What you need to know about the virus in China "2019 Novel Coronavirus (2019-nCoV)"

[North_Sky]

 

[North_Sky]

According to today's stats, there seems to be three new Coronavirus related deaths in the USA ... and the number of affected regions/countries is now @ 79 in the world.

¤ https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/

 

[g29]

BTW, the 1918 flu originated in Kansas (US), in military camps. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish_flu

The last flu pandemy (2009) had its origen in Mexico.

Where did the Spanish flu really originate? For many years, medical historians and epidemiologists hypothesized that the outbreak could have started at a British army base in Étaples, France, or at Fort Riley in Kansas, where the first American cases of this new strain of flu were recorded in March of 1918. More recently, experts have proposed a third hypothesis: The Spanish flu originated somewhere in northern China in late 1917 and swiftly moved to western Europe with the 140,000 Chinese laborers the French and British governments recruited to perform manual labor to free up troops for wartime duty.

From the same wiki/Spanish_flu article.

There were relatively few deaths from the flu in China compared to other regions of the world.[24][25] This has led to speculation that the 1918 flu pandemic originated from China.[26][27][28][29]

 

[RayDunzl]

Under normal circumstances, I would be likely to do only three of the above items anyway...

 

[QMuse]

Under normal circumstances, I would be likely to do only three of the above items anyway...

Going to the gym is probably topping your list, right?

 

[briskly]

On copper and steel its pretty typical, it’s pretty much about 2 hours,

Copper and copper alloys are known for contact antimicrobial properties. Steel normally lacks copper and other elements with similar properties; viruses would be expected to last as long as on any other dry surface.

 

[Thomas savage]

If it gets really bad I plan to cancel my numerous planned holidays and spend the money on having vodka baths ..

Anybody worried about not being able to get hand sanitizer, you can make your own fairly easily. Look it up online.

There's been a load of schools shut down the road in Torquay, somebody got infected while in Italy. Adult and a child . Just two people and hundreds of kids are off school needing looking after .

It's quite the disaster even at the modest levels we've had so far in the UK

It will likely get a whole lot worse, I hope the weather kills it off before that happens.

 

[North_Sky]

It would need a whole lot of global warming to kill it.

 

[QMuse]

https://www.ecdc.europa.eu/en/novel-coronavirus-china/questions-answers

5. How long this outbreak will last?
Unfortunately, it is not possible to predict how long the outbreak will last and how the epidemic will evolve overall. We are dealing with a new virus and therefore a lot of uncertainty remains. For instance, it is unknown whether transmission will decrease during the summer, as is observed for seasonal influenza.

 

[North_Sky]

Say till the next millennium?

 

[g29]

It would need a whole lot of global warming to kill it.

 

[LumbermanSVO]

That's a terrible map.

I just spent fours days in downtown SF, didn't see any poo on the sidewalks...

 

[RayDunzl]

I just spent fours days in downtown SF, didn't see any poo on the sidewalks...

Did you look down?

 

[LumbermanSVO]

Did you look down?

I did!

 

[raistlin65]

Did you look down?

No. He just checked the bottom of his shoes

 

[g29]

How do you "temporarily" release thousands of prisoners ?

Iran announced Tuesday that it will temporarily release more than 54,000 inmates in an attempt to prevent the spread of the coronavirus. The Middle Eastern country has over 2,300 cases of the virus, and 77 deaths.

 

[North_Sky]

https://www.cbsnews.com/video/epide...ronavirus-in-the-months-ahead/#site-header:38

 

[Wes]

Pretty interesting info on live span of other coronaviruses on surfaces: https://www.journalofhospitalinfection.com/article/S0195-6701(20)30046-3/fulltext

We need similar data for SARS-CoV-2 (novel coronavirus) on surfaces.

This sounds like BS: "On copper and steel its pretty typical, it’s pretty much about 2 hours,” Redfield [CDC director] said at a House of Representatives hearing on the government response to the fast-spreading virus.

I heard him say it too, but here is one article that quoted the CDC director:
https://www.cnbc.com/2020/02/27/coronavirus-latest-updates-outbreak.html

Two hours on a metal surface seems like wishful thinking unless it is hot. Totally unacceptable for the director of the CDC to be telling people. I would imagine it is highly temperature dependent, but I can't believe there is no published data on this.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_R._Redfield#Controversy

 

[Blumlein 88]

How do you "temporarily" release thousands of prisoners ?

Maybe you only release repeat offenders? I must say it sounds like non-sense. Maybe they'll keep tabs on them, and go pick them back up later.

 

[g29]

Coronavirus: Chinese messaging app WeChat censored virus content since 1 Jan

China's most popular messaging app has been censoring key words about the coronavirus outbreak from as early as 1 January, a report has found.

Toronto-based research group Citizen Lab found that WeChat blocked combinations of keywords and criticism of President Xi Jinping.

The report also found that WeChat, owned by Chinese firm Tencent, blocked more words as the outbreak grew.

China has for years censored what its people read and say online.

But this report suggests China began censoring discussions weeks before officials began acknowledging the severity of the outbreak.
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