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

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Inoculation is an intentional act for a specific reason, what he described was contraction, not inoculation.

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Well, that's not exactly what I learned in medical school, residency and 30 years of practice. And it's not what I tried to gently show you in the definition above from Merriam Webster. But, hey, define it however you like.

This was earlier in the day, most of the people that died were 50-70+ and had other health issues.

There was also a Chinese redditor who was saying that too many of the elderly he knew were refusing to even wear a mask because they thought it was fate or something if they got it.

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Ok, if doctors are dying from it, I am starting to get freaked out

I was under the impression this was just a respiratory illness that isn’t severe for most people

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SARS killed a guy from the WHO who was investigating an early case in Vietnam. Healthcare workers are often the most vulnerable, for obvious reasons.

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Ok, if doctors are dying from it, I am starting to get freaked out

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I read that a doctor and several nurses (I believe it was 1 doctor and 13 nurses) were infected from a patient early in the outbreak. I think they just thought it was standard pneumonia instead of this virus.

This COULD be that doctor.

Just wanted to give some potential perspective on this case.

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I was under the impression this was just a respiratory illness that isn’t severe for most people

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Many of the deaths seem to be older people who have other health issues (e.g. high blood pressure, chronic liver disease, etc.).

But I think 1 person who has died was a healthy 36 year old male. But then again, there are healthy people who are in good shape who get the flu and die every year.

At the numbers we know, it has a higher mortality rate than the regular influzena season, but a lower mortality rate than SARS and MERS.

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Isn’t that basically the scenario with Typhoid Mary who was forcibly quarantined twice?

I’m surprised I can’t find much except a book excerpt that raised on construction issues related to that.

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Found some info on the CDC site. They can force you to be quarantined if you cross state borders or are entering the US from abroad.

State law determines how quarantines are handled intrastate.

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If we didn’t have a flu vaccine that hospitals require, I bet we would hear of physicians dying from it from time to time.

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The flu vaccine isn’t very effective. Some years less than 50%.

I’m sure it happens but it’s very rare for a practicing physician to die from the the flu. Vaccination is more to prevent physicians from spreading the virus to high risk pt that are much more likely to die from the flu.

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They can force you to be quarantined if you cross state borders or are entering the US from abroad.

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But how can they “force” anyone without some form of Due Process if they refuse to comply?

CBS report in the country that was interesting.

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This article summarizes the latest medical info on the virus...
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Two papers published Friday in the journal the Lancet offer some of the first rigorous analyses of patients who contracted a novel coronavirus that has broken out in China and spread to other countries. Among their discoveries: The virus does not only affect people with other, underlying health conditions, and people who are not showing symptoms can still be carrying the virus.

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That is bad news if you are contagious without showing symptoms.

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About a third of the 41 patients needed intensive care, and six of them died. Some of the patients with more serious illnesses suffered from a dangerous immune system overreaction called a cytokine storm, but the researchers said they still did not have a good understanding of how the virus affects the immune system.

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In a commentary piece also published Friday by the Lancet, Dr. David Heymann, an infectious disease epidemiologist at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, wrote that “the picture these two manuscripts paint is of a disease with a 3-6 day incubation period and insidious onset.”

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I read that a doctor and several nurses (I believe it was 1 doctor and 13 nurses) were infected from a patient early in the outbreak. I think they just thought it was standard pneumonia instead of this virus.

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They are also working insane hours and grabbing whatever they can eat in between patients. Not helpful for the immune system.