Do you personally know of anybody who has died of the virus and 100 per cent confirmed by an autopsy? South Africa only.

[daveza]

Don't know anyone who died of it, don't even know anyone who contracted it.

 

[Zukat]

Had quite a rollercoaster. Started with 2 positive cases at the office and everyone had to go get tested, including 1 person who was already tested positive because he didn't have any symptoms. After results came back 4 more tested positive, while the guy who was previously positive came back as negative, so the decision was taken for the remaining 5 to be retested.
The outcome of the experience- a total of 2 positive cases, some extra money into our country's healthcare budget, and a lot of abused nostrils.

 

[Arthur]

No, I don't know anyone who's died of the virus. But last week here in the Southern Cape three people were involved in a head-on and apparently two died on the scene from Covid-19.

 

[ForceFate]

Virus has been around for a little over 6 months. I know two or three people who tested positive. One is in hospital, apparently in serious condition.

 

[Kosmik]

No personally known death or infections.

Crime? Pretty much everyone I know has been impacted by crime : robberies, hijackings, being shot, luckily no deaths.

Not even going to mention businesses and covid impact.

 

[genetic]

Colleague at work died this afternoon - a week in ICU. 36 yr old male with wife and two kids.

 

[Kosmik]

Colleague at work died this afternoon - a week in ICU. 36 yr old male with wife and two kids.

Co - morbids?

 

[genetic]

Co - morbids?

None that I'm aware of. We just received the news so no info currently.

 

[Kosmik]

None that I'm aware of. We just received the news so no info currently.

That's concerning. Condolences though.

 

[genetic]

That's concerning. Condolences though.

Thanks man, yeah it's a bit of a shock to us all - this caught me off guard... waiting to hear more info from the family / hospital.

 

[sand_man]

Colleague at work died this afternoon - a week in ICU. 36 yr old male with wife and two kids.

Gees that's rough.

 

[Craig_]

I've now had flu symptoms since Thursday, but I think it's related to my allergies as that causes sinus infections every now and then. Might call the medical aid on Monday to get tested if I'm still not better by then. Condolences to those who lost people close to them.

 

[Lucas Buck]

No, I don't know anyone who's died of the virus. But last week here in the Southern Cape three people were involved in a head-on and apparently two died on the scene from Covid-19.

That's what happens when people rush covid patients to the hospital, instead of calling an ambulance.

 

[Sinbad]

It's in my extended family now. 2 degrees of separation.

 

[Kosmik]

92/93k cases out of pop of 59.2Mil is 0.0015% of the population, still very early to expect folks to know cases, a lot may just be assumptions etc.

I think that translates to what, 15 in every 1000 people or 1.5 in every 100.

Hard stat as of 21/06/2020

- 92,681 cases
- 1,877 deaths
- 59,285,549 population

15/1000 infections
31 deaths per 1M pop
3 per 100k pop

 

[sand_man]

Had quite a rollercoaster. Started with 2 positive cases at the office and everyone had to go get tested, including 1 person who was already tested positive because he didn't have any symptoms. After results came back 4 more tested positive, while the guy who was previously positive came back as negative, so the decision was taken for the remaining 5 to be retested.
The outcome of the experience- a total of 2 positive cases, some extra money into our country's healthcare budget, and a lot of abused nostrils.

Just reading that was quite a rollercoaster ride for me... reads like a math problem.... I suck at maths...

What's the answer? As many tested positive, as did false positives?

 

[sand_man]

I remember early on in this epidemic, every inventor and his dog was inventing a 15 minute test, 20 minute test, 30 minute test, 45 minute test. Just google it. COVID test result in 15/20/30/45 minutes.... Have any of these supposed test kits come into fruition? Cause I sure as hell haven't seen any....

The level of misinformation around COVID, is simply stratospheric!! No exaggeration!!

 

[Tom427]

0 to Corona, 2 to crime

 

[Thor]

0 carona, 5 Murdered

 

[Zukat]

Just reading that was quite a rollercoaster ride for me... reads like a math problem.... I suck at maths...

What's the answer? As many tested positive, as did false positives?

The answer is it feels like no one is actually running the test once they take your sample. Probably need to meet a certain quota for the day to get an incentive so writing up the numbers accordingly and if any false positives surface, just claim the patient is asymptomatic, we won't know any better in any case.