Coronavirus Global Health Emergency, 2019-nCoV #2

[Bravo]

I cant even begin to imagine what's really going on. Sooo much human suffering.

 

[dixiegirl1035]

Latest update just released: 3156 new diagnosed cases in Hubei province. This is the biggest one-day increase so far.



http://wjw.hubei.gov.cn/fbjd/dtyw/202002/t20200205_2019293.shtml

Yeah, it's gonna happen every day there that the numbers will increase. MOO. It could be the header for each MSM report for days to come as to biggest increase ever.

Damn, the daily numbers are getting bigger and bigger Pretty soon, the graphs we are seeing are going to go logarithmic scale as it continues perhaps to double every three days or so in Wuhan. How can anywhere in the world cope with such as to resources for a new test, new cases, soooo many people. Does this reflect the hospital opening? Or does this jive with the expected increase? There were 19,700 yesterday...I guess it does appear that it's tracking as expected.

Tracking coronavirus: Map, data and timeline
Timeline (GMT)
4 February

• 22:13: 3,156 new cases and 65 new deaths in Hubei province, China. (Source)

 

[dotr]

Canadian living in Wuhan on why his family is staying put
Feb 4 2020
CityNews Toronto

 

[mickey2942]

I cant even begin to imagine what's really going on. Sooo much human suffering.

And pets, apparently, people die, or they evacuated and there is no one around to take care of the pets. I read about some volunteers who were checking for animals that needed tending.
Thousands of pets trapped in Wuhan lockdown face starving to death with owners unable to return to the city

 

[margarita25]

RSBM \ BBM:

Rsbm Virus can survive up to 5 days on hard surfaces

That’s a long time, moo.
@Hatfield

 

[dixiegirl1035]

Timeline (GMT)
4 February

• 23:14: Multiple people have been diagnosed with coronavirus on a cruise ship off Yokohama in Japan. Ten people have been taken to an area hospital. Once the number of confirmed cases is known, this page will be updated. Two cases have been added in the interim. (Source)

 

[margarita25]

Coronavirus: Wuhan family struggles to get confirmation of infections and receive treatment

proof of infection,
hospitalization certificate

“Entire families who have been infected”

 

[Ruthbullock]

JMO, but it is definitely contained in the media, purely to prevent mass hysteria. I live in york where the two cases were contained. Schools have all been sent information leaflets which have been distributed. The university has set up a hot line for those worried they may have been in contact. GPS etc were informed of the outbreak 20 hours before it was public knowledge in order to act upon it. People were identifying (my husband was involved), the people who stayed at the hotel and requesting them to self isolate. It has been released in the press today that the student did return to their halls of residence for one night, but didn’t have contact with anyone else- which also suggests they are now well enough to talk about where they had or had not visited and met people. Nothing shocking in any of that, but a POV from a city (albeit a very small one), who has had two confirmed cases

 

[gregjrichards]

Cashing in on the coronavirus: Chemist in Sydney's Chinese heartland demands $400 for a pack of 50 face masks - FOUR TIMES the price before the outbreak

Sydney chemist jacks mask prices up to $400 for a pack of 50 | Daily Mail Online



This is disgusting and morally reprehensible.

 

[airportwoman]

I don't quite understand the point of putting so many beds in stadiums and other buildings. If they need intense medical care, how is that provided in a stadium full of beds? I wonder if it's assumed that most will recover, and the stadium is a form of quarantine.

I suspect you're right.

Here's a NEJM report on the Washington state man who had coronavirus; in short, he was very sick for a few days but never moribund, and has since been discharged from the hospital.

https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa2001191

 

[margarita25]

Cashing in on the coronavirus: Chemist in Sydney's Chinese heartland demands $400 for a pack of 50 face masks - FOUR TIMES the price before the outbreak

Sydney chemist jacks mask prices up to $400 for a pack of 50 | Daily Mail Online

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This is disgusting and morally reprehensible.

The old “price gouging” - disgusting like you said. You see it often during disasters, sadly, when people are most vulnerable and desperate. That happens a lot with supplies like bottled water during hurricanes over here in the States.

“Price gouging is a term referring to when a seller spikes the prices of goods, services or commodities to a level much higher than is considered reasonable or fair, and is considered exploitative, potentially to an unethical extent. Usually this event occurs after a demand or supply shock.”

