Coronavirus Part IV - 19 cases in ROI, 7 in NI (as of 7 March) *Read warnings in OP*

thecretinhop wrote: »

another teacher has it in galway numbers are 23 today.

Source? Please link

drunkmonkey wrote: »

Italy crushing it again Today, 36 more deats and 1000+ new cases. Lucky for us it shouldn't happen here as we won't get community transmission.

Why won't we get community transmission? Thankfully we've only one case so far but isn't it early days..

Unfortunately, as that CT story will show, there are a lot of people talking and commenting and speculating, even those who are medics, who will be looking at this from a small focus point of view without understanding the broader picture and without the context.

Unless you’re getting information from virologists and epidemiologists with knowledge of how this is handled, frankly it’s all just armchair speculation and that would include some of the doctors who are chipping in with their particular take on it on US news especially.

It’s not that they’re wrong, but they’re often not seeing the implications and bigger picture of how a system can deal with this.

If you’d one or two patients in a hospital, then maybe you could deal with it with CT scans and so on. With this you’re potentially talking about a situation where there’ll be a significant % of the entire population infected and a relatively smaller % who will need to go to hospital. For the rest of us it’s likely to be an unpleasant couple of weeks at home and possibly with support from visiting medics and so on and doses of whatever medications work. There’s been some positive leads with certain antivirals and anti inflammatory medicines and so on.

It’s possible CT scanning may be useful in some cases. It’s also possible in Wuhan that it was being used to gather as much data as possible to develop solutions to this too. They’re in a far, far worse situation that is ever likely here and they also have had an ability to throw a command economy authoritarian state at it.