cods wrote on Mar 7^th, 2020 at 2:26pm:


I blame neither for the virus itself.  I blame them both for a lackadaisical response to it. 

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Jealousy is a curse, Cods.  Stay clear of the Fruity Lexia is what I recommend.  Oh and stop spreading mud everywhere...

If doctors can't even do the right thing then
what chance does the average fool have of doing the right thing?


https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/mar/07/flabbergasted-melbourne-doctor-wit...






Victorian health minister says doctor likely caught Covid-19 while in US but had seen 70 patients since returning.


Victorian health authorities are trying to contact about 70 patients of a Melbourne doctor who was diagnosed with coronavirus a week after returning from the US.

The doctor is the state’s 11th case of the novel coronavirus and the state health minister, Jenny Mikakos, said he attended work and treated patients after he was symptomatic.
Patients of sick doctor in Melbourne traced by coronavirus authorities – as it happened
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“I have to say I am flabbergasted that a doctor that has flu-like symptoms has presented to work,” Mikakos said.

“He became unwell with a runny nose on an internal flight from Denver to San Francisco on February 27, US time, then flew to from San Francisco to Melbourne on United Airlines flight UA60, arriving at approximately 9.30am Saturday 29 February.”

The doctor saw approximately 70 patients last week between Monday 2 March and Friday 6 March at the Toorak Clinic on Malvern Road. The clinic has been since closed.

Patients have been contacted by text message, phone or email and two patients the doctor treated in a Malvern nursing home have been isolated.

All patients the doctor saw and all clinic staff have been asked to self-isolate for 14 days. The clinic’s other patients have been asked to monitor their symptoms.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8082327/15-MILLION-people-die-best-case...




    Research by Australian National University lays out a range of virus outcomes
    In the worst case, the global death toll could reach a staggering 68million
    Some countries' economies could shrink by eight per cent in a global meltdown.



The global death toll from coronavirus could reach as high as 15million even in the best-case pandemic scenario, a new study says.

The research by the Australian National University also found that global GDP could shrink by as much as $2.3trillion even in what they call a 'low-end' pandemic.

In the most disastrous scenario, the death toll could reach a staggering 68million including hundreds of thousands of deaths in Britain and the United States.

In that worst-case pandemic, some countries' economies would shrink by as much as eight per cent in a global meltdown.


The two researchers who published the paper, Warwick McKibbon and Roshen Fernando, warn that 'even a contained outbreak could significantly impact the global economy in the short run'.

In the so-called 'low-severity' case, the death rate in China is estimated at around two per cent and adjusted for other countries.

The global death rate has been drifting higher than that in recent weeks, currently hovering around 3.4 per cent.

In that 'low-end' pandemic, the study estimates that more than 15million people would die within the first year of the outbreak, which started in China last December.

The estimates suggest that India and China would each lose millions of people, with more than 230,000 people killed in the United States.

'These estimated deaths from COVID-19 can be compared to a regular influenza season in the United States, where around 55,000 people die each year,' researchers point out.

Britain - which has only seen one death so far - could expect to see 64,000 fatalities, with 79,000 in Germany and 60,000 in France.

Daily update. So panic and stay tuned:

Brian Ross wrote on Mar 7^th, 2020 at 12:46pm:


Yes Australia's performance has been substandard I suspect that the intention is to just let it run its course which is irresponsible at best.

All the Issues shown in the USA are more than present in Australia's response.

I don't consider this is political and have no confidence that a Labor Government would do any better but suspect that possibly they would have taken it more seriously by now.

I doubt that even a few high profile politicians getting it would wake these inept nongs we currently have in governmental pretence.

Carl D wrote on Mar 7^th, 2020 at 7:05pm:


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Between infection and any symptoms showing can be over 10 days. That is for the first 10 days a carrier will not have a temperature and it is possible that in milder cases a temperature may not even be a symptom. I don't know the last part is the case but seams a logical conclusion.

Everyone should have a swab analysed, the temp test isn't a bad first step.

We are past the point where that is going to make much difference now. The disease is here the airport screening was about delaying that from happening. That train has already left the station.