Posted on 01/24/2020 2:28:22 PM PST by janetjanet998
Thought it may be a good idea to have a place to follow all the fast moving events in one place
updates coming in fast
Liang Wudong, a doctor at Hubei Xinhua Hospital who had been at the front line of the #CoronavirusOutbreak battle in Wuhan, dies from the virus at age 62.
https://twitter.com/CGTNOfficial/status/1220886829726961664
California: Alameda County-9 Possible Being Tested
Today, 07:39 PM
At least 9 people being tested for coronavirus in Alameda County
https://henderson.8newsnow.com/news/...alameda-county
ALAMEDA COUNTY (KRON) — At least nine people are being tested for the deadly coronavirus in Alameda County, according to health officials.
The Alameda County Health Department told KRON4 there are no confirmed cases at this time
Health officials say the patients have either traveled to Wuhan, China within the past 14 days or have been in contact with someone who has been exposed to the virus.
The patients have also had a high fever and a cough.
Health officials stressed that this does not mean they have the virus or will get the virus.
The patients’ lab work is being sent to the CDC in Atlanta for further testing. -—CONTINUED—
If you could take second and put in paragraph breaks it would be great.
2 coronavirus cases suspected in Minnesota
State health officials said Friday they are monitoring two possible cases of coronavirus in Minnesota, and they outlined their plans to respond quickly to contain any infection here.
more...
https://www.mprnews.org/story/2020/0...rep-for-spread
Well, actually I did, but I guess they didn’t take. Sure looks ugly...
Many more to come. Many First line responders will be dead. We will never hear of most of them.
I just tried in my “note pad” and it came out without breaks. Must be the formatting from where you got it.
“Virus-hit Wuhan has two laboratories linked to Chinese bio-warfare program”
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2020/jan/24/virus-hit-wuhan-has-two-laboratories-linked-chines/
Very good. I’m using that at work tomorrow.
I have a relative that worked across the street. Another Army lab, for completely different, boring things. They have a lot of underground stuff.
My guess is they find “something” for those folks to do during the day.
I always thought Nadine should have been “saved.” I recall thinking there was probably a lot of guys willing to help with that.
I hated the little wild kid character.
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Aside from some unusual wording due to translation - this is a fascinating and very concerning snapshot of the progression of this virus. Being mildly symptomatic and in contact with others in hospital, then getting worse, with no “kit” to get Corona diagnosis, going home then back. What a mess. Very interesting write-up.
Novel coronavirus 2019-nCoV: early estimation of epidemiological parameters and epidemic predictions
Jonathan M. Read1, Jessica R.E. Bridgen1, Derek A.T. Cummings2, Antonia Ho, Chris P.Jewell1
Affiliations:1. Centre for Health Informatics, Computing and Statistics, Lancaster Medical School, Lancaster University, Lancaster, United Kingdom. 2. Department of Biology and Emerging Pathogens Institute, University of Florida, Gainesville, United States of America.3. Medical Research Council-University of Glasgow Centre for Virus Research, Glasgow, United Kingdom.
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Summary
We are still in the early days of this outbreak and there is much uncertainty in both the scale of the outbreak, as well as key epidemiological information regarding transmission. However, the rapidity of the growth of cases since the recognition of the outbreak is much greater than that observed in outbreaks of either SARS or MERS-CoV. This is consistent with our higher estimates of the reproductive number for this outbreak compared to these other emergent coronaviruses, suggesting that containment or control of this pathogen may be substantially more difficult.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1fz7..._3PmysukL/view
Harold was willing to save her, but he saw the light way too late.
BioRxiv: Discovery of a novel coronavirus associated with the recent pneumonia outbreak in humans and its potential bat origin
Discovery of a novel coronavirus associated with the recent pneumonia outbreak in humans and its potential bat origin
Zheng-Li Shi, Peng Zhou, Xing-Lou Yang, Xian-Guang Wang, Ben Hu, Lei Zhang, Wei Zhang, Hao-Rui Si, Yan Zhu, Bei Li, Chao-Lin Huang, Hui-Dong Chen, Jing Chen, Yun Luo, Hua Guo, Ren-Di Jiang, Mei-Qin Liu, Ying Chen, Xu-Rui Shen, Xi Wang, Xiao-Shuang Zheng, Kai Zhao, Quan-Jiao Chen, Fei Deng, Lin-Lin Liu, Bing Yan, Fa-Xian Zhan, Yan-Yi Wang, Gengfu Xiao
doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2020.01.22.914952
Abstract Since the SARS outbreak 18 years ago, a large number of severe acute respiratory syndrome related coronaviruses (SARSr-CoV) have been discovered in their natural reservoir host, bats. Previous studies indicated that some of those bat SARSr-CoVs have the potential to infect humans. Here we report the identification and characterization of a novel coronavirus (nCoV-2019) which caused an epidemic of acute respiratory syndrome in humans, in Wuhan, China. The epidemic, started from December 12th, 2019, has caused 198 laboratory confirmed infections with three fatal cases by January 20th, 2020. Full-length genome sequences were obtained from five patients at the early stage of the outbreak. They are almost identical to each other and share 79.5% sequence identify to SARS-CoV. Furthermore, it was found that nCoV-2019 is 96% identical at the whole genome level to a bat coronavirus. The pairwise protein sequence analysis of seven conserved non-structural proteins show that this virus belongs to the species of SARSr-CoV. The nCoV-2019 virus was then isolated from the bronchoalveolar lavage fluid of a critically ill patient, which can be neutralized by sera from several patients. Importantly, we have confirmed that this novel CoV uses the same cell entry receptor, ACE2, as SARS-CoV.
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...01.22.914952v1
I wonder if the only advantage to knowing it is the virus is the contagion faction. Meaning treatment is the same as regular pneumonia.
It is interesting to me they are using a robot to treat the guy on the west coast. I think Washington
@DrDenaGrayson
Having YEARS of experience developing an #Ebola treatment, I was concerned about this #CoronavirusOutbreak from the outset, because this #coronavirus strain is very contagious, causes severe illness, and NO treatments or vaccines are available.
@DrDenaGrayson
Unlike H5N1 “bird flu” (which does not spread easily between people) or SARS (which was spread by only a handful of “super spreaders”), this #coronavirus DOES appear to spread easily between people, even after making the jump from an animal (this is not common).
@DrDenaGrayson
In addition to being highly contagious, this novel #coronavirus can cause a SEVERE infection that can kill even healthy people. It’s rare to see BOTH of these (bad) attributes in the same novel virus. Usually, it’s one or the other.
@DrDenaGrayson
One way experts judge how deadly a pathogen (virus, bacteria, etc) is by the “case-fatality rate,” which is the # of deaths / # infected people.
It’s WAY too early to know what this is, because it takes time for patients to succumb to the infection.
@DrDenaGrayson
Thus far, the case-fatality rate appears to be ~4%...but its’ WAY too early to know what it really is, due to spotty reporting (both of deaths and cases), and because patients are still sick and could die tomorrow, next week, etc., even if no new infections occur.
https://twitter.com/DrDenaGrayson/status/1220856786602930177
So can someone tell me does this prove that is an in the wild virus versus the Commie Bioweapons lab in the city manufacturing it to act like the in the wild virus.
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