My daughter is going through the same symptoms. A continual cough that is affecting her breathing, a tiredness that is so bad she is unable to lift her arms at times. For the past two weeks she has been in contact with her doctor, he prescribed her antibiotics which didn’t do any good at all so he sent her to the hospital for a chest x-ray last week. A small shadow was found on one of her lungs so she is having a further ‘deeper’ x-ray tomorrow and the doctor has arranged a Covid19 antibodies blood test for her this coming Thursday as he thinks there could have been a likelihood of her having had the virus without knowing.
A NEW cough that affects your breathing is one of the classic symptoms of Covid.
I hope she’s better in time. It is also the case that most recover with treatment; often even without treatment.
Thanks JB… 
Global Cases 13,036,610
Global Deaths 571,575
Australia
Cases 9,980
Deaths 108
Critical 18
Cases per Million 391
UK
Cases 289,603
Deaths 44,819
Critical 185
Cases per Million 4,265
USA
Cases 3,413,995
Deaths 137,782
Critical 15,822
Cases per Million 10,312
The Queensland border has only been open a few days and already some Victorians have tried to sneek in.
A group of people has been fined a total of more than $24,000 after lying on border declaration forms while trying to enter Queensland on Saturday.
Police said the six people had been trying to cross the border in a minivan and told officers they had been working in New South Wales for the past three weeks.
But evidence uncovered on their phones showed the group had in fact been in a coronavirus hotspot in Victoria in the past fortnight.
Each person was fined more than $4,000 and was directed to leave the state immediately.
Police said the group had made an earlier attempt to enter Queensland on July 2 but were turned back.
The driver of the minivan was from Queensland and one of the passengers was from New South Wales.
“Victorians cannot come to Queensland,” Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk said this morning.
A 1,000-strong Australian Defence Force (ADF) contingent will be sent to Victoria to help with the state’s coronavirus response.
The deployed ADF members will assist with border checkpoints, testing and enforcing isolation.
The additional support builds on the 350 ADF members already assisting efforts to fight the virus in the state.
Hope she is ok Mags. It must be such a worry for you.
Forgive me for trying to offset the fear mongering tactics of the media and yourself Bruce. You post the figures of infections and deaths religiously every day and frighten most of the members half to death. If the covid doesn’t get them the worry will…
TV personalities are not qualified, and neither are you Bruce. They [and you] cherry pick the information and statistics (I know, so do I) but it just goes to show how much conflicting and incorrect information there is.
Yes it’s serious, and anyone should have enough sense and knowledge now to know what they must do to stay safe. Checkout the ONS site, nobody died from flu or the usual winter illnesses this year. Don’t you at least find that strange? And as for deaths in other countries? Quoting large mortality figures in say Brazil, the US of A or anywhere else, when you have nothing to compare it to; How many of us check the winter mortality figures every year? And since the Covid epidemic, every illness that occurs is now as a result of Covid.
My next door neighbour contracted some kind of flu virus back in 2010, after still experiencing muscle weakness several months later, the doctor explained that a virus can remain in the system for over six months. This probably explains the low recovery figures. There is no silver bullet to treat a virus, it has to take its course and there is nothing anyone can do to prevent that other than try and make the symptoms easier to live with.
All the best for your Daughter Mags, and wishing her a speedy recovery…:hug:
Remember Yuppy Flu?
These are some of the symptoms of ME which can become a problem at any time, and was present long before Covid.
[I]The World Health Organisation’s International Classification of Disease currently lists ME as a disorder of the nervous system, under Post-Viral Fatigue Syndrome (Block 93.3, ICD 10th revision, 2007). The 11th Revision (operational from Jan 2022) lists both ME and chronic fatigue syndrome, under Post-viral Fatigue Syndrome (Block 8E49, ICD 11th revision, 2019).
The cardinal symptoms of ME, as described in some of the early literature (see historical aspects and classic papers), are profound, generalised post-exertional loss of muscle power (fatigability); muscle pain that may include tenderness and swelling; and neurological signs. Patients are also prone to relapses which may take the form of recurrences of the original systemic illness, or fresh episodes of muscle weakness, neurologic changes or well-defined cognitive problems. As with many chronic illnesses, fatigue may be present, but in ME patients the fatigue is reported to be post-exertional, often delayed, and quite unlike the ‘fatigue’ experienced by healthy people.
