CoVid-19 Part VIII - 292 cases ROI (2 deaths) 62 in NI (as of 17th March) Read OP

iwillyeah1234 · 18-03-2020 03:47PM

BoroMan32 wrote: »

this is utter madness. what if a jockey has corona, and passes it on to the trainer and other support staff that work with the horse?

darjeeling · 18-03-2020 03:48PM

A couple of new drug reports:

In China they're reporting success using an antiviral drug called avigan (also called favipiravir), which, in the same way as remdesivir, interferes with the enzyme that replicates the viral genome.
Patients treated were reportedly cleared of virus more quickly, and had improved lung conditions and better recovery.
News report only, no scientific papers yet as far as I can see.
Oddly, it's made by Fujifilm, whose share price is now soaring.

In Marseille doctors have been using hydroxychloroquine (anti-malarial, also for rheumatoid arthritis) and an antibiotic called azithromycin to treat patients in a non-blind trial.
Compared with patients treated in a different hospital, they report lower viral loads and faster clearance of virus, but we really need data from a proper double-blind trial to know that it's working.
link

iwillyeah1234 · 18-03-2020 03:48PM

xtal191 wrote: »

that's an extremely informative graphic - needs to go viral.

Hamsterchops · 18-03-2020 03:49PM

bekker wrote: »

Not exactly correct, once block grant is allocated from central government it's true regional assemblies have control over it.

But for example, if the Executive in the North were to decide to close the schools they would have to pay teachers salaries, and all other consequential cost from the existing block grant.

If is is a decision of central government to close then it would be funded separately from the block grant.

So Scotland & Wales don't get block grants!
I didn't know that. Slightly confused now!

iwillyeah1234 · 18-03-2020 03:50PM

sky news showing a pre-fab mortuary being built in London.

Kilboor · 18-03-2020 03:50PM

iwillyeah1234 wrote: »

that's an extremely informative graphic - needs to go viral.

iwillyeah1234 · 18-03-2020 03:51PM

Kilboor wrote: »

oops... my bad! sorry.

statesaver · 18-03-2020 03:51PM

iwillyeah1234 wrote: »

sky news showing a pre-fab mortuary being built in London.

You serious :eek: :eek: fuk.

shoes43 · 18-03-2020 03:51PM

GooglePlus wrote: »

What the hell was he doing in this morning, the selfish wank3r.

He now tells me one of daughters has a cough and the other has been "off" since yesterday but the Doctor only testing them as a matter of pre-caution.

My parents have not been out of the house since the weekend and we are doing all the necessary precautions to make sure they are safe.

Bannasidhe · 18-03-2020 03:52PM

Tatiana Tangy Someway wrote: »

Blood groups?

People with blood type A might be more vulnerable to the coronavirus, while those with type O blood could be more resistant, (well according to a {small} preliminary study from China)
Type O patients, meanwhile, made up a smaller proportion of both those infected, and killed by the virus.

The sample group was early/small, might be more useful to obtain the latest stats from somewhere on the 200k confirmed cases that are having issues.

Not sure about Rhesus factors, only 15% of folks are 'Rh-negative'.
The Rh-negatives (according to some old folklore) are a 'bit special', but best to view that with a grain or 23, of salt.

This Type O Rh Neg diabetic with other conditions has my fingers crossed in a please let it be so selfish way.

Turtwig · 18-03-2020 03:53PM

darjeeling wrote: »

A couple of new drug reports:

In China they're reporting success using an antiviral drug called avigan (also called favipiravir), which, in the same way as remdesivir, interferes with the enzyme that replicates the viral genome.
Patients treated were reportedly cleared of virus more quickly, and had improved lung conditions and better recovery.
News report only, no scientific papers yet as far as I can see.
Oddly, it's made by Fujifilm, whose share price is now soaring.

In Marseille doctors have been using hydroxychloroquine (anti-malarial, also for rheumatoid arthritis) and an antibiotic called azithromycin to treat patients in a non-blind trial.
Compared with patients treated in a different hospital, they report lower viral loads and faster clearance of virus, but we really need data from a proper double-blind trial to know that it's working.
link

Can you really do proper double blind during this crisis? I'd expect there would be ethical issues.

macnug · 18-03-2020 03:54PM

SleetAndSnow wrote: »

https://twitter.com/vincekearney/status/1240302101122682882?s=20

So is it 10 or 20% of cases requiring hospitalisation? A lot lot more then.

tobefrank321 · 18-03-2020 03:54PM

shoes43 wrote: »

He now tells me one of daughters has a cough and the other has been "off" since yesterday but the Doctor only testing them as a matter of pre-caution.

My parents have not been out of the house since the weekend and we are doing all the necessary precautions to make sure they are safe.

Did he go skiing in Northern Italy lately by any chance despite being advised against it? Sounds like the sort who'd do that.

billybonkers · 18-03-2020 03:54PM

Humberto Salazar wrote: »

Oil prices down to mid twenties a barrel. Could go below 20 dollars for the first time in decades soon. Cheaper diesel petrol and home heating at least.

The price at the pump won't change unfortunately

iwillyeah1234 · 18-03-2020 03:54PM

statesaver wrote: »

You serious :eek: :eek: fuk.

not kidding - it was the central part of the report.
Existing mortuary getting a pre-fab extension. The workmen literally started this morning.

