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

enjoy Paris-Nice because all the Belgian races are cancelled for the next month :(

I'd accept it now. I'm a lot less edgy.

They have? I've heard bot all

As you say there’s good evidence that vaccinating over 65s or people with risk factors (emphysema, cancer, heart disease) for pneumococcus as a one off, in addition to the yearly flu shot, reduces mortality. Bacterial pneumonia during/following flu is a big cause of death and the one common cause we can vaccinate against is pneumococcus.

Extrapolating that to COVID:
a) who knows if superinfection will be a big issue - although seems reasonable to assume it will be - the people with risk factors might not make it through the initial viral infection
b) are there any risks to receiving the vaccination potentially days-weeks before a COVID infection (altered immune response etc) - no idea

Well. Football play off won't include Leicester.

think i may cancel my eurosport subscription as there'll be nothing to watch!

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There's still enough for five-a-sides? Hold the whole thing one afternoon at Westway.

Not confirmed yet. They might just shut the hills for supporters, but still do the races without audience.

Also, only this month, so Tour of Flanders is still on!

Can't imagine any university will still be doing FTF teaching by Easter; OH's department has just been told to get all teaching materials for the next two weeks online ASAP.

And apparently a member of staff and a student have today tested positive in the department I teach in, though no bugger told me anything. The VC's supposed to be making an announcement of some kind this afternoon.

It'll go out to the supporters clubs to fill in the gaps.

I'm probably being dense/missing a joke here, but isn't there a difference between pure clinical efficacy and public health info, if only for cost/benefit reasons?

dont be a cunt, someones livelihood is at stake, not a time for woke-off

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https://www.cnbc.com/2020/03/12/carnivals-princess-cruises-to-pause-global-ship-operations-for-60-days-over-coronavirus.html

Gavirias been coronaed

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

Citation?

I don't think you can enforce it to a point where it would be globally eradicated. I reckon the UK govt made the same calculation and figured China was being valiant, but ultimately wasteful in their efforts.

Keeping it out of China if the rest of the world has it, is impossible without crippling the Chinese economy.

Unless a vaccine is likely and close

MMU have just sent out an email, i believe Manchester University were doing the same...

Yeah, I mean obviously. You could have a really effective solution that will cure everyone affected by x. But it'll cost loads and x isn't that harmful or affect that many people.

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No problem getting hold of the things that actually work (soap, vitamin D3).

Thanks for the prompt on vitamin D, I'd been forgetting to take mine.
The study the video talks about was actually carried out by my current
employer :)

I asked this morning why given this PHE aren't saying take vit. D in
their advice but apparently for research to be adopted as public
health advice it takes a while and requires a very high bar.

I didn't know if that bit was satire. But reading the whole thing in its entirety again, I think I was right first time.

That's saved the planet from 1080000000 tonnes of CO2, 5400 tonnes of N0x alone...

https://www.edinburghnews.scotsman.com/news/politics/nicola-sturgeon-mass-gatherings-over-500-people-should-be-cancelled-2448051

Will be absolute scenes if/when schools and nurseries are shut

https://www.arcgis.com/apps/opsdashboard/index.html#/f94c3c90da5b4e9f9a0b19484dd4bb14

UK version of the Johns Hopkins dashboard.

We expect some losses. The subscription service does offer the latest content for my preferred customers.