Posted on 04/01/2020 11:22:08 PM PDT by knighthawk
A retired British doctor who returned to work to help battle the country’s coronavirus outbreak died of the disease this week, according to new reports.
Dr. Alfa Saadu, 68, died Tuesday morning after suffering from the infection for two weeks, his son Dani said in a social media post, Metro UK reported.
He worked at the Queen Victoria Memorial Hospital in Welwyn, Hertfordshire, until his passing.
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Has the UK approved Hydroxychloroquine?
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I don’t believe so and their media is spouting negativity about it.
May God bless him and keep him.
He died at his post.
Honorable
The UK government hasn’t got a clue.
Apart from giving police powers to detain people for waiting on railway platforms and childen for taking unnecessary cycle rides, they still haven’t got a proper testing regime in place - despite offers from private companies who could have produced hundreds of thousands of kits by now.
BBC quote from Boris this morning “Mr Johnson was speaking after it was revealed only 2,000 out of some half a million frontline NHS workers in England had been tested.”
I heard another spokesman on BBC radio news yesterday say that they expect to have testing “more widely available by the end of the month.” At first, I thought he meant March; then it dawned on me, he meant April.
"Lord, what fools these mortals be!"
I used to be proud of my ancient Mother Land from ten plus generations ago. Now like Mr. T, I pity the fools!
So sad. Prayers for Dr Saadu and family.
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Because the AMOUNT of viral exposure determines mortality. They get more of it than anyone. Yet there they are every single day. True heroes.
Too many heartbreaking stories of bravery to the end.
Four Muslim NHS doctors in a week. It’s possible the Muslim areas of the UK are pretty hard-hit:
The amount, a few thousand to tens of thousands of particles, and the number of times they get that exposure, determines whether they get infected or not. Once infected their body's response determines mortality.
“The amount, a few thousand to tens of thousands of particles, and the number of times they get that exposure, determines whether they get infected or not. Once infected their body’s response determines mortality. “
Actually our theory is the following (don’t worry researchers will get around to proving it in 10 years or so, once they get over their arrogance a bit):
1) You need a certain level of virons, in a certain time period, to get infected (otherwise your immune system whacks them out and you never know anything happened).
2) When you do get infected, your body sends out a signal (probably a hormone) to all its cells, telling them that a battle is going to take place, and that things they take for granted may come into short supply (like food, oxygen delivery, waste removal, toilet paper, etc.).
3) At that point your cells start doing what FluBros don’t do, which is that they start ‘prepping’. They may store more food, tighten cell wall entry requirements against the virons, buy a gun and toilet paper, etc.
4) If you get enough virons to be infected, but not a huge dose, then your cells have time to prep, and they can take the coming storm better (maybe a few days is needed to prep at the cell level, whereas us non-FluBros got nearly 2 months).
5) But if you get a huge dose, the rest of the body doesn’t have time to prep and has to deal with the hit in whatever state it’s in (such as a tornado hitting). Think of it as having to wait in line at Costco for toilet paper.
6) Obviously (to us non-FluBros, at least), prepping makes surviving the storm far easier.
“Thanks for the explanation.”
You’re welcome, I get a little pissed because we’ve had decades to figure out viruses, but sat on our butts (even though researchers spent many, many, billions of dollars). The attitude was “if you don’t want to get the flu, just wash your hands”, and “if you do get the flu, just buy some Kleenex”.
Meanwhile you had SARS, Ebola, and other viruses, not to mention the Spanish Flu - and yet ‘no big deal’ - to them.
I guess you missed your calling as a scientist.
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