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my partner was really unwell today. woke up with a fever around 39-40. he went to work as he had no other symptoms but a dry cough and shortness of breath came on really quickly. he was made to go home by HR (anyone with a fever is forced home)
he rang 111 at 2pm. they told him as he hasn’t left the country recently and he hasn’t been in contact with any confirmed cases that he isn’t at risk of coronavirus. his place of work deals with lots of chinese and italian business people (obviously amongst others). 111 advised that he ring his GP and see a doctor for the shortness of breath.
he rang his GP who asked him to go in straight away (!!!) asked him the usual questions regarding travel etc and said again that it was ‘impossible’ to be coronavirus because he hasn’t left the country in the past two weeks. sent him on his way with antibiotics and a diagnosis of flu/chest infection.
i can hear him wheezing and coughing right now through his sleep. this virus is everywhere and we don’t even know it.
I hope he improves soon! Keep us updated
Interesting. I think it depends on when the outbreak happens and the population that is most affected by the virus. Spanish flu hit all age groups, which is unusual and in this instance closing schools preemptively may have a positive affect. However this virus is affecting the elderly so the affect of closing schools now may not have the desired results over all.
That’s not true - it’s affecting adults equally, in Italy and China the highest hospitalisation rates are for those aged 30-50; but unfortunately those paying the ultimate price with their lives are the over 60s with weaker reserves to fight off infection.
I’ve said in a previous post, this isn’t a binary death or nurse at home disease. 7,000 out of 10,000 positive tests in Italy (as of yesterday) required hospital treatment, with nearly 1,000 of those critical (sepsis/respiratory failure). Only 1,000 at the point had recovered and 2,000 able to nurse it better at home. That’s a massive strain on healthcare and there are reports of Italian medics having to actively decide who gets to live and who gets to die because they just don’t have the resources to treat everyone equally. So they pick those with the best chances of survival. And that contributes to the impression of it being a elderly/immune suppressed only disease.
Children are absolute virus transmitting entities. Each single child could be in regular contact with numerous adults throughout the day - parents, out of school clubs, teachers and school staff, relatives... combined with less than scrupulously perfect hygiene, it’s not the children themselves contracting the disease that is the problem but the fact that they’re vessels to spread far and wide in communities and the nhs would just not cope if it happened at a rate without some modicum of control.
What’s the point of an economy and protecting jobs if everyone is fucked because there’s no medical aid to tend to the numbers needing it simultaneously.
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oops sorry shouldn’t have been touching my face!