WoollyRedHat · 18-03-2020 03:55PM

expectationlost wrote: »

where are those more detailed stats? for some people like me it whats get through to us

are the HSE still counting travel, local community or is there no point anymore with many possible sources? I'd certainly like the stats on this from the last week, they stopped giving them out on the 13th https://www.gov.ie/en/news/7e0924-latest-updates-on-covid-19-coronavirus/ to me it'd be interesting to see when it was the unknown community sources passed out travel and local sources.

local known contacts passed out travel on the 12th

HSE said in their last conference they will release detailed stats of last 7 days from Friday, which will go into a county case breakdown, as well as number of community transmitted cases, recoveed cases etc.

Kilboor · 18-03-2020 03:55PM

iwillyeah1234 wrote: »

not kidding - it was the central part of the report.
Existing mortuary getting a pre-fab extension. The workmen literally started this morning.

Makes sense. I'd imagine current mortuaries don't have a huge amount of extra space for mass increases in deaths.

Tacitus Kilgore · 18-03-2020 03:55PM

tobefrank321 wrote: »

Did he go skiing in Northern Italy lately by any chance despite being advised against it? Sounds like the sort who'd do that.

I'm more worried about the coronavirus testers not wearing gloves tbh

Rob A. Bank · 18-03-2020 03:56PM

How the Brits f*cked up their response to Covid 19.

The 'Herd Immunity' notion would have cost over 1/4 million deaths.

Time wasting and their late conversion to the global consensus on how to deal with Covid-19, means that they are now probably too late to stop an unmitigated disaster.

At the time, scientists advising ministers appeared to believe it could be treated like influenza, and that a “controlled epidemic” would generate “herd immunity” that would help protect the most vulnerable against the infection. The scenario called for upwards of 60% of the population to contract the virus.

The government’s strategy changed dramatically on Monday when the prime minister announced that new modelling from Imperial College London demonstrated that more draconian measures were needed to slash the estimated death toll from 260,000 to about 20,000.

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2020/mar/18/uk-failures-over-covid-19-will-increase-death-toll-says-leading-doctor

tobefrank321 · 18-03-2020 03:56PM

The numbers are going to start stacking up in hospital a couple weeks from now. If anything we need to enforce isolation and social distancing more going forward. Its going to take at least 3 months of this to get the numbers under control.

cnocbui · 18-03-2020 03:57PM

Iran having 1,135 deaths today is just surreal.

Plumbthedepths · 18-03-2020 03:58PM

Jimmy Garlic wrote: »

Anyone get the feeling that the government are loving this crisis. Never saw the likes of Harris and Donohoe so animated, they are almost giddy.

No fan of Leo and crew but do you seriously believe anyone is taking delight in this crisis when the results will be the death of many of our citizens and a severally damaged economy.

2Mad2BeMad · 18-03-2020 03:59PM

cnocbui wrote: »

Iran having 1,135 deaths today is just surreal.

That's there total deaths. Not in the last 24 hours

What Username Guidelines · 18-03-2020 03:59PM

cnocbui wrote: »

Iran having 1,135 deaths today is just surreal.

Thats total - 147 today.

MipMap · 18-03-2020 03:59PM

Omackeral wrote: »

I mean if you cant trust that definite source of infallible information...

Order some things from Banggood in China on 20th Jan.

Got an email last week as follows:

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Today they emailed promoting:
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AND

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An Ciarraioch · 18-03-2020 03:59PM

billybonkers wrote: »

The price at the pump won't change unfortunately

TBF, Applegreen have passed it on.

tobefrank321 · 18-03-2020 03:59PM

Rob A. Bank wrote: »

How the Brits f*cked up their response to Covid 19.

The 'Herd Immunity' notion would have cost over 1/4 million deaths.

Time wasting and their late conversion to the global consensus on how to deal with Covid-19, means that they are now probably too late to stop an unmitigated disaster.

When Vallance came out with the herd mentality idea, he was almost universally lauded by the UK media as a genius. Turns out he was nothing of the sort.

iwillyeah1234 · 18-03-2020 04:00PM

Rob A. Bank wrote: »

How the Brits f*cked up their response to Covid 19.

The 'Herd Immunity' notion would have cost over 1/4 million deaths.

Time wasting and their late conversion to the global consensus on how to deal with Covid-19, means that they are now probably too late to stop an unmitigated disaster.

London is turning into one hell of a hotspot.
621 cases there alone.

Photos of people packed on the Tube in today's newspapers online. Frightening stuff. ( tube should have been shut down a week ago..)

Nermal · 18-03-2020 04:02PM

cnocbui wrote: »

Iran having 1,135 deaths today is just surreal.

Really? “Surreal” is the appropriate word? Given that 1,080 people died every single day in Iran in 2019?

snowgal · 18-03-2020 04:02PM

I know its a question that nobody can answer for certain, but, any thoughts and when the Government might extend the 29th March deadline?? I think we can safely say theyre not going to lift the ban on that date.....Just wondering do people think they'll give some notice or will they leave it like the initial announcement?

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CoVid-19 Part VIII - 292 cases ROI (2 deaths) 62 in NI (as of 17th March) Read OP