Which is why talking about 'coronavirus' is a little misleading. There are a lot of species around.
It's like, you know the giant spider downtown that sits on the buildings and sometimes eats cars? I think technically it's a mutant T. annexa wolf spider, but everyone just calls it "The Spider" and we all know what they mean.
That is brilliant. I agree that most of the time it doesn't matter in the slightest.
But every now and then you see stuff on social media or regular media talking about a totally different Coronavirus and it leads to confusion...
As an example, from a different context: E. coli 0157 is a VERY nasty infection that you really don't want. Conversely k-strain E. coli is part of the normal flora of the human intestine and you really DO want it.
Precision matters because the coronaviruses found it cats are different...
AFZ
In the current context, I believe it is safe to say that when "covid" or "coronavirus" is used by itself, without a qualifier, then the current novel coronavirus tearing up the world, and the Covid-19 disease it causes, are what are meant by the terms. It would be perverse to use them any other way without making it clear that's what you are doing (e.g. "this is one of many coronaviruses" or "previous coronaviruses" which make it clear it's not this one being talked about).
Which is why talking about 'coronavirus' is a little misleading. There are a lot of species around.
It's like, you know the giant spider downtown that sits on the buildings and sometimes eats cars? I think technically it's a mutant T. annexa wolf spider, but everyone just calls it "The Spider" and we all know what they mean.
That is brilliant. I agree that most of the time it doesn't matter in the slightest.
But every now and then you see stuff on social media or regular media talking about a totally different Coronavirus and it leads to confusion...
As an example, from a different context: E. coli 0157 is a VERY nasty infection that you really don't want. Conversely k-strain E. coli is part of the normal flora of the human intestine and you really DO want it.
Precision matters because the coronaviruses found it cats are different...
AFZ
In the current context, I believe it is safe to say that when "covid" or "coronavirus" is used by itself, without a qualifier, then the current novel coronavirus tearing up the world, and the Covid-19 disease it causes, are what are meant by the terms. It would be perverse to use them any other way without making it clear that's what you are doing (e.g. "this is one of many coronaviruses" or "previous coronaviruses" which make it clear it's not this one being talked about).
You're right, of course but what I was getting at is I've seen a lot of posts where people misunderstand the obscure thing they've just found, which is referring to an entirely different virus.
It's a bit of a hobby horse of mine about public understanding of health and science. Mostly because the media are very poor at reporting scientific stories.
My favourite this evening from the BBC was something like "highest ever numbers of deaths in France as US deaths pass 10,000". Or something close to that. Talk about a non sequitur. Plus the first half of that statement is plain wrong.
The NHS daily report on deaths link here has the following caveat:
Figures on deaths relate to patients who have died in hospital in England and who have tested positive for COVID-19.
We do not include deaths outside hospital, such as those in care homes. Our approach allows us to compile deaths data on a daily basis using up to date figures. Our data includes confirmed cases reported as at 5pm the previous day. Confirmation of COVID-19 diagnosis, death notification and reporting in central figures can take up to several days, so totals reported at 5pm on each day may not include all deaths that occurred on that day or on recent prior days.
And notes the ONS figures are released weekly on a Tuesday and do include other deaths where COVID 19 is mentioned on the death certificate. That started on 31 March.
I think a lot of mistakes were made by both US med/sci folks and the US media in *how* they talked to people. Lots of people don't have much education, or have a limited vocabulary. Many people aren't very functional, for various reasons. And most Americans, I think are very stressed out--even the ones who don't take it seriously. And stressed out, scared people generally aren't at their best, and can have trouble understanding and doing basic things.
A lot of college-level words were used, and not explained. The virus was called "novel" for a long time, even when it got official names. It just means "new", and I gather it may be a standard term for people working with it--but many people don't know that.
I have a college education, and was always very good with words. I now sometimes have "brain fog" due to various health problems (primarily CFIDS/CFS/ME), and that often interferes with words and thinking about them. I was able to push a bit, and remember some of the not-quite-remembered words. A lot people, even without health problems, just don't have the necessary vocabulary, and stress makes that worse.
Long ago, I was taught that newspaper articles should always be written for a reader who has a sixth-grade education, and has been stuck on a desert island for years. IOW, assume the reader may not know what the heck you're talking about.
