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Corona virus, Port and the AFL.
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Yeah - Thanks for pointing that out. Sorry - should have been more specific. Deaths IN Australia.
Fages must be concerned.
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Gold Coast after-school care worker tests positive to coronavirus after working while sick
Another 37 people are diagnosed with COVID-19 in Queensland in the past 24 hours, including an employee of a Gold Coast after-school care program who worked while showing signs of illness, forcing all students to self-isolate for a fortnight.
www.abc.net.au
They don't know if it is a community transmission within Australia yet.
Good time to stay away from the Gold Coast
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The NSW government has closed Bondi Beach after thousands decided to go for a swim their yesterday, blatantly ignoring social distancing advice.
Once again action taken after horse has bolted
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You all seem to be an English-speaking Brazil!
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Lol Collingwood staff member positive for corona.
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One of my favourites. We're now tightening up processes for monitoring people returning from overseas.
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Doctor Feel
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If we get a long term injury in this shitshow I'll be pretty cross
He has been in isolation since coming home from overseas.
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Nah it will kill some of them as they won't stop drinking and partying while sick. pneumonia is fickle and can accelerate way too quickly.
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The Australian total is now 1049 cases.
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More than doubled in less than 4 days. At this rate we’ll give 20,000 a shake in two weeks.
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Every day provides more confirmation that the growth is exponential.
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“Feeling confused as to why Coronavirus is a bigger deal than Seasonal flu? Here it is in a nutshell. I hope this helps. Feel free to share this to others who don’t understand.
It has to do with RNA sequencing...i.e. genetics.
Seasonal flu is an “all human virus”. The DNA/RNA chains that make up the virus are recognized by the human immune system. This means that your body has some immunity to it before it comes around each year. You get immunity two ways...through exposure to a virus, or by getting a flu shot.
Novel viruses come from animals. The WHO tracks novel viruses in animals (sometimes for years watching for mutations). Usually these viruses only transfer from animal to animal (pigs in the case of H1N1, birds in the case of the Spanish flu). But once one of these animal viruses mutates and starts to transfer from animals to humans...then it’s a problem. Why? Because we have no natural or acquired immunity. The RNA sequencing of the genes inside the virus isn’t human, and the human immune system doesn’t recognize it, so we can’t fight it off.
Now...sometimes, the mutation only allows transfer from animal to human. For years it’s only transmission is from an infected animal to a human before it finally mutates so that it can now transfer human to human. Once that happens, we have a new contagion phase. And depending on the fashion of this new mutation, that’s what decides how contagious, or how deadly, it’s going to be.
H1N1 was deadly, but it did not mutate in a way that was as deadly as the Spanish flu. Its RNA was slower to mutate and it attacked its host differently, too.
Fast forward.
Now, here comes this Coronavirus. It existed in animals only, for nobody knows how long. But one day, at an animal market in Wuhan China, in December 2019, it mutated and made the jump from animal to people. At first, only animals could give it to a person. But here is the scary part. In just TWO WEEKS, it mutated again and gained the ability to jump from human to human. Scientists call this quick ability, “slippery”.
This Coronavirus, not being in any form a “human” virus (whereas we would all have some natural or acquired immunity), took off like a rocket. And this was because humans have no known immunity...doctors have no known medicines for it.
And it just so happens that this particular mutated animal virus changed itself in such a way the way that it causes great damage to human lungs.
That’s why Coronavirus is different from seasonal flu, or H1N1, or any other type of influenza...this one is slippery AF. And it’s a lung eater. And, it’s already mutated AGAIN, so that we now have two strains to deal with, strain S and strain L...which makes it twice as hard to develop a vaccine.
We really have no tools in our shed with this. History has shown that fast and immediate closings of public places has helped in the past pandemics. Philadelphia and Baltimore were reluctant to close events in 1918 and they were the hardest hit in the US during the Spanish Flu.
Factoid: Henry VIII stayed in his room and allowed no one near him till the Black Plague passed (honestly, I understand him so much better now). Just like us, he had no tools in his shed, except social isolation.
