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QueenOfGoths said:
Panic buying update!!

As well as hand sanitizer, loo roll, tinned soup, baked beans and UHT milk I can add Fray Bentos pies, corned beef and dog food.

Apparently the shelves of Waitrose have been "decimated" (according to local Facebook groups) which probably tells you all you need to know about the demographic of Maidenhead :D
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Just came from my local Morrison’s - shelves packed to the rafters.
 
Wilf said:
UK cases up by 34:
www.theguardian.com

Italian educational institutions close as Covid-19 deaths pass 100 – as it happened

Outbreak continues to spread with Italians in India testing positive. This blog is closed
www.theguardian.com www.theguardian.com

Not sure when we get into active emergency/governmental panic mode, mass school closures etc?
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Well, yes - is there an actual number? Of cases? Of deaths? :(

I do understand all the reasons put forwards for delaying (by posters here, not Boris etc, obvs), I get that it's not straightforward, but it's just so horribly, fucking stark that that's what it comes down to - and I'm still totally conflicted about those reasons anyway.
 
I've not got a problem with them not reporting where the cases are on a daily basis, as the information is of no real use.

Its been reported in the last week that there's two new cases in West Sussex, what use is this information to anyone in Worthing? They could be in this town, or somewhere miles away, even if they are from Worthing, without knowing who they are, how would this be useful in a town of over 100,000?

OTHO when it hit the press that a GP, from Brighton, who tested positive had done a couple of days in A&E at Worthing hospital it caused a major panic, even though he didn't pass it onto anyone else, and tested negative just a few days later.
 
cupid_stunt said:
There's been no deaths in the UK so far, figures for reported cases & deaths worldwide are updated daily on this site:

www.ecdc.europa.eu

The European Respiratory Virus Surveillance Summary (ERVISS)

This interactive dashboard provides a weekly integrated epidemiological summary for influenza, RSV and SARS-CoV-2.
www.ecdc.europa.eu www.ecdc.europa.eu
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Yes, I'm well aware of that - it was a response to Wilf's post, questioning how/when the gov measure moving to a new stage (beyond the current 'containment') to be necessary.
 
sheothebudworths said:
Yes, I'm well aware of that - it was a response to Wilf's post, questioning how/when the gov measure moving to a new stage (beyond the current 'containment') to be necessary.
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That is dependent on the advice of the various UK chief medical officers & chief scientific officer.

elbows explains it well in this post, on the main thread:

www.urban75.net

Coronavirus - worldwide breaking news, discussion, stats, updates and more

As I posted a few days back, from a workforce perspective mass shut downs is a v poor outcome. Shut a load of schools in an area and you knock out a significant chunk of workers who then become carers. Other countries have managed and done it early particularly Vietnam getting a grip on...
www.urban75.net www.urban75.net
 
cupid_stunt said:
That is dependent on the advice of the various UK chief medical officers & chief scientific officer.

elbows explains it well in this post, on the main thread:

www.urban75.net

Coronavirus - worldwide breaking news, discussion, stats, updates and more

As I posted a few days back, from a workforce perspective mass shut downs is a v poor outcome. Shut a load of schools in an area and you knock out a significant chunk of workers who then become carers. Other countries have managed and done it early particularly Vietnam getting a grip on...
www.urban75.net www.urban75.net
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Perhaps you could just read the post of mine you originally quoted, where I explained that I had read the various points put forwards by posters here and understood them :thumbs: - but I was wondering along with Wilf (dunno why you feel the need to point this out to me and not to him?) what that actually meant (from the pov of our government who, tbf, I don't hold that much trust in) in real terms.

Anything else I need to clarify again?
 
Slots for tesco home delivery in my area are nearly full, collect and collect all full, suspect the stockpiling is beginning, likely wont be the at risk groups either.

nearly all hand santisers gone.
 
sheothebudworths said:
Perhaps you could just read the post of mine you originally quoted, where I explained that I had read the various points put forwards by posters here and understood them :thumbs: - but I was wondering along with Wilf (dunno why you feel the need to point this out to me and not to him?) what that actually meant (from the pov of our government who, tbf, I don't hold that much trust in) in real terms.

Anything else I need to clarify again?
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It wasn't directed at you, I was adding to your response to Wilf. :facepalm:
 
treelover said:
Slots for tesco home delivery in my area are nearly full, collect and collect all full, suspect the stockpiling is beginning, likely wont be the at risk groups either.

nearly all hand santisers gone.
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The price of hand sanitiser has rocketed where available. We have some at work i will be requisitioning.
 
