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Iran lawmaker says 50 dead from coronavirus in city of Qom

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Re: Iran lawmaker says 50 dead from coronavirus in city of Qom

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Post by aldoushuxley001 »

49para wrote: post #150
gzer0 wrote: post #32

Around 99% of the patients developed a high temperature, while more than half experienced fatigue and a dry cough. About a third also experienced muscle pain and difficulty breathing. Research from the Chinese Center for Disease Control suggests that around 80% of coronavirus cases are mild. Around 15% of patients have gotten severe cases, and 5% have become critically ill. Here's how symptoms progress among typical…

The 2% mortality rate is for the whole population, if you end up in the hospital with acute pneumonia the mortality rate is around 61% https://www.scribd.com/document/448385523/s-2213260020300795...

That number is still only for extremely at risk segments of the population, and the study has such a small sample size that it should be taken with large grains of salt.

Re: Iran lawmaker says 50 dead from coronavirus in city of Qom

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Post by seneca »

leesec wrote: post #160
turk73 wrote: post #137

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So what's your plan? Socialized medicine? I mean, it's working out so great for those Chinese folks, right? Making everyone else pay for you is no better of a solution, it's just shifting the costs around someplace else, which honestly is selfish of you to decide how I should deploy my ever-dwindling supply of cash reserves. I have two kids to put through college but Bernie and all his Democrat pals want to confiscat…

Please remove this nonsense ^^

Just downvote comments you don't think add to the discussion. That's what the feature is for. It's not up to you to censor the comments section, and your comment is even less useful than the one you're replying to.

Re: Iran lawmaker says 50 dead from coronavirus in city of Qom

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Post by throway1n »

[deleted] wrote: post #148
throway1n wrote: post #115

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sure, let them develop an economy and build nukes / destabilise the region even more. if anything there is already a bad experience with saudi arabia, and we dont want a repeat. the people of iran if they dont support that murderous government should overthrow it. simple as.

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particularly the US. i hear democracy is bad and apparently the us is ebil for giving those people an opportunity to organise instead of terrorise. funny world we live in. where we now support dictators and call those who liberate “destabilisers”. but yeah the others are pretty toxic.

Re: Iran lawmaker says 50 dead from coronavirus in city of Qom

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Post by surge »

hurricanetc wrote: post #145
tiborsaas wrote: post #27

With the 150+ Italian cases (3 dead), it's probably safe to say that the virus is out of our control... which we probably never had. https://apnews.com/32540d09ec101aac057660ef1b0aa970

We could have stopped it completely with total travel bans but the WHO advised against it because it could be damaging to the world economy. Why is the WHO concerned about the economy? Well I have no idea. And is this virus going pandemic going to be more or less economically painful than the travel bans might have been? My guess would be we will feel significantly more pain from a pandemic.

I think its pretty obvious the WHO just repeats whatever the CCP wants them to say.

I trust the CDC, and the CDC is preparing for something very serious, not something akin to the flu.

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Post by goatforce5 »

taurath wrote: post #130
gzer0 wrote: post #32

Around 99% of the patients developed a high temperature, while more than half experienced fatigue and a dry cough. About a third also experienced muscle pain and difficulty breathing. Research from the Chinese Center for Disease Control suggests that around 80% of coronavirus cases are mild. Around 15% of patients have gotten severe cases, and 5% have become critically ill. Here's how symptoms progress among typical…

In the US, a 2 week stay in the hospital will cost you upwards of $50,000. Even if you have insurance, understand it will be a significant cost to you. If you’re uninsured like 20 million Americans or underinsured like 80 million, going to the hospital means automatic bankruptcy. Every day our broken healthcare system will force many people to choose between all their families assets and getting care. This should not…

Unrequested anecdata: my partner got a bad case of the flu (and epiglottis) a couple of years ago, and ended up spending 10 days in hospital - 7 in ICU, 3 on a normal ward. Total cost: $0.

Thanks Canada!

(Having said that, if you're visiting Canada you'll need to check your health coverage. Medical coverage is provided to Canadian residents, not just anyone who happens to be in Canada at the time.)

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Post by testvox »

skrause wrote: post #141
jlokier wrote: post #100

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If that's an option. I lot of people cannot call in sick. Being sick means being unpaid, and many people cannot afford to go unpaid.

> Being sick means being unpaid, and many people cannot afford to go unpaid. In Germany being sick means full payment by the employer for 6 weeks, after that you'll receive around 90% of your last net income by your healh insurance company for 72 weeks , after that slightly lower unemployment payments for another 12 month. So around 2.5 years of being sick are required until you're actually unpaid.

What is full payment if you are paid hourly?

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Post by koheripbal »

49para wrote: post #150
gzer0 wrote: post #32

Around 99% of the patients developed a high temperature, while more than half experienced fatigue and a dry cough. About a third also experienced muscle pain and difficulty breathing. Research from the Chinese Center for Disease Control suggests that around 80% of coronavirus cases are mild. Around 15% of patients have gotten severe cases, and 5% have become critically ill. Here's how symptoms progress among typical…

The 2% mortality rate is for the whole population, if you end up in the hospital with acute pneumonia the mortality rate is around 61% https://www.scribd.com/document/448385523/s-2213260020300795...

...also important to remember that those who recover from severe symptoms (~10%) have permanently damaged lung function due to lesions that formed during infection.

Re: Iran lawmaker says 50 dead from coronavirus in city of Qom

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Post by koheripbal »

aldoushuxley001 wrote: post #171
49para wrote: post #150

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The 2% mortality rate is for the whole population, if you end up in the hospital with acute pneumonia the mortality rate is around 61% https://www.scribd.com/document/448385523/s-2213260020300795...

That number is still only for extremely at risk segments of the population, and the study has such a small sample size that it should be taken with large grains of salt.

I wouldn't dismiss the entire elderly population of Earth "extremely at risk" population. They are our mothers/fathers/grandparents...

Re: Iran lawmaker says 50 dead from coronavirus in city of Qom

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Post by raducu »

gnud wrote: post #158
hurricanetc wrote: post #147

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The WHO has come across as pretty incompetent in my opinion. We could have stopped this disease from spreading outside of China but the WHO consistently downplayed the severity and claimed travel bans were overkill and would be too damaging economically. Now they’re saying it’s likely too late to contain the virus. Well I wonder what will be more damaging to the economy? The proposed travel bans or the catastrophic e…

Do you remember the uproar and all the anti-vaccine sentiment after WHO was seen to "cry wolf" during the last H1N1 outbreak in 2014 or so? That's probably the reason they were more careful this time. It's hard to know early on exactly how a disease will spread, and how dangerous it will turn out to be.

Then let's just fuck WHO, we can play tit for tat just as easily.

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Post by lp251 »

seneca wrote: post #172
leesec wrote: post #160

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Please remove this nonsense ^^

Just downvote comments you don't think add to the discussion. That's what the feature is for. It's not up to you to censor the comments section, and your comment is even less useful than the one you're replying to.

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