Coronavirus

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You are limiting to UK.

There are more profound differences also abroad: Why is the disease not rampant in sub Saharan Africa, India or Pakistan?Where health services are minimal and distancing/ cleanliness almost impossible.
OH thinks it is an autoimmune response, which happen in clean western societies.
The so called cytokine storm an example.

Whilst EU features generally it is interesting to note that Germany has much lower asthma than other European countries. Not all countries are identical
Belgium which tests as many people prorata as Germany has had the worst time of all.

It is time the critics and nay sayers recognised, there is a lot medicine does not know, so all these “ government should have dones “ are 2020 hindisghtthe
The chief Swedish epidemiologist is very critical of the imperial model on which our response is based Most of these models are a guess no more.

One which interests me. 2 percent of population work in nhs. Of 20000 deaths , that is 400 expected deaths of current or ex nhs employees. To date there are only 30 current staff fatalities. Could it be that by the time people reach hospital they are no longer infectious? Contrast 15 percent of Ebola medical personnel died. It is simply not true of this. I await proof that NHS front line staff are at massive increased risk. The numbers don’t appear to say so.

Because what is needed is a robust statistical analysis. It is very easy to jump to wrong conclusions.

My g.daughter is part of the Covid 19 team at St James, Leeds so she has been dealing with Covid 19 patients everyday for weeks and pointed this out to her mother (also a Nurse) long before the media woke up. I have also discussed it (as part of general Covid 19 discussions) with my son (a Consultant at Leeds General). There are many intriguing aspects to the disease eg the male/female morbidity differences, children/adult, obesity factor etc and BAME communities may be one.

The DT today reports on the - much more straightforward - obesity factor as "not clear" and quotes Prof. Openshaw who provides three different reasons which may be a factor!