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Yes, but I thought you either have to catch it and survive or have a 'similar' safe immunisation, which I didn't think they have yet?Thats how immunity works, you get sick your body develops anti-bodies? Safer with vaccinations.
Yes, but I thought you either have to catch it and survive or have a 'similar' safe immunisation, which I didn't think they have yet?Thats how immunity works, you get sick your body develops anti-bodies? Safer with vaccinations.
How many will fit inside Borris?worst case Borris, you can quarantine in your Pub shed, lucky you!
How many will fit inside Borris?
Its an RNA virus I believe which mutate quite regularly?Yes, unless it mutates.
I think that there is also an element of controlling movement from Wuhan. The virus may continue spreading for months to come, and the longer it continues spreading the greater the risk of self evacuation. Wuhan is a sprawling city, and virtually impossible to secure. With a controlled evacuation at least the UK Government can manage the quarantine.Other than location (a feeling of being home?), what would the benefit be to repatriation? Would there be better medical care?
Of course I'm assuming that all the people are infected, bringing the non-infected away from danger is understandable...
If the UK citizens were allowed to return and go into quarantine in the UK. What's to stop them deciding they've had enough and leaving quarantine? Is there any law allowing them to be kept "locked up"?
First confirmed cases of 2 infected people in UK...
I wonder if they are ones just repatriated...
No, they don't arrive until 13.30 hrs.First confirmed cases of 2 infected people in UK...
I wonder if they are ones just repatriated...
Interesting. I would hope the drivers, as well as the coaches, would be put in quarantine as well, as they are not wearing protective garments or masks.So, they are back in the uk and heading for 2 weeks quarantine, do the coach drivers not get any protection??View attachment 54800
It is very strange that the drivers are not protected when there is a health official on board each bus wearing full protective clothing according to the news this evening.Interesting. I would hope the drivers, as well as the coaches, would be put in quarantine as well, as they are not wearing protective garments or masks.
From The Centre of Disease Control CDC,It was not common flu. It was a mutation of bird flu transferred from avian sources to human and with no previous history, therefore no human immune system prepared for it.
It also caused deep pulmonary infection. I am Not MD so learned souls such as @WelshGas will put me right but one of the more curious aspects of it was how it tended to affect the more fit and youthful, thought to be caused by fit, young lungs breathing deeper and pulling the infected fluids deeper into the lungs.
At present it is a wholly unique strain of virus for which no historical treatment data or readily available vaccine exists so you are quite right, let's keep this in perspective. A pandemic could be catastrophic as this virus mutates through it's human pool with no tested treatment available.
From The Centre of Disease Control CDC,
Even still, high early-season vaccination rates and a relatively effective annual vaccine appeared to help suppress illnesses. In total, the CDC estimates that up to 42.9 million people got sick during the 2018-2019 flu season, 647,000 people were hospitalized and 61,200 died. That’s fairly on par with a typical season, and well below the CDC’s 2017-2018 estimates of 48.8 million illnesses, 959,000 hospitalizations and 79,400 deaths.
And don’t forget that was with a widely publicised Vaccination Programme in the developed world.Good grief!
I am only so pleased that as PhD Historian all I have to worry about is when and why people died, not worry about keeping them alive![]()
2018-2019 Influenza Season.So the 1919 pandemic was against a backdrop of vaccination?
Doesthat not prompt an even deeper "oh sing" moment?
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