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Thanks, the paediatric stuff is particularly helpful for me right now. Given this:
Children are always an at-risk group in respiratory illnesses.
Does it seem odd to you that there is no specific guidance for children provided by the NHS/PHE?
Edit: Just saw later posts, if anyone has a link to what the CMO said that would be helpful.
Fox
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For those interested in how the figures stated by our CMO were arrived at:
https://www.thelancet.com/journals/laninf/article/PIIS1473-3099(20)30144-4/fulltext
For those interested in the paediatric cases:
https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMc2003717
Conjecture:
This highlights some interesting case-identification/data-gathering errors in the overall stats it is gathered from (and suggests that we may be seeing a combination of C19 and other infections in the data-set- and looking for C19).
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From memory this is about the date China added detection based on CT and radiological evidence
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This is the WHO sit-rep- updated daily:
https://www.who.int/emergencies/diseases/novel-coronavirus-2019/situation-reports/
(please note the definitions: https://www.who.int/publications-detail/global-surveillance-for-human-infection-with-novel-coronavirus-(2019-ncov) )
I would highly urge you to read as much primary source as possible.
Children are always an at-risk group in respiratory illnesses.
We are looking at a manageable pandemic. Effects will be widespread, and you will know someone who has been directly affected.
The UK government's approach is different to how I anticipated it would be, but as pointed out in the first paper- it is difficult to see how the spread could have been more expediently curtailed given the efflux out of Hubei when travel restrictions were announced. This pattern undoubtedly repeats itself throughout countries with similar restrictions
. It is therefore a difficult political choice as to attempt to shut down a population used to freedoms, or to assume inevitable widespread disease load and educate the public to recognise the cases that need medical attention- with the intention of reducing health-care load, and attempting to stabilise the fallout from an economic standpoint.