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Coronavirus in Fuerteventura - Discussion
The following is from a very well respected retired doctor golfing friend back in Windermere in the UK -

This looks sensible.

 
From a member of the Stanford hospital board. This is their feedback for now on Coronavirus: The new Coronavirus may not show sign of infection for many days. How can one know if he/she is infected?

By the time they have fever and/or cough and go to the hospital, the lung is usually 50% Fibrosis and it's too late. Taiwan experts provide a simple self-check that we can do every morning. Take a deep breath and hold your breath for more than 10 seconds. If you complete it successfully without coughing, without discomfort, stiffness or tightness, etc., it proves there is no Fibrosis in the lungs, basically indicates no infection. 

In critical time, please self-check every morning in an environment with clean air. Serious excellent advice by Japanese doctors treating COVID-19 cases: Everyone should ensure your mouth & throat are moist, never dry. Take a few sips of water every 15 minutes at least. Why? Even if the virus gets into your mouth, drinking water or other liquids will wash them down through your throat and into the stomach. Once there, your stomach acid will kill all the virus. If you don't drink enough water more regularly, the virus can enter your windpipe and into the lungs. That's very dangerous. 

Please send and share this with family and friends. Take care everyone and may the world recover from this Coronavirus soon. 

IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT - Coronavirus

1. If you have a runny nose and sputum, you have a common cold

2. Coronavirus pneumonia is a dry cough with no runny nose. 

3. This new virus is not heat-resistant and will be killed by a temperature of just 26/27 degrees. It hates the Sun. 

4. If someone sneezes with it, it takes about 10 feet before it drops to the ground and is no longer airborne. 

5. If it drops on a metal surface it will live for at least 12 hours - so if you come into contact with any metal surface - wash your hands as soon as you can with a bacterial soap. 

6. On fabric it can survive for 6-12 hours. normal laundry detergent will kill it. 

7. Drinking warm water is effective for all viruses. Try not to drink liquids with ice. 

8. Wash your hands frequently as the virus can only live on your hands for 5-10 minutes, but - a lot can happen during that time - you can rub your eyes, pick your nose unwittingly and so on. 

9. You should also gargle as a prevention. A simple solution of salt in warm water will suffice. 

10. Can't emphasis enough - drink plenty of water! THE SYMPTOMS - 
1. It will first infect the throat, so you'll have a sore throat lasting 3/4 days 
2. The virus then blends into a nasal fluid that enters the trachea and then the lungs, causing pneumonia. This takes about 5/6 days further. 
3. With the pneumonia comes high fever and difficulty in breathing. 
4. The nasal congestion is not like the normal kind. You feel like you're drowning. It's imperative you then seek immediate attention.
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The 10 second test is circulating on social media but various reports suggest it is not to be believed.
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https://www.cnn.com/2020/03/16/us/corona...index.html

This mentions the Stanford source
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What's to stop you having a common cold AND COVID 19? (Not that I would wish both on anyone, but surely a runny nose can't be used as a definite test against COVID19).
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Hope in sight?
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(19-03-2020, 03:33 PM)Sam Wrote: It would make the light at the end of the tunnel a bit brighter.  Fingers Crossed  Fingers Crossed

Light at the end of it is what makes it a tunnel Sam otherwise it is just a hole Big Grin Big Grin
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(19-03-2020, 03:34 PM)Johnrgby Wrote:
(19-03-2020, 03:33 PM)Sam Wrote: It would make the light at the end of the tunnel a bit brighter.  Fingers Crossed  Fingers Crossed

Light at the end of it is what makes it a tunnel Sam otherwise it is just a hole Big Grin Big Grin

🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂
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Hi Milestone

Thanks for the link, interesting.

Please could I ask a favour of you? Not all our members are particularly computer literate and therefore might not spot a link such as the one you posted as being such.

To highlight it could you do something along the lines of

Link: xxx xxxx  xxxx  xxxxx

if you are using your own description rather than a recognisable web address? 

To start with I thought you were just posting a comment on a previous post  Wink 

Cheers, Tamara
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Re-assuring news.  Thumbs Up
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(19-03-2020, 11:22 PM)TamaraEnLaPlaya Wrote: Hi Milestone

Thanks for the link, interesting.

Please could I ask a favour of you? Not all our members are particularly computer literate and therefore might not spot a link such as the one you posted as being such.

To highlight it could you do something along the lines of

Link: xxx xxxx  xxxx  xxxxx

if you are using your own description rather than a recognisable web address? 

To start with I thought you were just posting a comment on a previous post  Wink 

Cheers, Tamara

Ha! The next thing you'll be doing is asking me how to do it. Sam's got it sussed. Tongue
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