Coronavirus COVID-19 - Global Health Emergency #5

[gregjrichards]

British coronavirus cruise ship airlift is DELAYED: Flight to rescue 74 UK nationals trapped on infection-riddled Diamond Princess is pushed back 24 HOURS because 'it's complicated'

British coronavirus cruise ship airlift is DELAYED | Daily Mail Online

The people on the ship must be desperate to get off it.

 

[asyousay]

British coronavirus cruise ship airlift is DELAYED: Flight to rescue 74 UK nationals trapped on infection-riddled Diamond Princess is pushed back 24 HOURS because 'it's complicated'

British coronavirus cruise ship airlift is DELAYED | Daily Mail Online

The people on the ship must be desperate to get off it.

I see they are peddling more rubbish. Just trying to stoke the fires of moral outrage when they actually don’t care.


IMO

 

[firebird]

This is all making me so anxious all over again.

I'm supposed to be going to London ( from the US) for a conference in Mid-May. I was going to book my flight using miles next weekend, after getting some health issues sorted. If I book with miles, I pay a penalty for having to cancel.

But that's only 11 weeks away.

By then the US and UK could very well be in a pandemic stage. And the more I read about the slow creep of COVID-19 into Japan, South Korea, etc the more concerned I'm getting.

I know we all would say: Carry On, but honestly..... I dunno. I have a bad feeling about this

Unless you're travelling to rural China, I wouldn't worry about it. Especially if you're travelling to Europe.

 

[jjenny]

14 Americans who got the coronavirus from the quarantined cruise ship in Japan were flown home in an 'isolation box' at the back of the plane

So was anyone in this box that tested positive?

What do you mean by that? The 14 were already positive, they are now in Nebraska, and I believe at least 11 of them tested positive again. And other article report they were seated behind some plastic sheets, not in a box.

 

[jjenny]

14 Americans who got the coronavirus from the quarantined cruise ship in Japan were flown home in an 'isolation box' at the back of the plane

So was anyone in this box that tested positive?

What do you mean by that? The 14 were already positive, they are now in Nebraska, and I believe at least 11 of them tested positive again. And other article report they were seated behind some plastic sheets, not in a box.

 

[jjenny]

Here is the article describing the positive people being kept in Nebraska.
"Eleven of the 13 people under quarantine on the University of Nebraska Medical Center campus have been confirmed positive for the novel coronavirus, Nebraska Medicine officials announced Thursday evening."
11 of 13 travelers who came to Omaha from cruise ship test positive for coronavirus, quarantined at UNMC

 

[jjenny]

I don't think those already tested positive were in the box. Here is the woman who were on the same plane:
"In a comment posted on Facebook, Maniscalco wrote, “One person who had been confirmed before boarding the plane was sitting next to the bathrooms where everybody had to pass to use the bathroom. They claim that he was in a separate isolated area, that is not true he was sitting right next to the bathrooms.”"
Utah evacuees from Diamond Princess cruise ship express frustration about potential spread of infection, lack of transparency

 

[jjenny]

I guess Nebraska has 13, not 14. So where did they send the remaining one that tested positive? And why is she/he separated from the rest?

 

[Henry2326]

I guess Nebraska has 13, not 14. So where did they send the remaining one that tested positive? And why is she/he separated from the rest?

The hospitals they were sent to isn't the story. The story is in post #622.
Coronavirus-infected Americans flown home against CDC’s advice

 

[gregjrichards]

Four Australians test positive for coronavirus after being evacuated from the Diamond Princess cruise ship

On Friday night two Queensland women aged 54 and 55 tested positive for COVID-19 and will be flown to Brisbane for further treatment.

Earlier on Friday, a 78-year-old man from Western Australia was transferred to Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital in Perth. His wife will travel with him but then be isolated at home for two weeks.

Four Australians test positive for coronavirus after being evacuated from Diamond Princess | Daily Mail Online

 

[Henry2326]

Peng Yinhua, a doctor at a hospital in Wuhan, has died of coronavirus. He and his fiancee had planned to get married earlier this month but they postponed it so he could help in the fight against the epidemic. BNO Newsroom on Twitter

BNO Newsroom on Twitter

 

[gregjrichards]

Iran's health ministry Friday have reported two more coronavirus deaths and 13 new cases in the country, bringing the total number of deaths to four and infections to 18.

