News Coronavirus (COVID-19) Discussion Thread II

[DesertRoo]

Coronavirus: Dexamethasone proves first life-saving drug

Patients should be given the cheap drug without delay, after "fantastic" trial results, experts say.

bbc.in

A cheap and widely available drug can help save the lives of patients seriously ill with coronavirus.

The low-dose steroid treatment dexamethasone is a major breakthrough in the fight against the deadly virus, UK experts say.

The drug is part of the world's biggest trial testing existing treatments to see if they also work for coronavirus.

It cut the risk of death by a third for patients on ventilators. For those on oxygen, it cut deaths by a fifth.

 

[Kangaroos4eva]

Coronavirus: Dexamethasone proves first life-saving drug

Patients should be given the cheap drug without delay, after "fantastic" trial results, experts say.

bbc.in

A cheap and widely available drug can help save the lives of patients seriously ill with coronavirus.

The low-dose steroid treatment dexamethasone is a major breakthrough in the fight against the deadly virus, UK experts say.

The drug is part of the world's biggest trial testing existing treatments to see if they also work for coronavirus.

It cut the risk of death by a third for patients on ventilators. For those on oxygen, it cut deaths by a fifth.

Great news.

 

[Snake_Baker]

Coronavirus: Dexamethasone proves first life-saving drug

Patients should be given the cheap drug without delay, after "fantastic" trial results, experts say.

bbc.in

A cheap and widely available drug can help save the lives of patients seriously ill with coronavirus.

The low-dose steroid treatment dexamethasone is a major breakthrough in the fight against the deadly virus, UK experts say.

The drug is part of the world's biggest trial testing existing treatments to see if they also work for coronavirus.

It cut the risk of death by a third for patients on ventilators. For those on oxygen, it cut deaths by a fifth.

I dunno. It's not a treatment without complications.

 

[tazaa]

Coronavirus: Dexamethasone proves first life-saving drug

Patients should be given the cheap drug without delay, after "fantastic" trial results, experts say.

bbc.in

A cheap and widely available drug can help save the lives of patients seriously ill with coronavirus.

The low-dose steroid treatment dexamethasone is a major breakthrough in the fight against the deadly virus, UK experts say.

The drug is part of the world's biggest trial testing existing treatments to see if they also work for coronavirus.

It cut the risk of death by a third for patients on ventilators. For those on oxygen, it cut deaths by a fifth.

* approves this

 

[giantroo]

Victoria has 21 new cases of covid19. •15 in hotel quarantine
•1 is a staff member at Stamford Plaza Hotel
•1 is resident Rosstown aged care at Carnegie
•1 is linked to Monash health outbreak
•3 under investigation
@7NewsMelbourne #springst https://t.co/hU58gk3slB

 

[Kangaroos4eva]

Victoria has 21 new cases of covid19. •15 in hotel quarantine
•1 is a staff member at Stamford Plaza Hotel
•1 is resident Rosstown aged care at Carnegie
•1 is linked to Monash health outbreak
•3 under investigation
@7NewsMelbourne #springst https://t.co/hU58gk3slB

At least they are finding the hidden cases, I suppose.

 

[Snake_Baker]

Victoria has 21 new cases of covid19. •15 in hotel quarantine
•1 is a staff member at Stamford Plaza Hotel
•1 is resident Rosstown aged care at Carnegie
•1 is linked to Monash health outbreak
•3 under investigation
@7NewsMelbourne #springst https://t.co/hU58gk3slB

Hmmmmm............no news of any connections to the rally yet?

They'd probably bury it anyway.

 

[Sillygit]

Hmmmmm............no news of any connections to the rally yet?

They'd probably bury it anyway.

like they didn't bury the two identified as being at the rally so far?

 

[muttley45]

Are any of these "returning travellers" in fact foreign students returning for University etc ?

 

[glenn2479]

Given the high percentage of cases in ‘returned travelers’ I’m thinking many overseas countries are massively under reporting true case numbers or they’re effectively doing no testing. ‘Returned traveller’ and Coronavirus go hand in hand.

 

[DaveyBoy123]

Given the high percentage of cases in ‘returned travelers’ I’m thinking many overseas countries are massively under reporting true case numbers or they’re effectively doing no testing. ‘Returned traveller’ and Coronavirus go hand in hand.

Most reports do not name where the travelers are actually returning from, however one did let slip yesterday that the "majority were from the sub-continent".

 

[giantroo]

 

[Snake_Baker]

Congratulations dick heads.

I hope this doesn't keep us in longer lockdown.

 

[Hojuman]

Superannuation;

" Mr Silk said a small number of his members panicked and switched their investments to cash "

Yet while the stock market has rebounded, people who switched and stayed with cash have seen those losses locked in.

" Unfortunately, the amount of money they retire with, and therefore their standard of living, is going to be materially less than if they'd just stayed the course "


Remember a couple of you here recommended this as covid also took hold of the economy. I didn't do it.

Glad now that l didn't. Hope you didn't get burnt. My super dropped about $35 gees, but already re-couped $20. Sure this is a rocky road and things will bounce around.

 

[andana]

Most reports do not name where the travelers are actually returning from, however one did let slip yesterday that the "majority were from the sub-continent".

Can see why they are returning to Aus



India is witnessing a surge in Covid-19 infections which has brought its health system to the brink of collapse. BBC Gujarati's Roxy Gadgekar describes how his own family was devastated by coronavirus.

When my sister Shefali called me on 11 May and told me her husband Umesh had been rushed to hospital with breathing difficulties, it was a shock. My first thought - as unreal as it seemed - was coronavirus.

His death, five days later, showed us just how much India's healthcare system is being ravaged by the virus.

While we battled to save Umesh, I was embarrassed I had to use my professional contacts - built up over 20 years as a journalist in this city - so many times to ask for simple things that should have been routine.

And despite our repeatedly asking, the hospital where his life ended has still not explained exactly how he died or responded to the BBC's questions about why the family was not told.


Anand Surgical hospital, where Shefali had taken Umesh when he fell ill, is a famous private hospital in Ahmedabad, the capital of the western state of Gujarat. It had been designated a specialised Covid hospital by the municipal corporation just a few days earlier.

However, when I called them, they told me that they did not have an isolation room as yet. There were also no ventilators or even doctors who could treat suspected Covid patients.

bbc.com today

 

[Ry009]

Congratulations dick heads.

I hope this doesn't keep us in longer lockdown.

I'm not going into the reasons of the protests themselves as there is plenty of discussion on that, but hearing how some idiot who went has worked a few days since is unbelievably selfish.

I sympathise with the reasons behind it, but f*** me, hundred different things they could have done that could have been done with social distancing.

Selfish campaigners.

 

[giantroo]

25 cases in Vic today.

 

[giantroo]

 

[giantroo]

 

[year of the roo]

Disappointing but understandable. We just haven't been able to nip this in the bud like other States have been able to.

 

[giantroo]

 

[giantroo]

 

[Samsquanch]

Was he on the plane last week?

 

[year of the roo]

FFS of course it was *

 

[Samsquanch]

FFS of course it was *

They are saying he trained with the team this morning.

That must put * out of the comp.

Has to.