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re: Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) ***W.H.O. DECLARES A GLOBAL PANDEMIC***
Posted on 2/21/20 at 8:48 am to yatesdog38
Posted on 2/21/20 at 8:48 am to yatesdog38
Pretty sure what they're doing to combat the virus is already baked into their ticker, baw. You're way behind. 
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Posted on 2/21/20 at 8:52 am to yatesdog38
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Trials of two drug therapies against the coronavirus are beginning in China, World Health Organization officials said on Thursday. Early results may be available within three weeks. One trial involves remdesivir, an experimental antiviral drug made by Gilead. It has not yet been licensed for use in any disease.
The drug was tested against the Ebola virus in Congo, where it was not very effective. But when it was given to the first American known to be infected with the coronavirus, an unidentified man in Washington State, he recovered.
The second treatment that is undergoing a trial is of a combination of two anti-H.I.V. drugs, ritonavir and lopinavir. That combination is sold as Kaletra in the United States and available in generic versions that are made cheaply by several Indian pharmaceutical companies.
Two other drugs, favipiravir and chloroquine, have been discussed as possible coronavirus treatments because they have shown some effectiveness in laboratory tests. Neither is being tested in a clinical trial at this time, according to Dr. Janet Diaz, head of clinical care in the W.H.O.’s health emergencies division.
You are probably a month behind this move btw
Posted on 2/21/20 at 8:55 am to slackster
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It's always incredibly difficult to calculate this because no one knows the denominator. More than half of the cases on that cruise ship have been asymptomatic. Being confined to a cruise ship makes it easy to test everyone, which is what they're doing, but it goes to show how the number of real world cases is likely substantially higher than the confirmed cases.
We’ve butted heads but you are absolutely right here. We are past the point of containing this. The best news we can get is that this is already extremely wide spread with a large amount of asymptomatic patients which would bring the mortality rate below 1% and more in line with a flu virus.
I still stand by a more important number being the amount of critical cases that will stress our healthcare system which will in turn increase the mortality rate.
Posted on 2/21/20 at 8:56 am to WaWaWeeWa
Inovio (INO) already pumped and dumped. But hey, it could be worth watching still.
Posted on 2/21/20 at 8:57 am to yatesdog38
I'm sure this has been discussed here, but what is the US doing to prevent all of our soldiers stationed in Asia, specifically South Korea, safe from all this? They can't just evacuate them all out.
Posted on 2/21/20 at 8:58 am to WaWaWeeWa
Looks like it but ABBV still has a 5 percent dividend yield at current price. Looks like it is up 15 percent from the February low. Didn't have any liquid assets, now I do. X date is in April so might buy some hold it till after the dividend and then reevaluate.
Posted on 2/21/20 at 9:07 am to jlc05
Can we finally get Slackster to admit The CCP is fudging the numbers?
Posted on 2/21/20 at 9:12 am to joshnorris14
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NEW: Italian town of Codogno closes schools, bars, eateries, and sporting facilities until at least Sunday after 6 cases of coronavirus were confirmed - ANSA
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UPDATE: Italy's new case of coronavirus is a 39-year-old man who is seriously ill and suffering from respiratory failure - ANSA
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UPDATE: All 6 of the new coronavirus cases in Italy are in serious condition - ANSA
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Posted on 2/21/20 at 9:21 am to Black n Gold
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I'm sure this has been discussed here, but what is the US doing to prevent all of our soldiers stationed in Asia, specifically South Korea, safe from all this? They can't just evacuate them all out.
Young fit people have almost nothing to worry about.
Posted on 2/21/20 at 9:25 am to Malik Agar
Israel has one case as well
Posted on 2/21/20 at 9:40 am to Poker_hog
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Young fit people have almost nothing to worry about.
E-4 Joe gives it to E-8 Sarn't Sledge and 0-6 Worthington Smedley IV. Now he doesn't have anybody to tell him which rocks to paint in the Company Area.
Posted on 2/21/20 at 9:41 am to Jim Rockford
This is a pretty good read. The whole blog series is good and measured. It's written by a respected Dr. in Hong Kong and was passed to me by a colleague who lives there.