IMHO, a lot of people have messed up on that in this crisis. And if people don't understand what's going on, they're apt to be...unsettled. Not something the med/sci, media, and gov't folks should mess with.
There is an entry on the worldometer site worth reading in this context.
An estimated additional 180 - 195 deaths per day occurring at home in New York City due to COVID-19 are not being counted in the official figures. "Early on in this crisis we were able to swab people who died at home, and thus got a coronavirus reading. But those days are long gone. We simply don't have the testing capacity for the large numbers dying at home. Now only those few who had a test confirmation *before* dying are marked as victims of coronavirus on their death certificate. This almost certainly means we are undercounting the total number of victims of this pandemic," said Mark Levine, Chair of New York City Council health committee
Personally, I think this is likely to be a counting problem in many nations in respect of folks who die in their own homes or in residential homes. Unless they have a specific diagnosis of COVID-19 infection.
And the detail that 3M uses material from Canada to make them. There'll be no retaliation and what's been said is as far as it will go. We're not enemies trump. We're in this together. There's only sadness. Yes we'd help you in the future whether you behave well or badly this time.
That's the only sentiment we've heard. Sadness and resolve that this won't change us.
I was thinking this evening about my friend's husband, who went into the hospital 9 days ago, and how much this situation resembles a war.
He left his wife and children at hme and went in by himself. He has been unable to communicate with them since friday , his condition has worsened.
He is alone in his battle. If he dies, he will have gone into a war never to see his wife and children again, and they never having the opportunity to give him a proper goodbye, and possibly not even a proper burial according to their Chassidic Jewish custom. Just as if he had fallen in another country altogether.
It's weighing very heavily on me at the moment. We're each of us waging a private war behind closed doors.
May the Christ n Us be our ever present comfort and guide.
List of countries with at least 5,000 known COVID-19 cases.
United States - 367,629 (336,878 / 19,810 / 10,941)
Spain - 136,675 (82,897 / 40,437 / 13,341)
Italy - 132,547 (93,187 / 22,837 / 16,523)
Germany - 103,375 (65,484 / 36,081 / 1,810)
France - 98,010 (71,849 / 17,250 / 8,911)
China - 81,740 (1,242 / 77,167 / 3,331) 4.1%
Iran - 60,500 (32,525 / 24,236 / 3,739)
United Kingdom - 51,608 (46,100 / 135 / 5,373)
Turkey - 30,217 (28,242 / 1,326 / 649)
Switzerland - 21,657 (12,836 / 8,056 / 765)
Belgium - 20,814 (15,196 / 3,986 / 1,632)
Netherlands - 18,803 (16,686 / 250 / 1,867)
Canada - 16,667 (12,728 / 3,616 / 323)
Austria - 12,297 (8,614 / 3,463 / 220)
Brazil - 12,232 (11,539 / 127 / 566)
Portugal - 11,730 (11,279 / 140 / 311)
South Korea - 10,331 (3,445 / 6,694 / 192)
Israel - 8,904 (8,262 / 585 / 57)
Sweden - 7,206 (6,524 / 205 / 477)
Russia - 6,343 (5,890 / 406 / 47)
Australia - 5,895 (3,418 / 2,432 / 45)
Norway - 5,865 (5,757 / 32 / 76)
Ireland - 5,364 (5,165 / 25 / 174)
The listings are in the format:
X. Country - [# of known cases] ([active] / [recovered] / [dead]) [%fatality rate]
Fatality rates are only listed for countries where the number of resolved cases (recovered + dead) exceeds the number of known active cases by a ratio of at least 2:1. Italics indicate authoritarian countries whose official statistics are suspect. Other country's statistics are suspect if their testing regimes are substandard.
If American states were treated as individual countries fourteen of them would be on that list. New York would be ranked between Italy and Germany.
Since the last compilation Ireland has joined the club no one wants to join.
Thanks for this info, both now and previously. Question: AIUI, most people in the world haven't had access to tests...so are these based on med folks making their best guess at a diagnosis?
Thanks for this info, both now and previously. Question: AIUI, most people in the world haven't had access to tests...so are these based on med folks making their best guess at a diagnosis?
Thx.
