Posted on 01/22/2020 4:43:23 AM PST by 11th_VA
An alarming graph shows how fast the Wuhan coronavirus has spread in the past two weeks alone and highlights how soon it could become a pandemic.
The bar graph was posted on Twitter by Cate Cadell, the China correspondent for Reuters, on Wednesday.
It shows that in the past three days the number of infections has risen sharply, as have the number of deaths and the number of countries discovering infected people.
—Cate Cadell (@catecadell) January 22, 2020
It's not clear who made the graph, but the data on it is current. Cadell did not immediately respond to a request for clarification from Business Insider.
The pneumonia-like virus — also known as 2019-nCoV — was first discovered in the central Chinese city of Wuhan on December 31.
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We live in a world or hyperbole. Every headline now contains words like terrifying, explosive, blasted, catastrophe, etc. Every article has someone’s hair on fire about something. I especially loathe the aricles that talk about someone getting “ripped” on Twitter. Delete the app, problem solved.
No, but part of the reason they did not become a pandemic is that we took them seriously.
Or the hockey stick curve?
Outstanding reason to ban all travel from China for the forseeable future.
18 posted on 1/22/2020, 5:13:30 AM by Leep (Everyday is Trump Day!)
Challenge accepted
Cootie alert!
Post to me or FReep mail to be on/off the Cootie ping list.
The purpose of the “Cootie” 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.
I expect someone will object *cough* Spktyr *cough* *cough* *gasp* *wheeze*
The flu also causes pneumonia and is life threatening to those with respiratory disease. It would be interesting to compare the death rate for this virus and influenza
As usual the media will hype this as the end of the world. The mortality rate of this virus is about 2% which is very, very low.
This too shall pass.
Full disclosure, I am not in the medical field but I did stay at a Holiday Inn and know bullshit when I hear it,
The other thing (I’ve read) about the coronavirus vs the flu is, the common flu virus can live 24-48 hours on say a poll, the coronavirus can live for “several days” (4-6 days.
Both apparently survive long enough on inanimate objects to be quite contagious.
:raising hand to be pung: “ME! Please!”
One of the Fox News doctors said this virus is “the common cold”.
Hmmm, you’re already on the ping list. Do you object to calling it the Cootie ping list?
The sky is falling, the sky is falling, effing chicken little society
um...no...because I used to play Cootie when I was a kid. And I was quite good at making Cootie-catchers!
Medicare pays for pneumonia vaccines. There are two shots, over a period of two years. Next fall when I get my flu shot, I’ll get my second pneumonia shot. It’s all I can do.
Who knew, I'm getting one !!!!
“Yep, the ole “J” curve.”
Michael Mann may get a real hockey stick curve...just not the one that supports his religion.
There is no multiplier. This is baseline for SIR.
Obviously being used by the media for effect, but it portends what will happen with a deadlier virus x1000.
We’re all going to f’ing die.
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