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Coronavirus - how is it/has it affected you?

ferenezejohn said:
Remdesivir, anti-viral trial reports rapid recoveries for severe hospitalised coronvirus patients with nearly all discharged within a week and only 2 deaths out of 125
Is there hope on the horizon.
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Let's hope the reports are right. It would be brilliant. There was a report in Press that much , much work was being done in labs etc on testing existing drugs and efforts to develop a vaccine all over the developed world.
Hopefully someone will find something!
 
UK government: Do not book summer holidays
Downing St has said that government guidelines and official foreign office advice "do not allow for people going on holiday".
The prime minister's spokesman said that travelling within the UK for holidays was "not something which the current guidelines allow for" and Foreign Office advice "continues to be that you should go abroad for essential travel only".
Earlier Transport Secretary Grant Shapps suggested people should not book summer holidays for later this year.p
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Anyone thinking of booking up holidays for this year ? Anyone booked up a holiday for this year since the crisis broke ? (decided to edit it slightly as read wrong:oops:)
 
As of 9am 17 April, 438,991 tests have concluded, with 21,328 tests on 16 April.

341,551 people have been tested of which 108,692 tested positive.

As of 5pm on 16 April, of those hospitalised in the UK who tested positive for coronavirus, 14,576 have sadly died.

That's up by 847 from 13,729 the day before.
 
Out of interest, has anyone seen any figures on how Sweden are doing with their approach to this. I have not seen reports of their more relaxed approach being a total car crash and would have thought that would be all over the press if it had gone horribly wrong. Not trying to say it is better, we are wrong etc but Sweden appear to be one of the few taking a different approach to this and it would be an interesting comparison to see how that is going.
 
GB72 said:
Out of interest, has anyone seen any figures on how Sweden are doing with their approach to this. I have not seen reports of their more relaxed approach being a total car crash and would have thought that would be all over the press if it had gone horribly wrong. Not trying to say it is better, we are wrong etc but Sweden appear to be one of the few taking a different approach to this and it would be an interesting comparison to see how that is going.
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https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/sweden/
 
GB72 said:
Out of interest, has anyone seen any figures on how Sweden are doing with their approach to this. I have not seen reports of their more relaxed approach being a total car crash and would have thought that would be all over the press if it had gone horribly wrong. Not trying to say it is better, we are wrong etc but Sweden appear to be one of the few taking a different approach to this and it would be an interesting comparison to see how that is going.
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For where they are in the "league" of total cases, they have way more deaths than any country 5 places either side and bigger numbers than Norway and Denmark put together....
Does that suggest their strategy hasn't really worked..?
 
GB72 said:
Out of interest, has anyone seen any figures on how Sweden are doing with their approach to this. I have not seen reports of their more relaxed approach being a total car crash and would have thought that would be all over the press if it had gone horribly wrong. Not trying to say it is better, we are wrong etc but Sweden appear to be one of the few taking a different approach to this and it would be an interesting comparison to see how that is going.
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As I posted a while ago...not well compared to Norway and Denmark. Surprising correlation of tests and deaths per Million popuation within the 3!
 
GB72 said:
Out of interest, has anyone seen any figures on how Sweden are doing with their approach to this. I have not seen reports of their more relaxed approach being a total car crash and would have thought that would be all over the press if it had gone horribly wrong. Not trying to say it is better, we are wrong etc but Sweden appear to be one of the few taking a different approach to this and it would be an interesting comparison to see how that is going.
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Can pop over here..
https://forums.golf-monthly.co.uk/threads/the-virus-anybody-else-done-the-maths.104661/post-2154322
 
Imurg said:
For where they are in the "league" of total cases, they have way more deaths than any country 5 places either side and bigger numbers than Norway and Denmark put together....
Does that suggest their strategy hasn't really worked..?
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Could be argued that as long as their health service and hospitals have coped then they have been right to just isolate the vulnerable as they will get more phase 1 infections now and less infection phases later on when other countries are trying to lift lockdowns. Herd immunity happens much quicker. With a smaller population and not being a global hub probably helps too.
Easy to forget the lockdowns only delay infections to allow hospitals to cope, not stop them longer term. Unless a vaccine arrives quick their approach maybe has logic.
Sweden will have maintained their economy better than others too.
 
Tfl officially starting to look at furlonging staff who are

Non operational
Where their departments work has either stoped or dried up
Those shielding
Those long term sick

All wages will be paid in full so they don't lose money personally

Every 4 weeks it's costing us 600 million I believe I read somewhere so they got to make cost saving measures for now

Fair enough
 
I woke up at 2am this morning.. cold sweat... thinking about job, house and the safety of the family. Could not go back to sleep till about 5pm. This is indeed taking over our life. Effing depressing. I am sure there is an increase in calls to our mental helplines. The bleeping reality is that there is no one who can provide any real solution - simply because no one really knows what is going to happen. At best everyone will say 'it will be alright'.

Sorry, this may feel like a cop out, but it is playing on my mind. Anyone else feeling this pain?
 
MegaSteve said:
Seems to me folk are primed to kick off over the dozy handfuls that think it's OK to take a day trip to the seaside... But, remain ambivalent to seemingly thousands of arrivals, from overseas, ,being let loose with little or no checks :unsure:...
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I think it's fine. If they have it, they can't spread it rampantly due to the lockdown and we want people to become infected we just need space for them in hospital if they need it.

Realistically they are just as likely to get it in Tescos, it's here en masse now.
 
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