Coronavirus (NO POLITICAL OR SOCIAL COMMENTARY PLEASE)

[Chaotic]

Originally Posted by MrHT

Ok, so the U.S. is now at 112,000 cases with NY alone making up practically half of that.

Our goal is to at least flatten the curve. When is that expected to happen? Because this has been going on for a month and the curve keeps getting steeper instead of flatter.

a few months atleast.

[MrHT]

Originally Posted by Chaotic

a few months atleast.

Well at the rate we're going, most of us will have the virus by then. Not good!

It's so shocking how this virus is spreading like this, especially since majority of people are self quarantining themselves. I don't recall the Swine Flu spreading like this, but then again, maybe it did and the media didn't care at the time.

[Anthony P]

Originally Posted by Scottishguy

Not much chance of causing infection. Unless the person picks up the fruit, and touches their face. They'd need to be touching their face a lot though to get enough of the virus to cause infection.

Otherwise just eating that fruit will only result in the virus dissolving in your stomach acid. Highly unlikely to make contact with respiratory cell from ingestion.

no. your mouth (aka oral cavity) is part of your upper respiratory track.


once there it can start multiplying and making you sick. It becomes extremely dangerous if it makes it to the lower respiratory track.

[MrHT]

It's really funny how when I see people outside wearing masks and gloves, they keep touching their masks to adjust it. Do they not realize that touching your mask is an easy way to contract the virus?? If you're going to put on a mask and/or gloves, you need to make sure it's secure when you put it on and don't touch it until you sterilize your hands and you're ready to take it off.

[Himmel]

Mystery In Wuhan: Recovered Coronavirus Patients Test Negative ... Then Positive

A spate of mysterious second-time infections is calling into question the accuracy of COVID-19 diagnostic tools even as China prepares to lift quarantine measures to allow residents to leave the epicenter of its outbreak next month. It's also raising concerns of a possible second wave of cases.

From March 18-22, the Chinese city of Wuhan reported no new cases of the virus through domestic transmission — that is, infection passed on from one person to another. The achievement was seen as a turning point in efforts to contain the virus, which has infected more than 80,000 people in China. Wuhan was particularly hard-hit, with more than half of all confirmed cases in the country.

But some Wuhan residents who had tested positive earlier and then recovered from the disease are testing positive for the virus a second time. Based on data from several quarantine facilities in the city, which house patients for further observation after their discharge from hospitals, about 5%-10% of patients pronounced "recovered" have tested positive again.

Some of those who retested positive appear to be asymptomatic carriers — those who carry the virus and are possibly infectious but do not exhibit any of the illness's associated symptoms — suggesting that the outbreak in Wuhan is not close to being over.

NPR has spoken by phone or exchanged text messages with four individuals in Wuhan who are part of this group of individuals testing positive a second time in March. All four said they had been sickened with the virus and tested positive, then were released from medical care in recent weeks after their condition improved and they tested negative.

Two of them are front-line doctors who were sickened after treating patients in their Wuhan hospitals. The other two are Wuhan residents. They all requested anonymity when speaking with NPR because those who have challenged the government's handling of the outbreak have been detained.

One of the Wuhan residents who spoke to NPR exhibited severe symptoms during their first round of illness and was eventually hospitalized. The second resident displayed only mild symptoms at first and was quarantined in one of more than a dozen makeshift treatment centers erected in Wuhan during the peak of the outbreak.

But when both were tested a second time for the coronavirus on Sunday, March 22, as a precondition for seeking medical care for unrelated health issues, they tested positive for the coronavirus even though they exhibited none of the typical symptoms, such as a fever or dry cough. The time from their recovery and release to the retest ranged from a few days to a few weeks.

Could that second positive test mean a second round of infection? Virologists think it is unlikely that a COVID-19 patient could be re-infected so quickly after recovery but caution that it is too soon to know. Source

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[veritas]

Originally Posted by Anthony P

the people that freaked out took their money out, the rest realise it will bounce back and are not dumb enough to sell now.

The next big fall is on April 7th when all the cities that are supposed to end shelter in place extend it another month.

[intoanewlife]

Originally Posted by Himmel

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They've known this for weeks and it is probably why the 'herd' crap came a cropper so early on in the UK. There is absolutely no proof so far that if you've had it you're immune to it. It is not the virus that is killing people, it is their immune systems reaction to the virus that kills them. That is why age is no barrier especially if you have some pre existing condition.

[Scottishguy]

Apparently people in southern Italy are now rioting from having no food.

[veritas]

Originally Posted by MrHT

It's really funny how when I see people outside wearing masks and gloves, they keep touching their masks to adjust it. Do they not realize that touching your mask is an easy way to contract the virus?? If you're going to put on a mask and/or gloves, you need to make sure it's secure when you put it on and don't touch it until you sterilize your hands and you're ready to take it off.

The risk of contamination from that is pretty low. They need to get the virus on the gloves onto the mask then from the mask onto the face. If they are outside UV will fry Coronavirus pretty fast also. They also think people mostly get it from droplets in the air so even with some bad habits they are probably safer then somebody without a mask.

[Himmel]

Quarantine For NY, NJ And Connecticut Being Considered

[intoanewlife]

Originally Posted by MifuneFan

Do you live here? Come to my neighborhood of Crown Heights Brooklyn, and see how many people are wearing masks for yourself. People here are carrying on like nothing has changed, and this is happening in tons of areas around the city. So, no, the majority of the 9 million people here are not wearing masks, and 100% have not been wearing masks every day prior to this, I have no idea what world you are living in, but that's not reality, and any New Yorker will tell you that..

Then you shouldn't be screaming for help then really should you?

[MifuneFan]

Originally Posted by intoanewlife

Then you shouldn't be screaming for help then really should you?

What?

[intoanewlife]

Originally Posted by MifuneFan

What?

Well Cuomo is on tv every 5 minutes screaming for help for New Yorkers and yet all of you are carrying on like nothing has changed, and this is happening in tons of areas around the city..

[MrHT]

Originally Posted by Himmel

Quarantine For NY, NJ And Connecticut Being Considered

That's not necessary. It's not that bad here in NY.

[Underworld54]

Originally Posted by Himmel

Quarantine For NY, NJ And Connecticut Being Considered

Actually just NYC, not all of NY.

[MifuneFan]

Originally Posted by intoanewlife

Well Cuomo is on tv every 5 minutes screaming for help for New Yorkers and yet all of you are carrying on like nothing has changed, and this is happening in tons of areas around the city..

That doesn't mean everyone, but many areas need more enforcement, ideally from the National Guard. A lot of people do get it, but we need everyone to get it for it to work effectively.

[Moviefan1203]

Originally Posted by Underworld54

Actually just NYC, not all of NY.

If this happens, I would expect Pennsylvania to do the same. Governor Wolf has been very proactive with the virus.

[The Great Owl]

Here's some lovely news for a Saturday afternoon...

Coronavirus May Add Billions to the Nation’s Health Care Bill
Insurance premiums could spike as much as 40 percent next year, a new analysis warns, as employers and insurers confront the projected tens of billions of dollars in additional costs of treating coronavirus patients.

A quote from the Kubrick movie, Full Metal Jacket, applies here.
“It's a huge shit sandwich, and we're all going to have to take a bite."

[Pondosinatra]

Can we all please just go back to *****ing about aspect ratios???

[Moviefan1203]

I just miss the normalcy of life. I miss sports so much.