China Coronavirus

[armaghniac]

https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2020/world/corona-simulator/

How do you maintain social distancing in the workplace ?

It depends on the nature of your workplace.

[larryin89]

40 more cases in the 26 today.  More alarming is the 368 deaths in Italy today , this is doomsday stuff .

[quit yo jibbajabba]

Scary figures alright. Searchin online for some reason behind it eg large % of smokers, elderly population, elderly living with their adult children and so on. Anyone any positive spin on this from an Ireland perspective...

[Itchy]

Scary figures alright. Searchin online for some reason behind it eg large % of smokers, elderly population, elderly living with their adult children and so on. Anyone any positive spin on this from an Ireland perspective...

No theres only bad news, they have twice as many critical care beds per population than either Ireland or Britain.

[dublin7]

Scary figures alright. Searchin online for some reason behind it eg large % of smokers, elderly population, elderly living with their adult children and so on. Anyone any positive spin on this from an Ireland perspective...

We're an island fairly self sufficent so its alot harder to get here on a large scale compared with mainland europe. Also we are shutting down now rather than China, Italy when at its worst. Only way to stop this is for people to stay home so the virus can't transfer and hopefully dies out, which in fairness is what we are doing

[larryin89]

Has to be more to the hit on northern Italy , when you read into it perhaps it's the textile industry where there are 4K shops run by Chinese , I haven't a notion of how that factors in but I'm hazarding a guess it would of been a contribution in some form or another .

[Tony Baloney]

Scary figures alright. Searchin online for some reason behind it eg large % of smokers, elderly population, elderly living with their adult children and so on. Anyone any positive spin on this from an Ireland perspective...

There is an infographic in one of today's papers with a breakdown of the underlying conditions. As known/expected; cardiovascular disease, hypertension and respiratory disease accounted for a lot of the deaths, but a significant percentage had diabetes. I haven't seen the latest age breakdown in Italy as it's moving so fast but a few days ago when the total was 803 only 2 of those were under the age of 50.

[stiffler]

My guess is that Italy have a lot more cases that are not being diagnosed/reported.

[Smokin Joe]

An Armagh mother taking a High Court case tomorrow to get the schools in the Wee 6 closed:
https://twitter.com/newschambers/status/1239262190919716875/photo/1

[Milltown Row2]

Scary figures alright. Searchin online for some reason behind it eg large % of smokers, elderly population, elderly living with their adult children and so on. Anyone any positive spin on this from an Ireland perspective...

There is an infographic in one of today's papers with a breakdown of the underlying conditions. As known/expected; cardiovascular disease, hypertension and respiratory disease accounted for a lot of the deaths, but a significant percentage had diabetes. I haven't seen the latest age breakdown in Italy as it's moving so fast but a few days ago when the total was 803 only 2 of those were under the age of 50.

The two under 50, had they underlying conditions?

[marty34]

Scary figures alright. Searchin online for some reason behind it eg large % of smokers, elderly population, elderly living with their adult children and so on. Anyone any positive spin on this from an Ireland perspective...

We're an island fairly self sufficent so its alot harder to get here on a large scale compared with mainland europe. Also we are shutting down now rather than China, Italy when at its worst. Only way to stop this is for people to stay home so the virus can't transfer and hopefully dies out, which in fairness is what we are doing

Good question Dublin7 - does this virus just 'die out' or what happens to it? Do people get just immune  from it?

[laoislad]

My guess is that Italy have a lot more cases that are not being diagnosed/reported.

As do the UK I reckon.

[GalwayBayBoy]

Pubs ordered closed for 2 weeks starting tonight

Can see it being extended to Easter at the very least. Certainly won't be over in a fortnight.

[bennydorano]

My guess is that Italy have a lot more cases that are not being diagnosed/reported.

There's no guessing or suppressing of Information about it, everyone knows it's the case, it's reported on the National  news daily that the real numbers are unknown.

[GalwayBayBoy]

Randox in Crumlin are producing these kits. No doubt making a tidy profit

In the midst of this , it's a positive that an Irish company is at the coal face of technology trying to combat the virus

Half of the world's ventilators in acute hospitals are made in Ireland. Medtronic in Galway a huge manufacturer of them. They are absolutely flat out.