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[News] The Coronavirus Good News thread
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Can I please book a viewing place for when el presidente does his "film" viewing
Well at what point do you begin producing anti-bodies? Only AFTER the virus has left your system? Or during?
I assume anyone who tests positive would still then need to self isolate for 7 days before continuing?
Also, what’s to stop people pretending they are “post-Corona” and carrying on back to work? Potentially very dangerous. Would hope for massive fines/jail sentences for anyone trying to abuse the system.
highflyer
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- Jan 21, 2016
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Included in the list of nurses is our own MP...... Maria Caulfieldreturning to frontline nursing
Respect.
AZ Gull
@SeagullsAcademy @seagullsacademy.bsky.social
Yep, all of that.........no idea.
I had some very good news today. My daughter, who has the same heart condition as me, but, without the cardiac arrests, has been told by her employer that she can home isolate for 3 months. A high temperature could be a factor in her condition worsening from a benign condition, to the more serious version, that I have. She works for Post office counters and they have been less than helpful until today, when in a complete reverse of their previous stance, they have told her to take 3 months, if she needs it.
It has been scary for her, I have an implanted defribulator that will save my life, she has nothing.
It has been scary for her, I have an implanted defribulator that will save my life, she has nothing.
Apologies if this has already been shared but I think this piece from the FT counts as good news:
The new coronavirus may already have infected far more people in the UK than scientists had previously estimated — perhaps as much as half the population — according to modelling by researchers at the University of Oxford. If the results are confirmed, they imply that fewer than one in a thousand of those infected with Covid-19 become ill enough to need hospital treatment, said Sunetra Gupta, professor of theoretical epidemiology, who led the study. The vast majority develop very mild symptoms or none at all. “We need immediately to begin large-scale serological surveys — antibody testing — to assess what stage of the epidemic we are in now,” she said. The modelling by Oxford’s Evolutionary Ecology of Infectious Disease group indicates that Covid-19 reached the UK by mid-January at the latest. Like many emerging infections, it spread invisibly for more than a month before the first transmissions within the UK were officially recorded at the end of February. The research presents a very different view of the epidemic to the modelling at Imperial College London, which has strongly influenced government policy. “I am surprised that there has been such unqualified acceptance of the Imperial model,” said Prof Gupta. However, she was reluctant to criticise the government for shutting down the country to suppress viral spread, because the accuracy of the Oxford model has not yet been confirmed and, even if it is correct, social distancing will reduce the number of people becoming seriously ill and relieve severe pressure on the NHS during the peak of the epidemic. The Oxford study is based on a what is known as a “susceptibility-infected-recovered model” of Covid-19, built up from case and death reports from the UK and Italy. The researchers made what they regard as the most plausible assumptions about the behaviour of the virus. The modelling brings back into focus “herd immunity”, the idea that the virus will stop spreading when enough people have become resistant to it because they have already been infected. The government abandoned its unofficial herd immunity strategy — allowing controlled spread of infection — after its scientific advisers said this would swamp the National Health Service with critically ill patients. But the Oxford results would mean the country had already acquired substantial herd immunity through the unrecognised spread of Covid-19 over more than two months. If the findings are confirmed by testing, then the current restrictions could be removed much sooner than ministers have indicated. Although some experts have shed doubt on the strength and length of the human immune response to the virus, Prof Gupta said the emerging evidence made her confident that humanity would build up herd immunity against Covid-19. To provide the necessary evidence, the Oxford group is working with colleagues at the Universities of Cambridge and Kent to start antibody testing on the general population as soon as possible, using specialised “neutralisation assays which provide reliable readout of protective immunity,” Prof Gupta said. They hope to start testing later this week and obtain preliminary results within a few days.
