.thelancet.com/coronavirus. Please provide updated link if possible, I haven't been able to make this one work.

JAMA coronavirus research centre jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/pages/coronavirus-alert

For research on CV and babies:
jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2761659

Please add in other links for any wanting to increase their understanding and decrease their anxiety!

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Round up of one-liners gathered from the wisdoms across the threads, with links...

Work is progressing on vaccine, take 1yr -18 mths for safe use.
First human trials of vaccine started
www.livescience.com/us-coronavirus-vaccine-trial-recruiting.html

Advice for anxiety
www.cci.health.wa.gov.au/Resources/Looking-After-Yourself/Anxiety

WHO advice to the public
www.who.int/emergencies/diseases/novel-coronavirus-2019/advice-for-public

Specialist asthma sufferers advice here:
www.asthma.org.uk/about/media/news/Coronavirus/

In the coming days, guidance for healthcare professionals on Coronavirus (COVID-19) infection in pregnancy will be published by the RCOG, Royal College of Midwives, Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health, Public Health England and Health Protection Scotland
....
www.rcog.org.uk/coronavirus-pregnancy

A plea,

to remember to help food banks stay stocked up
to give older, or maybe lone, neighbours your phone number with offers to help with shopping and medicine collections

Life expectancy of virus on surfaces
www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0195670120300463#

sodium hypochlorite drum to kill virus

The stance on profiteering from CV
www.gov.uk/government/news/cma-statement-on-sales-and-pricing-practices-during-coronavirus-outbreak

A survivors story - only ONE story remember!
www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/world-asia-51714162/how-i-recovered-from-coronavirus-and-isolation

Irreversible lung damage? Aids/sars effects
amp.news.com.au/lifestyle/health/health-problems/chinese-doctors-say-coronavirus-like-a-combination-of-sars-and-aids-can-cause-irreversible-lung-damage/news-story/f58f19c5eeae99b845c54e2d2b9305ca?__twitter_impression=true

The efficacy, or otherwise of sanitisers
www.bics.org.uk/coronavirus-dr-andrew-kemp-jp-phd-reports/

Sign the petition for action against CV19
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/300403

Travelling, making other decisions around
exposure
read up, noone can decide for you, but be aware...
Your mode of transport (train/boat/plane) is unlikely to be disinfected.
You may not be welcome back at work (forced isolation unpaid because you decided to take risk)
Getting stuck in quarantine in another country, subjected to their health service and govt restrictions on you.
What happens with your dc and school upon return.
Holiday insurance cover?

Positive ways of coping

Exercise daily, out where you won't be in close proximity (greater than 2 metres)

Eat well, healthy foods, plenty of liquid

Include natural antivirals in diet and good levels of daily vit c

Rest

Take steps to address any raised anxiety, above what might be reasonable and normal steps for keeping viral hygiene under control.
Its normal to feel more anxious, and normal to take steps to manage situation by being well prepared.

Isolation Issues

Getting sufficient shopping in on low incomes, and/or vulnerable / already isolated

Keeping on top of KEY METERS - need to top up yet in isolation - what measures are there to help

Paying mortgage/rent (private & housing associations) if not receiving sick pay

Legislation that enforced isolation = sick (for sick pay purposes)

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Primary mode of transmission is airborne droplets.

Sneeze or cough into elbow (or tissue and bin it). Droplets can travel 2m.

Secondary means of transmission touch.

Hand wash to
Break the transmission cycle from hand to mouth, eyes, nose, or to others, by 20 seconds plus thorough hand washing (soap and water).

Alcohol breaks down the outer layer of virus to effectively kill, other methods may not.
(Anti bacterial does NOT do this and overuse may risk bacterial resistance).

Use 2/3rds vol alcohol to any other additive

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Huge thanks to all contributors; for updates and trying to keep to trusted sources of information.

The community here has been supportive and respectful despite worries, and that can make a huge difference in unknown times.

thoughts go to all those affected, in whatever way.

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YoursTunbridgeWells · 10/03/2020 23:06

@BigChocFrenzy agreed blood pressure, liver, thyroid, chloestrol maybe diabetes and asthma. Don't about stuff like mental health reviews and other perhaps not-urgent reviews. The sort where you make an appointment every month or two.
For a period in early 2019 I took medication and I had to have a weekly blood test. Don't know if that sort of thing would be relaxed to fortnightly for example

nellodee · 10/03/2020 23:07

I did not mean to be patronising to all the people who understand exponential growth - I'm pretty sure that's why most are on this thread in the first place.

ofwarren · 10/03/2020 23:07

Coachella has been postponed until October due to coronavirus, organizers say

BigChocFrenzy · 10/03/2020 23:08

Personally I'm not using sanitiser, except at the gym where there is a notice requesting to use theirs

Just thorough handwashing with soap

ofwarren · 10/03/2020 23:09

Olympics official discusses possibility of postponing Games one-two years t.co/aRIIUa7Zrn t.co/O9CDPZvUcc

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usernameishistory · 10/03/2020 23:10

red

Keep repeating emotive words like hysterical both in blaming others use of it, but then simultaneously using it yourself to aim at others doesn't move anything forward.