I believe these figures are test results only. And yes, that's not reassuring.
I believe these figures are test results only. And yes, that's not reassuring.
I'm still not sure that's entirely "not reassuring". If more people have it than have been tested, that's reassuring in terms of the mortality rate and the proportion of severe cases.
Where it's not reassuring is about the ability of hospitals worldwide to cope with the number of severe cases, which might thus be smaller in percentage terms but large enough in absolute terms to overwhelm them.
And that we still don't really have very good data about what's actually happening.
BBC reports Trump has offered Boris the services of two US medics plus equipment. You can't trust that Socialized Medicine, presumably. The man has absolutely no comprehension of the realities of political life in the UK.
BBC reports Trump has offered Boris the services of two US medics plus equipment. You can't trust that Socialized Medicine, presumably. The man has absolutely no comprehension of the realities of political life in the UK.
No comprehension of political life. Period.
From the UK side such a move would destroy any political capital the PM has: Mr Johnson needs to be seen to be getting treatment from the NHS, and for everyone to be able to say what fantastic care he's getting. He's made a big thing of supporting the NHS, not just over the last couple of weeks but throughout the election campaign last year, and even in the Brexit campaign.
From the US side, Trump has been intercepting and interrupting supplies of equipment to individual States, to apparently support those who support him. When there's a clamour for support to the health services in the US, it's a bizarre offer to make in an election year.
Mr Johnson may have made a big thing about supporting the NHS, has he actually done so? Saying £350m per week to the NHS and 40 new hsopitals is one thing; actually completing this quite another. As far as I can see, he has reduced NHS capacity through things like Brexit and policies hostile to foreigners (on whom the NHS depends); and voted against a decent pay rise for nurses.
He may give the appearance of supporting the NHS, but actions speak louder than words and so far his actions have been silent. Assuming he recovers maybe he will become more positively active. I hope so, and hope that this is a wake up call for him and others.
Casualties in nursing homes. Belgium has reported 403 deaths today, a massive increase, but the footnote is that 241 are deaths in nursing homes, previously unreported. Essentially they are following the line the French have taken.
Anecdotal, obviously, but I’ve had symptoms of covid 19 for 3 weeks, including chest pain and shortness of breath. I have mild asthma (no regular meds) and it hadn’t flared up at all despite my chest symptoms. My 15 year old, who is on asthma steroid meds and has previously been hospitalised with asthma, has only had the covid cough (odd persistent cough which goes on forever....) and no other symptoms.
I think I’m recovering now, just an achy chest, but I now have horrendous fatigue, presumably post-viral, and it has triggered my anxiety and depression.
Our covid infection source is presumably our son, as his friend’s parent was a confirmed positive case. Loads of his friends have had the cough too.
We need the antibody testing to become more widespread so we can see who has had the disease (but weren't tested when it was active) and also so we can figure out how much immunity is conferred and for how long. They've done some sample testing in my area (California).
As far as I can see, medical staff still don't have enough equipment, and are still not all being tested, (UK). How can this continue? Is Raab just lying every day?
As far as I can see, medical staff still don't have enough equipment, and are still not all being tested, (UK). How can this continue? Is Raab just lying every day?
Long ago, I was taught that newspaper articles should always be written for a reader who has a sixth-grade education, and has been stuck on a desert island for years. IOW, assume the reader may not know what the heck you're talking about.
IMHO, a lot of people have messed up on that in this crisis. And if people don't understand what's going on, they're apt to be...unsettled. Not something the med/sci, media, and gov't folks should mess with.
Or if not unsettled, then unmoved and unconcerned. "I have no idea what they're talking about" comes right before "I'm not going to worry about it. I'm going to do what I want."
Which comes right beside "Everybody's giving different advise, I don't know which advice is helpful and which is bunkum, so I'll just ignore it all and keep on as usual."
Anecdotal, obviously, but I’ve had symptoms of covid 19 for 3 weeks, including chest pain and shortness of breath. I have mild asthma (no regular meds) and it hadn’t flared up at all despite my chest symptoms. My 15 year old, who is on asthma steroid meds and has previously been hospitalised with asthma, has only had the covid cough (odd persistent cough which goes on forever....) and no other symptoms.
