Chris King

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  The NCA have a contact number on their website. First try mould be to call them and ask....
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  To get back to COVID-19 As a software developer I'm seeing a lot of my (smarter than me) friends and colleagues talking a lot about how the CFR (Case Fatality Ratio) is likely to be much lower than 1%, or...
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  Several stories about the infected baggage handlers say something along the lines of: "Baggage handlers ..... do not generally have any interaction with passengers." Hello fomites. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fomite The question is - did they get it from handling baggage? How many...
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  JBS @ 400: You make a good point....
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  "And then there's South America" And then there's staying at home when you have pre-existing conditions like Charlie, and the subject of this blog post is spreading like wildfire. My wife and I are rearranging London meetings to be online....
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  Also - not get infected....
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  Argh. should have proofread better. Apologies....
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  Hmm The paper Charlie quoted above (post 306) suggests that this is die to encephalitis - the virus travel sup sensory/motor pathways into the brain and shuts down the respiratory centres in the medulla. The WHO report tells us that...
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  The WHO have released a report of their investigations in China. It's very scary indeed. Pdf is here: https://www.who.int/docs/default-source/coronaviruse/who-china-joint-mission-on-covid-19-final-report.pdf Reddit thread is here: https://old.reddit.com/r/China_Flu/comments/fbt49e/the_who_sent_25_international_experts_to_china/ 5% of those infected need artificial respiration. 15% need high concentration oxygen. For severe cases, from...