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For the record, many people in my part of Lancashire in the UK, experienced from late November and throughout December, corona virus-like symptoms; cough, fever, breathing problems, loss of taste, etc. This pattern was repeated across the UK, as observed by a Covid symptom tracking app run by a research team from King's College London.

With or without having received a flu jab, those who did see a doctor where told they either just "had a flu virus" or, were given antibiotics to treat a throat or chest infection. Most people just had a "strange" or "troublesome" cold, and got over it. Brexit dominated the UK news agenda then, so a mystery bug would have gained little media attention.

Also at this time, the politicos would have had only the scientific evidence of the day to go on, which was, there is NO pandemic. A prognosis the British Prime Minister came to regret first hand.

As @eevblog points out, there were many international flights from Wuhan and associated cantons, including flights to Manchester, our local airport. btw Manchester, Liverpool and Preston have substantial Chinese resident and student populations.

So was Covid-19 outside of China before any official anouncement by the WHO? It would be a hard sell in my neighbourhood convincing people that Covid-19 was not already circulating in the UK before Christmas 2019.

Now all people want to know is, did I have it? An antibody testing programme would be more effective for easing the lockdown than having to rely on a "really smart" BLE phone app.
DrG:

--- Quote from: EEVblog on May 05, 2020, 12:51:00 pm ---"Scott Morrison says it's time to get Australians back to work after coronavirus shutdown"
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2020/may/05/scott-morrison-says-its-time-to-get-australians-back-to-work-after-coronavirus-shutdown

Translation: "I'm sick of this crap too, let's get back to work, but make it appear slow because I have a lot of pissed of Karen's on social media who will kick up a stink, so I have to keep them happy."

--- End quote ---

I had to look that up - A "Karen" is typically used to refer to an entitled mum, who can be a bit irritating with her frequent requests to "talk to the manager." She may also have a giant bob haircut and drive a Volvo. https://www.smh.com.au/lifestyle/life-and-relationships/how-to-know-if-you-re-a-karen-and-other-terms-your-kids-have-adopted-20191120-p53cfa.html

Daily New Cases in Australia



Daily New Cases in USA



paulca:
Interesting video on effects on airlines and air cargo.

DrG:
New SARS-Cov-2 mutation reported to be more transmissible https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.04.29.069054v1.full.pdf

Preliminary, not peer-reviewed, not cause for panic.

Now we get to talk about Blue and Orange varieties. Mutations are not unusual and would certainly be expected as a virus circulates around. A biologically significant mutation, however, can be another matter. That is, with some 30,000 base pairs of RNA (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7161481/) nobody is surprised to find some differences as time goes on. In this case, the EARLY report suggests that the difference is biological significant.

Here is a decent discussion thread https://twitter.com/BillHanage/status/1256422856436613126

Here is still one of the best of those NYT 3-D articles reviewing the proteins and what they are thought to do. https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/04/03/science/coronavirus-genome-bad-news-wrapped-in-protein.html?action=click&module=Well&pgtype=Homepage&section=Health
cdev:
Could it have started in the UK?


--- Quote from: Syntax Error on May 05, 2020, 02:17:07 pm ---For the record, many people in my part of Lancashire in the UK, experienced from late November and throughout December, corona virus-like symptoms; cough, fever, breathing problems, loss of taste, etc. This pattern was repeated across the UK, as observed by a Covid symptom tracking app run by a research team from King's College London.

With or without having received a flu jab, those who did see a doctor where told they either just "had a flu virus" or, were given antibiotics to treat a throat or chest infection. Most people just had a "strange" or "troublesome" cold, and got over it. Brexit dominated the UK news agenda then, so a mystery bug would have gained little media attention.

Also at this time, the politicos would have had only the scientific evidence of the day to go on, which was, there is NO pandemic. A prognosis the British Prime Minister came to regret first hand.

As @eevblog points out, there were many international flights from Wuhan and associated cantons, including flights to Manchester, our local airport. btw Manchester, Liverpool and Preston have substantial Chinese resident and student populations.

So was Covid-19 outside of China before any official anouncement by the WHO? It would be a hard sell in my neighbourhood convincing people that Covid-19 was not already circulating in the UK before Christmas 2019.

Now all people want to know is, did I have it? An antibody testing programme would be more effective for easing the lockdown than having to rely on a "really smart" BLE phone app.

--- End quote ---


https://gisanddata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/opsdashboard/index.html#/bda7594740fd40299423467b48e9ecf6

The UK as well as the US are situations where the numbers have not fallen much. So IMHO its too early to end it here.
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