re: Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) ***W.H.O. DECLARES A GLOBAL PANDEMIC***

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BNO Newsroom @BNODesk Hong Kong media are reporting that a 39-year-old man with coronavirus and an underlying illness has died. Not yet confirmed by officials.

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And just read that the 3k nurses have hit the picket line. Refusing to work until Lam closes the border with China.

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I think that's all the more reason why Western media needs to keep the pressure on the Chinese government. I don't expect the effect of this virus to be nearly as bad outside of China. However, from a human rights perspective, we can't let China and Xi Jinping brazenly lie to the rest of the world. Its behavior in recent years poses a real threat to world stability.

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Most of the issues you listed are reasons why it's difficult to keep an accurate count, but they aren't necessarily lying. Look, I know full well there is a vested interested in underselling the virus in China, but if that was the goal, you'd think they'd do a better job than the very public quarantines, the very large confirmed cases vs international numbers, etc.

My argument has never been in support of China, but rather an explanation of why it's likely the numbers are both underestimated and as accurate as they can possibly get it under the circumstances. I don't believe the numbers are accurate, but I also don't believe they're intentionally incorrect.

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Within the last year, you had the Hong Kong situation and now this.

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Tiennamen Square briefcase tank guy risked his life and/or died for nothing. Nobody has held Beijing responsible for anything recently.

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Wonder what the underlying illness was.

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AIDS

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Pakistan reports four college students from Pakistan have confirmed Corona Virus in Wuhan.

Three days ago they said all students would stay there, today AlJazera says they are being flown out, leaving the four behind.

The link also says that the survival of the virus is 28 days in cold climates. That was written without link.

And in India a third case confirmed in students returning to Kerala India from Wuhan.

A mindboggling (to me)

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At least 2,000 other Indians have now been quarantined across the country in hospitals or in their homes after displaying symptoms of the virus.

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And to put the health care system there into perspective
we are vegetarians......

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The link also says that the survival of the virus is 28 days in cold climates. That was written without link.

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Yeah that’s full of crap. If speaking on a surface, that time is measured in hours, possibly minutes.

If speaking internal of the host, climate really doesn’t play a role.

Max 14 day incubation, majority of cases turn symptomatic in 2-6 days.

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US markets seem to be shrugging off last week's coronavirus slump. That's good news for all of us I'd imagine.

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Bull trap?

Cases up to 20,704 with 25 new cases reported overnight in Asia outside of China. Still seems like mostly a problem for China at this time.

Two-thirds of Coronavirus Victims are Men: Chinese Health Official

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The majority of people who died were men accounting for about two-thirds and women for one-third, Jiao Yahui, an official of China's National Health Commission, told the media here.

More than 80 per cent of the dead were over 60 years old, and over 75 per cent had at least one underlying disease such as cardiovascular diseases, diabetes and tumours, Jiao said.

Elderly people with underlying diseases infected with any kind of pneumonia would be at a higher risk, she said.

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Statistics showed that patients in Hainan province spent five days on average in the hospital before being discharged, while hospital stays for those in Hubei province where the virus was first detected lasted for 20 days, Jiao said.

Those infected with the virus outside Hubei are hospitalised for an average of just over nine days, she added.

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That's odd. Is it due to the virus of the demographics of their society?

Fed raised the IOER rate last week