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

Minnesota’s first victim to go to ICU was a 30 something Ironman athlete. Was one of only 65 people put on an ECMO worldwide and one of 21 who survived that procedure.

Is the Guardian starting to get on anyone else's nerves. I really like it as a paper with a left-wing stance, but its relentless need to pillory the government over everything is getting a bit clickbaity. Headlines like "Matt Hancock forced to deny ‘political’ opt-out from EU ventilators" are just meaningless.

Or dead

Yeah.

Also fucking fed up with youtube constantly trying to force feed The Fucking Sun as a source of news. BBC, fine. Sky, fine. CNN, fine. But the sun?? Next I'll see brightbart or what ever it's called.

Yep. Me too. Holding the government to account is a noble cause, but it's all a bit navel-gazey.

I miss the Independent in its original form. I look forward to the launch of The Centrist Dad Daily, albeit more in hope than expectation.

Yes. Thought the same about that story.

I think I may have had c19 from early Jan, which is pretty early.

Struck down with what seemed like flu, temperature, fatigue, horrible cough. Went to GP, got antibiotics for suspected chest infection. Went skiing in the Alps, horrible stomach, death rattle coughs and also lost sense of taste and smell during ski week.

Family members that I was with were fine, my dad who wasn’t there also had a horrible cold/flu, and half my office was off that month due to cold/flu.

My club colleague who has asthma, picked up the bug shortly after I got back (presumably from me) and had to go to hospital with suspected pneumonia in early Feb, and got antibiotics. Took him about 6 weeks to recover. Took me about 6 weeks to recover with a lingering cough. I remember trying to hold in my coughing so that people wouldn’t be worried that I had C19.

Due to running a sports club at a university with lots of international students, including Chinese students back from Christmas holidays, it’s very possible that if they had it, I would have caught it.

If I haven’t had it already, I really don’t want to go through the above again...

I posted this yesterday, I thought it seemed a clear account of the possible exit strategies available. It gave me some hope that there is a sensible way out of this mess.

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• A Sustainable Exit Strategy Managing Uncertainty Minimising Harm.pdf

Yes, thought this for a while. Misleading headlines, sensationalist. Doesn't feel like respsonsible journalism. Although there are some decent individual articles.

Is the Guardian starting to get on anyone else's nerves.

Nah ;)

Interesting opinion piece:

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/20/opinion/coronavirus-testing-pneumonia.html

Other than Marina Hyde it has been garbage for years

Sounds like the apparent German strategy of IDing infected early and checking up on them periodically.

Very interesting. I read an article on the Lancet in the first week in February about transmission within a family group in China. Adults in the family had symptomatic cases, but a child who was asymptomatic showed ground glass pneumonia on chest x-ray. I thought that was bizarre at the time, but didn't think much more about it until reading this piece.

Is the Guardian starting to get on anyone else's nerves. I really like it as a paper with a left-wing stance, but its relentless need to pillory the government over everything is getting a bit clickbaity.

Yeah. I subscribe because I think it's important a left wing broadsheet exists, but rarely read it.

I'll probably end up on the golf thread for this, but the FT is the least unbearable (online) newspaper these days. They got me by being unashamedly anti Brexit.

They have Sebastian Payne on politics though and he’s an unbearable Tory brown nosing stooge.

Good article.

So should all us oldies be ordering a pulse oximeter to have handy at home?

Well that’s you done for, enjoy quoits.

A bit tl;dr and maybe I'm naive but this NYC hospital boss might the worst shit I've ever heard of.

https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/928708

Holding the government to account is a noble cause

Someone should tell Keir Starmer.

Sniffer dogs to detect those with the virus, seems pretty crazy!?

Sniffer dogs to detect those with the virus, seems pretty crazy!?

Dog can detect cancer by sniffing.

Can see the logic behind it, but I don't think they can sniff a coronavirus specifically.

So should all us oldies be ordering a pulse oximeter to have handy at home?

I've ordered one. I thought I'd found one in the country (rather than shipping directly from China in ages) but the tracking numbers are a dead end so I'm not so sure. Good luck finding one.

Yeah like you say seems there’s quite a step from colon and urinary cancers to detecting this but who knows.
The R4 piece sound a little like a money grab to me but I know little, I mean nothing about the area.