They follow the example of their politicians https://www.scmp.com/week-asia/heal...us-duterte-ally-koko-pimentel-blasted-putting
They had drive-in tests for a while but that appeared to fizzle out. Well at 60 odd million people in the UK 100,000 tests would represent about 1 test for every 600 citizens, and that is not a bad sample size but it's not as good as some other countries. You are still however left with a Case Fatality rate of positive identified cases to deaths of about 760 divided by roughly 15000 now which is 5% of the infections that we know about right now at this moment. The Infection Fatality Rate is inferred to be lower by the assumption that many more that you have not tested are actually infected and asymptomatic thus pushing the overall fatality rate down, but the more tests you do the better your confidence in the amount of unidentified cases. So for now all we can say is that the overall IFR will be less than 5%.
I don't have sufficient symptoms yet to justify it, I would guess that this would be described as a mild case so far like Boris's and Charlie's. I did call 111 but decided not to proceed given the options on the system at that time, if I get the cough or shortness of breath I will be calling 111 and if my pulse oximeter shows my oxygen level dropping I will be calling 999.
No thankfully, I lived in the roughest part of the city, really bad, long since left that and the accent behind
It means you're drowning, it means the alveoli the tiny air sacks in your lungs are filling up with fluid in reaction to the virus this prevents carbon dioxide leaving your blood and prevents oxygen getting into your blood, this is what kills people eventually. Normal range is 94% to 100 percent, people with COPD can be in the high 80s, people with pneumonia can be a lot lower, depending on how bad it gets that determines whether you need an Oxygen Respirator treatment in a hospital or a ventilator which is for even more serious problems. uklove's wife had a reported oxygen level of 93% and a rapid pulse of 120 or more that was just below normal range which is probably why she was able to go home so quickly after intravenous antibiotics, the antibiotics mean they must have thought it was a secondary bacterial pneumonia and not a primary viral pneumonia caused directly by the virus.
Be careful guys. I think I had the virus, quite likely as I do get close to Mrs Uklove... I had a dry cough with a screaming temperature and aches all over for a day or so, my temperature dropped but I was left with the aches and the cough and a strange tightness in my chest which lasted for about five days. Then I had what felt like a cold for a few more days. I'm hoping that was a lucky escape. My Mrs recovered very quickly after the treatment in hospital and the antibiotics at home. Luckily I was at home to help with the little one and some household chores, I would normally be away from home on average for three nights a week. @oss good luck and let us know how you get on.
Two metres during a tampo one metre for a day after then the usual 10cm while waiting for the next tampo. Oh such a crazy life we lead, but we wouldn't have it any other way But of course we, the men, are always wrong anyway
