Posted on 02/01/2020 10:47:23 AM PST by SeekAndFind
Two of the four NSW coronavirus patients have recovered from the potentially lethal infection and have been discharged from hospital, according to health authorities.
NSW chief health officer Doctor Kerry Chant said the men were no longer infectious and had been released.
"As an added precaution we have undertaken testing to confirm there is no virus detectable in samples taken from those individuals.
"They acquired the virus, they got better, and now they're not infectious."
Both of the discharged men had arrived in NSW from China: a 35-year-old man travelled to Sydney from Shenzhen and a 53-year-old male flew to Sydney from Wuhan.
A 21-year-old female student from the University of New South Wales and a 43-year-old man remain in isolation.
Authorities in NSW have been ramping up testing for the virus in recent days, encouraging recent visitors to China to come forward even if their symptoms are mild.
Dr Chant said she would not be surprised if further cases of coronavirus were confirmed in NSW, where currently 20 possible cases are under investigation.
"I wouldn't be concerned if I found another case — that would reflect the veracity of our screening processes," she said.
Nine cases, including the two men who have been discharged, have been confirmed in Australia — four in NSW, three in Victoria and two in Queensland.
On Thursday evening, Queensland authorities confirmed their second case of novel coronavirus via a statement from chief health officer Jeannette Young.
Dr Young confirmed the patient was a 42-year-old woman from the virus epicentre of Wuhan in China and that she had been travelling in the same tour group as the 44-year-old man who was the first recorded case in the state.
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From what I've heard, they don't know much, or anything, about this virus, so how do they know that if a patient recovers, they are no longer infectious? Apparently some people are infectious even if they never get sick themselves.
Hospitals know what they’re doing. Did I say that?
Thanks for the encouraging update.
This is good news. I don’t trust the Mainland China accounts of recovery, but if this Australia hospital says people are recovering, that’s a good indication this can be dealt with.
Do we know if healthy people are dropping dead or is it people who are old or are ill?
Yea. ..keep them quarantined for a few more weeks. ..harms no one.
Does anyone know yet how the HIV section of this virus acts..as in are you going to get AIDS or are you cured when you are done with it ..etc.
Has anyone tested their blood for the possibility of generating a vaccine? I heard that the virus causes permanent damage to the lungs. Did I mishear or was I misinformed?
CDC said it has a candidate vaccine in phase one trials right now.
There are no cases of fatalities outside of China and as far as I know about Chinese cases most dead are due to a late hospitalization, some were initially sent home with recommendations to use specific medicines they failed to find due to shortages. So maybe the deaths are more a result of Chinese healthcare than of some qualities of virus itself.
Perhaps the health insurance reached the maximum limit?
Wearing t-shirts bearing the message: "I survived the Kung Flu".
RE: pushing its infected citizens to flee to the West to get cares
I have no love for the Chicoms. But even the above sounds far fetched.
Why would the LOCK DOWN an entire city with more people than NYC if they
were really bent on pushing them out of the country?
I just posted on a thread about some cases being cured in China that I hope it’s true. I’m glad to see the world is getting a handle on this.
Australia did a great job preventing wildfires, so I trust them here too.
The Chinese party wanted and let its infected residents race to the West for Care. And the sick did like these two who raced to Australia.
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