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Mrs Meldrew's son has signed up as one of the
250,000500,000600,000700,000 volunteers to help the NHS thru the crisis. It works like this:-
You sign-up and your ID is checked using a photo cross-referenced to passports and drivers licences. It checks if you are vetted - taxi drivers, teachers etc
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You download an app to your phone and log in when you are available.
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You then choose what you want to do - deliver food, ring someone to cheer them up, deliver drugs to people or ferry supplies between hospitals or (if vetted) take someone to a doctor or hospital.
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It uses GPS to track your location and offers you available jobs a bit like Uber. When you accept a job, you get contact details or instructions, directions and delivery info.
He did his first job today - a phone call - and it seemed to work OK.
Whether it can handle the numbers and the 150% increase in expected volunteers remains to be seen, but there's obviously been some impressive work going on behind the scenes. This appears to have been well thought thru.
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@booboo said in Coronavirus - Overall:
Thought this was interesting. Haven't seen it posted.
Not a cure or a vaccine but potential to help flatten the curve? Maybe?
Apparently the vaccine strengthens the immune system.
Maybe it reduces the respiratory issues? Anything would be helpful
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@sparky said in Coronavirus - Overall:
Uk Chief medical officer down too.
Gove to front the Government briefing.
Power is his and Mrs Gove's after all these years of wanting it so much.
Gove is the only bloke I know who can lose an excellent argument without opening his mouth.
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wow, US
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Can t make head or tail of the efficacy of the graphs, mind changing seemingly every minute, every internal 4 week speculation leads to doom.
It's all too much, so there are only 2 things I want to know with certainty, not fucking guesses.
1, does getting it ensure immunity from reinfection? Monitor people, find out.
2, when can we have tests that say we're negative and can go to work? Daily if necessary.Right then world leaders, you've been singing that you're the greatest things since sliced bread, you've got 4 weeks to answer those 2 questions rather than months of keeping healthy people from working and watching everything go down the drain
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@canefan said in Coronavirus - Overall:
@booboo said in Coronavirus - Overall:
Thought this was interesting. Haven't seen it posted.
Not a cure or a vaccine but potential to help flatten the curve? Maybe?
Apparently the vaccine strengthens the immune system.
Maybe it reduces the respiratory issues? Anything would be helpful
Heard a bit on ABC News Radio yesterday.
Apparently it worked well against it's target but has a sideline beneficial effect on the immune system.
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@booboo said in Coronavirus - Overall:
@canefan said in Coronavirus - Overall:
@booboo said in Coronavirus - Overall:
Thought this was interesting. Haven't seen it posted.
Not a cure or a vaccine but potential to help flatten the curve? Maybe?
Apparently the vaccine strengthens the immune system.
Maybe it reduces the respiratory issues? Anything would be helpful
Heard a bit on ABC News Radio yesterday.
Apparently it worked well against it's target but has a sideline beneficial effect on the immune system.
Here's hoping. Doctors desperately need a win
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Really hope all this info out of China is accurate
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@taniwharugby The anecdotal evidence I have (the word from staff members' family in China) is that things have improved greatly. Lockdowns are being scaled down and restrictions are slowly being lifted, but people are still exercising great caution. I wonder if all wet markets in China will be under stricter guidance now? There are so many such markets around the world, the problem isn't just in China
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This crisis highlights how tenuous our existence is. Based on my experiences with general scientists, all over the world they find it very hard to fund their research. If you aren't in cancer or cardiac research in NZ it is very difficult to get funding. Global powers spend trillions on defence among other things, and yet a virus may wipe out a decent chunk of the population and cause major harm to the world's economy while it's at it. What if it was a disease that wiped out all wheat, corn or rice plants? There are already banana diseases that threaten to end them altogether, and diseases that kill off bees and all sorts of important organisms. Will this crisis shine a light on the need to invest in research to protect resources other than oil? I'd be surprised but governments of the world should be thinking hard about it
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@canefan said in Coronavirus - Overall:
@taniwharugby The anecdotal evidence I have (the word from staff members' family in China) is that things have improved greatly. Lockdowns are being scaled down and restrictions are slowly being lifted, but people are still exercising great caution. I wonder if all wet markets in China will be under stricter guidance now? There are so many such markets around the world, the problem isn't just in China
Yes, bush meat in Africa is also a problem. But China is a virus incubator with their food practices and huge population and density of that population.
They have a responsibility to clean up their own house and I hope they get hammered until they do. This is not the first time they have been through this.
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Australian case increase per day plotted 1st March onward (28 cases) and 10th march onward (~100 cases), both to last night's updated figure (will point out that getting everyone to agree on a number is tricky).
Shows rate of increase slowing BUT still above 1.0 - longer term trend is decreasing but double-hits due from Ruby Princess and airport arrivals.
Overall, I feel like going for a hike.
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I'd also add: looks like they're scraping data from NSW Health for their NSW figure so I'll go with this data until someone says otherwise, assumption being they're doing each state health dept.
For an idea on how far out of the "norm" the USA is headed, they now have the most cases AND the highest case rate increase.
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@taniwharugby Begs the question, if they're freeing things up, of where the newly found resistance is coming from? Or are they able rigorously to enforce the 2m gap, rendering lockdown redundant?
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@NTA said in Coronavirus - Overall:
I'd also add: looks like they're scraping data from NSW Health for their NSW figure so I'll go with this data until someone says otherwise, assumption being they're doing each state health dept.
For an idea on how far out of the "norm" the USA is headed, they now have the most cases AND the highest case rate increase.
Seems one should stick to rice rather than pasta.
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This is a pretty interesting thread and really shows how bigger role the Chinese government and the WHO played in ensuring the rest of the world had no idea what was coming by hiding/downplaying the whole thing. Measures were put in place far too late as a result. They both need to be dragged over the coals for this.
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