I think I’m recovering now, just an achy chest, but I now have horrendous fatigue, presumably post-viral, and it has triggered my anxiety and depression.
Our covid infection source is presumably our son, as his friend’s parent was a confirmed positive case. Loads of his friends have had the cough too.
Which comes right beside "Everybody's giving different advise, I don't know which advice is helpful and which is bunkum, so I'll just ignore it all and keep on as usual."
A lot of people are at this point about dieting and food choices. First carbs are bad, then carbs are good and fat is bad, now carbs are bad again and fat is good. Eggs are good, bad, good, whatever. I'm just going to eat what I've always eaten and to hell with them. There's a very clever little sketch about this making the rounds (a couple of months ago anyway) on FarceBark. A guy comes in a time machine from the future to explain to a poor benighted soul in the (roughly) 1970s about how he shouldn't eat such-and-such. Then the time traveller reappears and says Wait, I was wrong, eat that, but not these other things. He keeps coming back several times, until the guy says he's just going to eat what he wants. We are all in that boat except we're travelling forward in time rather than the health wag travelling back and forth.
BBC reports Trump has offered Boris the services of two US medics plus equipment. You can't trust that Socialized Medicine, presumably. The man has absolutely no comprehension
BBC reports Trump has offered Boris the services of two US medics plus equipment. You can't trust that Socialized Medicine, presumably. The man has absolutely no comprehension
This is as far as you needed to type.
During T's press conference he just went on and on about how much of a great man Johnson is and how T is coming to J's rescue, it was a little grating. (Pun intended).
Which comes right beside "Everybody's giving different advice, I don't know which advice is helpful and which is bunkum, so I'll just ignore it all and keep on as usual."
I'm afraid I angered a very good friend last night on the phone. He suffers from Jewish Mother Syndrome (dispensing questionable unwanted advice). He told me I should stay healthy by gargling every night and every morning with salt water, according to a friend of the doctor of a friend's doctor or something like that. I replied that I would do what I thought best for me and that I neither needed nor wanted advice. He hung up on me.
Which comes right beside "Everybody's giving different advice, I don't know which advice is helpful and which is bunkum, so I'll just ignore it all and keep on as usual."
I'm afraid I angered a very good friend last night on the phone. He suffers from Jewish Mother Syndrome (dispensing questionable unwanted advice). He told me I should stay healthy by gargling every night and every morning with salt water, according to a friend of the doctor of a friend's doctor or something like that. I replied that I would do what I thought best for me and that I neither needed nor wanted advice. He hung up on me.
The good news, however, is that American fundamentalist [aka billionaire] Prophets (or should that be Profits?) have declared Judgement against Covid-19, in the name of the Lard, so there can obviously be no more cases, or deaths.
Well, in America, perhaps, the rest of the world being consigned to Hell in a handbasket...
The good news, however, is that American fundamentalist [billionaire] Prophets (or should that be Profits?) have declared Judgement against Covid-19, in the name of the Lard, so there can obviously be no more cases, or deaths.
The thought of Trump coming to help rescue him is probably NOT what Johnson needs just now.
Oxygen, yes. Hot air rhetoric, no.
Though, is it such a bad idea if he personally comes to help Boris? Arrive at Heathrow to be put into 14 day isolation. Then, since we don't have decent socialist infrastructure but rely on the whims of private business find that no-one bothered to put in an internet connection where he's kept ...
Which comes right beside "Everybody's giving different advice, I don't know which advice is helpful and which is bunkum, so I'll just ignore it all and keep on as usual."
I'm afraid I angered a very good friend last night on the phone. He suffers from Jewish Mother Syndrome (dispensing questionable unwanted advice). He told me I should stay healthy by gargling every night and every morning with salt water, according to a friend of the doctor of a friend's doctor or something like that. I replied that I would do what I thought best for me and that I neither needed nor wanted advice. He hung up on me.
I hope he's still your good friend.
Probably. I expect he'll call again in a few days. He's a compulsive hoarder -- always has been. I assiduously refrain from giving him advice re his hoard, although I did tell him that now would be the perfect time for him to get a handle on it once and for all.
The good news, however, is that American fundamentalist [billionaire] Prophets (or should that be Profits?) have declared Judgement against Covid-19, in the name of the Lard, so there can obviously be no more cases, or deaths.
