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Norway with 5,3 million inhabitants has now passed Canada in number of infected, with 25 confirmed cases so far, a lot more in quarantine and a lot more waiting for test result. So far only people who have been in high infected countries like Italy, China, Iran and South Chorea and have symptoms are tested, or if one has been in contact with one of the confirmed cases and developed symptoms. This mean, other persons who have symptoms now, are not allowed to be tested.
The first case was confirmed 5 days ago.
Earlier in this thread I was writing about the hospital doctor who went to work, who came home from North Italy. 4 of his co workers who had not been outside the country, but just worked with him, has also tested positive on the virus (he went to work on Monday and Tuesday and the 4 other cases were confirmed on Saturday). And they work at a freaking hospital, where they have high standard hygiene routines. In 2-4 days the co workers got infected and developed symptoms.
Now they have shut down the whole department at the hospital, because over 160 employees are in quarantine.
This ought to tell something about how easy this virus spread and how easy travel contributes to spread the virus. Almost every new cases from different parts of the country, came from travel in Italy. One case was confirmed from China (the first one confirmed).
The matter of WC would not necessary be that the confirmed cases in Canada so far would spread to athletes and audience, but the danger that the athletes and audience traveling from the whole world would spread the virus in Montreal. Therefore I think it´s more likely that Canada would cancel this, as we see with big sports events in some other countries now.
Now Norway have finally started with 14 days of quarantine for people who just came home from one of the mentioned countries, or been around a confirmed case, even if they don´t have developed symptoms yet. The virus would probably spread anyway, but we have made the mistake that the virus is spreading much faster than necessary and so far we have already shut down a whole hospital department temporary. In just 5 days.
With no vaccine, people with bad health could get seriously ill, and with bad capacity to handle those patients (Yes believe it but that is actually a possible scenario in Norway) there is a reason to try to slow down the virus.
So the hysteria is not about how danger the virus is, but the potensial fast spread and how there could be fatal for those who get seriously ill. Not just old people are in danger, but people with bad lungs and bad immune system.
Edit: So the hospital doctor just confirmed that he is not feeling sick at all, and that he barely has a stuffy nose and that is all. He admits that this makes the control of the virus hard, because the symptoms are not necessary obvious, so it is hard to know if it is Coronavirus or just a regular cold.
The first case was confirmed 5 days ago.
Earlier in this thread I was writing about the hospital doctor who went to work, who came home from North Italy. 4 of his co workers who had not been outside the country, but just worked with him, has also tested positive on the virus (he went to work on Monday and Tuesday and the 4 other cases were confirmed on Saturday). And they work at a freaking hospital, where they have high standard hygiene routines. In 2-4 days the co workers got infected and developed symptoms.
Now they have shut down the whole department at the hospital, because over 160 employees are in quarantine.
This ought to tell something about how easy this virus spread and how easy travel contributes to spread the virus. Almost every new cases from different parts of the country, came from travel in Italy. One case was confirmed from China (the first one confirmed).
The matter of WC would not necessary be that the confirmed cases in Canada so far would spread to athletes and audience, but the danger that the athletes and audience traveling from the whole world would spread the virus in Montreal. Therefore I think it´s more likely that Canada would cancel this, as we see with big sports events in some other countries now.
Now Norway have finally started with 14 days of quarantine for people who just came home from one of the mentioned countries, or been around a confirmed case, even if they don´t have developed symptoms yet. The virus would probably spread anyway, but we have made the mistake that the virus is spreading much faster than necessary and so far we have already shut down a whole hospital department temporary. In just 5 days.
With no vaccine, people with bad health could get seriously ill, and with bad capacity to handle those patients (Yes believe it but that is actually a possible scenario in Norway) there is a reason to try to slow down the virus.
So the hysteria is not about how danger the virus is, but the potensial fast spread and how there could be fatal for those who get seriously ill. Not just old people are in danger, but people with bad lungs and bad immune system.
Edit: So the hospital doctor just confirmed that he is not feeling sick at all, and that he barely has a stuffy nose and that is all. He admits that this makes the control of the virus hard, because the symptoms are not necessary obvious, so it is hard to know if it is Coronavirus or just a regular cold.
