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[News] The Coronavirus Good News thread
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The Wizard
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- Jul 2, 2009
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Last 2 weeks death tolls 674, 648 and this weeks death toll 494, low for midweek. Also lowest new infections since March.
Weststander
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Steadily, daily announcements of (previous days) deaths are falling.
Weds 8 Apr - 938
Weds 15 Apr - 761
Weds 22 Apr - 763
Weds 29 Apr was an adjustment day of a catch up in all settings deaths
Weds 6 May - 649
Weds 13 May - 494
Weds 8 Apr - 938
Weds 15 Apr - 761
Weds 22 Apr - 763
Weds 29 Apr was an adjustment day of a catch up in all settings deaths
Weds 6 May - 649
Weds 13 May - 494
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Yesterday we topped the significant landmark that is 2 million test have now been carried out.
Yes we want more, but as a country we have never had the set up for mass testing.
Yes we want more, but as a country we have never had the set up for mass testing.
Weststander
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Other than South Korea and Germany, who was?
clapham_gull
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- Aug 20, 2003
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UK approves antibody test and orders millions.
https://uk.reuters.com/article/us-h...hes-antibody-test-the-telegraph-idUKKBN22P362
https://uk.reuters.com/article/us-h...hes-antibody-test-the-telegraph-idUKKBN22P362
The Wizard
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Excellent news. Could be a big part of the fightback against the virus as we look to ease further out of lockdown.
clapham_gull
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Lets hope it not a false dawn. Australia had received a load and now they are deemed unusable
https://news.sky.com/story/coronavi...ght-by-australia-not-accurate-enough-11987366
I assume.these are different tests and I'm optimistic as these have been stringently tested here
clapham_gull
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The EU have also given it the ok, as well as the USA.
I have a hunch as these early various antibody tests are being done around the world that far less people have been infected than originally thought.
I hope there is a positive in there and it helps to find why out why some some people are immune.
Mr Banana
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It's about five percent in Spain and France
Blue Valkyrie
Not seen such Bravery!
I'm not going to get this kit now.
Instead I'll wait for the one Porton Down have approved, as there are a number of others out there which don't pass the reliability test.
Inevitable there will be a lot of cons going on with useless kits being sold on the internet.
Yeah I saw this was fairly quickly superceded by the PHE news.
However, the one in the original link is 98% accurate and passes the MHRA testing and has a CE mark so it's not a con, although I'm sure you're right that there will be plenty out there.
It looks like the Roche kits require lab analysis (18 minutes per test) for 100% accuracy versus a home kit which is very accurate. So maybe not as clear cut a decision as you suggest.
Many of the countries rich enough to deploy these at scale have their outbreaks under control. The UK can be the world's petri dish to test if mild infection/low level of anti-bodies is enough to protect you from a big dose. I am sure we have plenty of reckless fools happy enough to test this one out. So I would want a test that didn't just provide a binary result, but indicated the level of anti-bodies present, especially one I could repeat every few months (in an ideal and selfish world), to indicate immunity levels over time.
- Jul 10, 2003
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I've just put our house on the market and my Mum is booked in to view it this afternoon - result 
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29% of UK population may have been infected by end of April. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/ijcp.13528?af=R