Comments by "" (@neutronalchemist3241) on "Sky News" channel.

  1. Unfortunately we have already seen how exponential growht with +7 days of incubation works. When it seems to become serious, it's too late.
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  2.  @irvine175  They had simply been hit before others. It's like saying thet genetically they get better before, since Italy had already reached the peak of daily cases while no other western country did.
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  3. The PPE of those paramedics is absolutely insufficient.
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  4. The line was flatter at first because a good part of those that died with covid-19 symptoms had not even been tested.
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  5.  @JeweLinHisHans  Italy too stopped flights with China in January, simply the virus was already there since december. Today US had more new cases than Italy.
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  6.  @Princip666  Reparations to Russia?🤣
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  7. The incubation time of this virus extends up to 21 days. That means that the people that had been infected just before the lockdown have up to 21 days to infect their own family members first to show the symptoms, those family members then will have up to 21 days to show the symptoms themself, ecc... then there are those that are infected during the lockdown because they are not in lockdown.
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  8.    Italy took 12 days to pass from 40 to 400 deaths a day, US only nine. US daily deaths surpassed Italian ones yesterday. Welcome to privatised healtcare.
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  9.    Total number of people has nothing to do with rise rate. It's not like, since US has six time the Italian population, the average American has six time the social interactions.
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  10. The highest number of daily new cases in Italy had been ten days ago, and the cases discovered now are, on average, less serious. Italy will probably see the number of patients in ICU units start to decrease (they already decreased in several provinces) in the next few days.
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  11. Actually, when the patients need the healtcare, it's too late for much of them, that's why lockdown is needed.
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  12.  @jimmys6566  Sweden is helped by the very low population density. Its death rate can be compared with that of its neighbours (it's six times that of Norway and Finland), not with that of more populated countries.
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  13. Things HAVE changed. Despite the number of tests done daily have doubled, the 5909 new cases registered today are only the 6.8% of the previous total. Exactly a week ago, cases increased at 13% of the previous day's total. The increase of the disease in Italy passed from exponential to linear.
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  14. There are 70 vaccines in development for SARS 2, three approved for human experimentation so far. If one of those three works, the production can start in september.
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  15. "trusted" in what sense?
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  16. It's very obviously a victory. Russia is increasingly scaling down his goals, and dragging troops from other fronts to try achieve them.
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  17. The initiative of the mayor of Florence had an effect only on xenophobes.
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  18. The daily death toll is higher than the higest Italy had, and close to the higest Spanish one.
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  19.  @ericconnor8419  He had never been a soldier, not even a conscript. He passed from University to the KGB, where he was a bureocrat.
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  20.  @newsbuster292  As said, the number of tests done daily doubled in the last week. If it was a question of "too many cases to keep up with in terms of testing" the number of new cases should have doubled too, non decreased.
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  21. Cases are increasing in the US at an higher pace than they did anywere else in the world. It doesn't seem US can give lessons to anyone by now.
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  22. There had NEVER been so many people in intensive care units in Italy, Spain, France, UK, etc. That's the need.
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  23.  @benbattersby1651  Much of those that needs a ventilator, have to be intubated later. Of those intubated, one out of five lives.
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  24. New York State is the State in the world, with the highest death rate. New Jersey is 5th.
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  25. Yeah, they think differently. Russians send their ships to fight under the sea, they send their tanks to fight under the rivers, they send their tank turrets to fight up into the sky and they send their troops to fight in the other world. As for effectivenes though...
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  26. The very low population density of Sweden helped, but Sweden registred more covid-19 deaths than its 3 neighbours combined. It's mortality rate is more than 4 times that of Norway, more than double that of Denmark (that has a far higher population density, and share a border with Germany) and more than 8 times that of Finland. The daily deaths of Sweden are still on the rise, and the parliament just voted to give the government the power to enforce strictier measures.
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  27.  @karldavis4651  "no point in comparing with their neighbours"? No point in comparing them with countries that have about the same (very low) population density, the same climate, and had been hit by the virus almost contemporary? LOL! Yeah, let's compare them instead with countries that have more then ten times their population density, it makes perfect sense. The very low population density of Sweden helped, but Sweden registred more covid-19 deaths than its 3 neighbours (THAT ARE IN LOCKDOWN) combined. It's mortality rate is more than 4 times that of Norway (THAT'S IN LOCKDOWN), more than double that of Denmark (THAT'S IN LOCKDOWN has a far higher population density, and share a border with Germany) and more than 8 times that of Finland (THAT'S IN LOCKDOWN). The daily deaths of Sweden are still on the rise (while that of its neighbours THAT ARE IN LOCKDOWN is reducing), and the parliament just voted to give the government the power to enforce strictier measures.
