Good News Covid-19?

Saw this this morning and as it's something positive I thought I'd share it. We can only hope it's nearing the end of the danger spell and we can relax a little. Time will tell I guess.

https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/coron...ow/ar-BB11kQab

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China had it first so it seems obvious that they will recover first, but they can't say it's gone til there are no cases for two or more weeks. I don't know what the period is for incubation.

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Yesterday the UK CMO, said that a UK lab had come up with a possible vaccine. However, it will be at least 12 months before it would be available.

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Monday, 45 people recieved Vaccine injections as tests/trials for the Coronavirus.

With predictions coming from research centres around the world, that a vaccine will ready in Months not Years

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Nearing the end of it’s danger spell ? !! I don’t think so nor do I think anyone can relax ,even a little when we’ve been told we will see the disease spiking here in summer months . Sorry but I’m a realist.

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Recent results from research, suggest the mortality rate to be far less than thought.

China claims it will have a vaccine ready next month, unfortunately theres nothing substantial to back this up..... mind they said they would build a hospital in 6 days.

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What is the mortality rate of the new coronavirus?

It is probably about or a bit less than 1%. Much higher figures have been flying about, but the chief medical officer, Chris Whitty, is one of those who believes it will prove to be 1% or lower. The World Health Organization’s director general, Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, talked of 3.4%, but his figure was calculated by dividing the number of deaths by the number of officially confirmed cases. We know there are many more mild cases that do not get to hospital and are not being counted, which would bring the mortality rate significantly down.

Deaths are highest in the elderly, with very low rates among younger people, although medical staff who treat patients and get exposed to a lot of virus are thought to be more at risk. But even among the over-80s, 90% will recover

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I find any News that comes out of China now, to be taken with a large pinch of salt.

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I believe these figures come from the recent results, of months of research carried out in Italy

China now believe there could have been another 100-000 cases of the virus that were not recorded.

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IN my paper this morning it said China fears a second wave of infections starting as expats return home from Europe and the US.
All 41 newly fonfirmed cases came from students returning from abroad as Europe and the US shut campuses.