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Does it really matter? For hundreds of years there have always been pandemics and diseases with high death rate.
This will change, but I won't bore anyone with that. Wrong place, wrong audience.

I suppose it might matter to those who now have a lower chance of catching and potentially dying from it. Admittedly, while our lifespans have increased significantly over the last century or so, we will all die sooner or later, even without the intervention of war, disease etc.

Update covid drugs and vaccines ...


http://www.politico.com/amp/news/2020/04/27/tracking-the-hunt-for-coronavirus-drugs-and-vaccines-211416

The true mortality rate for covid should include deaths at rest homes from covid ...not sure why some countries are excluding their most vulnerable population from statistics or testing !!

http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/europe/nursing-homes-coronavirus-deaths-europe/2020/04/23/d635619c-8561-11ea-81a3-9690c9881111_story.html?outputType=amp

(1:14) #Donna Keener
General Secretary,
Royal College Of Nursing #UK

"She slips up "we didn't infect enough population""
#BBCnews

https://youtu.be/jWPsvsXUNeY

China have produced a vaccine based on inactivated pathogen ... named.coronavac. Human trials to start and plans under way to mass produce ....

http://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/asia/china-covid19-coronavirus-vaccine-sinovac-coronavac-trials-12690822

Remdesivir: Drug has 'clear-cut' power to fight coronavirus

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-52478783

Remdesivir cut the duration of symptoms from 15 days down to 11 in clinical trial at hospitals around the world.

Dr Anthony Fauci who runs the NIAID said: "The data shows remdesivir has a clear-cut, significant, positive effect in diminishing the time to recovery."

He said the results prove "a drug can block this virus" and were "opening the door to the fact that we now have the capability of treating" patients.

The impact on deaths is not as clear cut. The mortality rate was 8% in people given remdesivir and 11.6% in those given a placebo, but this result was not statistically significant, meaning scientists cannot tell if the difference is real.

Maybe this at least gives us all some signs of hope in them finding a cure for this terrible disease in the not too distant future.

Oops, I see now that I had quoted the wrong post I didn't mean to say that to you at all as it is quite understandable everyone would be happy about numbers going down.

My apologies, dunno how I clicked the wrong one.


OT - still low although today we have slightly more cases than yesterday. Still below 600.
I guess it's a slow, someone wobbly decrease in numbers which in a way makes sense.

Oh well, these things happen and no harm done .

Thank you

Last week had the first report in my county of a person testing positive for the virus.

Most rural counties some distance from an urban center have very few cases. Where I am currently at, I think there are 2 active cases in the county. Doubt there are a hundred active cases within a hundred miles of me. I feel pretty safe here!

Where I live in Lancashire here in the UK. There are a total number of 2736 confirmed cases to date out of a population of 1.2 million approximately. Sadly, 124 people have died in my local area of Preston and Chorley, these are all hospitalised cases. There is no current data for infections and deaths of those outside of hospitals for this area at the moment, but testing in the UK has been increased to include those outside of hospitals, so more information should become available. Thankfully, the signs are according to the government, that infection numbers are falling here in the UK.

http://www.lep.co.uk/health/coronavirus/coronavirus-lancashire-how-many-people-have-died-preston-and-chorleys-hospitals-2532351

Today The Netherlands have 475 new cases, so still staying much lower than 2 weeks back. Belgium and Germany also still do well.
I saw the UK shot up again yesterday and the USA is also still going the way it was.

UK has started including all deaths now Crystal not just hospital.
Strange why Germany is so low, maybe they are hiding it?
Or maybe it's because all the refugees they were meant to home were let through to the UK.
Just shows that the European Union isn't a union when the going gets tough, each for their own!
Good that you're figures are down

All the refugees going to you? You wish! Or we wish, hahaha.
Funny how the UK always has the wrong idea with such things, been there before with UK friends, them thinking they get them all and we get none or very few.
We get huge amounts of refugees, as does Germany, as do all EU countries, even now during the pandemic.
We have NO houses for poor and common folk, none are built either, just more expensive houses. BUT... they do spend 85 mill on building houses for refugees.
Insanity!

In any case, I don't know why Germany has low death rate. I found that typical too.
Then again, Canada, Austria, Portugal, Norway, Denmark, Israel etc all have low to very low death rate too. (not looking at non 1st world countries as I doubt their nrs would be reliable).

Oh I see, so the jungle camps at calais were proprganda

Just good to realise that you in the UK are focused on that as that is your point of entry into the country.
We have our own, just about every other country since we're not so lucky to only have one.
It is bad everywhere in Europe, at least Western Europe. Few years back during that insane influx (2015?) we had truckloads come in, and Germany accepted too many too, just like The Netherlands. There were videos of Germans who were evicted from there homes to make space for refugees. The Germans having to 'camp' in old schools and the like as they suddenly had nowhere to live.

The English should really get their heads out of their @$$es, no offense. When our English friends began to come over regularly we (my then partner and I) soon realised they didn't know Jack of what was going on here on the mainland. Apparently the UK media is very censured while here these things were on the news daily.
So you can continue to feel sorry for the UK or open your eyes and realise it's as bad or possibly worse everywhere in (western) Europe.

To give you an indication: A quarter of all are absorbed by Germany & France. UK is not the lowest but very low on the list.

In 2016 Germany took on 59,9% (!!!) of all, UK only 3,3%.
So Germany is Nr1 to bear the brunt, then France. Hell, even Greece & Italy have taken on more than the UK!

Oooooo can tell your on lockdown