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Originally Posted by jfman
It's highly unlikely,
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Even though you are CableForums most eminent chief virologist, the correct answer I think would be, we don’t know.
Unless you’ve done the research, of course.
Absolutely, I think a national store of PPE is required, depends on the shelf life as to how much we can stockpile.
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a mechanism to quickly scale up testing
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Yes a “mechanism” - don’t know what it is, but we should have it.
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Intervene early, screen people at airports
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Proven not to be effective during this pandemic.
https://www.eurosurveillance.org/con...0.25.5.2000080
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Due to the duration of the incubation period of 2019-nCoV infection, we find that exit or entry screening at airports for initial symptoms, via thermal scanners or similar, is unlikely to prevent passage of infected travellers into new countries or regions where they may seed local transmission.
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I’m going to downgrade you to “junior virologist” for this error.
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isolate them as appropriate and contact trace.
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isolate them based on airport screening that is too inaccurate?
it certainly isn’t, it’s infectious disease management, when you don’t know the disease and you don’t know how infectious it is, you don’t know the mortality rate, you don’t know how if affects each individual............in short you know sweet FA about anything and you have to make decisions everyday based on the data of the previous day.
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Originally Posted by Paul
Not much fun queueing at the shops / supermarket / pharmacy though  |
I find the whole thing very civilised. I appreciate it may vary depending where you are and whilst the weather is good.
But I happily queue for about 5-10mins to get into my local Tesco or CoOp and it’s all very chilled and relaxed.