Price gouging - Wikipedia

Example:
A $99 case of bottled water? Texas stores accused of price-gouging in wake of Harvey.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news...s-accused-of-price-gouging-in-wake-of-harvey/

 

[Alyce]

Coronavirus: Another plane to bring Britons home from China

 

[Bravo]

It must be a tremendous relief that folks are getting home.

 

[mickey2942]

It must be a tremendous relief that folks are getting home.

Is it? Or is this a vector to spread disease?

How are they disinfecting the aircraft?

 

[dixiegirl1035]

I've been RL/AFK most of today this evening. Just came back to do a quick look to find that a flight has taken off from Wuhan to the US March Air Force Base again. I didn't remember it was happening today.



Same airline, Kalita, which has a contract with Dept of Defense in US as I outlined before on the first one.

Kalitta Air (K4) #373 ✈ 05-Feb-2020 ✈ WUH / ZHHH - KRIV ✈ FlightAware

ETA: It looks like it took off 5 1/2 hours late. Hopefully, that means they waited on folks to get on the plane that had a hard time getting to the airport.

 

[Iggy2020]

Cashing in on the coronavirus: Chemist in Sydney's Chinese heartland demands $400 for a pack of 50 face masks - FOUR TIMES the price before the outbreak

Sydney chemist jacks mask prices up to $400 for a pack of 50 | Daily Mail Online

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This is disgusting and morally reprehensible.

DBM

 

[margarita25]

Coronavirus Live Updates: As Death Toll Rises, More Americans Are Heading Home

• A second evacuation of Americans from China has begun.
• The China death toll rises, and Britain and France urged citizens to evacuate.
• Hyundai suspended production at South Korea car factories.
• The oil industry is already in the doldrums.
• ‘The virus is the enemy, not the Chinese.’

[...]

The China death toll rises, and Britain and France urged citizens to evacuate.
“At least 490 people in China have died from the coronavirus, officials said on Wednesday, and the number of confirmed cases of infection rose to 24,324, up from 425 deaths and 20,438 confirmed cases the day before.”

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• World wide death toll passes 490 people

• Ten people on cruise ship near Tokyo have virus

• FDA authorizes other labs to use CDC-developed test

“The US Food and Drug Administration said Tuesday it has issued an emergency use authorization to allow qualified labs to use the Wuhan coronavirus test developed by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Previously, the CDC was the only lab in the United States able to test for the novel coronavirus.

The diagnostic is authorized to be used for patients who meet CDC criteria for testing, and by qualified labs designated by the CDC or certified to perform high-complexity tests.

The test can detect Wuhan coronavirus from nasal or oral swabs.”

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Significant new case in Canada

“British Columbia has a second case of coronavirus, which brings the total number of cases in Canada to five, Dr. Bonnie Henry, Health Officer for the province, announced at a news conference.”

[...]

“This is significant, as it seems to confirm human to human transmission in Canada for the first time.”

February 4 coronavirus news - CNN

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NIH doctor says 25% of coronavirus cases in China are 'very serious,' requiring 'intensive care'
MON, FEB 3 2020

• “About 25% of them have very serious disease, requiring relatively intensive or really intensive care,” NIH’s Dr. Anthony Fauci told CNBC on Monday.“

[...]

• “There are probably a lot more people who were infected in China who have not been really counted,” Fauci said. “The number is probably much larger.”

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Five San Jose hospital workers sent home after exposure to coronavirus
February 4, 2020

5 healthcare workers sent home to ensure they didn't contract coronavirus from patient

“”It is important to note that the action taken by public health does not mean any of these employees will contract the virus as the risk is extremely low,” the hospital said in a statement.”

 

[Bravo]

Is it? Or is this a vector to spread disease?

How are they disinfecting the aircraft?

If u read back each Country has a plan as to where and how folks are quarantined. There are also links as to how the planes are being disinfected. I'm good with my Country's plan. Canadians will be housed separately at Trenton Base.

 

[gregjrichards]

Is it? Or is this a vector to spread disease?

How are they disinfecting the aircraft?

Here's what United, American, and other airlines are doing to protect against coronavirus

Here's what United, American, and other airlines are doing to protect against coronavirus



All planes arriving from China are being sprayed with disinfectant.

 

[margarita25]

China, Desperate to Stop Coronavirus, Turns Neighbor Against Neighbor
“The authorities hunt for people from Wuhan, the center of the outbreak, encouraging citizens to inform on others. Even those without symptoms are being ostracized.”

[...]

“GUANGZHOU, China - One person was turned away by hotel after hotel after he showed his ID card. Another was expelled by fearful local villagers. A third found his most sensitive personal information leaked online after registering with the authorities.”

