@BritanniaLtd Coronavirus: Britannia Hotel made staff homeless in 'admin error'

[brassnecked]

Apart from Boris until it blew up in his face.

[dx100uk]

the immunologist you need to watch is Dr Anthony Fauci 

lots of videos on you tube esp the CNN.com ones 

 

this guys's 79 yrs old and been doing this all his life

though his cringes listening too trump in the oval office are quite funny too!

[honeybee13]

John Ashton was a public health director. Is his advice wrong?

[dx100uk]

its a virus

it can only be spread by people whom are not already immune too it.

once any population becomes 50-60% immune ..it dies

 

the sars virus (CoV-1) of a few years ago now no longer exists in the populous

this is SARs( CoV-2) . the same in time will happen to it.

 

the infamous curve is the key..

 

this gentleman 

https://www.youtube.com/user/Campbellteaching

is too worthy to watch and understand.

 

the trouble with some TV experts is they just want to make a name for themselves 15 mins fame syndrome

or believe or are given false information or sadly don't have a clue what they are talking about.

 

 

[cjcregg]

1 hour ago, dx100uk said:

the immunologist you need to watch is Dr Anthony Fauci 

 

I do and he does not advise the US administration that herd immunity is or should be a strategic response to coronavirus. Quite the opposite in fact.

[dx100uk]

Understand his curve

the only way its going too go away is by mass immunity

thats why you want to Get/keep the curve low. Slow down the infection rate else no one can cope.  Thats why people are dying. They cant be treated quick enough

There most certainly wont be a mass vacination

 

 

[BazzaS]

We don't know enough (yet) about the virus.

 

Previous betacoronaviruses, the "immunity antibody" (IgG) is 'protective', but only against that strain.

So you won't catch 'that cold' again, but can catch 'another cold'.

 

There is no evidence that SARS-CoV2 has more than one strain, but we don't yet know if the antibodies are protective, and where it differs from other coronaviridae is that the most severe disease appears to be 'immune mediated' - the virus infects you, your bodies' immune system mounts a response, and the immune response causes damage to you as much as fighting the virus.....

 

So, measles (also an RNA virus, but a morbilivirus rather than a coronavirus) : you get it once (or get vaccinated effectively), you get protective immunity, and can't catch it again.

Dengue virus, (also an RNA virus, but a Flavivirus, found in the tropical world) : the 2nd time you catch it (from a different strain), you can get MORE severe disease.

 

This is why there is ongoing discussion on if they should allow those who have had Covid19 as a workforce looking after those who now have it - no one yet knows if they will be protected or if some will be at risk of more severe disease.

 

As for "dying because they can't be treated quick enough": Yes and No. Yes, if they might have survived but there weren't suffiicient resources to offer them optimal treatment. No, some people (even the young /fit) die even with optimal treatment on ITU (which is 'supportive care', all the 'treatments' are only in trial so far, no one yet knows which work, which don't, and which might make thing worse).