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  28. Cases are increasing in the US at an higer pace than they ever did in Italy.
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  29. Natural selection actually favours milder version of the viruses. Viruses are more lethal when, like this, they just "jumped" from a species to another. The most successful human virus is that of the common cold. Not killing, or seriously incapacitating, its hosts, it always have plenty of them.
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  30. Italians had only been hit before. US daily deaths surpassed the Italian ones yesterday.
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  31.  @charlottebruce979  Italy took 13 days to pass from 40 to 400 deaths a day, France and UK 12 days, Spain 10 days, US only nine.
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  32. Italy had only been hit first than others. Only at the end of the epidemic it will be possible to say if others had been better in containing the virus. For now Italy is the only western country whose daily infections are decreasing. It took 13 days to italy to pass from 40 deaths a day to 400. 12 days to France and UK. 10 days to Spain. 9 days to US (US daily deaths surpassed those of Italy yesterday).
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  33. Err... no. The Italian heltcare never collapsed, even if it had been strained in some of the most affected areas. In any region that's not Lombardy, the ICU units are only half full or less. Yeah, sometimes people die at home, especially people with cronic diseases, that can get worse very rapidly. It happens everywere.
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  34. New York State is the State in the world, with the highest death rate. New Jersey is 5th.
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  35. It had only been hit before (because evidently someone brought the virus from China. Italy was the place in Europe with the highest number of direct flights with China) but the growth rate is not higher in Italy than elsewere. It's actually lower than in Spain, Germany and US, that are so only few days behind Italy in number of cases.
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  36. Had it really been "NATO vs. Russia" (not even "the west") in a conventional war, it would have gone pretty much like that. NATO Air Force wolud have estabilished complete air superiority over Ukraine in the first two hours of war. Then a week or two of precision bombing over Russian troops would have ensued, then the infantry wolud have followed, to clean the battlefield of what remained of the Russians, with showels. This is a war between Russia and Ukraine that received very limited quantities of the lighter and easiest of use western equipment, not even the really funny stuff. Is like saying that the first Gulf War was "USA VS. Soviet Union" because Saddam used soviet equipment.
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  37. It doesn't explain why the epicenter of the disease in Spain is Madrid and not Valencia. It should be the contrary.
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  38. @nokky Sorry to burst your bubble, but "so much land" had been occupied in the first hours of the conflict, more than two months ago, because, to not "provoke" Russia (like the Russians are able to understand anything else than being hit hard on the head) Ukraine didn't mobilize, and for the first few days the Russians had been faced only by special squads and rapid response forces. Since then, the Russians lost WAY more territory than they gained. They retreated from Kiev, they retreated from Sumy, They had been pushed back from Mikolaiv, and now they retreated from Kharkiv. They keep on retreating, "coz russia is soo incapable".
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  39. Short answer, no. It's enough to look at the number of tests performed in Britain compared to the other major European countries.
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  40.  @tingwang9465  The really good news yesterday is that the number of ICU patients rised of only 39. Now that the hospitals begin to be a little less overwelmed, more tests are done to the general population, discovering less severe or asymptomatic cases.
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  41. Mass testing of the general population, no social contacts and everyone wears mask and gloves.
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  42. The Valencian Community is one of the least affected areas in Spain, while the epicenters are Madrid and Barcelona. To put the blame on the Atalanta-Valencia match is sugestive, but it doesn't stand to the facts.
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  43.  @quelthela4340  As said, the Valencian Community is one of the least affected areas in Spain, and that's a FACT, while the epicenters are Madrid and Barcelona, and that's another FACT. Had the Atalanta-Valencia match been the cause, it should have been the contrary. To put the blame on the Atalanta-Valencia match is sugestive, but it doesn't stand to the facts.
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  44.  @quelthela4340  It's not like, if the deaths will be thousands, than to spread misinformation is fair. If one, it's worse.
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  45. It's nothing new. An Italian study on the use of clorochine agains the SARS had been published on Lancet in 2003 and in combination with lopinavir/r in 2005.
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  46. Italy declared the shutdown when it had less than 8000 cases. Spain did the same. France did it only a pair of days in advance. Germany and US still haven't declared it and their cases are increasing at a higher pace than in Italy before the shutdown. .
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  47. Reusable full facial masks with P100 disposable filters. The whole gear is a level 4 hazmat suit, the same recommended to treat Ebola patients.
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  48. 304 patients in a 8.7 million country is not safe. They are comparatively more than in the UK.
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  49. The initiative of the mayor of Florence had some effects only on xenophobes.
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  50. That of the reporter is not an hazmat suit, like the one used by the doctors that are in contact with patients (that are very expensive) but a normal worker's suit, like those used by the ones that removes asbestos. His entire kit costs something like 10 Euros.
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