Message from @Eccles
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Why is this in uk pol
Northern Italy has one of the oldest populations and the worst air quality in Europe, which had already led to an increased number of respiratory diseases and deaths in the past and is likely an additional risk factor in the current epidemic.
Italian researchers argue that the extreme smog in Northern Italy, the worst in Europe, may be playing a causative role in the current pneumonia outbreak there
https://swprs.files.wordpress.com/2020/03/italy-smog.png
Important reference values include the number of annual flu deaths, which is up to 8,000 in Italy and up to 60,000 in the US; normal overall mortality, which in Italy is up to 2,000 deaths per day; and the average number of pneumonia cases per year, which in Italy is over 120,000.
Current all-cause mortality in Europe and in Italy is still normal or even below-average. Any excess mortality due to Covid-19 should become visible in the European monitoring charts.
The occupancy rate of the North Italian ICUs in the winter months is typically already 85 to 90%. Some or many of these existing patients could also be test-positive by now. However, the number of additional unexpected pneumonia cases is not yet known.
A report in the Italian newspaper Corriere della Sera points out that Italian intensive care units already collapsed under the marked flu wave in 2017/2018. They had to postpone operations, call nurses back from holiday and ran out of blood donations.
https://milano.corriere.it/notizie/cronaca/18_gennaio_10/milano-terapie-intensive-collasso-l-influenza-gia-48-malati-gravi-molte-operazioni-rinviate-c9dc43a6-f5d1-11e7-9b06-fe054c3be5b2.shtml?refresh_ce-cp
https://www.euromomo.eu/index.html
On March 20, Italy reported 627 nationwide test-positive deaths in one day. By comparison, normal overall mortality in Italy is about 1800 deaths per day. Since February 21, Italy has reported about 4000 test-positive deaths. Normal overall mortality during this time frame is up to 50,000 deaths. It is not yet known to what extent normal overall mortality has increased, or to what extent it has simply turned test-positive. Moreover, Italy and Europe have had a very mild flu season in 2019/2020 that has spared many otherwise vulnerable people.
An Italian study of August 2019 found that flu deaths in Italy were between 7,000 and 25,000 in recent years. This value is higher than in most other European countries due to the large elderly population in Italy, and much higher than anything attributed to Covid-19 so far.
A leading Italian doctor reports that „strange cases of pneumonia“ were seen in the Lombardy region already in November 2019, raising again the question if they were caused by the new virus (which officially only appeared in Italy in February 2020), or by other factors, such as the dangerously high smog levels in Northern Italy.
https://www.statista.com/statistics/569435/number-of-deaths-in-italy-by-region/
Thats been posted 3 times now
So what did Queeny say?
the normal stuff
Everyone needs to stand together, Unity kind of stuff
i hope boris is going to be ok
me too bros im worried <:why:462286147473637407>
Just needs a little hydroxychloroquine
Man, I really think trump needs to come out and say "there's nothing to worry about with China, they're great" .... So the media can start doing stories about how bad things are there
that'll teach them to not practise social distancing
Have got the corona... Or is it frikkin boilin'
i feel quite hot
also coughing like a champ but 1) the central heating is still on and 2) i was just laughing my guts out at something they did for wrestlemania
See what those bastards who won't self-isolate did?
Poor pussycat
Cross species transmission is very rare
Oh it’s New York nvm
getting a virus from eating a bat is even more rare <:hyperthink:462282519883284480>
Not if people do it every day for years
Remember that it’s a highly dense, unsanitary urban area
compare that with the millions that will be getting coronavirus and lie to me saying that mutation isn't likely
You know why H1N1 was so unstable?
anything that has high mutation is unstable
usually it mutates into things that are less deadly
but who knows
A theory is that it mutates/mutated so often because one of the gases used as chemical warfare, mustard gas, has highly mutagenic properties
(Also why it causes cancer (mustard gas i mean))
But yeah, there will be strains forming of course — but not at the frequency of H1N1
PM's in hospital, but it's only the flu, bro!
He’ll recover
@Gaylien I man have posted the number of deaths by region thing a couple of times, but the rest is other information. 'Twas for aussie anyway. Nice engagement with what I was actually saying tho 👍 😏
he's just having some routine tests