Coronavirus - Overall
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@dogmeat said in Coronavirus - Overall:
@Rapido's post reminded me I was talking to a guy in the pub on Tuesday who's girlfriend has just been medi-vaced from Senegal to Rennes with COVID. 27 no known health issues now in ICU. He spoke to her before she was evacuated and she said to take care that COVID is a fluffybunny. After diagnosis she felt fine until Day 8 then whammo.
Nothing other than another anecdote that if you are unlucky even fit, healthy young people can get into trouble with this virus. Lucky I guess she had the wherewithal to get out of Senegal ICU in Dkar probably not a great experience - not that it would be anywhere
Its not just old people and those with health factors. And it ain't the yearly flu....
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She's dead to me now
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/lifestyle/news/article.cfm?c_id=6&objectid=12364206
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@taniwharugby said in Coronavirus - Overall:
@canefan riiight, if she came knocking, you'd be keener than M4L in a strip club!
motherfucker i haven't been to a strip club in a decade!
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@mariner4life banned?
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@mariner4life more your thing isnt it, or dildos at least
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@taniwharugby said in Coronavirus - Overall:
@mariner4life banned?
Whipped. Figuratively and literally.
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Listening to an Economist podcast.
Australia and NZ, developed countries with good data to have completed a flu season so far. Down by 80%. (Podcast used the term "4/5ths")
Australia normally had 86,000 flu cases, this year had 620. 1 flu death, normally 120. (That is a heck of a lot more than 4/5ths ....)
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@Rapido said in Coronavirus - Overall:
Listening to an Economist podcast.
Australia and NZ, developed countries with good data to have completed a flu season so far. Down by 80%.
Australia normally had 86,000 flu cases, this year had 620. 1 flu death, normally 120.
How many of those were taken by covid instead?
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Podcast asked if flu testing was down? Because of focus on corona testing.
Flu testing was down by 20%.
Or are you asking how many of the flu deaths were taken by covid instead? Yeah, would have to guess "some". Somewhere between "some" and "most.
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@antipodean quite interesting results. Even if all those that would normally die from flu succumbed to COVID there's still large surplus deaths - even with all the social distancing and other protective measures in place Certainly in % terms
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@Rapido said in Coronavirus - Overall:
Podcast asked if flu testing was down? Because of focus on corona testing.
Flu testing was down by 20%.
Or are you asking how many of the flu deaths were taken by covid instead? Yeah, would have to guess "some". Somewhere between "some" and "most.
Doesn't surprise me that there was a significant decline due to less travel and social distancing. I'd hazard a guess we're still in front given the reported virulence of covid-19
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