The new coronavirus may already have infected far more people in the UK than scientists had previously estimated — perhaps as much as half the population — according to modelling by researchers at the University of Oxford. If the results are confirmed, they imply that fewer than one in a thousand of those infected with Covid-19 become ill enough to need hospital treatment, said Sunetra Gupta, professor of theoretical epidemiology, who led the study. The vast majority develop very mild symptoms or none at all. “We need immediately to begin large-scale serological surveys — antibody testing — to assess what stage of the epidemic we are in now,” she said. The modelling by Oxford’s Evolutionary Ecology of Infectious Disease group indicates that Covid-19 reached the UK by mid-January at the latest. Like many emerging infections, it spread invisibly for more than a month before the first transmissions within the UK were officially recorded at the end of February. The research presents a very different view of the epidemic to the modelling at Imperial College London, which has strongly influenced government policy. “I am surprised that there has been such unqualified acceptance of the Imperial model,” said Prof Gupta. However, she was reluctant to criticise the government for shutting down the country to suppress viral spread, because the accuracy of the Oxford model has not yet been confirmed and, even if it is correct, social distancing will reduce the number of people becoming seriously ill and relieve severe pressure on the NHS during the peak of the epidemic. The Oxford study is based on a what is known as a “susceptibility-infected-recovered model” of Covid-19, built up from case and death reports from the UK and Italy. The researchers made what they regard as the most plausible assumptions about the behaviour of the virus. The modelling brings back into focus “herd immunity”, the idea that the virus will stop spreading when enough people have become resistant to it because they have already been infected. The government abandoned its unofficial herd immunity strategy — allowing controlled spread of infection — after its scientific advisers said this would swamp the National Health Service with critically ill patients. But the Oxford results would mean the country had already acquired substantial herd immunity through the unrecognised spread of Covid-19 over more than two months. If the findings are confirmed by testing, then the current restrictions could be removed much sooner than ministers have indicated. Although some experts have shed doubt on the strength and length of the human immune response to the virus, Prof Gupta said the emerging evidence made her confident that humanity would build up herd immunity against Covid-19. To provide the necessary evidence, the Oxford group is working with colleagues at the Universities of Cambridge and Kent to start antibody testing on the general population as soon as possible, using specialised “neutralisation assays which provide reliable readout of protective immunity,” Prof Gupta said. They hope to start testing later this week and obtain preliminary results within a few days.
thedonkeycentrehalf
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- Jul 7, 2003
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I think you will find that these are test kits to run on equipment that is in hospitals rather than something that will be distributed to the general public.
Was looking for a veg box delivery service today and accidentally discovered that there's a wholesale greengrocers a mile from my house, open to the public.
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Will you look at the size of those bananas.
Will you look at the size of those bananas.
It's the peppers that I really like, big gnarly ones like you get in Spain, not the pathetic ones you get in supermarkets.
Green Cross Code Man
Wunt be druv
If, and what a huge if, then indeed that would be extremely good news!
Lyndhurst 14
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- Jan 16, 2008
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Nice to see they are dipping into their pockets.
Mike Bloomberg, ex NYC mayor, to donate $40M. It's loose change for him but I think he's one of the good guys. Pity he dropped out of the Presidential race
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/bloomberg-philanthropies-to-donate-40m-to-combat-coronavirus
Sorrel
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There's certainly been a much better community feeling since the emergency began. Many people are feeling like they can give help to others properly for the first time in ages; local food shops are certainly doing well (I was in a short but elongated queue at my local bakery this morning - not many people in it, but we were all standing far apart outside the shop); we've offered help to the neighbours, the neighbours the other side have checked up on us; I've talked to people I went to school with for the first time in years, who've offered help where my parents live. There was even some loo roll in the shops.
I would hope that some of this community feeling can continue once the worst is over.
I would hope that some of this community feeling can continue once the worst is over.
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Exactly the same at my bakery where I was, early, to get a loaf of bread.
Queue was only 4 people but stretched well over 10 metres. When it was my turn I was in and out in less than 30 seconds.
Lindfield by the Pond
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Shame he lost all that money running for President, could have done a lot more with $500m!
Could you pass on this wisdom! I feel like I am a lot busier working from home.