And let me end by saying...right now it’s hitting older folks harder...but this genome is so slippery, if it mutates again (and it will), who is to say what it will do next.
!!!!flattenthecurve. Stay home folks. And share this to those that just are not catching on."
Credit to Estrelita Estrella"
It has to do with RNA sequencing...i.e. genetics.
Seasonal flu is an “all human virus”. The DNA/RNA chains that make up the virus are recognized by the human immune system. This means that your body has some immunity to it before it comes around each year. You get immunity two ways...through exposure to a virus, or by getting a flu shot.
Novel viruses come from animals. The WHO tracks novel viruses in animals (sometimes for years watching for mutations). Usually these viruses only transfer from animal to animal (pigs in the case of H1N1, birds in the case of the Spanish flu). But once one of these animal viruses mutates and starts to transfer from animals to humans...then it’s a problem. Why? Because we have no natural or acquired immunity. The RNA sequencing of the genes inside the virus isn’t human, and the human immune system doesn’t recognize it, so we can’t fight it off.
Now...sometimes, the mutation only allows transfer from animal to human. For years it’s only transmission is from an infected animal to a human before it finally mutates so that it can now transfer human to human. Once that happens, we have a new contagion phase. And depending on the fashion of this new mutation, that’s what decides how contagious, or how deadly, it’s going to be.
H1N1 was deadly, but it did not mutate in a way that was as deadly as the Spanish flu. Its RNA was slower to mutate and it attacked its host differently, too.
Fast forward.
Now, here comes this Coronavirus. It existed in animals only, for nobody knows how long. But one day, at an animal market in Wuhan China, in December 2019, it mutated and made the jump from animal to people. At first, only animals could give it to a person. But here is the scary part. In just TWO WEEKS, it mutated again and gained the ability to jump from human to human. Scientists call this quick ability, “slippery”.
This Coronavirus, not being in any form a “human” virus (whereas we would all have some natural or acquired immunity), took off like a rocket. And this was because humans have no known immunity...doctors have no known medicines for it.
And it just so happens that this particular mutated animal virus changed itself in such a way the way that it causes great damage to human lungs.
That’s why Coronavirus is different from seasonal flu, or H1N1, or any other type of influenza...this one is slippery AF. And it’s a lung eater. And, it’s already mutated AGAIN, so that we now have two strains to deal with, strain S and strain L...which makes it twice as hard to develop a vaccine.
We really have no tools in our shed with this. History has shown that fast and immediate closings of public places has helped in the past pandemics. Philadelphia and Baltimore were reluctant to close events in 1918 and they were the hardest hit in the US during the Spanish Flu.
Factoid: Henry VIII stayed in his room and allowed no one near him till the Black Plague passed (honestly, I understand him so much better now). Just like us, he had no tools in his shed, except social isolation.
And let me end by saying...right now it’s hitting older folks harder...but this genome is so slippery, if it mutates again (and it will), who is to say what it will do next.
!!!!flattenthecurve. Stay home folks. And share this to those that just are not catching on."
Credit to Estrelita Estrella"
You guys are all talking about Australia being an embarrassment but malaysia might get you to hold their beer....
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Health Minister's 'warm water method' to kill coronavirus questioned
PETALING JAYA: Datuk Seri Dr Adham Baba's advice to Malaysians to drink warm water to "flush" virus down to the stomach, where digestive acids will kill any virus, has come under question.
“Feeling confused as to why Coronavirus is a bigger deal than Seasonal flu? Here it is in a nutshell. I hope this helps. Feel free to share this to others who don’t understand.
It has to do with RNA sequencing...i.e. genetics.
Seasonal flu is an “all human virus”. The DNA/RNA chains that make up the virus are recognized by the human immune system. This means that your body has some immunity to it before it comes around each year. You get immunity two ways...through exposure to a virus, or by getting a flu shot.
