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Bodd
One of our local schools has been closed today because possible risk.
Corona virus
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One positive aspect of this disease is that so far no children between 0-9 years of age have died ,it seems the younger you are the better chance of survival.
https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/coronavirus-age-sex-demographics/
On the other hand if Coronavirus gets a grip in the UK then this forum could run a bit short of members..
https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/coronavirus-age-sex-demographics/
On the other hand if Coronavirus gets a grip in the UK then this forum could run a bit short of members..
Does having the mental age of 0-9 help?
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EddieM
Apparently a suspected case was "identified" in Canary Wharf, so all the workers fled onto the tube and DLR outta there. Londoners eh? wet wipes.
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So they all jumped on a tube or the DLR? I suppose there's not much else to do if you choose to work in such a hell hole.
If I catch winter flu (which kills thousands of people in the UK each year) nobody would bat an eyelid. But as soon as someone mentions Coronavirus, its panic. Why is that? Is this all being blown out of proportion?
They've got some pods set up at my wife’s hospital. Not many though.
According to a leaked government report a worse case scenario would see 450000 deaths.
Most of those would be old people and people with existing health problems.
Would solve the pension timebomb i suppose.
In the UK, hundreds of people (not thousands) usually die from flu each year.
You can get a vaccination which reduces your risk, and about 70% of people in UK over retirement age have the sense to take it.
"Influenza (flu) is a very common, highly infectious disease caused by a virus. It can be very dangerous, causing serious complications and death, especially for people in risk groups. In rare cases flu can kill people who are otherwise healthy. In the UK it is estimated that an average of 600 people a year die from complications of flu. In some years it is estimated that this can rise to over 10,000 deaths (see for example this UK study from 2013
, which estimated over 13,000 deaths resulting from flu in 2008-09). Flu leads to hundreds of thousands of GP visits and tens of thousands of hospital stays a year."https://vk.ovg.ox.ac.uk/vk/influenza-flu
The number of people who have been confirmed to have died as a result of the coronavirus has now surpassed 2,700. Most of them are in and around Wuhan, which is a city the size of London. It has taken about a month and the number of cases continues to rise.
The disease is more infectious than flu, and has a higher death rate. It might be around 3%, and men seem about twice as likely to die as women. Severity seems worse in older people than in young, and worse in people with underlying health conditions, possibly including smokers.
There is no vaccination, and no drugs to cure it. The number of infected people exceeds the capacity of hospitals. Looking on the bright side, the total number of recovered cases has now reached 30,311, and I like to think that these people will have immunity so they can be used in patient care and body disposal.
Do you feel lucky?
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