Off Topic Corona virus

Saw this and read that he had gone in for "Precautionary tests". He has tested positive for C-19, what other tests are there? Do all patients get to have "Precautionary tests"? or just the rich and famous. I wish the guy well, but lets have a little honesty here. Is he getting special treatment because of who he is and what are his "Precautionary tests" a precaution against exactly? Mixing with the 'stains', as he was once known to have referred to the common people and catching one of their common diseases?

 

This is a theory of mine, Ristac. If everyone stays at home and the disease drops off, when the restrictions are lift the disease will still be there. It's not going to magically disappear. What then? back into lock down?

 

To be fair, dipstick or not, he is still PM and I suppose merits some level of "extra" care, he is after all their leader, God help them. I read somewhere that CV-19 attacks other internal organs, not just the lungs, so perhaps they are doing some testing to make sure nothing untoward is happening.

 

Perhaps they suspect that his dormant brain might be flickering to life?

 

In Northern Italy, 60 volunteers who thought they'd never suffered COVID-19 gave blood. 40 of them tested positive for antibodies to the virus

 

This is why it is so dangerous. Until we get the antibody test we just don't know how many people have had this.

There are 3 people in my team at work who have definitely had/have it. They've not been tested and are not included in the statistics. There are at least 3 of us (me included) who felt a little off and have had or still have a heavy chest. No coughing, no temperature, just a heavy chest and aches and pains. That's out of a team of about 20 of us that work in and around each other. The rest might have had it and not shown symptoms or it might just be the 3 guys who were textbook covid19 victims. Who knows?

 

If that Italy figure is no coincidence then it could be that 2/3 get it with no symptoms that’s encouraging

 

https://translate.google.com/transl...hau.de/inland/corona-studie-muenchen-101.html

 

I've seen reports that in South Korea where there has been even more widespread testing up to 75% of people were asymptomatic. I have a feeling that figure is a bit high but Italy and Spain appear to be on the other side of the hump now so hopefully we're further along than we realised and will be following them within the next two weeks.

 

Could be. That’s why we need to do masses of immunity testing.

 

The president of the institution of biomedical science Alan wilson on sky now stating there is no reliable anti body test available anywhere in the world yet and will be quite some time until there is one

 

If the lockdown is working then hospital admissions should drop this week. Unfortunately it could be another week or two before the deaths start to drop in number.

The UK figures will look shocking as we are slowly ramping up testing everyday. The more people we test, the more confirmed cases there will be. The graph will look bad because of a lack of consistency with testing. The real numbers, the consistent numbers, will always be deaths and hospital admissions. Once hospital admissions go down then deaths will follow shortly after.

It's going to be a tough couple of weeks but looking at other countries we might be cresting the wave this week. Fingers crossed!

Exit strategy should be like China. Keep testing. Shut the borders. Stop travel. Anyone coming in from outside are put in isolation for 2 weeks or until they test negative.

We might just be allowed outside in time for winter!

 

Morning all. Its a change from dodging in a fridge.

 

Get well soon Boris

 

Don't think lockdown will be fully lifted for a year or so, no concerts, football or anything involving crowds and social distancing will carry on.

 

Why?

He's the fcuker that wanted to kill most of us on here until he was stopped. Too late for many, sadly.

 

Probably chest exrays, to check for pneumonia, antibiotics started early can save a life.

 

Does he read this forum

 

Sometimes I wonder if he's a contributor.