Posted on 01/30/2020 4:50:16 AM PST by Kaslin
In the U.S., the CDC is reporting five confirmed cases from these states: Washington, Illinois, California and Arizona. On Monday, Jan. 27, Nancy Messonnier, MD, Director of the agency's National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases, said it had 165 persons under investigation for coronavirus from 36 states. In addition to the 5 confirmed positive, 68 have tested negative. They are prioritizing the testing based on a person’s risk.
Messonnier said they had posted the blueprints for their diagnostic test on a public server and were working "as fast as we can" to get test kits out to states.
Right now, all the testing for the new coronavirus is taking place at the CDC's headquarters in Atlanta.
She said the CDC was mulling a change to its travel screening for the infection, but did not give further details.
How many people have been diagnosed with the virus, and how many have died?
According to European CDC, the majority of the confirmed cases – 5,994 – are in China. Another 78 cases are confirmed outside of China in 16 countries. Countries with the most confirmed cases include Thailand with 14 and Taiwan and South Korea with 8 each. All reported deaths have been in China, and include 16 healthcare workers.
China first reported the outbreak in Wuhan on Dec. 30, 2019.
On Tuesday, the CDC urged travelers to avoid non-essential travel to China.
Chinese officials have shut down all public transportation to 10 cities, affecting 35 million people. The first was Wuhan, which has a population of about 11 million. In Wuhan, that includes buses, subways, trains, and the airport.
All passengers flying into the United States from Wuhan will be routed through one of five airports and screened for fever and other signs of the virus. “Patients of concern��� will be referred to a facility and given a test to find out if they have the virus.
In all U.S. cases so far, patients had recently traveled to Wuhan.
California has two patients, one in Los Angeles County and one in Orange County. The patient from Orange County is a man in his 50s. He is in a local hospital in isolation and is in good condition, according to the Orange County Health Care Agency. Los Angeles County officials did not provide additional details about the patient there.
Arizona's Department of Health Services said its patient is a Maricopa County resident and member of the Arizona State University community who did not live in student housing. The patient is not severely ill and is being kept in isolation.
Another case involves a woman in her 60s from Chicago. The Chicago Department of Public Health reported that she had visited Wuhan, China in December and returned to Chicago earlier this month. She is hospitalized in stable condition.
The first U.S. patient is a man in his 30s from Washington state. He had traveled from Wuhan and entered the country before the screening was in place. He started having symptoms and contacted his doctor. He is in good condition and is in isolation at Providence Regional Medical Center.
Wuhan is closed to travelers.
The CDC is advising that travelers avoid non-essential travel to China. Travelers who do go should:
China created a test for the virus and shared that information with other countries. The CDC has developed its own test.
Symptoms include a fever, coughing, and shortness of breath. They may appear 2 to 14 days after you’re exposed to the virus.
Health officials are not sure of the source of the virus yet or how easily it can spread. Coronaviruses are found in many different animals, including camels, cattle, cats, and bats. One research paper also suggested snakes as a possible source. The new virus may be linked to a seafood and live animal market in Wuhan that has since been closed
The virus can spread from person to person. Health officials are seeing this happen most often where people are close together and in health care settings. To date, 16 health care workers have been infected.
The CDC believes that severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) and Middle East respiratory syndrome (MERS), two other types of coronavirus, are spread through droplets when someone coughs or sneezes.
One dead in Manila, so far.
China has already demonstrated that this can be spread by asymptomatic carriers. Or that one can have the virus affecting the lungs, without symptoms. Including for example, a 10 year old boy from an infected family, no fever or anything, who had the characteristic "ground glass" appearance in his lung on X-ray.
Or the doctor who had never been to Wuhan, who caught the disease by sitting at a conference, next to a doctor who *had*.
There’s a claim that researchers in Hong Kong say the number of infections is doubling every 6.2 days, or roughly doubling every week.
At that rate, the number of cases will be around 40 million by early April.
We’ll see.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OJr5ZeHIe_M roughly 9 minutes in.
What happened to the Maryland person?
No longer has it or no longer with us?
Just about everyone who is infected could be a non-symptomatic carrier for an interval.
As I asked earlier this week, is there a difference between when someone becomes contagious and when they are symptomatic?
The only information I get is about each factor separately, and not how they are overlapped per case. If people are infectious after 24 hours, but don’t show symptoms for 2 to 14 days, then they will pass fever and cough screenings.
It’s actually starting to look better and better that they have a chance to contain it, but I still don’t think their motives are purely about public safety. Something else is mitigating the measures are being taken.
WHO is suppose to meet today (mid-day Eastern) whether they will rule a worldwide emergency or not. They kinda ‘played their hand’ at the news conference yesterday. They said currently, there is only a ‘yes or no’ option on making the ruling; they wanted a ‘stoplight’ approach, which would allow them a third option - yellow light.
I was wondering where the president was on this. He’s had a task force up and running since Monday. I feel more at ease knowing this. I only hope that none of those assistant secretaries are DS Obama holdovers.
article says 68 tested negative - likely one of those or test result not back yet? people were talking ofpossible infected people in other states too. I doubt it will get big in usa unless some one purposely goes around spreading it.
Yep, CDC continues to be about 2 weeks behind in dealing with Coronavirus - they’re using the template that worked for SARS, except...SARS didn’t spread during incubation, this strain of Coronavirus appears to do just that.
There is not understanding out here, to what an epidemic can be. I lost a ggrandfather to the 1918 flu epidemic. It took about 24 hours to take a healthy farmer of 32, to death. It changed so many lives...
The polio rampage took anyone it chose... everything cancelled one summer.. everything.. and yet people still got it.
Epidemics have a mind all their own.. and today, I’m not sure they are doing enough soon enough. Why bring them in from China? The flu of 1918 was brought to our country by our soldiers and others, coming in from Europe...
It should stay in China.... but it won’t.
The genie is already out of the bottle. The only thing to do now is avoid being around other people.
“There’s a claim that researchers in Hong Kong say the number of infections is doubling every 6.2 days, or roughly doubling every week.”
That seems low, implying a 12% daily increase. The numbers I’ve seen for the past few days is around 30% - meaning a doubling every 2.5 days, and reaching that 40M number a month earlier. We shall see.
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Except that the opportunity to pass it on has been interrupted or decreased. I will believe it is fading if the numbers go down significantly after the 2 weeks incubation period.
True, hopefully.
What's essential to them is not essential to me. UT Austin (TX) has told undergrads they can't do study/programs in China but graduate students and profs can and whomever gets approval.
The CDC also advised those who have been "self isolated" not stay in crowds too much. Excuse me, if you're isolated, you shouldn't be outside your room much less in crowds. WTH is wrong with these people?
Yeah, WHO is now having to admit they screwed up royally. But they’re not too ashamed to shut things down. They’ll talk and talk and decide to go with the yellow light and nothing changes.
Whoever answered that question this way is not a serious person.
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