For those bothered by the loss of daily information about location of cases, it looks like local/regional authorities might still choose to mention cases, but I guess it will be a postcode lottery.

eg:

 
Apols if this has already been posted here or elsewhere, but it seems a more sensible analysis than some I've read:

The WHO has sent a team of international experts to China to investigate the situation, including Clifford Lane, Clinical Director at the US National Institutes of Health. Here is the press conference on Youtube and the final report of the commission as PDF after they visited Beijing, Wuhan, Shenzhen, Guangzhou and Chengdu. Here are some interesting facts about Covid that I have not yet read in the media:

  • When a cluster of several infected people occurred in China, it was most often (78-85%) caused by an infection within the family by droplets and other carriers of infection in close contact with an infected person. Transmission by fine aerosols in the air over long distances is not one of the main causes of spread. Most of the 2,055 infected hospital workers were either infected at home or in the early phase of the outbreak in Wuhan when hospital safeguards were not raised yet.
  • 5% of people who are diagnosed with Covid require artificial respiration. Another 15% need to breathe in highly concentrated oxygen - and not just for a few days. The duration from the beginning of the disease until recovery is 3 to 6 weeks on average for these severe and critical patients (compared to only 2 weeks for the mildly ill). The mass and duration of the treatments overburdened the existing health care system in Wuhan many times over. The province of Hubei, whose capital is Wuhan, had 65,596 infected persons so far. A total of 40,000 employees were sent to Hubei from other provinces to help fight the epidemic. 45 hospitals in Wuhan are caring for Covid patients, 6 of which are for patients in critical condition and 39 are caring for seriously ill patients and for infected people over the age of 65. Two makeshift hospitals with 2,600 beds were built within a short time. 80% of the infected have mild disease, ten temporary hospitals were set up in gymnasiums and exhibition halls for those.
  • China can now produce 1.6 million test kits for the novel coronavirus per week. The test delivers a result on the same day. Across the country, anyone who goes to the doctor with a fever is screened for the virus: In Guangdong province, far from Wuhan, 320,000 people have been tested, and 0.14% of those were positive for the virus.
  • The vast majority of those infected sooner or later develop symptoms. Cases of people in whom the virus has been detected and who do not have symptoms at that time are rare - and most of them fall ill in the next few days.
  • The most common symptoms are fever (88%) and dry cough (68%). Exhaustion (38%), expectoration of mucus when coughing (33%), shortness of breath (18%), sore throat (14%), headaches (14%), muscle aches (14%), chills (11%) are also common. Less frequent are nausea and vomiting (5%), stuffy nose (5%) and diarrhoea (4%). Running nose is not a symptom of Covid.
  • An examination of 44,672 infected people in China showed a fatality rate of 3.4%. Fatality is strongly influenced by age, pre-existing conditions, gender, and especially the response of the health care system. All fatality figures reflect the state of affairs in China up to 17 February, and everything could be quite different in the future elsewhere.
  • Healthcare system: 20% of infected people in China needed hospital treatment for weeks. China has hospital beds to treat 0.4% of the population at the same time - other developed countries have between 0.1% and 1.3% and most of these beds are already occupied with people who have other diseases. The most important thing is firstly to aggressively contain the spread of the virus in order to keep the number of seriously ill Covid patients low and secondly to increase the number of beds (including material and personnel) until there is enough for the seriously ill. China also tested various treatment methods for the unknown disease and the most successful ones were implemented nationwide. Thanks to this response, the fatality rate in China is now lower than a month ago.
  • Pre-existing conditions: The fatality rate for those infected with pre-existing cardiovascular disease in China was 13.2%. It was 9.2% for those infected with high blood sugar levels (uncontrolled diabetes), 8.4% for high blood pressure, 8% for chronic respiratory diseases and 7.6% for cancer. Infected persons without a relevant previous illness died in 1.4% of cases.
  • Age: The younger you are, the less likely you are to be infected and the less likely you are to fall seriously ill if you do get infected:
Age% of population% of infectedFatality
0-912.0%0,9%0 as of now
10-1911.6%1.2%0.1%
20-2913.5%8.1%0.2%
30-3915.6%17.0%0.2%
40-4915.6%19.2%0.4%
50-5915.0%22.4%1.3%
60-6910.4%19.2%3.6%
70-794.7%8.8%8.0%
80+1.8%3.2%14.8%
Read: Out of all people who live in China, 13.5% are between 20 and 29 years old. Out of those who were infected in China, 8.1% were in this age group (this does not mean that 8.1% of people between 20 and 29 become infected). This means that the likelihood of someone at this age to catch the infection is somewhat lower compared to the average. And of those who caught the infection in this age group, 0.2% died.

