Corona Virus May Hit Argentina Hard

[Iznogud]

Loose lips sink ships, as they used to say.
It is almost OK to disclose your level of preparedness and stocking guide with the anonymity of the net. Don't share rhe samr with your immediate entourage. If you have goods delivered at home, vary your sources so no one will know for certain you are stocking food.

Better safe than sorry, and beaten up, mugged, etc.

Iz

 

[MilHojas]

I am considering clothe gloves as a strategy to lower the incidence ...

Lindsay Broadbent, a virologist at Queen’s University Belfast: “If you’re touching unclean surfaces with gloves and then touching your face, you might as well not wear them at all, ...”

She specifically says "No, gloves do not help"

Can gloves help? Lindsay Broadbent, a virologist at Queen’s University Belfast, says no.

Can wearing gloves – like the Queen – help protect you against the coronavirus?

After the monarch covered her hands for an investiture on Tuesday, we asked two health experts whether doing so helps keep Covid-19 at bay

www.theguardian.com

 

[Stevied]

Here’s another good article. Quit feeding the panic spreaders.

Coronavirus Data Is Still Misleading. Here’s What the Latest Numbers Don’t Tell You | Worth

When the existing prevalence of a virus is high and endemic, the rise in incidence of testing can create the appearance of a rise in incidence of a virus.

www.worth.com

 

[perry]

This is a very serious virus and has no comparisons to the common flu as some are saying here . Italy has lost 130 people in 24 hours to the coronavirus . The flu at most would kill 10 people in a day in Italy . 90% of the deaths are in a small region of Lombardia close to Milan.

Pensadors recommendations are excellent and I appreciate greatly his detailed responses

366 coronavirus deaths in Italy, Saudi schools shut: Live updates

Death toll in Italy jumps by more than 130 in the past 24 hours, as Riyadh shuts schools and universities.

www.aljazeera.com

 

[artisans]

She specifically says "No, gloves do not help"

Can wearing gloves – like the Queen – help protect you against the coronavirus?

After the monarch covered her hands for an investiture on Tuesday, we asked two health experts whether doing so helps keep Covid-19 at bay

www.theguardian.com

The Guardian actually says "no" but Lindsay Broadbent says “If you’re touching unclean surfaces with gloves and then touching your face, you might as well not wear them at all,” she says. Gloves would work only if you changed them and washed them as methodically as you wash or sanitise your hands. “Otherwise they’re like a second skin.”
It may seem like a fine point, but it says to me that if you don't touch your face and you do change and wash the gloves then there's some protection there. It seems better to grab a door handle, open a door, grab a rail, push an elevator button or key in your code at an ATM with a covered hand that you could also charge with a sanitizing chemical and wash later, rather than all those contacts direct contact with your skin. Plus, it's a natural habit to touch your face with your bare hand. If you've got a glove on, you're more likely to think twice before touching your face with a glove.

 

[jeff1234]

Here’s another good article. Quit feeding the panic spreaders.

Coronavirus Data Is Still Misleading. Here’s What the Latest Numbers Don’t Tell You | Worth

When the existing prevalence of a virus is high and endemic, the rise in incidence of testing can create the appearance of a rise in incidence of a virus.

www.worth.com

At this moment it seems like main impact seems to be disruptions in manufacturing, shipping, travel and financial markets. Hopefully by next year we'll have a vaccine and this will be a one time event.

 

[jeff1234]

This is a very serious virus and has no comparisons to the common flu as some are saying here . Italy has lost 130 people in 24 hours to the coronavirus . The flu at most would kill 10 people in a day in Italy . 90% of the deaths are in a small region of Lombardia close to Milan.

Pensadors recommendations are excellent and I appreciate greatly his detailed responses

366 coronavirus deaths in Italy, Saudi schools shut: Live updates

Death toll in Italy jumps by more than 130 in the past 24 hours, as Riyadh shuts schools and universities.

www.aljazeera.com

CNN is reporting that Italy has 5,883 cases with 233 deaths. Its safe to assume that there are many more cases that have not been reported. And also that there will be more deaths. But at this moment the mortality in Italy is 3.9%.

 

[perry]

CNN is reporting that Italy has 5,883 cases with 233 deaths. Its safe to assume that there are many more cases that have not been reported. And also that there will be more deaths. But at this moment the mortality in Italy is 3.9%.

in 24 hours the death rate surged by 50% or 133 cases for a total of 366 deaths .

The number of infections also rose by a single-day record of 1,492 on Sunday to hit a total of 7,375, the Civil Protection Agency stated.

https://www.thelocal.it/20200308/latest-italy-coronavirus-cases-

 

[notebook.fix]

Sun March 8 - 18.38 Three more cases reported in Argentina. Two apparently infected in Italy, and the third case was infected while n the US https://tn.com.ar/salud/lo-ultimo/d...y-ya-son-12-los-infectados-en-el-pais_1040766

 

[Pensador]

Sun March 8 - 18.38 Three more cases reported in Argentina. Two apparently infected in Italy, and the third case was infected while n the US https://tn.com.ar/salud/lo-ultimo/d...y-ya-son-12-los-infectados-en-el-pais_1040766

I would suspect there are now enough cases that community spread is now manifesting. In the next 6 weeks I suppose we will see a situation like Italy with Argentina's medical infrastructure. Unless the government really kicks in controls if they even can. And surely one or more these cases was a mate drinker.

Seems with this virus it is not really the morality rate it is the rate at which spreads.