Coronavirus Live Update Jan 28, 2020 (Agenda Free TV)

Agenda Free TV ^ | Jan 28, 2020

[11th_VA]

131 Dead, 5564 Cases

[MarMema]

There is a significant lymphopenia and a very high DDimer in the infected of the Lancet publication. Means nasty stuff going on during the illness that could, in and of itself, cause death. Meantime WHO just said 2℅ mortality in their press conference.

[janetjanet998]

29 Jan - 02:06:24 PM [RTRS] - FRANCE DECLARES A FIFTH CASE CORONAVIRUS - HEALTH MINISTER

[Black Agnes]

There’s big overlap between, for sure.

Southern China/Vietnam tend to be more ‘delicate’ in appearance. Northern China tends to be taller and broader shouldered.

YMMV of course.

I worked with a Japanese guy who was right every single time. It was eerie. He was Japanese descent. His parents met in an internment camp.

[mrsmith]

Finally found some info on Africa:
https://qz.com/africa/1792684/ethiopia-nigeria-kenya-s-africa-ready-for-chinas-coronavirus/

No confirmed cases, but they do, at least, seem to be looking.

[BusterDog]

"Meantime WHO just said 2℅ mortality in their press conference"

Use any sample size you want in terms of outbreaks in the most developed countries and you will not get mortality down to 2% for this Coronavirus.

[Vermont Lt]

Our city has very distinct Asian communities. Generally, you can tell Korean Chines, and Vietnamese. We don’t have a lot of Japanese. Context and name badges are the big tell.

In our hospital community we have lots of Chinese Students, lost of Vietnamese patients, and some Korean employees. Not racist, just the way it falls.

[LilFarmer]

Potential cases:
Delaware
http://www.wboc.com/story/41626750/delaware-resident-being-tested-for-coronavirus

Nevada
https://www.ktnv.com/news/potential-case-of-coronavirus-in-las-vegas-valley

[BusterDog]

"Finally found some info on Africa: https://qz.com/africa/1792684/ethiopia-nigeria-kenya-s-africa-ready-for-chinas-coronavirus/

No confirmed cases, but they do, at least, seem to be looking."

20 min ago from some infectious disease senior fellow at Southampton, Leads Uni:

To come back to this, there are suspected cases in #Kenya, #Ethiopia and #Sudan. As per the reference in the below thread, travel of migrant workers (and others) between China and #Africa, these three countries (usually) have the high numbers of travellers. (1/2)#coronavirus https://t.co/TpQvlimj9b— Michael Head (@michaelghead) January 29, 2020

[BusterDog]

"Our city has very distinct Asian communities. Generally, you can tell Korean Chines, and Vietnamese. We don’t have a lot of Japanese. Context and name badges are the big tell. In our hospital community we have lots of Chinese Students, lost of Vietnamese patients, and some Korean employees. Not racist, just the way it falls.

Gotcha, but if we put some money in an escrow account, and bet whether or not you could tell the nationality of Asians by just looking at them speaking to you in English on youtube videos or whatever, you would lose, because you can't tell by looking at them. You think you can, but you can't. You guess based on what I said above.

[BusterDog]

"I worked with a Japanese guy who was right every single time."

Uh-huh. It's like those people that tell you they can distinguish between tap and bottled water by taste.

It's all well and good till the blindfold and the money come out, then they back off the claim.

[janetjanet998]

NEW: France reports 5th case of coronavirus, the daughter of the 4th case; 2 of those infected are in serious condition

[Vermont Lt]

Out of context? Absolutely. I used to be able to tell PR from DR from Columbian. Not so much any more.

And you do not want to guess with them. They get angry. So I just smile and talk to anyone.

[Black Agnes]

Thanks, I’ll look at that.

[mrsmith]

Thanks. That’s a great link about Africa.

[Black Agnes]

Nope.

He actually could.

We worked in a field with a LOT of Asians. He could ID the country w/o fail before we even knew the name.

Ie. at a conference, ‘see that guy over there, he’s Korean’...we’d walk over and sure enough, the guy would be Korean. Not dressed any differently than every other geeky male at the conference. etc. YMMV of course.

[Black Agnes]

The worst thing to do is call an Iranian an Arab.

[BusterDog]

"Thanks. That’s a great link about Africa."

You are welcome. It's really getting too fast to keep up with suspected cases at this point, nor do I think most suspected are even being reported.

There's going to be a huge lag, even in the US, as data rolls through the bureaucracy.

[mrsmith]

https://twitter.com/JoeB14ck/status/1222606880016494592

“Overworked doctors battling deadly #coronavirus outbreak in #Wuhan are wearing adult diapers as there is no time for toilet breaks and their haz-mat suits are too fragile to remove.”

A little ‘human interest’...

[Oorang]

Coronavirus Nevada ping

[BusterDog]

Google has had enough, closes all offices in mainland China as well as HK and Taiwan. Also advises all employees to "come home" and work from home for 14 days, as well as any employee who has had family recently return from China to work from home.

Weakly worded in article, but I think they mean if you are in these areas, or if you have family who recently returned from these areas, get out of there, go home and work from home.

Source: The Verge (whatever that is)

"Google is temporarily shutting down all China offices due to coronavirus outbreak"

https://www.theverge.com/2020/1/29/21113817/coronavirus-google-china-offices-temporary-closing-virus-outbreak-risk