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Iran lawmaker says 50 dead from coronavirus in city of Qom

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Post by skrause »

jlokier wrote: post #100
tqkxzugoaupvwqr wrote: post #88

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> My wife is, after 3 weeks, still really ill. Probably because she's working full time In my opinion it’s high time to call in sick. She is neither helping herself nor her coworkers by going to work.

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.

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

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Post by elohir »

melonkidney wrote: post #45
guidedlight wrote: post #34

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Try 215 cases and 4 deaths

A fifth death has just been confirmed, sadly. https://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-health-italy-death/...

and now its six

https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2020/feb/24/coronavir...

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Post by Theboda »

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…

Third link in one picture https://ibb.co/S79Tyz9

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Post by protomyth »

nradov wrote: post #122
radicalbyte wrote: post #65

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There's a flu going around in The Netherlands right now, it progresses like this: - Day 1: Fever, fatigue and muscle pain with a dry itchy cough. - Day 2+: Nausea and diarrhea can be experienced as well as the first day symptoms. It takes about a week for the worst of the symptoms to die down however the stomach ache, cough and light tiredness last weeks. My entire family and most of my son's class at school has had…

Did you and your family get the flu vaccine this season?

Not OP, but all of relatives in the Twin Cities (MN USA) got a similar bad flu, and all got the flu shots. I do believe they missed one this year.

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Post by hurricanetc »

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.

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Post by taurath »

jumbopapa wrote: post #136
taurath wrote: post #130

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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…

It is my understand that it is highly unlikely an uninsured person would ever pay anything close to the billed "price." Same is true for insurance companies. Edit: Some are telling me this isn't true, but what does a hospital have to gain from someone filing bankruptcy? Why would they charge such high prices that no one can afford? I would think that some money is better than no money.

Unfortunately that isn’t much of a factor in reality, and I have the receipts in my filing cabinet to prove it.

Insurance/“cash” can “negotiate” but at the end of the day the average hospital stay is near $4000/day.

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Post by hurricanetc »

jarmitage wrote: post #41

Reminder that WHO publishes a daily situation report about COVID-19, which is calmer and more informative than most headlines/media stories: https://www.who.int/emergencies/diseases/novel-coronavirus-2...

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 effects of a worldwide pandemic? How many people will die in underdeveloped countries because the WHO didn’t act aggressively enough when they had a chance? If this hits Africa 10 million could die.

Thanks WHO

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Post by [deleted] »

throway1n wrote: post #115
dntbnmpls wrote: post #110

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Many view sanctions as war crimes because sanctions, though they superficially target officials/companies/etc, are meant to undermine a nation's economy and hurt the civilian population to pressure foreign governments. Essentially the goal is to starve the men, women and children in order to punish foreign governments. If it was iran or china or russia doing it, we would be calling it a war crime or a crime against h…

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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Post by bilekas »

aaron695 wrote: post #102
bilekas wrote: post #52

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Lets blame the media ? What are you talking about. The media is reporting whats happening as it gets it, if Iran's media is being silenced that got nothing to do with the virus itself and more about the control of panic. > We also need the immediate relaxation of sanctions around this on Iran I'm pretty sure the WHO couldn't give a rats about US sanctions when it comes to human rights and world health.

> The media is reporting whats happening as it gets it, No they simply are not. Should I be watching Fox? Iran has 12 people dead atm. This is unheard of in any country other than China. We have known this high toll for 3 days. Last Friday is was thought to be 9! Who has headlined this? CNN has Italy and South Korea as it's headlines right now and today, they pail in comparison to Iran. This is not a high toll, this…

You can follow the WHO records themselves. https://www.who.int/emergencies/diseases/novel-coronavirus-2...

I'm not sure why you're getting upset/annoyed with the media. They're not going to cure / help with anything other than information.

No need for the tinfoil hat.

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Post by 49para »

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...

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