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

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  • #4832
    Zenify
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 864 ✭✭✭Zenify


    https://youtu.be/FQ8OIzCpj_E

    Dr John


  • #4833
    pc7
    Moderators, Entertainment Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 14,287 Mod ✭✭✭✭pc7


    Zenify wrote: »
    https://youtu.be/FQ8OIzCpj_E

    Dr John

    It’s gone?


  • #4834
    Mic 1972
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,213 ✭✭✭Mic 1972


    Latest update

    https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/

    Closed Cases (Cases which had an outcome) = 5,386
    Deaths = 1,018
    Rate = 19%

    Active Cases (Currently Infected Patients) = 37,760
    Serious or Critical = 7,345
    Rate = 19%

    Critical/serious cases are people who require to be attached to a machine in order to be able to breath
    That 19% looks like it's going to become the death rate after all


  • #4835
    SeaBreezes
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,554 ✭✭✭SeaBreezes


    Zenify wrote: »
    https://youtu.be/FQ8OIzCpj_E

    Dr John
    Nothing there?


  • #4836
    tuxy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,981 ✭✭✭✭tuxy


    Mic 1972 wrote: »
    Latest update

    https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/

    Closed Cases (Cases which had an outcome) = 5,386
    Deaths = 1,018
    Rate = 19%

    Active Cases (Currently Infected Patients) = 37,760
    Serious or Critical = 7,345
    Rate = 19%

    Critical/serious cases are people who require to be attached to a machine in order to be able to breath
    That 19% looks like it's going to become the death rate after all

    If it was 20% yesterday and 19% today does that mean recovery rates are now outpacing death rates?
    That's a considerable improvement in just one day.


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  • #4837
    igCorcaigh
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 12,575 Mod ✭✭✭✭igCorcaigh


    https://twitter.com/HelenBranswell/status/1227315902523301890?s=19


  • #4838
    Quantum Erasure
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,730 ✭✭✭Quantum Erasure


    Zenify wrote: »

    Dr John
    its up again, here

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W8xZhRiOgWU


  • #4839
    tuxy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,981 ✭✭✭✭tuxy


    He says he has had problems with posting the videos and he has to give them very generic names that will not be flagged as a video about the virus.

    Why would youtube be doing this?


  • #4840
    Mic 1972
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,213 ✭✭✭Mic 1972


    tuxy wrote: »
    If it was 20% yesterday and 19% today does that mean recovery rates are now outpacing death rates?
    That's a considerable improvement in just one day.


    It's too early to identify a possible trend, the figure will probably fluctuate as numbers increase.

    I'm going to report on the rates on a daily basis


  • #4841
    Call Me Jimmy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,449 ✭✭✭Call Me Jimmy


    tuxy wrote: »
    He says he has had problems with posting the videos and he has to give them very generic names that will not be flagged as a video about the virus.

    Why would youtube be doing this?

    Big tech have a policy of stopping the spread of Misinformation.


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  • #4842
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 1,824 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Gynoid wrote: »
    Appropriate username.
    You will have to transcribe the videos as you won't be able to play them without power. Etched onto stone tablets has been the preferred historical method.
    My laptop will run for a few hours which should be enough to get to the episode where he builds a power station from wattle & daub.


  • #4843
    tuxy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,981 ✭✭✭✭tuxy


    Call Me Jimmy wrote: »
    Big tech have a policy of stopping the spread of Misinformation.

    Good point.
    I guess the CT nuts will run riot if left unchecked.


  • #4844
    wakka12
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,786 ✭✭✭wakka12


    Mic 1972 wrote: »
    Latest update

    https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/

    Closed Cases (Cases which had an outcome) = 5,386
    Deaths = 1,018
    Rate = 19%

    Active Cases (Currently Infected Patients) = 37,760
    Serious or Critical = 7,345
    Rate = 19%

    Critical/serious cases are people who require to be attached to a machine in order to be able to breath
    That 19% looks like it's going to become the death rate after all

    Not really, a recent WHO report showed that 10-40% of people in critical condition die.


  • #4845
    wakka12
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,786 ✭✭✭wakka12


    A third of the ncov infections in the Chinese city of Tianjin linked to an outbreak in a shopping mall

    https://www.reddit.com/r/China_Flu/comments/f2c44k/nearly_a_third_of_the_confirmed_cases_of_the/
    Shows how important it is to not be complacent just because there is no confirmed cases in your country yet. It only takes one to spark a pandemic.


  • #4846
    cameramonkey
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,220 ✭✭✭cameramonkey


    pc7 wrote: »
    Just on the few bits extra for the cupboard to add to what was suggested earlier. Teabags, coffee, porridge, tinned fish, tinned fruit, herbs (to help flavor bland rice/pasta/noodles), miwadi, bleach, soap, black bags and water.


    Plus a Glock and a few boxes of 9mil.


  • #4847
    Mic 1972
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,213 ✭✭✭Mic 1972


    wakka12 wrote: »
    Not really, a recent WHO report showed that 10-40% of people in critical condition die.