"Thirteen new cases have been confirmed," ministry spokesman Kianoush Jahanpour said on Twitter. "Unfortunately two of them have lost their lives."

The newly reported cases included "seven in Qom, four in Tehran, and two in Gilan" on the Caspian Sea coast, Mr Jahanpour revealed.

11:40am
A 57-year-old woman in Singapore has been diagnosed with both Covid-19 and dengue fever, the Strait Times has reported.

After initially being admitted to a general hospital ward with dengue - often dubbed breakbone fever - the woman was also confirmed to have the coronavirus and was transferred to an isolation room.

Coronavirus latest news: Ukraine's health minister to spend two-weeks in quarantine following protests

 

[Amonet]

I have heard Tamiflu (oseltamivir) helps a lot for people that catch the flu so long as you give it to a person early enough. The interesting thing with the drugs they mention above is I think they must be similar in some ways to Tamiflu because Tamiflu = (oseltamivir), and notice the names of the drugs they are mentioning.

They all have an ending similar to "oseltamivir". At least the "ivir" part is very similar. Wondering if their chemical makeup is similar to Tamiflu in some ways?

The drugs they mention sound close for the ending part:
Lopinavir
Ritonavir
antiviral Remdesivir

I believe they are all antiviral medications, and that you can indeed tell that from their names in the way you've said.

As you point out, the drug oseltamivir is sold under the brand name of Tamiflu, indicating that it's an antiviral that's for influenza virus infections.

I've looked up Remdesivir on Wikipedia, and it says:

Remdesivir (development code GS-5734) is a novel antiviral drug in the class of nucleotide analogs. It was developed by Gilead Sciences as a treatment for Ebola virus disease and Marburg virus infections,[1] though it has subsequently also been found to show antiviral activity against other single stranded RNA viruses such as respiratory syncytial virus, Junin virus, Lassa fever virus, Nipah virus, Hendra virus, and coronaviruses (including MERS and SARS viruses).[2][3] It is being studied for novel coronavirus 2019 and Nipah and Hendra virus infections.[4][5][6] Based on success against other coronavirus infections, Gilead provided remdesivir to physicians that treated an American patient in Snohomish County, Washington infected with the novel coronavirus 2019 and is providing the compound to China, to conduct a pair of trials in infected individuals with and without severe symptoms.[7]

Remdesivir - Wikipedia

 

[Henry2326]

NEW: Local official urges people in Codogno and Castiglione d'Adda, two towns near Milan, to stay at home as a precautionary measure and to avoid social contact - ANSA

BNO Newsroom on Twitter

 

[What if...]

So, bottom line, US and Australia are already discovering infected people who haven't tested positive previously. Japan let a bunch of people out of the ship and let them go into the public, and I think it's pretty much a guarantee some of these people would now test positive. All righty then.

And ^^^THIS^^^ is why I think the Olympics will get canceled!!! Not out of fear that the Chinese athletes may be infected, but because Japan is setting itself up to be the next hot zone!! (MOO)

 

[gregjrichards]

Hubei chief orders health officials to recount coronavirus patients after hundreds of confirmed cases were REMOVED from the daily toll to create a sharp drop

Hubei chief orders officials to recount coronavirus patients after confirmed cases were REMOVED | Daily Mail Online

 

[Henry2326]

I think we guessed that....
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Iran's health ministry says 'it is possible' coronavirus exists in all Iranian cities; there are currently 18 confirmed cases, 4 dead - Reuters
BNO Newsroom on Twitter

 

[jjenny]

And ^^^THIS^^^ is why I think the Olympics will get canceled!!! Not out of fear that the Chinese athletes may be infected, but because Japan is setting itself up to be the next hot zone!! (MOO)

Yep, it sure did. It wasn't a quarantine, it was an incubator. Then they waited 14 days and started letting people out, even though new infections were discovered daily. Quarantine should be starting over every time the new infection is discovered. It makes no sense whatsoever what Japan did. And Japan is not a third world country.

 

[jjenny]

The hospitals they were sent to isn't the story. The story is in post #622.
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It certainly is a story to me.

 

[Henry2326]

This is escalating big time. 18 months for a vaccine won't cut it.