Covid19 Part XVIII-25,473 in ROI(1,736 deaths) 5,760 in NI (551 deaths)(30/06)Read OP

owlbethere wrote: »

With the infection in meat plants, I would be very wary buying cold meats like ham slices, just in case there's virus on the meat. I wouldnt be as paranoid about meat to cook. Just cold meat slices.

Widdensushi wrote: »

Should be lower really, less people to spread it and far less travelling

Widdensushi wrote: »

How long did travel take?, it was very different than now.

Influenza sailed with American troops across the Atlantic and when it exploded in late August and September in Europe and the United States, medical officers found themselves on the front lines of an epidemic worse than any of them had ever seen or imagined. Many were among the most knowledgeable and skilled physicians in the country and had just recently entered military service. They did their best to save those stricken by influenza, but could do little more than provide palliative care of warmth, rest, and a gentle diet, and hope that their patients did not develop pneumonia.

One of the tragedies of the influenza epidemic is that by the 1910s, the medical profession held many of the scientific and epidemiological tools to understand the nature and extent of the damage influenza and pneumonia were wreaking on their patients, but lacked the tools to effectively fight them. While virology would not emerge until the 1930s, physicians could identify many of the bacteria causing the deadly pneumonias that were killing their patients, but without antibiotics they could do little to fight the infections. Thus, as the epidemic struck their camps, hospitals, ships, ports, or divisions, many medical officers documented what they saw, as if trying to define that which they could not control. They ran tests and did autopsies, recorded their laboratory and clinical findings, compared morbidity and mortality rates across time and with other units, and tried to stay healthy themselves. They wrote detailed reports to their superiors and published myriad articles on the influenza of 1918–1919. These studies and reports would provide some of the most extensive documentation on the pandemic, informing civilian and military researchers alike as they struggled for years after the war to understand what had caused the epidemic and its widespread suffering.

Renjit wrote:

I'd say test all inbound travelers for covid-19. RT-PCR test to confirm. It is probably the best way to keep things in control.

Flickerfusion wrote:

We could test in-bound travellers from high risk destinations, as they will mostly be long haul flights (assuming the UK manages to get its house in order in the next couple of weeks).

Away With The Fairies wrote:

Test and quarantine. Who's managing the NPHET? They're doing an awful job if they are allowing such relaxed attitude to arrivals.

owlbethere wrote: »

With the infection in meat plants, I would be very wary buying cold meats like ham slices, just in case there's virus on the meat. I wouldnt be as paranoid about meat to cook. Just cold meat slices.

fritzelly wrote: »

Ohh crap