Coronavirus Sars-CoV-2/Covid-19 Megathread

[Tamas]

Do they have a runny nose? About 95% of COVID cases do not.

No idea, they sit too far for me to know. Especially in England where you don't blownyohr nose into a hankerchief :p

Meanwhile 4 cases in Hungary with 40 other suspected ones in quarantine.

[Tamas]

Don't go to the BBQ Pedrito.

[Pedrito]

Don't go to the BBQ Pedrito.

But...the first ribs of the season... 

L.

[Iormlund]

Ok, a lot of cases here, and a lot of deaths; the average age of CoViD-19 deaths is 81 years old, many of them with preexisting pathologies.
I suppose the high number of deaths is linked to the high average age of italian population, but it does not explain the low numbers in Japan, that is the only nation with an average age older than Italy.

IIRC the virus mutated on its way to Italy, so it could be deadlier than in Japan.

But the easier solution to the high mortality mystery is that there are tens of thousands of undiagnosed carriers milling around.

[viper37]

2nd case in Quebec.  A man coming back from India.
My godchild's mom was in India a couple of weeks ago.
I thought of sending her the news and ask if it could be someone from her group, but I figured she might just panic, so I'll let it go.

[mongers]

It's grimly ironic that we're posting in a Timmay thread that has a grossly understated title.

[HisMajestyBOB]

Three cases have been confirmed just across the border in Maryland. It's been an honor posting with you all.   

[jimmy olsen]

Germany currently has higher daily growth than Italy, but so far no fatalities.  500+ confirmed cases, thousands in quarantine.

It takes 2-4 weeks for this to kill most people.

[DGuller]

It's grimly ironic that we're posting in a Timmay thread that has a grossly understated title.

Poor Syt. 

[jimmy olsen]

That's good in the sense that it's less deadly then it would appear.  But horrifying in the sense that it implies there are far more cases out there.  With ten deaths in the US, it implies we have over a 1000 cases as opposed to the 200 confirmed.

That's probably correct. Korea has been testing extensively and their mortality rate is well below 1%. Probably around that point once you take out recent, ongoing cases.

Takes 2-4 weeks to kill you and is much more deadly if the hospitals are overwhelmed and people can't be treated appropriately. Just look at Huebi province where the death rate is 4.3%

[crazy canuck]

Well we just got our first case of community transmission

[Syt]

Austrian paper Der Standard wrote how one case went:

A young woman thinks she might be infected.
Her mother called central medical hotline on her behalf.
After 2 hours of waiting she's told that her daughter will have to call herself.
Daughter calls, waits for 90 minutes on hold. She's told to not leave the house, and she'll be called back. Her mom is free to come and go as she pleases.
After 36 hours they're called back and given a phone number of a medical lab service to call. Said service will conduct the test.
They call, but the tape says the service only operates during the night between 7 pm and 7 am.
So they call later, and they're told that it might take"till after midnight" to send someone, because they currently only have 3 teams for Vienna.
At 3:18 am two guys in protective gear show up. The daughter has to step out of the apartment for the swab.
The guys remove their protective gear, ask mom and daughter to dispose of it; then they leave.

[celedhring]

Yesterday we found a geriatric residence where around 20 people have been infected. We learnt of this because a few of them fell seriously ill and thus reported to the hospital (1 person has died so far). The origin of the infection hasn't been established.

Again, this tells me there's probably a huge bag of untracked mild cases and we only find out when somebody vulnerable - in this case, elderly - falls seriously ill.

[Tamas]

Yes to me it seems we should either be doing much more strict measures or give up on this whole self isolation joke thing and take it on the chin as Pretend Churchill said the other day.

[jimmy olsen]

CASES   DEATHS   RECOVERED      
100,001   3,405   55,521