a few numbers. there are 8,169, 000 persons over 70 y. o . in the UK. if the total number of deaths so far--where covid is mentioned on the death certificate---were ALL in that age range--over 70, then about half of 1 percent have succumbed to it. the average death rate for the whole population of the UK last year--was .9 of one percent.
I read at the weekend that the Chinese media had reported the capture of 700 dogs by a meat vendor is the dog's were about to enter the human food chain
Honestly having seen the world from the point of view of a woman in the middle of labour on an operating table, not much is going to phase me
You're doing it again Malcolm such percentages are meaningless we are only in the fifth or sixth month of this, there has been huge effort to avoid further spread, antibody tests in other countries have been showing a penetration rate (total infection rate) of only 2% to 3%, so most people have not had this yet and the worst is yet to come.
But... this guy puts it a lot better than I. He is a GP working a surgery in Southport and brother of one of my own GPs: And from the Grauniad today: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/jun/17/uk-ministers-order-urgent-vitamin-d-coronavirus-review Ministers order urgent vitamin d coronavirus review. With interesting reference to the BAME community ( that of course includes Filipina’s in the U.K. )
i'm only alluding to what has happened..not what might have happened or could happen. the way it came over on tv news is that it has been a disaster for us seniors. well--it was for those who caught it in a care home when the hospital bed blockers were chucked out untested to free up beds that weren't needed.
Heavily air conditioned offices are everywhere these days, the humidity research does not only apply to SARS-CoV-2 but to other types of airborne viruses, high humidity environments like over 80% are thought to be very good at keeping the aerosol suspended for longer, I would be very interested to find out the average humidity in air conditioned environments in the likes of the Philippines i.e. whether their systems are capable of getting down to the 25% humidity range or not.
In the news this morning. Reports are that those BAME people’s in the U.K. from South Asia (as opposed to SE Asia) have been hit hardest by the coronavirus. Also in the Daily Mail: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/ar...nt-orders-review-vitamin-D-role-Covid-19.html
All I can take away from that is that we need studies that concentrate on those who definitely tested positive on swabs had symptoms and later find out the proportion that have antibodies using the Roche test. To me that would seem obvious if people who had SARS-CoV-2 don't have antibodies then that suggests the cell mediated response, the proportion in that case would be interesting, but with the studies they are doing now they seem to be all over the place trying to measure several things at once. Just for information there is a syndrome called ADE, it has been well documented in Dengue fever, it means that antibodies are not always a panacea. https://www.the-scientist.com/news-...searchers-mindful-of-immune-enhancement-67576
All of the oldies at the beach,Lola,her sisters and brothers,are wearing these,12000 peso each "Supposedly" kills covid
My mother in law always advises my wife not to grow her hair too long as it drains the nutrients from her body. She is quite sincere when she says it.
My favourites are drinking cold water makes you fat (it has to be warm) and sleeping below a ceiling fan bloats a person as during sleep the fan forces air into the body
