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Coronavirus 'could be 1,000 times more infectious than SARS', scientists warn as they discover it plagues the body the same way as
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Posted on 02/28/2020 8:00:25 AM PST by TigerClaws

Edited on 02/28/2020 8:34:02 AM PST by Jim Robinson. [history]

The coronavirus could be up to 1,000 times more infectious than SARS because it plagues the body in the same way as HIV and Ebola, scientists warn.

Experts initially presumed the spread of COVID-19 would follow the same trajectory as the SARS outbreak in 2002/3, because the viruses are almost identical genetically.


(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: bioweapon; corona; covid19; ebola; hiv; sars; sarscov2; virus; wuflu; wuhanflu; wuhansars
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First healthcare death in Iran was an otherwise healthy nurse in her 20s.

Sure sounds like a bioweapon but they keep claiming it was all from bat soup. Did read a story about a Chinese scientist who instead of destroying monkeys used in medical testing had made $1 million selling them at markets there. That can't be good.

1 posted on 02/28/2020 8:00:25 AM PST by TigerClaws
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To: TigerClaws

Iranian nurse that died:

https://mobile.twitter.com/IranMomentum/status/1233390558707666944


2 posted on 02/28/2020 8:01:16 AM PST by TigerClaws
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To: TigerClaws

source ?


3 posted on 02/28/2020 8:04:29 AM PST by Bell Bouy II
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To: TigerClaws

The coronavirus has been circulating throughout China and greater Asia for months (at least). If the coronavirus is as infectious as the media proclaims it to be why are only 0.0057% of Chinese infected with it? How about only 0.0039% of South Koreans?

It means one of two things A) the virus is widespread but so mild that hundreds of millions of cases are undetected or B) the virus is actually not infectious at all. Either way we are being lied to and fellow freepers are helping push that lie.


4 posted on 02/28/2020 8:04:56 AM PST by tatown
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To: TigerClaws

Please cite the source of this article.


5 posted on 02/28/2020 8:05:04 AM PST by OKSooner (Free Beer Tomorrow)
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To: Bell Bouy II

Sorry. Was the head story on Daily Mail:

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-8055401/Coronavirus-1-000-times-infectious-SARS-scientists-warn.html


6 posted on 02/28/2020 8:05:35 AM PST by TigerClaws
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To: TigerClaws

Mexico confirms first two cases of coronavirus

https://www.wptv.com/news/national/coronavirus/mexico-confirms-first-two-cases-of-coronavirus

We could be looking at all borders and flights closed within the next couple of weeks.


7 posted on 02/28/2020 8:06:33 AM PST by TigerClaws
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To: TigerClaws

And who exactly is making these claims?


8 posted on 02/28/2020 8:07:00 AM PST by Robert DeLong
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To: TigerClaws

Their next land most important line is:

“Oh yeah—we almost forgot. Vote Trump out!”


9 posted on 02/28/2020 8:07:15 AM PST by reasonisfaith (What are the implications if the Resurrection of Christ is a true event in history?)
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To: TigerClaws

I’ve been saying for decades that it is NOT good enough to have millions of medicated HIV patients roaming the Earth, that viruses swap technology by way of the way they hijack true cells’ means of reproduction. And the example I always used was “what happens when the common cold (yes, a coronavirus) learns some tricks from HIV.”


10 posted on 02/28/2020 8:07:28 AM PST by dangus
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To: reasonisfaith

But what they don’t get is this virus isn’t going to stop Trump.

Get over it people!


11 posted on 02/28/2020 8:09:08 AM PST by reasonisfaith (What are the implications if the Resurrection of Christ is a true event in history?)
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To: TigerClaws

“Sure sounds like a bioweapon...”

What is your expertise in bioweapons?


12 posted on 02/28/2020 8:09:17 AM PST by SaxxonWoods (Epstein pulled a Carradine, the bozo.)
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https://www.scmp.com/news/china/society/article/3052495/coronavirus-far-more-likely-sars-bond-human-cells-scientists-say

When looking at the genome sequence of the new coronavirus, Professor Ruan Jishou and his team at Nankai University in Tianjin found a section of mutated genes that did not exist in Sars, but were similar to those found in HIV and Ebola.

Instead of hooking up to the ACE2 receptor, the novel coronavirus has a cleavage site on the spike. This tricks something called the furin enzyme, on human cells, to cleave the spike at that point — allowing the viral membrane and the human cell’s membrane to join, effectuating the entry of the virus into the cell.

Guess which other viruses actively have their own Furin? Ebola and AIDS.

13 posted on 02/28/2020 8:10:13 AM PST by null and void (By the pricking of my lungs, Something wicked this way comes ...)
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To: TigerClaws

Almost like it was engineered to spread among healthy people...


14 posted on 02/28/2020 8:10:23 AM PST by Erik Latranyi (The Democratic Party is communism)
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To: tatown

No, sir. It’s time to panic. PANIC!

...oh yeah, It’s all Donald Trumps fault, too.


15 posted on 02/28/2020 8:10:25 AM PST by Mr. Lucky
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To: TigerClaws; neverdem; ProtectOurFreedom; Mother Abigail; EBH; vetvetdoug; Smokin' Joe; ...
Not new news...
Bring Out Your Dead

Post to me or FReep mail to be on/off the Bring Out Your Dead ping list.

The purpose of the “Bring Out Your Dead” ping list (formerly the “Ebola” ping list) is very early warning of emerging pandemics, as such it has a high false positive rate.

So far the false positive rate is 100%.

At some point we may well have a high mortality pandemic, and likely as not the “Bring Out Your Dead” threads will miss the beginning entirely.

*sigh* Such is life, and death...

If a quarantine saves just one child's life, it's worth it.

16 posted on 02/28/2020 8:10:55 AM PST by null and void (By the pricking of my lungs, Something wicked this way comes ...)
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To: Robert DeLong

Who makes these claims?

The story says:

This makes it ‘100 to 1,000 times’ more efficient at infecting people than SARS, according to researchers from Nankai University in Tianjin, northern China.


17 posted on 02/28/2020 8:10:56 AM PST by TigerClaws
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To: tatown

I tend to agree.

It’s hard to really know because it seems that many people are not telling the truth. Based on the numbers, this thing really isn’t spreading like wildfire. And the mortality rate isn’t shockingly high. I think this is mostly another layer to the Flu season.

But what do I know? All the smart people are panicking.


18 posted on 02/28/2020 8:11:33 AM PST by ClearCase_guy (If White Privilege is real, why did Elizabeth Warren lie about being an Indian?)
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To: TigerClaws

Link?


19 posted on 02/28/2020 8:11:45 AM PST by traderrob6
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To: tatown

I see you believe the numbers fed to you by communists....


20 posted on 02/28/2020 8:11:55 AM PST by Erik Latranyi (The Democratic Party is communism)
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