Glarry to JEEzus.
Aaaaaaaamen! We really, really, really wanna thank you, Lard JEEEEZUSS...!!!
The thought of Trump coming to help rescue him is probably NOT what Johnson needs just now.
Oxygen, yes. Hot air rhetoric, no.
Though, is it such a bad idea if he personally comes to help Boris? Arrive at Heathrow to be put into 14 day isolation. Then, since we don't have decent socialist infrastructure but rely on the whims of private business find that no-one bothered to put in an internet connection where he's kept ...
That is a Norty Thort @Alan Cresswell . You shall have NO doughnuts tonight!
There is some early research showing that covid-19 may disrupt heme metabolism - and that might explain damage to multiple organ systems. But it is not confirmed.
This led the Chinese to treat with high dose vitamin c, in addition to other measures.
I’d highlight the last paragraph of that article though:
"It would be good to ban the live animal markets as China has done and some countries. But we should also remember you have communities, particularly from low-income rural areas, particularly in Africa, which are dependent on wild animals to sustain the livelihoods of millions of people," Elizabeth Maruma Mrema told The Guardian. "So unless we get alternatives for these communities, there might be a danger of opening up illegal trade in wild animals which currently is already leading us to the brink of extinction for some species. We need to look at how we balance that and really close the hole of illegal trade in the future."
List of countries with at least 5,000 known COVID-19 cases.
United States - 400,412 (365,884 / 21,674 / 12,854)
Spain - 141,942 (84,689 / 43,208 / 14,045)
Italy - 135,586 (94,067 / 24,392 / 17,127)
France - 109,069 (79,404 / 19,337 / 10,328)
Germany - 107,663 (69,566 / 36,081 / 2,016)
China - 81,802 (1,190 / 77,279 / 3,333) 4.1%
Iran - 62,589 (31,678 / 27,039 / 3,872)
United Kingdom - 55,242 (48,948 / 135 / 6,159)
Turkey - 34,109 (31,802 / 1,582 / 725)
Switzerland - 22,253 (12,728 / 8,704 / 821)
Belgium - 22,194 (16,002 / 4,157 / 2,035)
Netherlands - 19,580 (17,229 / 250 / 2,101)
Canada - 17,897 (13,488 / 4,028 / 381)
Brazil - 14,049 (13,234 / 127 / 688)
Austria - 12,639 (8,350 / 4,046 / 243)
Portugal - 12,442 (11,913 / 184 / 345)
South Korea - 10,384 (3,408 / 6,776 / 200) 2.9%
Israel - 9,248 (8,413 / 770 / 65)
Sweden - 7,693 (6,897 / 205 / 591)
Russia - 7,497 (6,945 / 494 / 58)
Norway - 6,086 (5,965 / 32 / 89)
Australia - 5,988 (3,392 / 2,547 / 49)
Ireland - 5,709 (5,474 / 25 / 210)
India - 5,351 (4,723 / 468 / 160)
Chile - 5,116 (4,175 / 898 / 43)
Denmark - 5,071 (3,377 / 1,491 / 203)
Czechia - 5,017 (4,757 / 172 / 88)
The listings are in the format:
X. Country - [# of known cases] ([active] / [recovered] / [dead]) [%fatality rate]
Fatality rates are only listed for countries where the number of resolved cases (recovered + dead) exceeds the number of known active cases by a ratio of at least 2:1. At the moment only China and South Korea meet this criterion. Italics indicate authoritarian countries whose official statistics are suspect. Other country's statistics are suspect if their testing regimes are substandard.
If American states were treated as individual countries fifteen of them would be on that list. New York would be ranked at #2, between "everywhere in the U.S. except New York" (#1) and Spain (#3).
India, Chile, Denmark, and Czechia have been added to the list since the last compilation.
Looks like Washington state is plateauing. We had the same amount of new cases as yesterday. Most of the new cases came from Eastern WA. My county is up to 12 today, nearly all of them under 50.
