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

What's the deal with rest of the household? Presumably if one person is in quarantine, their family/housemates should also be?

My parents live in italy. In calabria though. They happily live on an estate where currently they are the only ones there and there are locked gates to the estate. They have plenty of food. Joking aside the death rate in italy does seem to be higher than elsewhere. Apparently according to who it mutated.

My guess is that there are many more unreported cases in Italy , rather than mutation.

Maybe Trump'll get it. He's old and in poor health.

If 70 is the dangerous age it could take out all the presidential contenders bar one.

Bernie looks risky anyway.

Just registered at this GP on Friday - probably just someone with the sniffles who sparked this story.
However there is always one attention seeking person who has to contact the media and overshare their "story"...

https://www.wiltshiretimes.co.uk/news/18260239.coronavirus-advice-includes-handwashing-calling-111-patient-goes-bradford-avon-gp-symptoms/

Ha! Would #rep.

If they're sharing the same bathroom/kitchen then yes.

So not a problem for Ed Miliband.

The greater number of cases in Italy could actually be because their testing regime is better....

I was due to fly out to Tenerife for work tomorrow, staying in another H10 a few miles away. Trip cancelled.

I feel sorry for the poor people confined to their rooms, also feel sorry for H10 staff doing their best to look after them. As for H10, they’ll have massive uninsured losses here, are losing big business conference bookings in Barcelona and their hotel in Venice is standing empty. It can only be a matter of time before we get a similar scenario in London, the number of American tourists visiting is already noticeably down.

This is good for putting COVID-19 in perspective:
https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2020/02/covid-vaccine/607000/

It was good on the previous page too.

Spring classics hopefully still on

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On the subject of Trump I got this from a friend who lives in the US this evening. The tweet he refers to was later deleted by the author btw.

We don't have a CDC any more, T***p wrecked it. The anti-government crowd got their wish and now come the consequences. Judd Legum: "I feel like more people should be talking about the fact that Trump fired the entire pandemic response team two years ago and then didn't replace them. Trump also cut funding for the CDC, forcing the CDC to cancel its efforts to help countries prevent infectious-disease threats from becoming epidemics in 39 of 49 countries in 2018. Among the countries abandoned? China . . ."

Consider the frightening tweet this afternoon from Acting Deputy Secretary of Homeland Security Ken Cuccinelli:

>Has the Johns Hopkins map of the coronavirus stopped working for other people, or just me? 

That's "Homeland Ken," who as Virginia gubernatorial candidate wanted to make oral sex between consenting adults illegal and in his last position wanted to make speaking Spanish on the job a fireable offense. Now he's one of the wingnut temps answering the phones in the offices of our dismantled government, asking Twitter what's up for epidemiological info.

Wiltshire Times is one of those satirical sites right? Because if not and that's what counts as well written journalism then we have bigger things to worry about than coronavirus.

https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2020/02/covid-vaccine/607000/

Is that anti semetic ;)

Virus in South Korea spread by crazy Christian cults

Religion in South Korea combines the absolute worst of confucianism and evangelical christianity, it's extremely weird and I'm not at all surprised that one of the many cults there is a breeding ground for the virus.

Lessons we can all learn from: don't eat pangolins, don't go on a cruise, don't join a cult...

We've just been told to take our laptops home from work daily now in case their pandemic planning kicks in over night - apparently there's another company in Canary Wharf that's sent staff home, though that's obviously a rumour so not sure it's true.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-51641243

With random testing of patients I'd expect a spike in cases reported to follow.
So by next weekend the real panic should be hitting...?

we've heard from Public Health England that should a pandemic happen in the UK its likely to be at the most serious in the summer.
I can't imagine everyone working from home for 14 days will stop it, but i also have no medical background knowledge whatsoever!

I’d be interested to know what spreading a pandemic over multiple seasons due to quarantine vs just letting it rip affects the seriousness. Obviously the longer it’s around for, it has more chance of mutating.