COVID-19 Pandemic

[Stojacanec]

Originally Posted by nushevski77

I heard that the virus can't sustain it's self at 27 degrees Celsius

European temperatures in Italy, Germany, England and Spain for example seem to average around 23-25 degrees in the summer.

This is also an unknown what will happen with the virus in the warmer months.

[Phoenix]

Originally Posted by nushevski77

I heard that the virus can't sustain it's self at 27 degrees Celsius

A healthy adult has a body temperature ranging between 36.5 to 37 degrees C...fever is considered to be 38+ degrees C (COVID-19 induces fever in the host as a means for the body to attack the virus and destroy it and as we've seen the body is not successful in all cases)...therefor it should not exist in the human body if it couldn't sustain itself at 27 degrees C...?

There's much conjecture regarding this temperature theory but it is mostly unproven and being treated with utmost caution based largely on the findings of researchers when comparing COVID-19 with other coronaviruses such as MERS-CoV and SARS which are quite 'happy' (transmittable) in hot dry climates like the Middle East.

The view was that this family of viruses couldn't cope with hot dry climates as it would breakdown the viruses protective coating in the absence of water/humidity...but apparently not so...

[Phoenix]

Originally Posted by Carlin15

Italy reported 4,207 jump in cases, biggest single-day rise

As time goes on there will be large 'single-day rises' in cases - many due to increased testing as the testing regime becomes more accessible to an already freaked out population...

In nature, populations of anything (including viruses) grow exponentially for only a set period of time, they will ultimately be limited by resource availability...in this case, the virus will grow exponentially as it finds human hosts with each infected person spreading it to around 4(?) others but most of those infected hosts have a limited circle of contacts (thus the quarantine strategy) and the spreading becomes significantly reduced to perhaps 1.5 people...of those infected - some/many will have a strong natural immune response to the virus and remain largely asymptomatic or displaying very mild symptoms further limiting the virus to the 'resources' it requires...

[Risto the Great]

Meanwhile infected Chinese in the diaspora are taking drugs to reduce their body temperature and flying back to China to get free health care. Joyous.

[Carlin]

Originally Posted by Risto the Great

Meanwhile infected Chinese in the diaspora are taking drugs to reduce their body temperature and flying back to China to get free health care. Joyous.

How big is the Chinese community in Australia?

Are there a lot of Iranians? I'm just asking because there is a large Iranian (and Italian) community in Toronto, and there have been some cases reported of Iranian Canadians being confirmed with COVID-19 after "travel to Iran".

https://www.thestar.com/politics/pro...s-patient.html
https://torontosun.com/news/provinci...-to-italy-iran

Check the Dates on the above two news stories: Feb 26 and Mar 5. These were essentially among the first COVID-19 cases in Canada.

[tchaiku]

Italy will pass China in total number of deaths by the virus this week. :/

[Carlin]

Originally Posted by tchaiku

Italy will pass China in total number of deaths by the virus this week. :/

It's already happened, as of 15 min ago.

Italy has just surpassed China for the most number of deaths related to COVID-19.

The total number of cases in the country rose to 41,035 on Thursday, which includes 5,322 new cases, the Italian Civil Protection Agency said at a news conference.


Chinese coronavirus experts warn northern Italy's lockdown measures are not enough

The coronavirus measures in place in the hard hit Lombardy region of northern Italy are “not strict enough,” according to Chinese medical experts helping the country deal with the crisis.

The situation in Lombardy right now "is similar to what we experienced two months ago in Wuhan, China, the epicenter of COVID-19," the Chinese Red Cross vice president, Sun Shuopeng, said Thursday in a press conference in Milan, Italy.

"In the city of Wuhan after one month since the adoption of the lockdown policy, we see a decreasing trend from the peak of the disease," Sun Shuopeng said. "Here in Milan, the hardest hit area by COVID-19, there isn't a very strict lockdown: public transportation is still working and people are still moving around, you're still having dinners and parties in the hotels and you're not wearing masks. We need every citizen to be involved in the fight of COVID-19 and follow this policy.”

He advised Italians to stop all “economic activities and cut the mobility of people.”

Everyone should just stay at home, he added.

https://www.cnn.com/world/live-news/...14e33d17c45d68


According to La Repubblica and La Gazzetta dello Sport, Gonzalo Higuain 'escaped' quarantine and flew to Argentina, despite two Juventus teammates testing positive for coronavirus
https://www.football-italia.net/1513...ves-quarantine

[Gocka]

Just read that a study in France had positive results using malaria drugs to treat people infected with Corona virus. It seems to have cured 70% of the test subjects. Larger studies are being prepared in the UK I believe, to see If malaria drugs are useful in helping people fight off the virus.

[Risto the Great]

Originally Posted by Carlin15

How big is the Chinese community in Australia?

6% of the country is Chinese.
Fastest growing language here is Punjabi.
The nation is changing rapidly.

[Carlin]

Wow 6%! That's a staggering figure.


Another brutal video, no words can describe it - Italian military transports bodies as cemetery overwhelmed:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Os1TJHJ_ijc