What is ME/CFS?
[B]During the 1990s, the term Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFS) came into use – see chronic fatigue syndrome for a more detailed description, including various diagnostic classifications.
As there was (and presently remains) no specific diagnostic test for myalgic encephalomyelitis (ME), and as post-exercise ‘fatigue’ was one of its prominent symptoms, people with ME began to be diagnosed with CFS. In recent years, however, there has been a growing recognition that the diagnosis CFS – based on a list of vague non-specific symptoms shared with other illnesses – is so broad that it can encompass a range of diverse patient groups. For this reason, there have been a number of attempts to devise a more sensitive way of diagnosing patients, including the Canadian Clinical working definition of ME/CFS (2003); and the ME: International Consensus Criteria (2011). In the United Kingdom, a clinical guideline for use by GPs was produced by NICE in 2007 (see below). Efforts to clarify diagnosis continue, however, and meanwhile the term ME/CFS is frequently used.[/I][/B]
Lasting effects of Covid-19 just been discovered in Italy scientists have discovered Sky News reports today ,far worse than first thought including neurological damage .
Group bookings at pubs in New South Wales will be reduced from 20 people to a maximum of 10, under new COVID-19 rules decided at a special meeting of State Cabinet ministers this evening.
The ABC understands large venues will not be allowed to have more than 300 patrons, under the new restrictions to be unveiled tomorrow by the State Government.
Sources have told the ABC there will also be stricter requirements for venues to collect contact details of patrons in case of an outbreak.
The changes follow the emergence of a cluster at the Crossroads Hotel in Sydney’s south-west, which is so far linked to 21 confirmed coronavirus cases.
It also follows a police investigation into the Crossroads Hotel, with authorities expressing “concern” some customers were not asked for their contact details before entering the venue.
Sydney’s The Star casino has been fined $5,000 for breaching social-distancing rules just hours after confirming a patron who attended the venue this month tested positive for coronavirus.
Liquor and Gaming NSW issued the fine after groups of patrons were seen standing and mingling while consuming alcohol at the venue on Saturday night.
Under COVID-19 public health orders, customers must be seated to consume or be served alcohol.
This isn’t flu. It affects the body in a different way. Some suspect it’s a disease of the blood. No doctor can at this stage say with any confidence that someone will recover after six months. People are ending up with heart conditions and lung damage.
My friend’s sister has ME. She has had it for about twenty years or more and it’s totally debilitating.
Global Cases 13,238,448
Global Deaths 575,547
Australia
Cases 10,250
Deaths 108
Critical 28
Cases per Million 402
U.K.
Cases 290,133
Deaths 44,830
Critical 185
Cases per Million 4,273
USA
Cases 3,479,483
Deaths 138,247
Critical 15,934
Cases per Million 10,510
A massive traffic jam blocked roads around a pop-up coronavirus testing clinic in Picton, as concerns deepen about a growing cluster of new cases in Sydney’s south-west.
By 10.00am, the snarl stretched at least 1.4km as people responded to pleas to get tested and isolate if they had visited several infected businesses in the area.
So far, 28 COVID-19 cases have been linked to an outbreak at the Crossroads Hotel in nearby Casula, after health authorities announced seven fresh infections today.
However, there are now major concerns around another local pub, the Picton Hotel, after an infected person visited the gaming room there several times last week.
Finally the UK is giving China the finger!
News this morning that 5G will NOT be used in the UK and contracts with Huawei will be cancelled. All 5G equipment to be removed by 2025.
This decision has been made as it’s finally been recognised that China will use all it’s resources to gain control!
About time too!!!
How will China react to this? :shock:
Interesting interview on the radio this morning with a director of ICU in Melbourne about the verying worrying increase in cases in NSW and Victoria.
He gave some statistics: 80% of Covid cases in Australian ICU survive compared to 44% in China and 40% in the UK. He said that these figures are partly due to the other country’s ICUs being overwhelmed.
On the downside two more covid deaths occurred in Victoria yesterday bringing the total deaths to 110.
I found this image on the Sydney Morning Herald site.
I think you are clutching at straws if you think this has anything to do with Covid19
Almost all the new cases in New South are from pubs.
Did the govt allow carte blanche at pubs too soon. We all know when we lay into the amber liquid or Chardonnay that social distancing is merely a buzz word and everyone wants to get pally.