[OFF TOPIC] Coronavirus Pandemic

[Gianlu33 4,606]

Italian football player Giorgia Spinelli (Stade Reims, former Inter player) is positive to Coronavirus

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Fauci: "Face masks are only an addition to physical distance, which is the absolute number one precaution to take, absolutely not a replacement." 

 

Now it's pretty much definitive: every single person from some sort of authority who is standing or walking in a group (without plenty of distance), no matter whether or not they have masks, should be fired.

[Agger 1,663]

1 hour ago, Gianlu33 said:

Italian football player Giorgia Spinelli (Stade Reims, former Inter player) is positive to Coronavirus

 

Don't we more or less have daily positive tests from  sports stars?

[Dnl 691]

In Israel our minister of health and his wife were found positive for Coronavirus..

Edited April 3, 2020 by Dnl

[Olympian1010 7,989]

So I guess the US national stockpile of medical resources is for no one...
 

My biggest fear is that it’s only going to get worse. We’re not testing enough, we don’t have enough resources, and we have a completely incompetent leader. 

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6 hours ago, Gianlu33 said:

Italian football player Giorgia Spinelli (Stade Reims, former Inter player) is positive to Coronavirus

 

Oww sad news to hear.

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27 minutes ago, Olympian1010 said:

So I guess the US national stockpile of medical resources is for no one...
 

My biggest fear is that it’s only going to get worse. We’re not testing enough, we don’t have enough resources, and we have a completely incompetent leader. 

 

Have to agree with you, The buggest fear of all is the incompetent leader up there.

[Gianlu33 4,606]

6 hours ago, Agger said:

 

Don't we more or less have daily positive tests from  sports stars?

Probability yes

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Very interesting article for reading.

 

https://edition.cnn.com/2020/04/03/asia/tokyo-coronavirus-japan-hnk-intl/index.html

 

There are fears a coronavirus crisis looms in Tokyo. Is it too late to change course?

 

Excerpts from the article

 

As of Friday, Tokyo had tested fewer than 4,000 people in a city of 13.5 million. And just 39,466 people had been tested in this nation of 125 million, according to the Ministry of Health, Labour, and Welfare.

That's a tiny fraction compared to countries in the region and around the world. As of Friday, South Korea -- which has a much smaller population than Japan -- had tested more than 440,000 people.

The Japanese government says its testing regime is adequate and suitably targeted to high risk cases.

"Testing people with a low probability of novel coronavirus would be a waste of resources," Japan's Health Ministry told CNN in a statement. "We ask people with some symptoms to stay home for a period of time."

 

Turned down for a test

 

Coronavirus patient Issei Watanabe spoke to CNN from his Tokyo hospital room. He struggled to breathe in between coughing fits. Doctors consider his a "mild case" and expect he'll be discharged on Tuesday.

 

Watanabe is 40, a non-smoker, in good health. His symptoms came on quickly. Body aches, chills, no sense of taste or smell.

When he asked for a coronavirus test, he says he was turned down -- and had to endure five days with a fever above 40 degrees Celsius -- 104 degrees Fahrenheit -- before he was finally allowed to take a test, which came back positive.

 

Watanabe says he infected at least two people during that time.

 

"People don't know what to do. There's a real lack of good information," Watanabe said. "Your life is in your hands. Stay home. Please stay home. Don't go out."
Watanabe worries about the tens of millions of Japanese who are older than 65. He knows he'll recover, but many in Japan's aging society won't.

 

Infectious disease experts warn of a steep price in human life -- if coronavirus spreads rapidly, in this rapidly aging society.

 

"Coronavirus is very dangerous to old people," said Masahiro Kami, executive director of Japan's nonprofit Medical Governance Research Institute. He said most coronavirus patients in Japan are likely showing few, if any, symptoms.

 

"When they are asymptomatic, they can transmit the coronavirus to others," Kami warned.

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Another interesting article about Donald Trump.

 

https://khn.org/news/donald-trumps-wrong-claim-that-anybody-can-get-tested-for-coronavirus/

 

Excerpts from the article above.

 

“Anybody that wants a test can get a test. That’s what the bottom line is,” Trump told reporters March 6 during a visit to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta.

 

Moments later, Trump added that anybody who needs a test gets one.

 

“But as of right now and yesterday, anybody that needs a test — that’s the important thing — and the tests are all perfect, like the letter was perfect. The transcription was perfect, right? This was not as perfect as that, but pretty good,” Trump said. (Trump’s mention of “the letter” and “transcription” was a reference to his recent impeachment.)