Two offices in Parliament are sealed off after health minister Nadine Dorries catches coronavirus: Tory MP reveals her aide is also infected as she sends message to colleagues saying 'I can't remember every person I was in contact with last week'

DM ^ | 3/11/2020 | MARTIN ROBINSON, CHIEF REPORTER and JAMES TAPSFIELD, POLITICAL EDITOR and JAMES FIELDING FOR MAILON

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Health minister Nadine Dorries' coronavirus diagnosis has caused chaos in Parliament today as her two offices were sealed off, one of her staff fell ill and fearful MPs planned to dodge the budget in the Commons in case they get the virus, MailOnline can reveal.

Ms Dorries, 62, who began feeling ill on Friday, has said one of her office workers has 'gone down' with the killer illness and the Tory MP is now in self-isolation for the next fortnight at home in Gloucestershire.

This morning she came to the bay window at the front of the sprawling house in the village of Dumbleton and told MailOnline: ‘I am Nadine Dorries but don’t come too close, I’ve got the coronavirus. I’m self isolating.’

Over the weekend she experienced the 'classic symptoms' of the disease – a dry cough, high temperature and 'vice-like' pain in her chest - and tested positive yesterday.

Labour's Rachael Maskell met Ms Dorries, who is Minister for Patient Safety, Suicide Prevention and Mental Health, today became the first MP to self-isolate for 14 days after she had a meeting with Ms Dorries last Thursday.

Ms Dorries' symptoms began on March 6, however, the 14-day incubation period means she could have been first exposed to coronavirus on February 21 and met hundreds of people at meetings in Westminster and in her constituency before she felt poorly.

Today her parliamentary office in the Norman Shaw North building close to Whitehall and her ministerial office in the Palace of Westminster are both sealed off - as are some corridors leading to them - after the MP and a member of staff fell ill with the virus that has killed six so far in Britain and 4,300 globally.

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God Bless those on the front line

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8099055/Italian-nurses-reveal-exhausted-bruised-coronavirus.html

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EXCLUSIVE: Coronavirus doctor reveals his patients in intensive care are as young as 40 and do NOT have underlying health conditions – contradicting official advice

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8098831/Coronavirus-doctor-reveals-patients-intensive-care-young-40.html

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Kids get sick from all kinds of things. A LOT. Parents know this

So it is curious as to why few kids get this. Sure,some have been sickened..

Just another factor to look at...a carefully designed bioweapon would make kids super spreaders. Perhaps China was working on it.

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But but but but but "Ello, it's just the flu, gov'ner!..."

Bring Out Your Dead

Post to me or FReep mail to be on/off the Bring Out Your Dead ping list.

The purpose of the “Bring Out Your Dead” ping list (formerly the “Ebola” ping list) is very early warning of emerging pandemics, as such it has a high false positive rate.

So far the false positive rate is 100%.

At some point we may well have a high mortality pandemic, and likely as not the “Bring Out Your Dead” threads will miss the beginning entirely.

*sigh* Such is life, and death...

If a quarantine saves just one child's life, it's worth it.

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Prayers up for Ms Dorries, who at 62 is in serious danger, and also her 84 year old mom, who if she has it will likely not survive.