  • Gender: Women catch the disease just as often as men. But only 2.8% of Chinese women who were infected died from the disease, while 4.7% of the infected men died. The disease appears to be not more severe in pregnant women than in others. In 9 examined births of infected women, the children were born by caesarean section and healthy without being infected themselves. The women were infected in the last trimester of pregnancy. What effect an infection in the first or second trimester has on embryos is currently unclear as these children are still unborn.
  • The new virus is genetically 96% identical to a known coronavirus in bats and 86-92% identical to a coronavirus in pangolin. Therefore, the transmission of a mutated virus from animals to humans is the most likely cause of the appearance of the new virus.
  • Since the end of January, the number of new coronavirus diagnoses in China has been steadily declining (shown here as a graph) with now only 329 new diagnoses within the last day - one month ago it was around 3,000 a day. "This decline in COVID-19 cases across China is real," the report says. The authors conclude this from their own experience on site, declining hospital visits in the affected regions, the increasing number of unoccupied hospital beds, and the problems of Chinese scientists to recruit enough newly infected for the clinical studies of the numerous drug trials. Here is the relevant part of the press conference about the decline assessment.
  • One of the important reasons for containing the outbreak is that China is interviewing all infected people nationwide about their contact persons and then tests those. There are 1,800 teams in Wuhan to do this, each with at least 5 people. But the effort outside of Wuhan is also big. In Shenzhen, for example, the infected named 2,842 contact persons, all of whom were found, testing is now completed for 2,240, and 2.8% of those had contracted the virus. In Sichuan province, 25,493 contact persons were named, 25,347 (99%) were found, 23,178 have already been examined and 0.9% of them were infected. In the province of Guangdong, 9,939 contacts were named, all found, 7,765 are already examined and 4.8% of them were infected. That means: If you have direct personal contact with an infected person, the probability of infection is between 1% and 5%.
 
And..

A few direct quotes from the report:

"China’s bold approach to contain the rapid spread of this new respiratory pathogen has changed the course of a rapidly escalating and deadly epidemic. In the face of a previously unknown virus, China has rolled out perhaps the most ambitious, agile and aggressive disease containment effort in history. China’s uncompromising and rigorous use of non-pharmaceutical measures to contain transmission of the COVID-19 virus in multiple settings provides vital lessons for the global response. This rather unique and unprecedented public health response in China reversed the escalating cases in both Hubei, where there has been widespread community transmission, and in the importation provinces, where family clusters appear to have driven the outbreak."

"Much of the global community is not yet ready, in mindset and materially, to implement the measures that have been employed to contain COVID-19 in China. These are the only measures that are currently proven to interrupt or minimize transmission chains in humans. Fundamental to these measures is extremely proactive surveillance to immediately detect cases, very rapid diagnosis and immediate case isolation, rigorous tracking and quarantine of close contacts, and an exceptionally high degree of population understanding and acceptance of these measures."

"COVID-19 is spreading with astonishing speed; COVID-19 outbreaks in any setting have very serious consequences; and there is now strong evidence that non-pharmaceutical interventions can reduce and even interrupt transmission. Concerningly, global and national preparedness planning is often ambivalent about such interventions. However, to reduce COVID-19 illness and death, near-term readiness planning must embrace the large-scale implementation of high-quality, non-pharmaceutical public health measures. These measures must fully incorporate immediate case detection and isolation, rigorous close contact tracing and monitoring/quarantine, and direct population/community engagement."

From Reddit
 
treelover said:
Slots for tesco home delivery in my area are nearly full, collect and collect all full, suspect the stockpiling is beginning, likely wont be the at risk groups either.

nearly all hand santisers gone.
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I’ve been trying to buy hand sanitiser for a week. I use it daily at work and am running out. I’ve tried almost every possible option in store and online. It’s insane. A friend might order me some as she has a trade account but even then I think it’ll be out of stock. I’m going out tonight but I’ll try the 24hr Tesco on the way home in case they’ve had a delivery.
 
If you’ve been in contact with someone who has been in contact with someone who is unwell and has been tested (results in 72 hours) how concerned would you be? Asking for a friend. 😕
 
Looby said:
I’ve been trying to buy hand sanitiser for a week. I use it daily at work and am running out. I’ve tried almost every possible option in store and online. It’s insane. A friend might order me some as she has a trade account but even then I think it’ll be out of stock. I’m going out tonight but I’ll try the 24hr Tesco on the way home in case they’ve had a delivery.
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It's the 60% thing that's the key, isn't it?
Pricey, but may end up cheaper than the non-existent hand-wash?

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Edie said:
You’d never steal from the common store would you? 🤨
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The common store :D

I work in a small library. Each site purchases its own supplies and I'm taking 1.5 bottles from my sites stores, which wouldn't be there if I hadn't asked for them to be bought six months ago. To reach the library you must pass three ladies and three gents, and one unsignposted unisex toilet, so there is great scope for hand cleansing. Also there's another four bottles of gel for emergencies.
 
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