    Hospitals around the world are not equipped to treat an increasing number of critical patients. Once capacity limit is reached how are such patients going to be treated?
    That's when the 19% becomes a reality. Let's hope this isn't going to happen


  • #4848
    pc7
    Moderators, Entertainment Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 14,287 Mod ✭✭✭✭pc7


    cameramonkey wrote: »
    Plus a Glock and a few boxes of 9mil.

    Nah, I’m more of a ‘Lucile’ type of girl, up close and personal ;)


  • #4849
    wakka12
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,786 ✭✭✭wakka12


    If somebody was being treated in hospital for flu illness in a western country would they be tested for coronavirus? Just wondering because all known clusters outside China demonstrate remarkable ease of infection, such as in Germany two more cases today related to the business in Munich, it seems impossible to believe that coronvirus has not already spread wider outside China


  • #4850
    4068ac1elhodqr
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,583 ✭✭✭4068ac1elhodqr


    Everyday there are new conspiracy theories, even from established publishing sources or news agencies using 2nd hand info.
    Worth a quick look/consideration, then 90% of the time, an equally quick dismissal. Some of today's most popular ones include:

    1). It came from a meteorite which hit China last year, and that virus particles survived in that interior of the incandescent (solar min) meteor, explaining the localisation. Said to have came from Professor Chandra Wickramasinghe, of the Buckingham Centre for Astrobiology.
    Entertainment Value: 9/10 funny stuff!
    Likelyhood factor 1/10 (even the 'Buckingham Centre' does sound very madey uppy).

    2). Crows are now feasting on those passed away on the streets of Wuhan.
    Entertainment Value: 1/10 very morbid.
    Likelyhood factor 2/10 (someone took a random photo of a murder of crows, likely just eating a few of the dead bugs as a result of the big clean up and spray about).


  • #4851
    CinemaGuy45
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,181 ✭✭✭CinemaGuy45


    Hearing a report that the incubation period could be up to 24 days.


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  • #4852
    ceadaoin.
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,699 ✭✭✭ceadaoin.


    wakka12 wrote: »
    If somebody was being treated in hospital for flu illness in a western country would they be tested for coronavirus? Just wondering because all known clusters outside China demonstrate remarkable ease of infection, such as in Germany two more cases today related to the business in Munich, it seems impossible to believe that coronvirus has not already spread wider outside China

    No they are only testing those with a recent travel history to china or contact with a known case. I presume they would be tested for flu as standard anyway and perhaps if that came back negative but symptoms worsen then they would test for a coronavirus (there is a general test) and if that is positive maybe then they would check if it is this new strain. Who knows though.


  • #4853
    Drumpot
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,306 ✭✭✭✭Drumpot


    Call Me Jimmy wrote: »
    Big tech have a policy of stopping the spread of Misinformation.

    They will even get up on front of congress If somebody suggests otherwise ...

    giphy.gif


  • #4854
    marvin80
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,817 ✭✭✭marvin80


    Call Me Jimmy wrote: »
    Big tech have a policy of stopping the spread of Misinformation.

    Hopefully they won't find this thread!


  • #4855
    BanditLuke
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,600 ✭✭✭BanditLuke


    tuxy wrote: »
    He says he has had problems with posting the videos and he has to give them very generic names that will not be flagged as a video about the virus.

    Why would youtube be doing this?

    Unbelievable. The guy is as level headed as they come.


  • #4856
    drunkmonkey
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 28,595 ✭✭✭✭drunkmonkey


    CinemaGuy45 wrote: »
    Hearing a report that the incubation period could be up to 24 days.

    That's yesterdays news, it's 42 days today.


  • #4857
    pc7
    Moderators, Entertainment Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 14,287 Mod ✭✭✭✭pc7


    https://twitter.com/helenbranswell/status/1227308878418915338?s=21

    500 medical staff infected in Wuhan


  • #4858
    BanditLuke
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,600 ✭✭✭BanditLuke


    The efforts the Chinese are putting in to stopping this are just truly breathtaking and still it spreads.


  • #4859
    cameramonkey
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,220 ✭✭✭cameramonkey


    drunkmonkey wrote: »
    That's yesterdays news, it's 42 days today.


    The incubation period doubles every 5.2 days.


  • #4860
    pc7
    Moderators, Entertainment Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 14,287 Mod ✭✭✭✭pc7


    A comment left on Twitter post above about infected medical staff is very interesting (I don’t have numbers so not sure if true).

    ‘ It reads: "It said that by mid-January there had been about 500 confirmed cases among hospital staff with a further 600 suspected ones."

    On 23-01-2020 we had less than 600 confirmed cases. So can we agree the numbers from China are fake? Or is this article exaggerating numbers?’


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  • #4861
    igCorcaigh
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 12,575 Mod ✭✭✭✭igCorcaigh


    pc7 wrote: »
    A comment left on Twitter post above about infected medical staff is very interesting (I don’t have numbers so not sure if true).

    ‘ It reads: "It said that by mid-January there had been about 500 confirmed cases among hospital staff with a further 600 suspected ones."

    On 23-01-2020 we had less than 600 confirmed cases. So can we agree the numbers from China are fake? Or is this article exaggerating numbers?’

    Helen Branswell tweeted that story. She's respected, and the newspaper is a major media outlet in the region.


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