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exhpart
So weird how symptoms vary. In the UK today we had a report of someone who only had the loss of taste symptom - nothing else. Must say those of you still talking about a couple of weeks and all will be well are going to be sadly disappointed. We have just heard Edinburgh Festival cancelled today (Aug/Sept)
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So weird how symptoms vary. In the UK today we had a report of someone who only had the loss of taste symptom - nothing else. Must say those of you still talking about a couple of weeks and all will be well are going to be sadly disappointed. We have just heard Edinburgh Festival cancelled today (Aug/Sept)
I had a meal in a restaurant in Soho London a few weeks ago.I had a Dover sole with shrimp and weirdly I would eat a shrimp and it tasted great then a few seconds later eat another shrimp and it tasted of absolutely nothing.
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This was at a restaurant callled Randall and Aubin a very high quality seafood restaurant in Soho.I have eaten there many times and it’s always great I highly recommend it for anyone visiting London they have a website for anyone that’s interested.
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This was at a restaurant callled Randall and Aubin a very high quality seafood restaurant in Soho.I have eaten there many times and it’s always great I highly recommend it for anyone visiting London they have a website for anyone that’s interested.
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I kid..I kid.. (kinda). Ate at the finest to the neighborhood take outs, all over the UK. Just an opinion
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The government here in the U.K. keeps promising to get testing up to 25,000 tests a day but even at that rate it would take around 8 years to get everyone in the country tested.Of course not everyone in the country may need to be tested but it would certainly be smart to introduce much wider testing and also introduce a legacy test to know if people have had it and are now clear so we can get the economy moving in the right direction again.The current policy just proves how stupidly shortsighted the people in power are.
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This may seem like a silly question but suppose I had a test and the results showed that all is well, how soon would I have to re-test.
I assume they are only accurate for the day in question.
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peoplewitheyes
I have wondered about this too. You could do a test (and be negative) stroll out of the testing centre and get infected that instant.
How can we ever cope with that?
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jlowe
In a sense then the test has less value than the MOT annual test carried out on vehicles 3plus years old. At least with those you get 'Advisory' comments which are telling the vehicle owner of potential problems which need sorting in the short term.
Though I accept that the value of a car cannot be compared to the value of someones life. Though a faulty car can kill, quite obviously.
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I watched NY Gov Cuomo at the press conference from Albany NY today. He said NY state had ordered 17,000 ventilators at $25,000 each from China, but he will get just 2,500. He is competing with all of the other 49 states plus the federal, he said.
Then the US President said on Sunday he had instructed GM to manufacture hundreds of thousands of ventilators. So why does both the fed and the separate states compete on buying ventilators from China?
NEW YORK GOVERNOR CUOMO SAYS HAS ORDERED 17,000 VENTILATORS FROM CHINA, AT A PRICE OF ABOUT $25,000 EACH
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Masks may be recommended by WHO. Not because they protect that much from getting the virus, but rather because it is preventing the virus from spreading from people who do have the virus, but they have no symptoms.
Until now, the WHO has suggested that masks are mostly useful for protecting other people if you have symptoms such as coughs and sneezes that could spread droplets. But Heymann said the realisation that a lot of transmission of Covid-19 occurs before symptoms raises the possibility that masks could help stop the spread among people before symptoms emerge.
“One or two days before symptoms develop, it seems [people] may be shedding virus at that time and it may be that if they’re talking and spewing droplets around they may be spreading the virus,” he said.
WHO considers changing guidance on wearing face masks (The Guardian)
Iceland lab's testing suggests 50% of coronavirus cases have no symptoms
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Nate
Yesterday Trump was talking at the daily press conference from the White House dancing around the important questions as usual whilst grinning and telling everyone how fantastic it was that he was number one on Facebook.
I fear for America.
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Yesterday Trump was talking at the daily press conference from the White House dancing around the important questions as usual whilst grinning and telling everyone how fantastic it was that he was number one on Facebook.
I fear for America.
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Yesterday Trump was talking at the daily press conference from the White House dancing around the important questions as usual whilst grinning and telling everyone how fantastic it was that he was number one on Facebook.
I fear for America.
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Yesterday Trump was talking at the daily press conference from the White House dancing around the important questions as usual whilst grinning and telling everyone how fantastic it was that he was number one on Facebook.
I fear for America.
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Don't worry Nate we'll be fine despite the white noise.....how's old hand shakes doing?
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Experts tell White House coronavirus can spread through talking or even just breathing
CNN)A prestigious scientific panel told the White House Wednesday night that research shows coronavirus can be spread not just by sneezes or coughs, but also just by talking, or possibly even just breathing.
"While the current [coronavirus] specific research is limited, the results of available studies are consistent with aerosolization of virus from normal breathing," according to the letter, written by Dr. Harvey Fineberg, chairman of a committee with the National Academy of Sciences."
[www.cnn.com]
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Experts tell White House coronavirus can spread through talking or even just breathing
CNN)A prestigious scientific panel told the White House Wednesday night that research shows coronavirus can be spread not just by sneezes or coughs, but also just by talking, or possibly even just breathing.
"While the current [coronavirus] specific research is limited, the results of available studies are consistent with aerosolization of virus from normal breathing," according to the letter, written by Dr. Harvey Fineberg, chairman of a committee with the National Academy of Sciences."
[www.cnn.com]
Yes, the "sp" and the "sh" sounds in English produce a spray, and one has to assume that includes atomized water droplets that are contaminated with the virus that can linger in the air for up to three hours. Just think of the dust you see in the air in a sunbeam.
So if you say "Spanish" you are producing a double spray.