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In the current context, I believe it is safe to say that when "covid" or "coronavirus" is used by itself, without a qualifier, then the current novel coronavirus tearing up the world, and the Covid-19 disease it causes, are what are meant by the terms. It would be perverse to use them any other way without making it clear that's what you are doing (e.g. "this is one of many coronaviruses" or "previous coronaviruses" which make it clear it's not this one being talked about).
You're right, of course but what I was getting at is I've seen a lot of posts where people misunderstand the obscure thing they've just found, which is referring to an entirely different virus.
It's a bit of a hobby horse of mine about public understanding of health and science. Mostly because the media are very poor at reporting scientific stories.
AFZ
It comes as the number of coronavirus hospital deaths in the UK reached 5,373 - an increase of 439 in a day.
Do we have any idea of how many coronavirus deaths there have been outwith hospitals?
I loved the BBC article yesterday decrying the Netherlands' 'herd immunity' policy as though Airstrip One UK had never had such a thing, too.
And notes the ONS figures are released weekly on a Tuesday and do include other deaths where COVID 19 is mentioned on the death certificate. That started on 31 March.
A lot of college-level words were used, and not explained. The virus was called "novel" for a long time, even when it got official names. It just means "new", and I gather it may be a standard term for people working with it--but many people don't know that.
I have a college education, and was always very good with words. I now sometimes have "brain fog" due to various health problems (primarily CFIDS/CFS/ME), and that often interferes with words and thinking about them. I was able to push a bit, and remember some of the not-quite-remembered words. A lot people, even without health problems, just don't have the necessary vocabulary, and stress makes that worse.
Long ago, I was taught that newspaper articles should always be written for a reader who has a sixth-grade education, and has been stuck on a desert island for years. IOW, assume the reader may not know what the heck you're talking about.
IMHO, a lot of people have messed up on that in this crisis. And if people don't understand what's going on, they're apt to be...unsettled. Not something the med/sci, media, and gov't folks should mess with.
Personally, I think this is likely to be a counting problem in many nations in respect of folks who die in their own homes or in residential homes. Unless they have a specific diagnosis of COVID-19 infection.
Similar sentiment from Ontario.
And the detail that 3M uses material from Canada to make them. There'll be no retaliation and what's been said is as far as it will go. We're not enemies trump. We're in this together. There's only sadness. Yes we'd help you in the future whether you behave well or badly this time.
That's the only sentiment we've heard. Sadness and resolve that this won't change us.
He left his wife and children at hme and went in by himself. He has been unable to communicate with them since friday , his condition has worsened.
He is alone in his battle. If he dies, he will have gone into a war never to see his wife and children again, and they never having the opportunity to give him a proper goodbye, and possibly not even a proper burial according to their Chassidic Jewish custom. Just as if he had fallen in another country altogether.
It's weighing very heavily on me at the moment. We're each of us waging a private war behind closed doors.
May the Christ n Us be our ever present comfort and guide.
AFF
The listings are in the format:
X. Country - [# of known cases] ([active] / [recovered] / [dead]) [%fatality rate]
Fatality rates are only listed for countries where the number of resolved cases (recovered + dead) exceeds the number of known active cases by a ratio of at least 2:1. Italics indicate authoritarian countries whose official statistics are suspect. Other country's statistics are suspect if their testing regimes are substandard.
If American states were treated as individual countries fourteen of them would be on that list. New York would be ranked between Italy and Germany.
Since the last compilation Ireland has joined the club no one wants to join.
Thanks for this info, both now and previously. Question: AIUI, most people in the world haven't had access to tests...so are these based on med folks making their best guess at a diagnosis?
Thx.
I believe these figures are test results only. And yes, that's not reassuring.
Where it's not reassuring is about the ability of hospitals worldwide to cope with the number of severe cases, which might thus be smaller in percentage terms but large enough in absolute terms to overwhelm them.
And that we still don't really have very good data about what's actually happening.
He was very lax (personal safety wise) about the virus until very recently. Hopefully this will be a lesson to others with the same attitude.
I wish him well.
From the UK side such a move would destroy any political capital the PM has: Mr Johnson needs to be seen to be getting treatment from the NHS, and for everyone to be able to say what fantastic care he's getting. He's made a big thing of supporting the NHS, not just over the last couple of weeks but throughout the election campaign last year, and even in the Brexit campaign.
