I thought the speakers were good but I can't say I learned anything new and it was very generic and not tailored to the Philippines much. They are trying to be optimistic but it's clear that no one knows where this is going. If I summarized it, they basically said try to keep your head above water, work on your skills and keep your fingers crossed for better times.
The oft-lauded Swedish experiment continues....
Reuters: Sweden tops Europe COVID-19 deaths per capita over last seven days.
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-h...Partner-Google
www.thejakartapost.com/amp/news/2020/05/20/coronavirus-behaving-differently-in-chinas-northeast-clusters-expert-says.html
Patients in the northeastern clusters were also carrying the virus for longer than earlier cases in Wuhan, and they were taking longer to recover, as defined by a negative nucleic acid test, he said.
Patients in the northeast also rarely exhibited fever and tended to suffer damage to the lungs rather than across multiple organs, he said.
Costs of covid tests (in Australia) - Circa AUD$85-$100 (depends if you are looking at what the pathologists gets, versus the 'rack rate' of $100. Australia public health is a single-payer system (government picks it up if you are citizen/tax-payer), so consumers with government health care coverage get the tests for free. Non-citizens will have to pay privately.
Most non-hospital GP doctor's don't want to see potential covid patients - not enough PPE and cleaning and risk of cross-contamination for other 'normal' patients is too high.
1 million tests = $100m bill. 0.7% positive rate. There is some suggestions to scale back testing and only test if you are sick, or came into contact with somebody that was positive.
https://www.smh.com.au/national/path...20-p54uva.html
Hong Kong isn't too bad, public hospital doctor is $180 and 'free' if the doctor thinks you are eligible.
The private costs can be HK$320-$1000 for doctor, then $500-$3000 for the private test.
https://admedilink.hk/coronavirus-te...g-where-to-go/
Meanwhile ... the shit show continues in some countries.
https://twitter.com/atrupar/status/1263249236197609472
and
https://twitter.com/atrupar/status/1263251233151819776
A secret medical facility set up to treat Chinese nationals inside a leisure resort was found. The resort is now sealed off.
(This is the same resort where they found 3000 illegal Chinese workers a while back and the owner fled to Hong Kong).