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May I ask, can you clarify the 2nd and 3rd sentence? Does that mean mortality in Italy is overestimated or more realistic?

The news was sponsored by "American Cruise Line" :D

I've noticed that, too! Which is strange because I'd think due to proximity UK would be more urgent to warn.

Italian doctor's urgent message to other countries

Edit: regarding the Tweet, I think what also has to be taken into account is the travel back and forth. Public transport is crowded with every major event.

This sounds a lot like the early warnings from Wuhan :(

Maybe our governements should not only be adviced by their CDCs but also PR firms regarding health and risk communication. People have been mocked for panic buying food, masks and desinfectants when in fact that only shows that there is a dissonance between the footage being seen from China and...

The WHO in today's briefing said it definetely is time to start social distancing for the elderly as well as for everyone else where community transmission is happening. They called it "moral decay" to think it only affects the elderly and therefore not care. Our health minister today...

New study on the first German cluster suggests people might go home from hospitals earlier, Edit: no virus isolation in stool and the virus replicates early in the upper respitory tract and later on in the lower tract (which is different from SARS) "Whereas virus was readily isolated during the...

I like this graph a lot. Something like this should be like a global campaign to move the narrative away from "80% mild, only 2% die" to "reduce the strain on the health care system".

Unfortunately there isn't much information on the number of hospitalized people in my area. I guess that will change once the numbers rise. I'm not going to mass gatherings or travel anyway but use public transport 1-2/week to go out to socialize. Yesterday, I had one of these subway coughers...

I'm curious on how you decide on when to start social distancing. Do you wait until cases pop up in your communitiy or for the local health department to give out recommendations? Or do you decide independently from that?

Maybe the WHO is stressing the mortality of 3.4% because they want this number to be printed everywhre and everyone to take it more seriously. They haven't addressed anyone specific but have criticized that not all governments are taking the necessary steps. From what I understand that's the...

If you can't get sanitizers anymore what according to my pharmacist also works are these alcohol pads being used to clean your skin before an injection. They are soaked in 70% isopropyl alcohol and at least in the pharmacies I've been still available. I always need them for b12 injections...

I don't understand it either and I'm scared by the lack of empathy towards the vulnerable in media coverage.

I've heard this being discussed in an interview with an expert today. He compared that sort of thinking ("just let it spread and lets get over it") to measle parties and how reckless that would be.

Ironically, China now has imported some new cases from Italy. It's like whac-a-mole.

Regarding risk factors again: E.g. diabetes and heart disease. I know they often can go undetected for a long time when they don't cause symptoms. But when they are treated/addressed properly, are they still considered a risk factor in pneumonia?

For me, there's a before and after. Like when somebody close has died. One day I will have been longer sick than healthy. It's a kafkaesk nightmare and sometimes I still can't believe it. ME doesn't make sense.

The rate seems to be pretty high in Italy though, too. But maybe the number of infected is vastly undetected there.