I don't mind listening to people's rage but your rage doesn't trump someone else's fear of dying in the face of the unknown.

Rage all you like, but please keep it respectful toward others who may be suffering what?... we don't know

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RedToothBrush · 10/03/2020 23:10

In a couple of weeks time everyone upset and anxious about the contents of this thread will probably be seeing the exact same things on their TV.

What are people going to do? Shout at the TV for not being sensitive or nice about the situation.

I suffer from very bad anxiety myself. I know what it feels like.

I also know that there isn't any escaping from this and everyone is going to have to cope with their anxiety because they will have no choice but to. It serves no purpose to pussy foot around the brutal harsh reality.

I do not think my local a and e could cope with just a few more extra patients on a average weekend late night.

This article is from January about December www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-51046616

Hospitals reported huge pressures in December, with one in five A&E patients waiting over four hours.

A key problem seems to have been a shortage of beds on wards.

Nearly 100,000 of the sickest patients were forced to spend over four hours on trolleys and in corridors after their time in A&E as beds could not be found.

Delays were also experienced by those brought in by ambulances.

One in six crews had to queue outside A&E units for more than 30 minutes, waiting to handover patients to hospital staff - the target is 15.

BigChocFrenzy · 10/03/2020 23:11

Postponing the Olympics would be sensible:

Millions of people coming from all over the world, mixing in huge crowds for weeks,
then returning to their own countries .....

Plus about 15,000 athletes from around the world

MissFlite · 10/03/2020 23:12

Boris not only visiting the flood victims but also in Westminster Abbey yesterday...

You couldn't make it up.

Facingtheunkown · 10/03/2020 23:12

"I did not mean to be patronising to all the people who understand exponential growth"

I am on this thread so people can translate these no for me, I am useless at Maths!

I wish someone could factor in all the cases we dont know about? educated guess so we know when peak will come and when to try and stay out of work and keep dc off school

BigChocFrenzy · 10/03/2020 23:12

Our own PM superspreader

AbsentmindedWoman · 10/03/2020 23:13

It makes me so sad that routine monitoring of chronic illness will have to be sidelined.

Vulnerable groups who depend on those appointments to stay in the best shape possible are going to be more endangered if their conditions aren't being managed well.

I've mentioned it before but for example only about 30% of diabetics in the UK currently hit their targets - and that is with normal service in their gps and hospital clinics. The more blood sugar fluctuates, the more susceptible to covid 19 complications. As well as all the bloody diabetic complications apart from the virus.

Honestly fuck this virus

Facingtheunkown · 10/03/2020 23:14

Miss

at least hand shaking was banned at westminster.

apparently someone was lip reading willam - strange all hand shaking has been banned we will need lots of gel after today.

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usernameishistory · 10/03/2020 23:14

Thanks @nellodee I think thats a really straightforward illustration of it.

Please forward urgently #trump

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Facingtheunkown · 10/03/2020 23:15

big..on the other hand Macron is taking very good care of himself, someone even wipes his pens!

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usernameishistory · 10/03/2020 23:15

Did someone mention blue ladies

What are those? Anyone?

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buttermilkwaffles · 10/03/2020 23:15

@tryingtoprep
"Has the testing criteria finally changed? (I hope so)."

No, doesn't sound like it has changed:
mobile.twitter.com/Samfr/status/1237276093620654080

ofwarren · 10/03/2020 23:16

@facingtheunknown
At first glance I thought you wrote penis!

KarenTookTheKids · 10/03/2020 23:16

big..on the other hand Macron is taking very good care of himself, someone even wipes his pens!

Totally read that as penis

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usernameishistory · 10/03/2020 23:17

Sorry,. His what????

Oh p e n s

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MarshaBradyo · 10/03/2020 23:17

😂 Macron

AbsentmindedWoman · 10/03/2020 23:17

Postponing the Olympics would be sensible

It seems crazy to go ahead.

Particularly if there is a theory that very intense athletic training might actually dent the immune system in otherwise very healthy young people and so put them at risk - like with the Italian marathon runner.

Moo7878 · 10/03/2020 23:17

@ofwarren - glad I'm not the only one who thought that! Thought it was because I've had wine.

RedToothBrush · 10/03/2020 23:18

on the other hand Macron is taking very good care of himself, someone even wipes his pens!

I must confess to reading this, double asking and then reading again before realising I'd miss read it the first time!!!

I was wondering who the presidential penis cleaner was!!!!

JellyFishSquish · 10/03/2020 23:18

www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-51827356

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