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Post by Tero » Wed Nov 18, 2020 8:18 pm

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Re: The Coronavirus Thread

Post by pErvinalia » Wed Nov 18, 2020 8:53 pm

NineBerry wrote:
Wed Nov 18, 2020 12:43 pm
I know why Australia did so much better than the UK in handling the virus. They had JimC as a maths teacher so that this couldn't happen there:

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Re: The Coronavirus Thread

Post by macdoc » Fri Nov 20, 2020 7:37 am

Good article from The Atlantic
The End of the Pandemic Is Now in Sight
A year of scientific uncertainty is over. Two vaccines look like they will work, and more should follow.

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https://www.theatlantic.com/health/arch ... ht/617141/
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Re: The Coronavirus Thread

Post by Brian Peacock » Fri Nov 20, 2020 11:38 am

Long Covid anyone?
The Guardian wrote:Six weeks after contracting Covid-19 in April, Dr Amy Small felt well enough to attempt a walk around Holyrood park in Edinburgh with her young family. Her kids wanted to climb Arthur’s Seat – the craggy hill at its centre. Thinking it would be OK if she walked slowly, Small agreed. “It put me in bed for several days afterwards,” she said.

In June, she returned to work as a GP, for a single half day: “It floored me completely for 10 days and took two months to get back to where I was prior to that,” she said. “I couldn’t speak one day due to the fatigue and struggled to stay hydrated as I didn’t have the energy to eat or drink.”

Before Covid, Small ran 5km at least three times a week. Now, even opening her eyes is a strain some days.

Based on current estimates, about 10% of Covid-19 patients develop lasting symptoms, one of the most common being fatigue. The underlying mechanism is still unclear, but possible explanations include reduced oxygen supply to tissues caused by heart or lung damage, or muscle weakness from prolonged bed rest.

However, some doctors are increasingly concerned about the overlap between long Covid and another largely virus-triggered illness: “It’s extraordinary how many people have a postviral syndrome that’s very strikingly similar to myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome,” said the US’s top public health official, Dr Anthony Fauci, in July. “They just don’t get back to normal energy or normal feeling of good health.”...
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Re: The Coronavirus Thread

Post by JimC » Fri Nov 20, 2020 8:01 pm

That could have serious economic consequences, as well as the obvious human suffering...
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Post by Brian Peacock » Fri Nov 20, 2020 8:07 pm

...and no doubt the wicked well will chide sufferers for being lazy and faking it to get subsistence social support.
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Re: The Coronavirus Thread

Post by Tero » Sun Nov 22, 2020 2:11 am

Sweden
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COVID-19_ ... _in_Sweden
6400 deaths

Finland next door, half the population, 317 dead.
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Re: The Coronavirus Thread

Post by rainbow » Sun Nov 22, 2020 10:05 am

Tero wrote:
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Sweden
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COVID-19_ ... _in_Sweden
6400 deaths

Finland next door, half the population, 317 dead.
Think of all the money the Welfare State will save.
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Re: The Coronavirus Thread

Post by Tero » Mon Nov 23, 2020 1:03 am

https://esapolitics.blogspot.com
http://esabirdsne.blogspot.com/
Said Peter...what you're requesting just isn't my bag
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Re: The Coronavirus Thread

Post by rainbow » Mon Nov 23, 2020 6:44 am

Tero wrote:
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A teaching moment!
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Re: The Coronavirus Thread

Post by Scot Dutchy » Mon Nov 23, 2020 8:52 am

Great picture; a pity we cant see it (well I cant).
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Re: The Coronavirus Thread

Post by Brian Peacock » Mon Nov 23, 2020 9:11 am

Nor me.
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Re: The Coronavirus Thread

Post by Scot Dutchy » Mon Nov 23, 2020 9:16 am

Does it need an Afrikaans translation. :hehe:
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Re: The Coronavirus Thread

Post by Hermit » Mon Nov 23, 2020 10:21 am

After a couple minutes of digging:

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Re: The Coronavirus Thread

Post by pErvinalia » Mon Nov 23, 2020 10:25 am

It wasn't worth the wait.
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