If you are infected you should wear a mask, if possible, to protect others close to you
SARS and COVID-19 are also transmitted via feces...
I've non idea why, but AFAIK nobody observed pet-to-human transmission
From what I've read covid-19 is *not* transmitted by feces.
Do you have a credible study that states differently?
If you are infected you should wear a mask, if possible, to protect others close to you
NO
if you are infected you must quarantine yourself, stay at home or go to the hospital if you can't breath
the main problems are:
1) lots of people do not realize they are infected since are symptom-less
2) a few sociopath know they got the disease (some even tested positive) and just behave carelessly
AFAIK they caught one who knew he was positive but went shopping to the supermarket and another asshole who knew he was sick, but didn't want to miss his planned nose plastic surgery and so didn't tell the medical staff and infected some of them
Lastly, if you are infected, or have good reason to believe that you might be infected - stay at home, do not go out in public unless strictly necessary. The question of "mask or no mask" doesn't come into it if you've put a door and some distance between you and the rest of the world.
while COVID-19 has been detected in feces and tears besides that diarrhea is one of the known symptom (together with loss of taste and smell senses)
Italy was hit hard because they didn't quarantine the first two cases that they found back in early February. Around the 2nd they had two Chinese tourists that were sick and were hospitalized but they allowed them to continue of their tour of the country and to go on a cruise. Weeks later when Italians started getting sick, the authorities started finally started some very limited quarantines but by then hundreds of people all over Italy were infected as well as numerous people in the surrounding countries and some had traveled back the US and to Canada. About one week later, the number of cases in Italy exploded. Then about a week after that, the number of cases in many of the surrounding countries also exploded.
Just released yesterday - report 16 March 2020 Imperial College COVID-19 Response Team
This is the UK "study" that you have, or will be reading about with mortality rates that will be making headlines.
https://www.imperial.ac.uk/media/imperial-college/medicine/sph/ide/gida-fellowships/Imperial-College-COVID19-NPI-modelling-16-03-2020.pdf
Wow! The onset of infectiousness is 12 hours to 4.6 days! That should set off alarm bells!
[...] influenza and coronaviruses are among the things we should be prepared for. [...]
There really should be portable equipment/resources at the EU level that can be flown in to hot spot areas to help quell outbreaks, without each member country having to shoulder the cost of maintaining a high level of preparedness. A perfect job for a shared institution like the EU.Has an emergency response plan even ever existed in EU? Does not seem to be so.Even if such a plan existed it doesn't help because the EU as a whole is so densily populated that a problem quickly spreads across all countries.
Then when they arrived in Hamburg the German government seized them for their own usage.
I hate people who quote me out of context. What was the last thing I wrote in the same very same post you're quoting just part of?Lastly, if you are infected, or have good reason to believe that you might be infected - stay at home, do not go out in public unless strictly necessary. The question of "mask or no mask" doesn't come into it if you've put a door and some distance between you and the rest of the world.
while COVID-19 has been detected in feces and tears besides that diarrhea is one of the known symptom (together with loss of taste and smell senses)
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Wouldnt surprise me. In fact, I'd be concerned about what they call "surge capacity."
the real problem is that there is European but no real Union.
Recently an Italian importer managed to order a huge amount of breathing devices from China. Then when they arrived in Hamburg the German government seized them for their own usage.
Surely we can't go on like that.
QuoteThen when they arrived in Hamburg the German government seized them for their own usage.
Evidence please...
i think it was good idea to buy 500pcs "already pre-used" masks from China, they worked for them, so they already rad-hard and will work for me.
See thatverticalhorizontal red line - that is the surge critical care capability [US]. See how, that line is crossed under ALL of the NPI scenarios?! That is what I want somebody to tell me that I have read wrong. Please. If I am reading it correctly AND they are right with their analysis, we have a VERY limited window to develop effective PI, period, beginning, middle and end of headline.
CCU beds are always in a perilous state as soon as anything goes wrong. My local hospital has 3-4 CCU beds and only expects to have 2-3 in use at any one time, that's only 33% spare capacity in a hospital with 340 regular beds.
BTW: our health professionals are now recycling masks since they have an extreme shortage.
I have heard some have to work without adequate protection, doing the best they can. This is insane, insane times. Take care everyone gor yourself and loved ones.
You mean horizontal line. But, no, you haven't read it wrong. Critical Care facilities are not sized to cope with this. In the UK Critical Care beds (at 8 per 100,000 population) get overflowed in anything other than a mild flu season. I doubt the US is in any better situation despite having 14 critical care beds per 100,000.
CCU beds are always in a perilous state as soon as anything goes wrong. My local hospital has 3-4 CCU beds and only expects to have 2-3 in use at any one time, that's only 33% spare capacity in a hospital with 340 regular beds.
Well, you could think of this epidemic as a natural disaster occurring everywhere at the same time in a country. That's the main problem with it. This virus has a giant medical care depletion capacity. It's both fast spreading and stealthy for a long time.