Coronavirus Live Thread 2/14 to 2/15

2/14/2020

[Vermont Lt]

Happy Valentines Day.

There are currently 67,100 confirmed cases worldwide, including 1,526 fatalities.

[Vermont Lt]

Continuation of Thread from yesterday.

[Vermont Lt]

The saga continues.

[Jim Noble]

There’s a new case in Japan that was in Hawaii 1/27-2/7.

[null and void]

The saga continues.

A Neverending Story...

Bring Out Your Dead

Post to me or FReep mail to be on/off the Bring Out Your Dead ping list.

The purpose of the “Bring Out Your Dead” 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.

[Bayard]

I’m going to assume that it cannot be contained, and will break out in the USA through some border vector eventually. How lethal it really is is the real world 100 dollar question.

[no-to-illegals]

I believe as much as any dead person

[allendale]

Critical politically incorrect question still not answered. Are non Chinese Westerners who live and work in Wusan becoming infected and dying at the same rate as the endemic genetic Chinese? BTW predict that the summer Olympics in Japan will be cancelled.

[kaehurowing]

Likely in Hawaii now.

[donozark]

British scientist leading coronavirus fight states 400K deaths in UK not absurd. Have not read those numbers before. Per Daily Mail....

[kaehurowing]

https://www.civilbeat.org/beat/japanese-tourist-diagnosed-with-coronavirus-after-hawaii-vacation/

[heshtesh]

1,526 fatalities.

Get back to me when they open up the homes they have shuttered closed.

[Black Agnes]

https://twitter.com/jenniferatntd/status/1228476386815479809

with english subtitles

[mrsmith]

https://www.thestar.com/politics/provincial/2020/02/13/ontario-couple-have-recovered-but-are-still-testing-positive-for-coronavirus.html

Recovered Ontario person still testing ‘positive’.

[LilFarmer]

Yikes, that’s scary.

*******

Sen. Hawley blasts China’s dishonesty on coronavirus spread: ‘They’re completely overwhelmed’

The United States still cannot trust China’s reports on the coronavirus (COVID-19) epidemic, Missouri Republican Sen. Josh Hawley said Thursday.

Appearing on “Fox & Friends,” Hawley said that he was briefed twice Wednesday by Health and Human Services (HHS) and Homeland Security officials and was “really, really, concern[ed]” about what he learned.

https://www.foxnews.com/media/coronavirus-china-outbreak-josh-hawley-not-honest

[LilFarmer]

“So far, 471,531 people have been identified as having had close contact with infected patients. There are now 181,386 people under medical observation,” the Health Commission reported Thursday on its official website.
https://www.voanews.com/science-health/coronavirus-outbreak/china-reports-nearly-half-million-people-have-had-close-contact

[Dogbert41]

That you can be infected and spread the virus for more than two weeks before showing any symptoms at all makes this the holy grail of biological weapons. Oops. Wasn’t supposed to get utilized yet, and certainly not on the home-field.

[LilFarmer]

Did you catch the slogan on the wall inside the building? - “One World, One Health”

[Black Agnes]

I missed that!

Wow.

I hearken back to the ‘bloodless victory’ the PLA talks about.

[BobL]

“japanese-tourist-diagnosed-with-coronavirus-after-hawaii-vacation”

Not sure what the Japanese tourist expected from visiting Hawaii. After all, we STILL have flights directly from China landing here EVERY DAY.

[Capt. Tom]

BTW predict that the summer Olympics in Japan will be cancelled.

China has a lot of athletes scheduled to compete;
China 398 - USA 550 - Russia 278 - Japan 339, most other countries have a lot less.

Some countries might pull their athletes? -Tom