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re: Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) ***W.H.O. DECLARES A GLOBAL PANDEMIC***
Posted on 2/8/20 at 4:48 pm to GeauxTigers2020
Posted on 2/8/20 at 4:48 pm to GeauxTigers2020
Also notable that the new cases in Wuhan are the lowest in 4 or 5 days. Trend is looking more promising toward a peak in Wuhan.
ETA - notice the downvotes for good news. This thread is hysterical.
ETA - notice the downvotes for good news. This thread is hysterical.
This post was edited on 2/8/20 at 8:28 pm
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Posted on 2/8/20 at 5:34 pm to slackster
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Also notable that the new cases in Wuhan are the lowest in 4 or 5 days. Trend is looking more promising toward a peak in Wuhan.
It may peak but one of the most frustrating characteristics of a very contagious virus is its ability to recur in waves. If a community that’s been hit lets down its guard, the virus can sweep back through.
Posted on 2/8/20 at 5:47 pm to slackster
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Also notable that the new cases in Wuhan are the lowest in 4 or 5 days. Trend is looking more promising toward a peak in Wuhan.
Taken at face value, this is an improvement, esp since there is probably a lag in deaths. We will probably see number of new cases improve before we start to see the death numbers improve. Also, we are still only seeing a slow increase in the number of cases outside of China and no surge in deaths. Hopefully, these trends can hold for the next 2 or 3 weeks. Then we could start to see steady improvement?
Posted on 2/8/20 at 6:04 pm to rds dc
We’re the hell Xi? Dude has been hiding while his people are dying.
Posted on 2/8/20 at 6:17 pm to DollaChoppa
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It’s really interesting to read the individual reports for the Japanese cases. A lot of them read like that where they test for it, it comes back negative. The patient is still sick and they test again days late (sometimes the same sample) and it’s positive
What’s doubly bad is that ELIZA tests (based on the individual’s immune system seroconversion) started to ship en made at the start of the week so no clue if the test is a PCR based test (more accurate) or this immunological test (more assessable but more false negatives)
Posted on 2/8/20 at 6:43 pm to slackster
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Also notable that the new cases in Wuhan are the lowest in 4 or 5 days. Trend is looking more promising toward a peak in Wuhan.
Deaths outside of Wuhan are starting to increase though.
Posted on 2/8/20 at 6:48 pm to Burhead
There’s more than 1 epicenter now.
Posted on 2/8/20 at 6:56 pm to rds dc
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Central Washington University student tested for coronavirusquote:Well, guess I should kiss my arse goodbye, I live right down the street from CWU.
ELLENSBURG, Wash. -- Health officials say a student at Central Washington University is being tested for Wuhan coronavirus.
The Kittitas County Health Department said Thursday that the student became ill and may have been exposed to the virus when they recently traveled internationally. The person is voluntarily in isolation, according to a release.
Test results were expected within two to three days and the student will remain in isolation until the results are available.
The CWU student tested negative and is out of isolation, so looks like I have a new lease on life.
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“Even patients who definitely have the disease only come back positive 30% to 50% of the time,” Wang said. “Testing throat swabs (from potentially infected people) also returns a lot of false negatives.”
...frick.
Posted on 2/8/20 at 8:12 pm to eiasjsf
Any numbers from China are completely unreliable. Reporters are disappearing.
Posted on 2/8/20 at 8:16 pm to Bulletproof Lover
I agree. They’ve quarantined tens of millions, yet only have 40,000 confirmed. Lol
This post was edited on 2/8/20 at 8:18 pm
Posted on 2/8/20 at 8:38 pm to RunningBlake
Yeah, that’s a little thin for me too.
Posted on 2/8/20 at 8:47 pm to PeteRose
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We’re the hell Xi? Dude has been hiding while his people are dying.
Let's be real though. 800 people have died over the last 2 months. China has a billion people. With such a low mortality rate, the entirety of that country catching it wouldn't be a blip on his radar. Hell, he'd probably be happy about a cool 20m people disappearing just to reduce the management load.