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"There are currently 69 cases in Hong Kong. The last CHP analysis revealed median age 59 years. 15 were imported cases and 37 possible or definite local cases. There were 13 individual clusters including the reported 11 out of 19 people who shared a hotpot meal. There is some spread within families. Importantly some of the confirmed cases have mild illness. The infected passenger on the cruise ship travelled between 20-25th January. Subsequently 634 passengers were infected. The first cluster of these people were infected between 26 and 31 days ago. Again it is important not to assume this cluster would be representative of different situations. Cruise ships tend to have older people with increased risk of other diseases. There are factors related to air quality, sanitation and central cooking facilities. There may be factors in this cluster which will later be shown to have facilitated spread. Regardless, the obvious infectivity in this situation in addition to the cluster involving 20 people in six countries which can be traced to a conference in Singapore2 between 20 and 22 January 2020 would support the suggestion that this illness, at least in some circumstances, is quite infectious in person to person contact and again would suggest a significant amount of unrecognized less severe illness in China which would again mean that the initial mortality figures on a case by case basis will have likely been exaggerated."
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"There are currently 69 cases in Hong Kong. The last CHP analysis revealed median age 59 years. 15 were imported cases and 37 possible or definite local cases. There were 13 individual clusters including the reported 11 out of 19 people who shared a hotpot meal. There is some spread within families. Importantly some of the confirmed cases have mild illness. The infected passenger on the cruise ship travelled between 20-25th January. Subsequently 634 passengers were infected. The first cluster of these people were infected between 26 and 31 days ago. Again it is important not to assume this cluster would be representative of different situations. Cruise ships tend to have older people with increased risk of other diseases. There are factors related to air quality, sanitation and central cooking facilities. There may be factors in this cluster which will later be shown to have facilitated spread. Regardless, the obvious infectivity in this situation in addition to the cluster involving 20 people in six countries which can be traced to a conference in Singapore2 between 20 and 22 January 2020 would support the suggestion that this illness, at least in some circumstances, is quite infectious in person to person contact and again would suggest a significant amount of unrecognized less severe illness in China which would again mean that the initial mortality figures on a case by case basis will have likely been exaggerated."
This post was edited on 2/21/20 at 9:45 am
Posted on 2/21/20 at 9:45 am to Burhead
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Turkish Minister of Health @drfahrettinkoca says his Iranian counterpart informed him that they have 758 suspected cases of #COVID19 coronavirus, 18 have been confirmed positive, 5 have died.
It's running wild in Iran
Posted on 2/21/20 at 9:55 am to joshnorris14
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Can we finally get Slackster to admit The CCP is fudging the numbers?
He quit posting his projections that lined up perfectly with CCPs for some reason.
Posted on 2/21/20 at 9:58 am to lsu13lsu
In his defense I think he always said the numbers were inaccurate and that’s why he wanted to wait to see what this virus did in other countries.
But maybe I interpreted it wrong
But maybe I interpreted it wrong
Posted on 2/21/20 at 10:18 am to WaWaWeeWa
Please. He was so proud of those models he was running. Sure in other posts he said lets look outside china. But, in those model posts he was so proud he agreed to CCP numbers.
Posted on 2/21/20 at 10:21 am to lsu13lsu
Imperial College of London
would be very good news at this point
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we estimated that about two thirds of COVID-19 cases exported from mainland China have remained undetected worldwide, potentially resulting in multiple chains of as yet undetected human-to-human transmission outside mainland China.
would be very good news at this point
This post was edited on 2/21/20 at 10:28 am
Posted on 2/21/20 at 10:24 am to WaWaWeeWa
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"Meanwhile, the WHO-led joint mission in #China has been working in Beijing, Sichuan and Guangdong, and will travel to Wuhan tomorrow to continue its work at the epicenter of the outbreak"- @DrTedros #COVID19 #coronavirus
I don’t know if this means they were never in Wuhan, but they will definitely be going there tomorrow.
This post was edited on 2/21/20 at 10:51 am
Posted on 2/21/20 at 10:43 am to WaWaWeeWa
The next month will be interesting.
Posted on 2/21/20 at 10:45 am to lsu13lsu
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Please. He was so proud of those models he was running. Sure in other posts he said lets look outside china. But, in those model posts he was so proud he agreed to CCP numbers.
He pretty much said China wasn't openly lying about their numbers, which is probably true. He also wasn't saying they were perfectly accurate. They can only test so many cases. There is a spectrum ranging from no symptoms at all to death. Some people likely died and didn't get to a hospital to be counted. Of course the #s aren't going to be 100% accurate when systems are overrun, that doesn't mean China is necessarily lying about them.
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