Hooverfish
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Just another view. I'm actually still more worried about the case of rubella reported in Apple's Hollyhill campus today. See de paper. Transmission rate for rubella is 10-30% as opposed to 2-3% for Covid-19.
IT doesnt have to be an either or... And which one to be more concerned about may depend on whether you are in at risk group for either disease.
You shouldn't be at risk from Rubella. There is extremely affective vaccination available.
Perhaps. But the virus is predominately spread person to person, not from surfaces.
I see that it recommended that you wash your hands in warm water. What about cold water?
It takes so long for the warm water to reach my taps (about 4 litres, I normally collect this and re use in my cistern) that Irish Water would be billing me for over usage.
Twice apparently! (20 seconds in other words)amongst other things, you should rub your hands for as long it takes to sing Happy Birthday
If that proves correct or even half correct I'll leave you all to do the maths at a 3% mortality rate on a world population of 8 billion. Current mortality rate wordwide is approx 3.5% see Worldometer Coronavirus.
Anyone who quotes it quotes it in comparison to deaths from coronavirus. Like only x amount have died from coronavirus versus the annual deaths from influenza. Like I have stated, the % deaths to cases on both is what counts. Off the cuff remarks like saying more people die from influenza are not reflecting the true attrition rate.
Off the cuff remarks like saying more people die from influenza are not reflecting the true attrition rate.
That's apples and orange: % of reported vs. % infected. A lot of covid19-infected people are not reported as they have mild symptoms and/or because some countries may be under-reporting the infected but it's less easy to under-report deaths.According to the WHO Director-General: “Globally, about 3.4% of reported COVID-19 cases have died. By comparison, seasonal flu generally kills far fewer than 1% of those infected.”
Now confirmed one of the four cases in the West worked at least one shift in an emergency department. Hopefully that was before they had symtoms and hopefully that means they didn't transmit - I'm not sure this has been scientifically proven or not?
I thought I read a report that asymptomatic spread occurs more with influenza.