[...]

“All across the country, despite China’s vast surveillance network with its facial recognition systemsand high-end cameras that is increasingly used to track its 1.4 billion people, the government has turned to familiar authoritarian techniques — like setting up dragnets and asking neighbors to inform on one another — as it tries to contain the outbreak.”

[...]

“Local officials offered no explanation but returned a few days later to fasten police tape to his door and hang a sign that warned neighbors that a Wuhan returnee lived there. The sign included an informant hotline to call if anyone saw him or his family leave the apartment. Mr. Tang said he received about four calls a day from different local government departments.

“In reality there’s not much empathy,” he said. “It’s not a caring tone they’re using. It’s a warning tone. I don’t feel very comfortable about it.””

[...]

“In the eastern province of Jiangsu, quarantine turned to imprisonment after authorities used metal poles to barricade shut the door of a family recently returned from Wuhan. To get food, the family relied on neighbors who lowered provisions with a rope down to their back balcony, according to a local news report.”

[...]

“Checkpoints to screen people for fevers have popped up at tollbooths, at the front gates of apartment complexes and in hotels, grocery stores and train stations. Often those wielding the thermometer guns don’t hold them close enough to a person’s forehead, generating unusually low temperature readings. Such checks were worthless, for instance, against one man in the western province of Qinghai, whom police are investigating on suspicion that he covered up his symptoms to travel.”
-more at link

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Coronavirus news and live updates: Cruise ship under quarantine - CNN

“A Princess Cruises ship is locked down in a Japanese port, with 3,700 people quarantined on board after it was revealed that an infected passenger flew into Tokyo and spent a few days on the ship.

Medical officials are going room-by-room to check each guests' temperature and medical condition, Japan's health ministry said in a statement.

So far 10 people on the ship, which is sitting in Yokohama Bay, have been confirmed with the coronavirus.

There are still more than 100 samples awaiting test results. There are  2,666  guests and  1,045  crew members on board, Princess Cruises said in a statement.”

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“The growing caseload "indicates significant risk of community transmission" and could portend a "large-scale" outbreak, said Chuang Shuk-kwan, head of the communicable disease branch at the Center for Health Protection.”

[...]

“To treat the thousands of patients, China rushed to build hospitals and converted a gymnasium, exhibition hall and cultural center in Wuhan.

Patients were being moved into a new, 1,000-bed hospital with prefabricated wards and isolation rooms. A 1,500-bed hospital also specially built opens in days. The hospitals made from converted public spaces to treat patients with mild symptoms have a total of 3,400 beds, the simple cots placed in tight rows in cavernous rooms without any barriers between them.

One man, Fang Bin, said he saw wards so crowded during a visit to the city's No. 5 Hospital on Saturday that some patients were forced to sit on the ground.”

China coronavirus kills 490 as Japanese cruise ship reports new outbreak
More tests are pending

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United Airlines suspends all flights to Hong Kong amid coronavirus outbreak

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“The developments came as President Xi Jinping of China promised a toughened response. But the World Health Organization, worried that the epidemic could widen globally, asked donors on Tuesday for an immediate $675 million infusion and said it would ship 250,000 test kits around the world to help diagnose cases.

The money primarily is intended for poor countries with weak public health systems and regular arrivals of passengers from China; many African countries fall under that heading because more than one million Chinese expatriates work on the continent and thousands of African students are studying in China.”

Hong Kong Reports Its First Coronavirus Death as Outbreak Widens

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Coronavirus outbreak prompts church to remove missionaries from Hong Kong

The Hong Kong, China Temple.
LDS.org

“SALT LAKE CITY — The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is transferring 113 missionaries out of Hong Kong due to the coronavirus outbreak.”

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China virus claims second life off mainland, Macau casinos told to close

“The coronavirus outbreak claimed its first life in Hong Kong on Tuesday, compounding the international financial centre’s problems after anti-government protests, and Macau, the world’s biggest gambling playground, urged casinos to shut their doors.”

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Japan quarantined a cruise ship with 3,700 people onboard after one passenger contracted the Wuhan coronavirus. Here's what it's like onboard.

“Guests were allowed to resume their onboard activity after being screened, but the casino, shops, and photo studio have been shut, Reuters reported. It's not entirely clear what the other activities available are.

A passenger on board has been tweeting images of the ship amid the quarantine. They show heavily-protected medical workers in blue walking up and down the deserted hallways, and once-populated attractions — like the rooftop pool — totally empty.”