Coronavirus COVID-19 *Global Health Emergency* #10

[Henry2326]

China's president says research centers to be set up to help contain coronavirus China's president says research centers to be set up to help contain coronavirus Reuters on Twitter

Reuters on Twitter

 

[Henry2326]

BREAKING: Italy reports 18 new deaths from coronavirus, raising death toll to 52 Tracking coronavirus: Map, data and timeline

UPDATE: Italy also reported 340 new cases of coronavirus, raising the country's total to 2,036

BNO Newsroom on Twitter

 

[Henry2326]

The number of confirmed cases of coronavirus has reached 90,000. The number of cases outside China has surpassed 10,000.

BNO Newsroom on Twitter

 

[justbeachy]

Dr. John Campbell's latest video:

 

[Oregonmama]

The number of confirmed cases of coronavirus has reached 90,000. The number of cases outside China has surpassed 10,000.

BNO Newsroom on Twitter

Ae these numbers surpassing the swine flu outbreak?

 

[JerseyGirl]

British Airways has announced that it will be canceling several flights to “match reduced demand due to the continuing coronavirus issue,” it said in a statement today.

The cancellations will impact flights between March 16 and March 28 and include:

• Cancelling 12 roundtrips from London Heathrow to New York JFK
• Cancelling 171 short-haul roundtrip flights from London Heathrow to countries including Italy, France, Austria, Belgium, Germany, Ireland, Switzerland
• Cancelling 7 short-haul roundtrip flights from Gatwick to Italy, France and Albania
• Cancelling 26 short-haul roundtrip flights from London City to Germany and Italy

Coronavirus news and live updates: Global death toll tops 3,000 - CNN

 

[Henry2326]

“By Sunday, a quarter of Kirkland’s firefighters were in quarantine because they had been to the nursing facility.”
You can see this in the NYT photo below: the ambulance is from Redmond, WA fire department (the next town/suburb over, and home of Microsoft). Dr Kevin Purcell on Twitter

Dr Kevin Purcell on Twitter

 

[SAMS]

BREAKING: City of San Antonio officials say the released and re-quarantined COVID-19 patient went to North Star Mall before returning to isolation. She was at the mall from 5:30 to 7:30 PM Saturday, according to Metro Health. The patient was asymptomatic on release. @TPRNews
Joey Palacios on Twitter

Sorry if this has been posted!

 

[K.jill]

BREAKING: Italy reports 18 new deaths from coronavirus, raising death toll to 52 Tracking coronavirus: Map, data and timeline

UPDATE: Italy also reported 340 new cases of coronavirus, raising the country's total to 2,036

BNO Newsroom on Twitter

Am I missing something??
The death rate here seems much higher than 2%.

 

[SAMS]

KSAT 12 on Twitter

Mall and hotel officials were notified of the exposure and a deep cleaning is recommended for both sites. The risk of exposure remains low, officials stressed.

 

[Henry2326]

Just finished interview with Dr. Fauci, US director of infectious diseases. Hour-long interview. Detailed. He said: We're dealing with clearly an emerging infectious disease that has “now reached outbreak proportions and likely pandemic proportions.”

Richard Engel on Twitter

 

[SAMS]

Heidi Przybyla on Twitter

Dr. Matt McCarthy: NY Presbyterian Hospital on Coronavirus:

"We are not testing at full capacity and that is a national scandal."

"We're being told that things are ok ... That's just not the way we're talking about it in medical circles."

#coronavirus #CoronaOutbreak

 

[otto]

Am I missing something??
The death rate here seems much higher than 2%.

It's 2.5%.

There are 2036 cases in Italy, and 52 deaths.
52/2036=x/100
x=2.6
Death rate in Italy is 2.6%. It's normal. 20% typically need hospitalization, 5% are typically critical.

 

[What if...]

I think China has to be given credit for implementing a lockdown quarantine that undoubtedly saved lives.

Obviously, we still have lots of questions about how this all started and what happened to the early alarms ( like from the late great Dr. Li who warned about the new virus and died from it).

But if China had not enforced their quarantines and stopped their flights, tourism, internal travel, etc. I believe the world would have been inundated with active cases much earlier and we would still be tracing thousands of deaths, rather than hundreds.

Agreed. They couldn’t stop it, but they bought the rest of the world some valuable time to prepare. I hope that time was used wisely.

 

[Henry2326]

KSAT 12 on Twitter

Mall and hotel officials were notified of the exposure and a deep cleaning is recommended for both sites. The risk of exposure remains low, officials stressed.

If the exposure is really low, why did the Mayor have a coronary and on a tear screaming at the CDC????
Watch actions....not words....

 

[Henry2326]

Agreed. They couldn’t stop it, but they bought the rest of the world some valuable time to prepare. I hope that time was used wisely.

IMO...it has been squandered in a massive way...

 

[SAMS]

If the exposure is really low, why did the Mayor have a coronary and on a tear screaming at the CDC????
Watch actions....not words....

Yea it’s completely ridiculous to me. MOO

 

[otto]

IMO...it has been squandered in a massive way...

Each country is responding to the WHO advice in their own way. Some countries seem to have dropped the ball, perhaps thinking that the virus is an Asia problem, while others are still working hard to test and contain.

So far, we know that Iran, Italy, South Korea dropped the ball, it looks like Egypt did as well. We'll learn more this week about which other countries did not take it seriously.

 

[SAMS]

If the exposure is really low, why did the Mayor have a coronary and on a tear screaming at the CDC????
Watch actions....not words....

Yea it’s completely ridiculous to me. MOO

ETA: Just tell us the truth, give us a chance to be prepared. MOO

 

[Skigh]

Boris Johnson: Coronavirus could escalate in UK within DAYS | Daily Mail Online

I wish action could begin now,not when the number of people infected reaches 3 or 4 figures.

There is a huge dog show(Crufts) starting on Thursday ,which in my opinion should be cancelled.