China has a history of trying to keep things like this on the down low for fear that they will wreck tourism and export businesses. It's not until the WHO and the CDC become aware and start to get involved that we start to get a picture of how bad it really is.
I wouldn't believe anything China told me, but I would take what the WHO and the CDC say very seriously.
With that said, I'm leaving the first week of March for a fun few days in Uganda (work related). In the last week I've been vaccinated for about 8 different things, obviously corona isn't one of them.
China has massive building programs going on all over Africa and I would imagine that Chinese business people are in and out of there all the time.
I'm a little freaked out and monitoring it on the daily to see if any hot spots show up in/near Uganda.
African countries are scrambling to avert an outbreak of the rapidly spreading coronavirus strain, as health officials warn that the poorest countries are ill-equipped to combat the deadly disease.
Across the continent, governments have stationed nurses at airports to check for feverish passengers and have suspended Chinese entry visas, while ordinary people grow increasingly nervous.
There have been no verified infections in Africa to date, but deep trade links with China and often overstretched healthcare systems are raising concerns about the capacity to respond to an outbreak.
The World Health Organization (WHO) on Thursday declared a global emergency as coronavirus infections spread, after initially downplaying the threat.
"Our greatest concern is the potential for the virus to spread to countries with weaker health systems," WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said.
EIGHTH case of coronavirus in the US is confirmed in Boston as new study projects 75,000 people could be infected in Wuhan where 259 have died and the Pentagon prepares 1,000 quarantine beds
EIGHTH case of coronavirus in the US is confirmed in Boston as new study projects 75,000 people could be infected in Wuhan where 259 have died and the Pentagon prepares 1,000 quarantine beds
yea, i saw the 75k number and another article thought that by mid Feb there would be about 350k cases and at the worse part of this outbreak in early April, there would be about 150k cases a day.
Also saw where the locals are saying that it is really bad in the hospitals, that sick people are just laying in hallways dying, that people cant get medical attention for days after days and the Chinese gov't is really under reporting how bad this is. And they don't know the actual death count because people who die are having other causes put on their records and i read something that hospital workers saw some people who died being taken out and cremated and basically not counted.
Again, these are reports not facts, and the Chinese gov't probably isn't going to be completely factual. Neither will other governments.
I'm sure I missed something somewhere, but how does this unknown virus become a near pandemic in only weeks? And how did it get named so quickly, and was able to be identified so quickly?
I'm sure I missed something somewhere, but how does this unknown virus become a near pandemic in only weeks? And how did it get named so quickly, and was able to be identified so quickly?
One explanation I read is that the virus has been going on for more than a few weeks. It was under reported to avoid bad press.
It's supposed to be hard! If it wasn't hard, everyone would do it. The hard... is what makes it great!
It originated back in December, I believe, but it was limited to China then.
For the name, it is only recently named - nCoV-2019 - and that is an as yet unofficial name. 'Coronavirus' is the name of the virus family the virus is part of.
As for the nature of it, it is apparently rather nasty in terms of how readily is spreads.
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Drinking a Corona was a play on Coronavirus while the first victim of the virus caught it from eating a snake at the exotic foods area of Wuhan.
Keep the name calling to a minimum if you please.
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Finally, the team uncovered evidence that the 2019-nCoV likely resided in snakes before being transmitted to humans.
"Results derived from our evolutionary analysis suggest for the first time that snake is the most probable wildlife animal reservoir for the 2019-nCoV,"
There were more than 3,100 new cases confirmed in China over the last 24 hours, bringing the total to 24,363 in China and 490 deaths as of 6 a.m. Geneva time, World Health Organization officials said. “In the last 24 hours we had the most cases in a single day since the outbreak started,” WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said at a press conference. Just 191 of the total cases are outside mainland China and 80% of those cases are concentrated in the Hubei province where the virus was first detected in the city of Wuhan, he said. Of the cases outside of China, 31 of them spread through human-to-human contact, mostly from close friends or relatives who had recently been to China, he said.
No new confirmed cases in the US in several days even though there have been almost 300 possible cases. Over 200 have turned out to be negative while 76 are still pending investigation.
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Indeed! Another 4000-ish new cases yesterday, including one in the US (Madison, WI, I think) and deaths have picked up again! I want to say that there were about 70 deaths overnight.
The number of cases in Japan have more than doubled to 45.
C'mon, 2019-nCoV!
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Man it doesn’t even turn people into zombies though.
When are we finally gonna get some resident evil type virus?
“To announce that there must be no criticism of the President, or that we are to stand by the President, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public.”
Terrible. I’m glad he got the word out before he passed. The Chinese government is doing no one any favors by suppressing the information.
“To announce that there must be no criticism of the President, or that we are to stand by the President, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public.”
NPR interviewed a woman yesterday morning in China and she said that she has been trying to get help for 3 sick family members and "they" stopped calling her back a few days ago and now she wont call and ask for help or for them to take her family members to the hospital-because they will take them to a quarantine center and she assumes she will never see them again. The quarantine centers over there are basically limited care places where as she put it-they take you to die and you never hear about your loved ones again. when asked if she thinks the government is lying about the sick/death count-she said she knows they are-thats how they are and they wouldn't go through all this if this virus wasn't a really big deal
“To announce that there must be no criticism of the President, or that we are to stand by the President, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public.”
Something that the Chinese apparently thought would taste yummy.
“To announce that there must be no criticism of the President, or that we are to stand by the President, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public.”
Yeah, I saw that last night and was waiting to see if there was a correction in the data coming or if this is legitimate.
That's a spike of just over 15,000 new cases in one day. Deaths also had a sizable jump with over 200 deaths yesterday. The Death:Recovery ratio had been trending toward 1:5 or 1:6, but yesterday bumped it back to about 1:4.
The cruise ship quarantined in Japan looks like it had a failure in its containment onboard. It was static at 64 cases for a long while, but has since jumped to 175. I would not feel comfy being stuck on that ship right now.
There is another new case in the US, bringing us to 14. I'm mostly surprised that: 1: India, with its dense population, is still at only 3 cases 2. It has not, yet, found its way to the African continent or South America.
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I think the sudden rise in the infected is because China has been under reporting the numbers but is making an effort to catch up.
The Media hypes this virus because it gets viewers. If they would start reporting that nearly 99 percent survive, it would hurt business.
This virus is having a severe effect on the worlds economy that isn't showing in the markets yet. I think the world market will take a dive once we see the economic damage before it makes a tremendous comeback once the virus is under control.
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