margarita25
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Hoping to see more information about this as I catch up:
From the above link:
- Bank of England governor Mark Carney said that the virus was "from an economic perspective, already bigger than SARS"
- Postal operators in the US, China and elsewhere have said the suspension of flights is having a major impact on global flows of letters and parcels
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In these situations, it's always best for the President to follow the advice of medical/public health experts. Physicians, pathologists, epidemiologists, etc. are the experts whose advice should be followed first and foremost. There are established, peer-reviewed protocols for dealing with these situations and no good leader should abandon them or take short cuts without expert advice.
I don't understand the rationale for cutting federal funding for the CDC and assistance to the WHO. It boggles the mind.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/scie...D1zoaf58U5-7sUfeA&_hsmi=83183455&utm_campaign
What We're Reading: Proposed Budget Cuts; Alzheimer Treatment Fails; CDC Confirms 13th US Coronavirus Case
From the first link:
“The budget request would trim funding for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention by almost 16 percent. HHS officials said they want the CDC to focus on its core mission of preventing and controlling infectious diseases and on other emerging public health issues, such as opioid abuse.
Officials propose to take the money that would normally go to fund individual disease prevention activities and funnel it into a single block grant to states. The budget says chronic diseases such as heart disease, stroke and diabetes have common risk factors, and thus consolidating funds “can help magnify the public health impact.”
Although the budget reduces overall funding for global health, from $571 million to $532 million in 2021, officials carved out an extra $50 million for global health security, which are measures aimed at disease detection and emergencies. That bump comes at the expense of international HIV/AIDS programs, which is being cut by about $58 million.
The budget proposes to give the National Institutes of Health, the government’s biomedical research center in Bethesda, Md., a $38 billion budget for fiscal 2021, about $3 billion less than the total NIH has this fiscal year. Priorities at NIH under Trump include research on the opioid epidemic and stimulants such as methamphetamine, developing a universal flu vaccine, and the second year of a childhood cancer initiative.
The president’s other health priorities include more funding for Trump’s initiative to nearly wipe out HIV transmission in the United States by 2030, which would receive $716 million, shared by several agencies, in his 2021 budget.”
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From the second link:
“The proposed budget would also trim funding for the CDC by almost 16% and reduce overall funding for global health from $571 million to $532 million in 2021. The Trump administration in turn seeks to increase funding for research on quantum computing and artificial intelligence, with President Donald Trump additionally seeking to give NASA a multibillion-dollar grant to assist the agency in putting astronauts back on the moon.”
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The Chinese financial news website Caixin is reporting on new research which suggests that the incubation period for the coronavirus is as long as 24 days rather than the previously believed 14 days.
I would like to see this addressed at a WHO PC and/or by Dr. Fauci, if they agree it’s a possibility that the incubation period can be more than 14 days.
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In Depth: How Wuhan Lost Its Grip on Thousands of Suspected Coronavirus Cases - Caixin Global
Feb 07, 2020
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BBM
So I don’t understand this: If they test the cruise ship passengers and let them leave the ship if they test negative- while some others on board are testing positive- there is no way to know if the “negative patients” were actually exposed to the virus from the ones testing positive. Could they not still just be in the incubation period?
If you have merely acquired the virus, do you immediately test positive? Or does “incubation period” only mean the time to symptoms?
Clearly the virus is making it’s way through the cruise ship, as more and more people are testing positive and becoming symptomatic. This “14 day quarantine” is smoke and mirrors as far as I can see based on the data. MOO.
I saw something similar to what you just said in another article. I think it was one by @dixiegirl1035 a few pages back, marking spot to find it in case I dose off or get sidetracked.
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