Covid19 Part XIX-25,802 in ROI (1,753 deaths) 5,859 in NI (556 deaths) (21/07)Read OP

From April 21 to May 29, 2020, 179 patients were potentially eligible for the follow-up post–acute care assessment; 14 individuals (8%) refused to participate and 22 had a positive test result. Thus, 143 patients were included. The mean age was 56.5 (SD, 14.6) years (range, 19-84 years), and 53 (37%) were women. During hospitalization, 72.7% of participants had evidence of interstitial pneumonia. The mean length of hospital stay was 13.5 (SD, 9.7) days; 21 patients (15%) received noninvasive ventilation and 7 patients (5%) received invasive ventilation. The characteristics of the study population are summarized in the Table.

Patients were assessed a mean of 60.3 (SD, 13.6) days after onset of the first COVID-19 symptom; at the time of the evaluation, only 18 (12.6%) were completely free of any COVID-19–related symptom, while 32% had 1 or 2 symptoms and 55% had 3 or more. None of the patients had fever or any signs or symptoms of acute illness. Worsened quality of life was observed among 44.1% of patients. The Figure shows that a high proportion of individuals still reported fatigue (53.1%), dyspnea (43.4%), joint pain, (27.3%) and chest pain (21.7%).

Drumpot wrote: »

they just don’t know yet how it effects children in terms of spreading Potential

Drumpot wrote: »

I was just reading about this and Fauci basically saying they just don’t know yet how it effects children in terms of spreading Potential. Says on CNN that they are seeing how 2000 families with infected children are working out. Really feels like this is one of those things that’s light on science evidence but is being thrown around for societal convenience (we really do need children in school).

I’ve not seen clear evidence yet that explains why “children don’t spread disease”. Just vague statements that they don’t think they do. But if children don’t usually get bad doses or have symptoms it stands to reason they won’t be tested. Does anybody know of any credible tests done that shows and explains why this line of thinking on children is being taken by default? (That they don’t really spread).

Also, for anybody who has watched medical videos on the virus, there is still so much they don’t fully understand. If you get sick now, you have a better chance of survival now then you did 6 months ago. But the same can hopefully be said in another 6 months. That’s why it’s imperative to mitigate the chances of a second surge.

Contact tracing App and mandatory masks is an excellent start. Have to give our government thumbs up on that, but we must do more to put infrastructure in place. The more we do now, pre - emptive strategies, the better we can handle this in the long term. Monitoring visitors in and out is an obvious one. The cynic in new thinks the government may wait until end of summer to properly regulate this to help tourism while the numbers are low.

I heard Aldi or Lidl are trialing shop deliveries (can’t remember where I heard that), this is a positive. I’d hope most companies who can, will maintain workers working from home until next year at least. The contact tracing APP will hopefully help us see the true areas where the virus spread the most. Pubs in particular may be cleared or shown to be bad places for spread. Either way, this information can hopefully at least be used to get people and pub owners to be more responsible.

I think it’s all about adapting ourselves to the virus in a manner that we can still lead somewhat normal lives. I’m confident we can do it, but we need to use the summer wisely. I’m working on a new service to basically have zoom meetings. My business has been 100% face to face meetings up until COVId so I’m not finding it easy but I’ve accepted this is my best chance of maintaining a company over the coming months/years. Instead of fighting it, I would love to see our country showing innovation and ways of working around it, instead of trying to force things back to normal.