I guess the US government doesn’t operate on the weekends, we (freepers)have known this since Friday, maybe Monday morning the CDC will have a meeting about what what their schedule is for Tuesday
slow response
from CNN:
China’s health minister Ma Xiaowei had some very bad news Sunday about the Wuhan coronavirus: He said people can spread it before they have symptoms.
A veteran adviser for a US health agency called the news a “game changer.”
“When I heard this, I thought, ‘oh dear, this is worse than we anticipated.’ It means the infection is much more contagious than we originally thought,” said Dr. William Schaffner, a longtime adviser to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Schaffner added that this new piece of information called into question the current US practices for containing the virus so it doesn’t spread beyond the three cases that have already appeared in Washington state, California, and Illinois.
Schaffner, an infectious disease expert at Vanderbilt University Medical Center said that if Max is correct, “we’re going to have to re-evaluate our strategy, that’s for sure.”
A Chinese doctor says that the #CoronaVirus (#2019nCoV) has clear imaging features on CT scans. The infected lungs have a “ground-glass-like shadow” . This is consistent with a #Wuhan doctor's description in their complaint letter to the national health commission. pic.twitter.com/ctFQGOgXgX— AS-Source News (@ASBreakingNews) January 26, 2020
“A veteran adviser for a US health agency called the news a “game changer.”
Public health officials have known this for at least a week, maybe longer.
Why they have not acted on it is baffling.
Yes, the game has changed. This virus is loose everywhere and we’ll all be exposed eventually. Our only hope is that continued mutation tames it down to a common cold.
But everyone will be exposed.