Coronavirus - Overall
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@taniwharugby They are producing antibodies (via mammalian cell fermentation) that bind to and neutralize the virus, with the hope that they will work in clinical trials.
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I know this story is absolutely everywhere. But it's still awesome.
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More Small Molecule Clinical Data Against Covid-19, As of April 16
No good news for hydroxychloroquine.
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shit is real now, Von Miller has coronavirus
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@Tim said in Coronavirus - Overall:
Early peek at data on Gilead coronavirus drug suggests patients are responding to treatment
Entirely possible that an antiviral will come before a vaccine (if a vaccine is even possible). Just like penicillin did for bacterial infections such a drug would have the power to smash the back of the disease almost overnight. Promising indeed
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The WHO Ignores Taiwan. The World Pays the Price.
Taiwan was more prepared for the coronavirus than any other country, but the WHO puts politics first.
Note: The Nation is one of the most left-wing American publications.
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@Rapido said in Coronavirus - Overall:
Interesting China has 1000 + deaths in a day today, must have done some 'reclassifications'?
Yes, Wuhan did some reclassifying of deaths.
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@antipodean so not all from today, but deaths they have had are now classed as CV related?
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Interesting article: https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/comparison-lockdown-uk-non-lockdown-sweden
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@pakman It is interesting but I'm not sure we can take too much away from it, certainly at this stage. There are many other variables such as density of population, demographic, international mobility of population, degree to which the country is visited by other nationalities, degree to which the country is a travel hub.
I really don't think we will ever truly know whether any one set of measures was the way to go, especially given that some countries (Taiwan) were already much better prepared than others.
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@Catogrande this is exactly what I'm trying to get through to FIL who this morning shared someone elses post I found curiously ironic...in one breath saying the Tories had taken the UK down the "stupid route" of confronting covid, then in the next breath says Germany have much less deaths, "let's copy them".
To me that's almost as moronic as saying that the UK have much less bushfires than Australia and Aussies are stupid not to copy what the UK are doing to combat bushfires.
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@pakman said in Coronavirus - Overall:
But importing workers for key services is no replacement for having the gumption to train sufficient of the local population to provide same. That goes for Poland, Brazil, Ghana, NZ, etc. as much as the UK.
Read an Opinion piece yesterday on Covid-19's impact on health services in Africa arguing it could be positive.
So many African leaders have ignored their health services as they are used to medical treatment in the West and not being able to travel may focus the ruling elites minds rather sharply. Quoted the case of one senior politician being admitted to hospital and the hospital needing to contact a London clinic to get his medical notes.
Also made the point about the large % of African-trained medics working in the EU as are working in Africa (Nigerian nurses in particular). Interesting to see if things will really change.
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@Victor-Meldrew I saw something similar. One can only hope that some good can come of this in Africa.
There should be some valuable advances for the NHS here.
Fall in A & E figures - 50% - reinforces a view that many visits (25%?) are unnecessary, which is both costly and reduces the medical efficiency overall.
GPs are managing to do many consultations by videoconferencing. That ought to continue post CV.
I read somewhere that IT solutions which have been sitting on the sidelines in the NHS for a decade or more have magically been sorted in three months or less!
A reconfigured NHS utilising proper IT holds out the prospect of substantially lower administration costs, with a commensurate increase in funding for the medical element.
How's you daughter getting on? Mine in Winchester hasn't so far been as busy as was expected.
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@Victor-Meldrew said in Coronavirus - Overall:
@pakman said in Coronavirus - Overall:
But importing workers for key services is no replacement for having the gumption to train sufficient of the local population to provide same. That goes for Poland, Brazil, Ghana, NZ, etc. as much as the UK.
Read an Opinion piece yesterday on Covid-19's impact on health services in Africa arguing it could be positive.
So many African leaders have ignored their health services as they are used to medical treatment in the West and not being able to travel may focus the ruling elites minds rather sharply. Quoted the case of one senior politician being admitted to hospital and the hospital needing to contact a London clinic to get his medical notes.
Also made the point about the large % of African-trained medics working in the EU as are working in Africa (Nigerian nurses in particular). Interesting to see if things will really change.
No would be my guess.
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@Catogrande said in Coronavirus - Overall:
@pakman It is interesting but I'm not sure we can take too much away from it, certainly at this stage. There are many other variables such as density of population, demographic, international mobility of population, degree to which the country is visited by other nationalities, degree to which the country is a travel hub.
I really don't think we will ever truly know whether any one set of measures was the way to go, especially given that some countries (Taiwan) were already much better prepared than others.
Your points are well made, in particular in the case of the UK/Sweden comparison about population density.
Not that much read across to isolated countries such as NZ and Oz, which can close borders and seek to eliminate the virus. Having said that, in a couple of weeks I don't think there'll be any reason for NZ to have tougher lockdown than Sweden.
Places like Germany and Taiwan have done well by getting testing going early. In Germany's case quite a lucky guess, allied to a excellent existing testing infrastructure. Taiwan lucky a nerd happened to be browsing Wuhan medical bulletins.
In comparing UK and Sweden, the big difference going forward is the big cities, in particular London, Manchester and Birmingham. UK very reliant on public transport, and not sure how the Swedish set up deals with that in, say, Stockholm.
BUT a key takeaway for me is that IF (and it's a big IF) the population complies with social distancing most of the current measures aren't adding much and ought to be phased out over the next six weeks.