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

ScotGov saying events of 500+ to be cancelled... from next Monday?

Why the fucking wait, they're either unsafe or they're not ffs.

Need to give people notice. Allow communication, stand down staff etc.

Ffs my housemate is definitely gonna end up going to bangface then, I was hoping they would cancel it.

Mos def.
I may also have missed the tone of @Fox's comment. It appears very dry

Is Boris really going to do f all?

When is Johnson speaking today?

Yeah but if the aim is to limit spread, the sooner the better. A whole weekend of large events will see contamination of how many more?

Sending an email/ SMS to staff and attendees is hardly a huge logistical challenge these days. Would far rather concert I'm going to go to is rescheduled than be given choice of not going and being in a confined space for 3hrs or not going and getting skinned the best part of £100 for the pleasure of doing what the government is asking us to do in a couple of days anyway...

Top 42 is the only fair answer

The latest consensus from north Italy is just that tocilizumab might have a theoretical benefit.

Might as well put our faith in Aztec gods - our ones have failed.

Just looked that up. Happy hardcore at Pontins, still going ahead against all the odds says the news!

We're all doomed.

Dunno read it on mail online

Paddys day cancelled

It's not to vaccinate against Covid19, it's to reduce the risk of one common type of bacterial infection, which may or may not be a risk factor following Covid-19 infection.

I don't know, but people are getting it done, and it's been reported that many of the severe cases of Covid-19 are due to bacterial infection.

News came through today. I’ve been #coronad - 20% pay cut and 4 day work week for a minimum of 3 months. Some parts of the company are looking at 6 months of the same.
Front line staff thankfully not impacted, other than not being able to work overtime etc.

Basically the point I was making, yeah. They’re using a cocktail of HIV meds and chloroquine as well, again based on some suggestive lab data & anecdotal/case series stuff from China.

Mostly though what the really sick patients need is an ITU bed, with all the bells and whistles (maybe apart from ecmo), with nurses & docs to staff it. Unfortunately in Lombardy the huge peak of infections has overwhelmed their (significantly better resourced than the uk) critical care network.

what are the economic justifications of this? your job cannot be done as WFH?

Just re-read my PubMed post above.
For Clarity:
I have not prescribed that particular vaccine so I am not au-fait with it.
Vaccines work.
Post-Viral Pneumonia (Secondary) is a real thing, that occurs regularly.
If the vaccine is NICE approved-and from @neu's post it seems that way for certain categories of patients- it probably is effective for those patients (and therefore in theory others).

As I said upthread, I think much of it is also to do with behaviour. Saying you are going to do something in a few days lets people have time to accept it. Saying it starts NOW can cause more panic. And I assume the powers that be are making the calculation (\Sean Kelly voice) that a few more infections is worth the time to get the public ready for disruption.
(All IMO though - may just be incompetence/bribes etc.)

Well let’s put it this way, my unit is looking at a 45% revenue drop for this year compared to 2019.

people online attributing it to the fact Rangers vs Celtic is on Sunday... 🤦‍♂️

Saying it starts NOW can cause more panic

The powers that be are probably aware that saying it NOW makes it look like they got caught on the hop, and weren't managing the steps in their emergency plan properly.

Awww shit man hope that it picks back up soon and it's not to much of a drastic hit.

wow okay :(

can I ask what do you do?

Man - that sucks. Hope it's only for the 3 months.

but I'm not a doctor

You should start a YouTube channel giving medical advice, in that case