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new coronavirus outbreak China, Korea, USA - mod warnings in OP (updated 24/02/20)

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  • #3302
    Unearthly
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 8,177 ✭✭✭Unearthly


    3rd case in the UK now - Sky News


  • #3303
    MadYaker
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,340 ✭✭✭✭MadYaker


    I’m sure there’ll be a few cases here but it’s not worth panicking about. We’ve no flights coming here directly from China which helps as a lot of the countries they would have to travel through are imposing restrictions or checkpoints in airports. I wish they would start in Dublin airport though.


  • #3304
    bodhrandude
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,005 ✭✭✭✭bodhrandude


    Unearthly wrote: »
    3rd case in the UK now - Sky News

    In Brighton.
    https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2020/feb/06/coronavirus-live-updates-in-china-wuhan-coronaviruses-outbreak-death-toll-latest-update-news

    If you want to get into it, you got to get out of it. (Hawkwind 1982)



  • #3305
    pc7
    Moderators, Entertainment Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 14,293 Mod ✭✭✭✭pc7


    MadYaker wrote: »
    I’m sure there’ll be a few cases here but it’s not worth panicking about. We’ve no flights coming here directly from China which helps as a lot of the countries they would have to travel through are imposing restrictions or checkpoints in airports. I wish they would start in Dublin airport though.


    We would have a large Asian community in Ireland both working and in Colleges that could have traveled through the various hubs to get here. I think its pretty inevitable we will have some cases.


  • #3306
    car_radio19834
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 247 ✭✭car_radio19834


    European stocks hit record highs. Seems not worried about the whole thing.


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  • #3307
    Graces7
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,634 ✭✭✭✭Graces7


    Huge amount of info etc on rte; cannot post links on this machine but it is evocative reading.


  • #3308
    VinLieger
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,198 ✭✭✭✭VinLieger


    Seriously considering not voting depending on what the results of the current 3 come in as


  • #3309
    bodhrandude
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,005 ✭✭✭✭bodhrandude


    Maybe I'm a panicking or moany michael but FFS the slowness of this diagnosis, If any of the Irish cases become confirmed there is trying to track the details of where they were, what port or airport they arrived at, what bus connection or rail connection did they take, what shops did they visit, did they go for a pint. All these implications too that could pass this H2H virus. Maybe I'm just unnecessarily worrying myself but the testing seems to be so goddam slow.

    If you want to get into it, you got to get out of it. (Hawkwind 1982)



  • #3310
    4068ac1elhodqr
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,577 ✭✭✭4068ac1elhodqr


    Health officials are investigating an outbreak of a pneumonia like disease in Afghanistan which has killed 23 children under the age of five.
    Didpress Agency reports the outbreak has affected two villages in the northeastern Badakhshan

    Singapore is up to 30 confirmed cases.
    Really once it get above 50 or 100 type numbers then it gets very, very difficult to control.

    Couple of reports from China of rapid infections (<1min) from people standing beside infected folks, both without facemasks,
    difficult to verify such claims unless there was sneezing and coughing (both aerosol, and droplet transfer risk).


  • #3311
    laurah591
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 326 ✭✭laurah591


    bodhrandude wrote: »
    Maybe I'm a panicking or moany michael but FFS the slowness of this diagnosis, If any of the Irish cases become confirmed there is trying to track the details of where they were, what port or airport they arrived at, what bus connection or rail connection did they take, what shops did they visit, did they go for a pint. All these implications too that could pass this H2H virus. Maybe I'm just unnecessarily worrying myself but the testing seems to be so goddam slow.


    Given that the HSE are not commenting on individual cases (unless confirmed) you would have to think the St llJames case is negative. Cork result due this evening

    Of course this could be an incorrect assumption


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  • #3312
    bodhrandude
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,005 ✭✭✭✭bodhrandude


    Legacy Better Explosion wrote: »
    Health officials are investigating an outbreak of a pneumonia like disease in Afghanistan which has killed 23 children under the age of five.
    Didpress Agency reports the outbreak has affected two villages in the northeastern Badakhshan

    Singapore is up to 30 confirmed cases.
    Really once it get above 50 or 100 type numbers then it gets very, very difficult to control.

    Couple of reports from China of rapid infections (<1min) from people standing beside infected folks, both without facemasks,
    difficult to verify such claims unless there was sneezing and coughing (both aerosol, and droplet transfer risk).

    That could clash with Dr John's theory about the disease not affecting the young, but then it could be another virus totally unrelated.

    If you want to get into it, you got to get out of it. (Hawkwind 1982)



  • #3313
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 7,967 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Legacy Better Explosion wrote: »
    Health officials are investigating an outbreak of a pneumonia like disease in Afghanistan which has killed 23 children under the age of five.
    Didpress Agency reports the outbreak has affected two villages in the northeastern Badakhshan

    Do you have the link for that? ^
    Very unusual for children to be affected by these viruses. That would be deeply concerning if it's the nCoV.


  • #3314
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 18,046 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    bodhrandude wrote: »
    That could clash with Dr John's theory about the disease not affecting the young, but then it could be another virus totally unrelated.

    But it is affecting the young. Or does he just mean a lot less?


  • #3315
    givyjoe
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,286 ✭✭✭givyjoe


    bodhrandude wrote: »
    Maybe I'm a panicking or moany michael but FFS the slowness of this diagnosis, If any of the Irish cases become confirmed there is trying to track the details of where they were, what port or airport they arrived at, what bus connection or rail connection did they take, what shops did they visit, did they go for a pint. All these implications too that could pass this H2H virus. Maybe I'm just unnecessarily worrying myself but the testing seems to be so goddam slow.

