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Someone just asked me this and I don't know the answer, especially as I gather the corona virus can survive intact for some time on all sorts of surfaces. Could birds transport the virus from one bird table to another, and so to people, given people will obviously be touching the bird tables...

Where did you hear that? Sounds like a rumour to me, but I don't know either way.

https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.02.12.20022434v2?fbclid=IwAR0XT2EKRYEO9jQSVNhdeSWYOg1ITvYAlvu2vw2cggfIeVn-N0yVc4OMLdg Are the authors right here, that the infection fatality ratio has been grossly exaggerated? Or are they missing something?

Until reading this I had assumed the 20 seconds hand washing advice was simply to ensure any viruses are removed. But this article clarifies that the Covid-19 virus membrane actually starts to break down after 20 seconds exposure to soap and water. Very interesting.

They clearly can't be in their right minds, and must therefore be desperately in need of psychological interventions. No doubt some folk we know could write a paper on it.

Could there be a genetic predisposition? Presumably they will likely need many more than 4000?

Yes, I did hear the other day that severity of symptoms may be related to length and intensity of exposure, rather than a simple binary you get it or you don't. Not sure of the veracity of that though.

Fully appreciated. But there must be quite a lot of jobs need doing even amongst the farmed-out roles, meals, drinks, etc. There are likely roles which do not involve direct involvement with patients but which might still be risky for uninfected people?

How confident can we be of that 15% figure? Could it be that the other family members do get infected but their symptoms are negligible? Or is the figure determined from positive testing? ETA: No worries, should have read rest of thread first.

Hopefully, there is going to be a growing number of people who will have recovered from Covid-19. If these people can be positively identified, then presumably they could volunteer in various roles where people are needed to work in close proximity to patients, given they should then be immune...

Precisely.

As I've said before, this is not unlike an industrial process control scenario. If a seriously large rapid onset disturbance occurs, such as to result in a rapidly changing deviation from where things are supposed to be, then the controller kicks in with a rapid and large correction, to pull it...

My wife and I went out for a walk today with our dog. Deliberately avoided one place which is lovely, but confined to boardwalks and narrow paths. Instead went out onto an open heath with many paths (and is also lovely), and whenever we met anyone there just seemed to be an unwritten rule that...

This sounds bang on to me. Very simple solution to very complex problem. Need facilities fast, so state take over of existing spaces - hotels, student accommodations, etc. - with a single design that can be tweaked as needed, so contractors can go in and get facilities up and running fast ...

Respirators - a thought. There is clearly a severe impending shortfall in medical respirators. So some people will not have access to respirators who desperately need them. Desperate circumstances sometimes call for desperate solutions. There are a great many industrial respirators that are...

I imagine that killing a virus is simple, but the tricky bit is to do it without killing its host.

Accepted it may have its shortcomings, but it does send a key message to health professionals that they need to seriously change the way they think of pwME. Some advocacy efforts will be flawed but let's not throw the baby out with the bathwater.

Very good.

Phil the pill.

Yes, it's not how many have died but how many will die. Given how rapid the rate of rise of known cases, presumably when someone dies you have to compare with known cases at the time they contracted the illness?