Posted on 2/8/20 at 9:00 pm to TigerFanatic99
It's not about just people dying. He knows the whole world is watch. Cities are on lockdown. Shanghai and Beijing are like a ghost towns. Economic standstill. Some panicking. All that and you'd assume their leader would be on TV saying something to the people or the world.
Posted on 2/8/20 at 9:17 pm to PeteRose
The world has read about Ebola and its spread.
Then up pop some comments on the internet that got shared. The first source of information: an eye doctor contacting his facebook equivalent group. Then he got sick. Then hospital staff who had dealt with ill patients were all getting sick with the disease.
A lot of people were watching Hong Kong's unrest and most remembered SARS.
And then the first doctor died. And people got sick with China connections.
Now, more people are watching and China gov would rather watch through a one way mirror.
Then up pop some comments on the internet that got shared. The first source of information: an eye doctor contacting his facebook equivalent group. Then he got sick. Then hospital staff who had dealt with ill patients were all getting sick with the disease.
A lot of people were watching Hong Kong's unrest and most remembered SARS.
And then the first doctor died. And people got sick with China connections.
Now, more people are watching and China gov would rather watch through a one way mirror.
Posted on 2/8/20 at 9:23 pm to RunningBlake
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I agree. They’ve quarantined tens of millions, yet only have 40,000 confirmed. Lol
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It may peak but one of the most frustrating characteristics of a very contagious virus is its ability to recur in waves. If a community that’s been hit lets down its guard, the virus can sweep back through.
Once you've gotten your arse exposed for not taking it seriously, I'd bet you wouldn't do the same thing again.
If the Chinese people are pissed that the government didn't take it seriously at first and are getting rowdy online, that's all the more incentive for China to go overboard and as strong as possible to regain control of the situation and save some face.
This post was edited on 2/8/20 at 9:24 pm
Posted on 2/8/20 at 9:37 pm to Burhead
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Deaths outside of Wuhan are starting to increase though.
Wouldn’t that naturally correlate with the number of cases outside of Wuhan increasing?
Posted on 2/8/20 at 9:43 pm to Burhead
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Deaths outside of Wuhan are starting to increase though.
Have their been more than the one in Philippines, which was actually a man from Wuhan?
Posted on 2/8/20 at 9:45 pm to LSUGrrrl
LINK
A German scientist (who was in Viet Nam when SARS first became a problem) answers questions about how things are going now, what to watch for in two to three weeks,the (im)possibility of shutting down European cities, and the supply side of medical gear which had heavily migrated to China.
Also why production of a vaccine isn't going to happen fast, but why it needs to be done.
And, about the earlier discussion here about certain societies and Corona, he has some things to say about (his words) Resource Poor countries and the danger they could be to themselves and the rest of us.
A German scientist (who was in Viet Nam when SARS first became a problem) answers questions about how things are going now, what to watch for in two to three weeks,the (im)possibility of shutting down European cities, and the supply side of medical gear which had heavily migrated to China.
Also why production of a vaccine isn't going to happen fast, but why it needs to be done.
And, about the earlier discussion here about certain societies and Corona, he has some things to say about (his words) Resource Poor countries and the danger they could be to themselves and the rest of us.
Posted on 2/8/20 at 10:07 pm to real turf fan
Interesting that the Hong Kong racetrack is still open. Horse racing in Hong Kong is insanely popular and a weekend racecard will draw upwards of 100,000 spectators. It also stayed open during the democracy protests.
Posted on 2/8/20 at 10:07 pm to Lsut81
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Have their been more than the one in Philippines, which was actually a man from Wuhan?
I'm talking about other Chinese provinces. At first not many people were dying outside of Hubei/Wuhan.
@BNODesk
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3h
The number of fatalities in China outside the epicenter is continuing to rise.
- Feb. 4: 0 deaths
- Feb. 5: 3 deaths
- Feb. 6: 4 deaths
- Feb. 7: 5 deaths
- Feb. 8: 8 deaths
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