Novel viruses come from animals. The WHO tracks novel viruses in animals (sometimes for years watching for mutations). Usually these viruses only transfer from animal to animal (pigs in the case of H1N1, birds in the case of the Spanish flu). But once one of these animal viruses mutates and starts to transfer from animals to humans...then it’s a problem. Why? Because we have no natural or acquired immunity. The RNA sequencing of the genes inside the virus isn’t human, and the human immune system doesn’t recognize it, so we can’t fight it off.
Now...sometimes, the mutation only allows transfer from animal to human. For years it’s only transmission is from an infected animal to a human before it finally mutates so that it can now transfer human to human. Once that happens, we have a new contagion phase. And depending on the fashion of this new mutation, that’s what decides how contagious, or how deadly, it’s going to be.
H1N1 was deadly, but it did not mutate in a way that was as deadly as the Spanish flu. Its RNA was slower to mutate and it attacked its host differently, too.
Fast forward.
Now, here comes this Coronavirus. It existed in animals only, for nobody knows how long. But one day, at an animal market in Wuhan China, in December 2019, it mutated and made the jump from animal to people. At first, only animals could give it to a person. But here is the scary part. In just TWO WEEKS, it mutated again and gained the ability to jump from human to human. Scientists call this quick ability, “slippery”.
This Coronavirus, not being in any form a “human” virus (whereas we would all have some natural or acquired immunity), took off like a rocket. And this was because humans have no known immunity...doctors have no known medicines for it.
And it just so happens that this particular mutated animal virus changed itself in such a way the way that it causes great damage to human lungs.
That’s why Coronavirus is different from seasonal flu, or H1N1, or any other type of influenza...this one is slippery AF. And it’s a lung eater. And, it’s already mutated AGAIN, so that we now have two strains to deal with, strain S and strain L...which makes it twice as hard to develop a vaccine.
We really have no tools in our shed with this. History has shown that fast and immediate closings of public places has helped in the past pandemics. Philadelphia and Baltimore were reluctant to close events in 1918 and they were the hardest hit in the US during the Spanish Flu.
Factoid: Henry VIII stayed in his room and allowed no one near him till the Black Plague passed (honestly, I understand him so much better now). Just like us, he had no tools in his shed, except social isolation.
And let me end by saying...right now it’s hitting older folks harder...but this genome is so slippery, if it mutates again (and it will), who is to say what it will do next.
!!!!flattenthecurve. Stay home folks. And share this to those that just are not catching on."
Credit to Estrelita Estrella"
The two strain idea is dated i believe. Many more than that now.
Darwin at work. I won't feel sympathy for any of them dying after deliberately disregarding all the recommendations / rules and putting everyone else at risk.
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Wednesday i think it was, the announced they are preparing recently two closed hospitals to just deal with Covid - Wakefield Hospital and ECH's College Grove have been recommissioned and add 188 beds.
Two Adelaide hospitals to be reopened as five more coronavirus cases confirmed in SA
Two hospitals will be reopened in Adelaide dedicated to treating more coronavirus patients. It comes as SA Health announces a further five cases in the state, taking the total to 42.
www.abc.net.au
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Wow that jumped fast
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876 (last nights closing total) x 1.26 (3 day doubling compound rate) = 1104
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What a mess
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My hospital has set-up a fever clinic to test people with COVD-19. No walk-ups are allowed. You first have to ring the clinic. A nurse will assess whether you need to be tested over the phone. Only 'at risk' patients are given an appointment.
There's no waiting room in the fever clinic. The risk of transmission is too great. You're asked to drive to the hospital, and then ring the clinic on arrival. You stay in your car until a nurse comes to collect you. You're then taken to the clinic, which is isolated from other parts of hospital. All designed to protect other patients and hospital staff.
There's no waiting room in the fever clinic. The risk of transmission is too great. You're asked to drive to the hospital, and then ring the clinic on arrival. You stay in your car until a nurse comes to collect you. You're then taken to the clinic, which is isolated from other parts of hospital. All designed to protect other patients and hospital staff.
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