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Surprised this hasn’t had more discussion.How serious do we reckon this is?Are we likely to get this under control?
Quote from: mushRTID on February 05, 2020, 06:47:43 pmSurprised this hasn’t had more discussion.How serious do we reckon this is?Are we likely to get this under control?I hope so because according to the BBC last night the number of infected persons doubles every day. That could mean well over 1 Million infected within 2/3 weeks once you hit a Million you're at 12 million within 5 days.3 days later you are looking at 100 million. Keep calm and carry on?
Aren't Australia cracking on with the cure for it? Sure I read they'd made decent head way into it.
Quote from: Sprotyrover on February 05, 2020, 07:13:17 pmQuote from: mushRTID on February 05, 2020, 06:47:43 pmSurprised this hasn’t had more discussion.How serious do we reckon this is?Are we likely to get this under control?I hope so because according to the BBC last night the number of infected persons doubles every day. That could mean well over 1 Million infected within 2/3 weeks once you hit a Million you're at 12 million within 5 days.3 days later you are looking at 100 million. Keep calm and carry on?Only it's not doubling every day is it. It's going up by c3000 every day (ok there was a spike of 5000 today) and has been largely contained outside of China.That's not to say that it couldn't suddenly rip through but, right now, nothing like as bad as SARS was.
Quote from: BigH on February 05, 2020, 09:01:33 pmQuote from: Sprotyrover on February 05, 2020, 07:13:17 pmQuote from: mushRTID on February 05, 2020, 06:47:43 pmSurprised this hasn’t had more discussion.How serious do we reckon this is?Are we likely to get this under control?I hope so because according to the BBC last night the number of infected persons doubles every day. That could mean well over 1 Million infected within 2/3 weeks once you hit a Million you're at 12 million within 5 days.3 days later you are looking at 100 million. Keep calm and carry on?Only it's not doubling every day is it. It's going up by c3000 every day (ok there was a spike of 5000 today) and has been largely contained outside of China.That's not to say that it couldn't suddenly rip through but, right now, nothing like as bad as SARS was.Not really right that, Big H.There's already been 4 times as many cases of Coronavirus as SARS and nearly as many fatalities. It's inevitable that these numbers are going to increase greatly because it's already spread so far, and can be passed on asymptomatically, meaning it's nigh on impossible to contain it. SARS had a much higher death rate once you'd contracted it, but this one is going to kill a lot more people.
BigH.I was meaning that saying it was nothing like as bad as SARS wasn't really right. Because it has spread far, far more widely and infected more people than SARS did, and by the end of the weekend, will have killed more people too. That was the only bit I was taking issue with. The other thing is that, because it spreads asymptomatically, it is going to be far harder than SARS to contain. SARS infected a total of about 8000 people in ten weeks before it was brought under control. Coronavirus infected that many in ten DAYS and its still infecting many more new cases per day than SARS ever did.
We all so know for certain, it has killed two doctors and one of them appeared to be a fit, healthy bloke in his late thirties.I have seen a figure, I don't know if it is official, reporting it has infected 29% of health workers in Chinese hospitals.I'd say this thing is looking like it is very virulent.
According to the official figures so far there are 638 dead and 1,568 recovered.These are Chinese figures, there might be some doubt about them but we can assume if they are massaged they have been adjusted to look good.It is a different statistic but it looks quite a bit different to the official mortality rate of just over 2%.
I certainly don't believe anything being peddled by the Chinese Government.