Chat about Novel Coronavirus - 2019-nCoV - COVID-19

Get him!!!!!!

NPF

Our office has someone returning from a trade show in Singapore at the weekend. HR dept. pretty much says "if govt. doesn't say otherwise, they're free to come straight back into the office tomorrow". Fun times ahead.

But the truth is anyone travelling into work via a ski lodge in France, a cafe Nero in Gatwick or a Boozer near Brighton would be equally as likely to be bringing cooties to the office no? Unless that specific trade event has been identified as a source of the nasty?

The Royal Free has the UK’s only high level isolation unit. In the past it's had patients with things like Ebola. It has two beds.

Boss went round putting up coughs and sneezes spread diseases posters ! Will they now pay us if we get sick ! No
What a waste of space.

There’s a 2 bed HLIU at the RVI in Newcastle as well which can expand to 6. I assume there’s a few other places that can manage PPE based isolation. Still not a lot in the grand scheme of things.

Interesting use of a headset remover..

Still there?

Respirator with own independent air supply as aero air is recirculated air with a bit drawn in from the engines. But as you say it is to stop spreading disease as that is why doctors (medical staff) in operating theaters wear them.

Might help if everyone is wearing masks...

If I sneeze at work this week I reckon I might clear the office.

Can we start running a book? How many sneezes till people run, bet who goes first etc.

Say you did...

Allegedly, Pub is closed and Brighton and sussex uni are in full panic mode...students told not to attend lectures etc.

Where in HK are you staying? Here’s a map of locations likely to have cheap Airbnb rooms.
https://chp-dashboard.geodata.gov.hk/nia/en.html

Increase in reported cases in China has tailed off. Is that due to efficacy of the measures taken, or have they run out of testing kits and testing capacity?

Seems to be 14 days after they imposed the wide area quarantines, so may well be that the measures are working.

I don't think those numbers are representative. Especially on here the numbers seem to sometimes get corrected afterwards, I've seen it happen before (maybe 6 or 7 days ago). So I wouldn't trust the last number at all, if any of the numbers are to be truly trusted anyway.

They’ve changed how they count, test positive and show symptoms. Previously it was just test positive.

This is curious. What would be the purpose of the test, if not to confirm symptoms?

The Chinese govt said that they would have a handle on it by the week of the 10th, so now the facts have to match that.

This is worth looking at:

https://www.imperial.ac.uk/media/imperial-college/medicine/sph/ide/gida-fellowships/Imperial-College-2019-nCoV-severity-10-02-2020.pdf

My wife’s work will be footing the bill so probably somewhere nice like the Mandarin. Hotels are comparatively cheap at the moment.

Got temperature pinged by the medics yesterday arriving in Venice from Gatwick - not a hugely high risk entry point I wouldn't think. Obviously bugger all coming back to the UK later.

We went there for dinner on Saturday. Lovely view of the harbour.

Bars and restaurants must be suffering big time with this on top of the protests.

Kind of expecting lots of bars I used to drink in when I lived there to have vanished.