Links to informed expert comment on The Coronavirus

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Pat Kenny Newstalk had an interview with Dr Michael Ryan WHO, after which Prof John Crown mentioned about ICU beds and the lack of numbers
required. We need the Chinese to come over here and build a pop up isolation hospital in 9 days, which they no longer need as the numbers are
dwindling.
https://www.newstalk.com/podcasts/h...utive-director-health-emergencies-coronavirus

There was a lot of straight talking on Claire Byrne Live show tonight which was needed.
We can't afford to sit on our hands and do nothing as the DCU Prof explained.

Its a reminder of the financial crash predictions in 2008, which fell on deaf ears.
People need to use their own discretion and lie low as much as possible.

Snowyb
 
This may be a bit technical for some, but it is the best clinical description I've found on Covid-19
 
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Not sure if this is the right thread but as it is a peer reviewed published study:
A peer-reviewed published Friday in the Journal of the American Medical Association identified 14 coronavirus patients who had diarrhea and nausea before they showed any signs of fever or respiratory symptoms. That was 10% of the study's 138-person sample size.
 
This seems to have some good information
 
The majority of coronavirus infections may be spread by people who have recently caught the virus and have not yet begun to [broken link removed], scientists have found. An analysis of infections in Singapore and Tianjin in China revealed that two-thirds and three-quarters of people respectively appear to have caught it from others who were incubating the virus but still symptom-free. The finding has dismayed infectious disease researchers as it means that isolating people once they start to feel ill will be far less effective at slowing the pandemic than had been hoped.
 
The majority of coronavirus infections may be spread by people who have recently caught the virus and have not yet begun to [broken link removed], scientists have found. An analysis of infections in Singapore and Tianjin in China revealed that two-thirds and three-quarters of people respectively appear to have caught it from others who were incubating the virus but still symptom-free. The finding has dismayed infectious disease researchers as it means that isolating people once they start to feel ill will be far less effective at slowing the pandemic than had been hoped.

Very interesting. An article on the German study referenced can be found here:
https://www.statnews.com/2020/03/09...-likely-not-infectious-after-recovery-begins/

Basically the WHO etc. were really set up to fight the last war - a repeat of SARS, since all recommendations started with "if you show symptoms then....". I think social distancing is now the main weapon needed, along with widespread/blanket testing to allow for quicker isolation.
 
Guardian article: Respiratory physician John Wilson explains the range of Covid-19 impacts, from no symptoms to severe illness featuring pneumonia...

When people with Covid-19 develop a cough and fever, Wilson says this is a result of the infection reaching the respiratory tree – the air passages that conduct air between the lungs and the outside. He says: “The lining of the respiratory tree becomes injured, causing inflammation. This in turn irritates the nerves in the lining of the airway. Just a speck of dust can stimulate a cough.

[broken link removed]
 
Medical authorities in China have said a drug used in Japan to treat new strains of influenza appeared to be effective in coronavirus patients, Japanese media said on Wednesday. Zhang Xinmin, an official at China’s science and technology ministry, said favipiravir, developed by a subsidiary of Fujifilm, had produced encouraging outcomes in clinical trials in Wuhan and Shenzhen involving 340 patients.
 
“To actually stop the virus, [China] had to do rapid testing of any suspect case, immediate isolation of anyone who was a confirmed or suspected case, and then quarantine the close contacts for 14 days so that they could figure out if any of them were infected,” WHO expert Bruce Aylward told New Scientist in an exclusive interview. “Those were the measures that stopped transmission in China, not the big travel restrictions and lockdowns.”
“In some countries they’re not even testing them. They’re saying if you have a cough and high fever, stay at home,” says Aylward. “But the problem then is that they don’t know that they have the disease, they haven’t had it confirmed. After a couple of days people get bored, go out for a walk and go shopping and get other people infected. If you know you’re infected you’re more likely to isolate yourself.”
This is a particular problem with covid-19 because up to 80 per cent of those infected may have only mild or moderate symptoms. “If those people are all out of hospital, most of your cases are at home, but not isolated,” says Aylward. “In China, they found that didn’t work. They had to get them isolated in hospitals or dormitories or stadiums. The main goal was to keep them from getting bored.”

Read more: https://www.newscientist.com/articl...re-testing-to-beat-coronavirus/#ixzz6HQKkmgLw
 
Researchers in the US shed light on a crucial biological mechanism that has helped the coronavirus spread rapidly among humans around the world.
A detailed analysis of the virus’s structure revealed that its club-like “spikes” enable it to latch on to human cells about four times more strongly than the related Sars coronavirus which killed hundreds of people in a 2002 pandemic. This means that coronavirus particles that are inhaled through the nose or mouth have a high chance of attaching to cells in the upper respiratory tract, and that relatively few are needed to establish an infection.
 
A study of over 70,000 cases of Covid-19 in China has determined a death rate from the virus at 1.38%, lower than previous estimates...
Nearly one in five over-80s infected with Covid -19 are likely to require hospitalisation, compared with around 1% of people under 30, according to the study published in The Lancet Infectious Diseases journal.
 
Ireland's coronavirus strains:
Sequencing identifies one linked to Wuhan but most similar to European strains... There have been some suggestions that the strain of Covid-19 in countries like Italy and Spain is more aggressive and that this may be the more prevalent strain in Ireland, but De Gascun said it is “too early to say”.

 
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