    They may have been tested quickly and came back negative, it's probably/hopefully just a case of the HSE just being incredibly slow with the communications.


  • #3316
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 13,839 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    We should ask Dr John to join our community here.


  • #3317
    4068ac1elhodqr
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,577 ✭✭✭4068ac1elhodqr


    Deleted User wrote: »
    Do you have the link for that? ^
    Just came in off a newsfeed from an agency there, could try searching:

    https://www.newsnow.co.uk/h/Hot+Topics/China+Coronavirus+Outbreak?type=ln
    Imagine anyone young or old could catch it. There was another story suggesting if it mutated quickly, it could be caught twice, that antibodies produced by the body would only be good for 14days.


  • #3318
    bodhrandude
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,005 ✭✭✭✭bodhrandude


    PROC have their own thread in the Langers Forum about this too, a possible source if Cork news comes early enough. http://www.peoplesrepublicofcork.com/forums/showthread.php?t=245416&page=14

    If you want to get into it, you got to get out of it. (Hawkwind 1982)



  • #3319
    silverharp
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,853 ✭✭✭✭silverharp


    is it right that 1/4 of people are getting pneumonia, I might have picked up the number wrong? A heady cold i'll get over but.....

    A belief in gender identity involves a level of faith as there is nothing tangible to prove its existence which, as something divorced from the physical body, is similar to the idea of a soul. - Colette Colfer



  • #3320
    Duke of Url
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,661 ✭✭✭Duke of Url


    silverharp wrote: »
    is it right that 1/4 of people are getting pneumonia, I might have picked up the number wrong? A heady cold i'll get over but.....

    28,363
    of which 3,863 (14%) in critical condition <
    I dont know if im right but pneumonia could be this number


  • #3321
    bodhrandude
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,005 ✭✭✭✭bodhrandude


    silverharp wrote: »
    is it right that 1/4 of people are getting pneumonia, I might have picked up the number wrong? A heady cold i'll get over but.....

    You have Coronavirus, seize him and quarantine him/her hahaha only kidding. :D:D:D

    If you want to get into it, you got to get out of it. (Hawkwind 1982)



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  • #3322
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 13,839 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    The cure is loads of Harp, silverharp. It will dilute that Corona right outta ya system.


  • #3323
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 18,046 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Do ye think these masks would help stop it?

    logo-hocsinhviruscoronadoanhoa3-15808724985851072059923-1580980812.jpg


  • #3324
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 12,836 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    VinLieger wrote: »
    Seriously considering not voting depending on what the results of the current 3 come in as

    You are seriously over reacting. Even if all 3 had it the likelihood of you having an issue as a result of going to vote is incredibly low


  • #3325
    ceadaoin.
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,744 ✭✭✭ceadaoin.


    silverharp wrote: »
    is it right that 1/4 of people are getting pneumonia, I might have picked up the number wrong? A heady cold i'll get over but.....

    1/4 of people admitted to hospital. Many more will have it and not need treatment


  • #3326
    s7ryf3925pivug
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,999 ✭✭✭s7ryf3925pivug


    Deleted User wrote: »
    Do ye think these masks would help stop it?

    logo-hocsinhviruscoronadoanhoa3-15808724985851072059923-1580980812.jpg
    If someone infected is wearing the mask, it will stop them spreading it as much as it will stop most of the droplets from their breath travelling far.


  • #3327
    Quantum Erasure
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,980 ✭✭✭Quantum Erasure


    from BNO Desk twitter:
    Singapore reports 2 new cases of coronavirus, including 1 person with no links to China or previous cases
    They're still investigating, but it suggests there is local human-to-human transmission and at least 1 patient they haven't found yet


    https://mobile.reuters.com/article/amp/idUSKBN2000C7
    The World Health Organization (WHO) has begun an investigation into three virus infections linked to an international business meeting in Singapore last month, -reuters

    The cases linked to the meeting provide more evidence that the coronavirus is spreading through human-to-human contact outside China, which the WHO has said is deeply concerning and could signal a much larger outbreak.

    The cases, in Malaysia and South Korea, have been linked to a 100-strong meeting in Singapore of staff from an as-yet-unnamed multinational sales firm, while one Chinese delegate was from the central city of Wuhan, where the virus originated.


  • #3328
    silverharp
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,853 ✭✭✭✭silverharp


    Strawberry Milkshake wrote: »
    The cure is loads of Harp, silverharp. It will dilute that Corona right outta ya system.

    diluted beer is a way to clear the bugs dodgy water? or I guess just drink Bud straight for the same effect :pac:

    A belief in gender identity involves a level of faith as there is nothing tangible to prove its existence which, as something divorced from the physical body, is similar to the idea of a soul. - Colette Colfer



  • #3329
    jam_mac_jam
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,733 ✭✭✭jam_mac_jam


    [Deleted User] wrote: »
    Do ye think these masks would help stop it?

    logo-hocsinhviruscoronadoanhoa3-15808724985851072059923-1580980812.jpg

    Not really for kids. Will reduce risk but not eliminate


  • #3330
    bodhrandude
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,005 ✭✭✭✭bodhrandude


    Chinese doctor Li Wenliang the first to warn about COV and who was detained by Chinese authorities has apparently just died of the illness, I can't find a link as yet. RIP Li Wenliang.

    If you want to get into it, you got to get out of it. (Hawkwind 1982)



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  • #3331
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 13,839 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    RIP :(


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