The bit about the Jockey Club giving medical advice was what made me laugh.

Originally Posted by: Brian Gaze 

 Yes, it’s probably because he told them his throat was a little horse.

Originally Posted by: roadrunnerajn 

Satisfaction with Boris Johnson is surging, net +14 instead of +3 last month. Time of polling was 13-16 March so a few days old. (Conservatives polling on 52%)

Originally Posted by: JHutch 

It does make sense actually, people tend to coalesce around the leader in times of crisis, Labour doesn't criticise the govt (despite the herd immunity fiasco), things are still ok on the ground and Boris appears less divisive and without the Brexit smirk on his face.

Let's see his numbers again in May/June.

Originally Posted by: xioni2 

Classic:

Mr Maclean told Mirror Online: "I'm pretty certain we all have coronavirus in this house. I've never had anything like it before. 

"It's the worst I have ever felt. My chest is really tight. The fever is horrendous."

The housemates sought medical advice and were told that they wouldn't be tested and to self-isolate for two weeks.

Mr Maclean added: "By the second day of the festival we had symptoms. We had the dry cough."

He and Mr Saunders didn't suspect that they had coronavirus.

Mr Maclean said: "The Jockey Club said that it could just be a common cold so not to worry, so we took their advice and came back in."

They said they were told to take the third day of the festival off as a precaution and come back on the fourth and final day, the Friday, if they felt better.

Both felt fine on Friday and returned to work, but their conditions deteriorated later and they put themselves into self-quarantine.

But by that point they had exposed others to their infection.

Mr Saunders said: "There were over 250,000 people there over the four days of the festival.

"They were adamant that the precautions they put in place would protect us.

"I've spoken to others who worked at the festival and they have symptoms." He added: "The tightness in the lungs makes it harder to breathe. It feels like your chest and your lungs are being put in a vice."

Originally Posted by: xioni2 

So, why go to Cheltenham if they’d already sought medical advice and been told to self isolate for two weeks?

Originally Posted by: Caz 

The Jockey Club >> 111.

Originally Posted by: xioni2 

Coronavirus hope! No Wuhan cases, 'game-changer' drug and social lives 'back by summer'

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A test to reveal who has already had Covid-19 is "progressing very fast", while an experimental drug has 'cured' its first patient and Brits could have their social lives back by the summer. Despite the doom and gloom surrounding the deadly pandemic, with London said to be on the verge of going into complete lockdown, there are some good news stories emerging to give people hope. The "game-changer" new antibody test to see who has already contracted and recovered from coronavirus but not shown symptoms is not far away, according to Boris Johnson. The PM said someone who has already had the virus will feel confident - thanks to the test - they are "most unlikely to get it again" and can return to work.

Hopes that the experimental drug remdesivir could cure patients have been raised after a 79-year-old Italian man who had tested positive was given the all-clear following treatment.

The broad-spectrum antiviral is being tested in five Covid-19 clinical trials including by the US National Institutes of Health on 13 patients admitted to hospital after contracting coronavirus on board the Diamond Princess cruise ship in Japan. China, meanwhile, has recorded no new cases in Wuhan, where the virus first originated last year, or in the surrounding Hubei province. It has been 13 days, meanwhile, since the province itself reported any new cases - giving millions hope that the deadly virus is starting to be brought under control

https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/coronavirus-hope-no-wuhan-cases-21717544?fbclid=IwAR22wTG1Iej4xua5VoNx2aVnOYc9kOVtCLytxDYxzHvpPXw0FRkUN5vHkiU

Originally Posted by: Gavin D 

My mate has left London and gone make to Cheltenham.

He said that locals are still going to the pubs and that there is still a race meeting planned for this weekend

Originally Posted by: Heavy Weather 2013 

We do need some good news to remind us it will pass.
Quinine is another inexpensive possible treatment, it might also explain lack of reported cases in much of Africa since it is widely used there proactively against Malaria.

Originally Posted by: four 

  And they think they caught it from someone there on the first day and their symptoms developed overnight!  I think someone made money from this story!  

Originally Posted by: Caz 

Read somewhere yesterday that jet setting celeb types, despite making up only nth's of the population, have a higher case rate than the general public. I can't confirmed whether this is true or not but would not surprise me in the least. 

Originally Posted by: Chunky Pea 

Insufferable..

https://twitter.com/BenjaminPDixon/status/1240601688387526657

Read somewhere yesterday that jet setting celeb types, despite making up only nth's of the population, have a higher case rate than the general public. I can't confirmed whether this is true or not but would not surprise me in the least. 

Originally Posted by: Chunky Pea 

I wonder how much this will boost the big supermarkets' profits?

Originally Posted by: westv 

 Probably not much at all - once the panic buyers have their stash, there will be a slump in demand.

Originally Posted by: Darren S 

Has the UK released today's test results / count?

Originally Posted by: Brian Gaze