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Yes but based on the incubation period we theoretically need two weeks of lockdown to start seeing its impact. Granted it's been 12 days already so I hoped to see the situation improving already...

Humanity has gotten through much worse and will get through this as well. But the Italian numbers are staggering. I'm still hoping it starts decreasing in a few days as the impact of the 14 days of the quarantine starts to show...

Italy reports 5,986 new cases and 627 new deaths. Jesus Christ.

What happened to Juan Román?

Smile and wave boys...smile and wave.

A Life of Speed: The Juan Manuel Fangio Story is now on Netflix. https://www.netflix.com/title/80227556

I'll take them all. Fight fire with fire

Kimmich and Goretzka have started an initiative "We Kick Corona" to support medical, social and charitable organisations in the current crisis and already donated a million Euro themselves https://www.t-online.de/sport/id_87560194/-we-kick-corona-goretzka-und-kimmich-starten-initiative-und-spenden-eine-million-euro.html

While I doubt the accuracy of China's official numbers, I don't really find it hard to believe that Italy's death toll might be higher. Firstly, because of the number of ventilators available - Italy simply hasn't got enough. Around 5000 reportedly; and it's estimated that's only about a quarter of what they'll need. China's last reported official number from 2011 was almost 60000 ventilator units (we can probably assume they produced at least additional 10000 a year; also produced 15000 new ones during the outbreak alone). Another reason could be the different strains of virus. It's suggested that two known strain exist - a less aggressive S strain and a more aggressive L strain which seems to be circulating in Europe.

Errr..... you're aware you're posting in a F1 thread?

Personally I'm quite looking forward to the potential triple- and quadruple headers

To me the word colleague implies a degree of camaraderie whereas a co-worker just indicates a person who works at the same office. I was certainly not meaning the former when I talked about annoyances

I'm the opposite. I'm much more comfortable working at home and don't get annoyed/distracted by noise, coworkers or any other stuff so I'm by far more efficient. I also love being able to plan my working hours myself.

A good informative thread on the antivirals used for treatment so far. Unrolled thread here for more convenience: https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1240148729317011458.html

Might be partially related to the fact that one of the early clusters started in a hospital... Probably a lot of vulnerable people got exposed there contributing to such a huge number of fatalities.

I just read a report on a sample analysis (355 cases); over 99% of those who died in Italy suffered from other illnesses. Here are the exact numbers: Ischemic heart disease: 33.0%, Atrial fibrosis: 24.5%, Stroke: 9.6%, Hypertension: 76.1%, Diabetes: 35.5%, Dementia: 6.8%, COPD: 13.2%, Active Cancer in the Past 5 Years: 20.3%, Chronic Liver Disease: 3.1%, Chronic renal disease: 18.0% Percentage of those who died with 0 other diseases: 0.8%, With 1 other disease: 25.1%, with 2 other diseases: 25.6%, with 3 or more other diseases: 48.5% Link to the official report: https://www.epicentro.iss.it/coronavirus/bollettino/Report-COVID-2019_17_marzo-v2.pdf Doesn't make it less terrifying though.

Even worse - 2978 deaths in total...

Name and shame...

4207 new cases and 475 new deaths in Italy. Tomorrow they'll most likely overtake the total reported death toll in China.

Those pandemics just look so cute and fuzzy... Even better with googly eyes!

Absolutely.