From the US side, Trump has been intercepting and interrupting supplies of equipment to individual States, to apparently support those who support him. When there's a clamour for support to the health services in the US, it's a bizarre offer to make in an election year.
He may give the appearance of supporting the NHS, but actions speak louder than words and so far his actions have been silent. Assuming he recovers maybe he will become more positively active. I hope so, and hope that this is a wake up call for him and others.
Anecdotal, obviously, but I’ve had symptoms of covid 19 for 3 weeks, including chest pain and shortness of breath. I have mild asthma (no regular meds) and it hadn’t flared up at all despite my chest symptoms. My 15 year old, who is on asthma steroid meds and has previously been hospitalised with asthma, has only had the covid cough (odd persistent cough which goes on forever....) and no other symptoms.
I think I’m recovering now, just an achy chest, but I now have horrendous fatigue, presumably post-viral, and it has triggered my anxiety and depression.
Our covid infection source is presumably our son, as his friend’s parent was a confirmed positive case. Loads of his friends have had the cough too.
Yep.
Or if not unsettled, then unmoved and unconcerned. "I have no idea what they're talking about" comes right before "I'm not going to worry about it. I'm going to do what I want."
Thoughts and prayers for you. Get better soon.
A lot of people are at this point about dieting and food choices. First carbs are bad, then carbs are good and fat is bad, now carbs are bad again and fat is good. Eggs are good, bad, good, whatever. I'm just going to eat what I've always eaten and to hell with them. There's a very clever little sketch about this making the rounds (a couple of months ago anyway) on FarceBark. A guy comes in a time machine from the future to explain to a poor benighted soul in the (roughly) 1970s about how he shouldn't eat such-and-such. Then the time traveller reappears and says Wait, I was wrong, eat that, but not these other things. He keeps coming back several times, until the guy says he's just going to eat what he wants. We are all in that boat except we're travelling forward in time rather than the health wag travelling back and forth.
During T's press conference he just went on and on about how much of a great man Johnson is and how T is coming to J's rescue, it was a little grating. (Pun intended).
Oxygen, yes. Hot air rhetoric, no.
My late dad had this phrase. "He's so low he could crawl under a snake's belly with a top hat on".
(Also posted on the Trump thread)
Surely God and His Saints are asleep...
I'm afraid I angered a very good friend last night on the phone. He suffers from Jewish Mother Syndrome (dispensing questionable unwanted advice). He told me I should stay healthy by gargling every night and every morning with salt water, according to a friend of the doctor of a friend's doctor or something like that. I replied that I would do what I thought best for me and that I neither needed nor wanted advice. He hung up on me.
I hope he's still your good friend.
The good news, however, is that American fundamentalist [aka billionaire] Prophets (or should that be Profits?) have declared Judgement against Covid-19, in the name of the Lard, so there can obviously be no more cases, or deaths.
Well, in America, perhaps, the rest of the world being consigned to Hell in a handbasket...
Glarry to JEEzus.
Probably. I expect he'll call again in a few days. He's a compulsive hoarder -- always has been. I assiduously refrain from giving him advice re his hoard, although I did tell him that now would be the perfect time for him to get a handle on it once and for all.
Aaaaaaaamen! We really, really, really wanna thank you, Lard JEEEEZUSS...!!!
That is a Norty Thort @Alan Cresswell . You shall have NO doughnuts tonight!
There is some early research showing that covid-19 may disrupt heme metabolism - and that might explain damage to multiple organ systems. But it is not confirmed.
This led the Chinese to treat with high dose vitamin c, in addition to other measures.
https://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/understanding-chinas-wet-markets
The listings are in the format:
X. Country - [# of known cases] ([active] / [recovered] / [dead]) [%fatality rate]
Fatality rates are only listed for countries where the number of resolved cases (recovered + dead) exceeds the number of known active cases by a ratio of at least 2:1. At the moment only China and South Korea meet this criterion. Italics indicate authoritarian countries whose official statistics are suspect. Other country's statistics are suspect if their testing regimes are substandard.
If American states were treated as individual countries fifteen of them would be on that list. New York would be ranked at #2, between "everywhere in the U.S. except New York" (#1) and Spain (#3).
India, Chile, Denmark, and Czechia have been added to the list since the last compilation.