Posted on 02/28/2020 1:09:49 PM PST by Vermont Lt
NJ
US DHS Supervisor complaint filed after employee China travel
Today, 06:49 AM
Washington Post is reporting Newark, NJ union employees file complaint after employee tries to self quarantine in meeting due to China travel & supervisor request to return to work violating known quarantine recommendations.
https://www.freerepublic.com/perl/post?id=3820357%2C480
Looks like US and UAE can make up the production loss difference. That’s good news for us and India.
S. KOREA
Laura Bicker
@BBCLBicker
In Daegu, 1900 Shincheonji Church members have been tested for coronavirus. 1300 had symptoms & 600 did not. Among those 1300 with symptoms, 87.5% were confirmed with the virus . BUT out of the 600 WITHOUT symptoms, 70% were confirmed with coronavirus.
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South Korea confirmed 813 more coronavirus cases on Saturday, the biggest increase to date for the country, taking the national total to 3,150 infections with four additional deaths.
***Authorities also reported the country’s first case of reinfection – a 73-year-old woman who tested positive for a second time after her recovery and release from hospital last week.***
The illness recurred “as her immune system had declined”, said Korea Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (KCDC) official Kwon Jun-wook.
At least 10 reinfection cases have already been reported in China, Kwon added.
More than 90 percent of the new cases were in Daegu, the centre of the country’s outbreak, and its neighbouring North Gyeongsang province, the KCDC said in a statement.
Three women in the Daegu area and one man died of the illness, taking the national toll to 17, the statement added. All were aged in their 60s or older.
Where is Iran getting ‘tens of thousands’ of testing kits?
GERMANY
SARS-CoV-2 : Case numbers in Germany, China and worldwide
As of February 29, 2020
Case numbers in Germany
To date, 66 cases of SARS-CoV-2 infection have been confirmed in Germany. After the infection cluster at a company in Bavaria (14 cases) and individual cases among German citizens, which had been flown out of Wuhan in early February 2020, cases of illness have become known in several federal states since February 25, 2020.
(As of February 29, 2020, 10:00 a.m.)
state cases
Baden-Wurttemberg 14
Bavaria 15
Hesse 3
North Rhine-Westphalia 30
Rheinland-Pfalz 1
Schleswig Holstein 1
repatriated 2
total 66
https://www.rki.de/DE/Content/InfAZ/N/Neuartiges_Coronavirus/Fallzahlen.html
I’d say it’ll be cancelled most likely.
Legal liability if someone got sick as a result.
I wondered that too. Maybe from the WHO:
“The World Health Organization (WHO) has shipped testing kits to 57 countries. China had five commercial tests on the market 1 month ago and can now do up to 1.6 million tests a week; South Korea has tested 65,000 people so far. The U. S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), in contrast, has done only 459 tests since the epidemic began. The rollout of a CDC-designed test kit to state and local labs has become a fiasco because it contained a faulty reagent. Labs around the country eager to test more suspected cases—and test them faster—have been unable to do so. No commercial or state labs have the approval to use their own tests.
In what is already an infamous snafu, CDC initially refused a request to test a patient in Northern California who turned out to be the first probable COVID19 case without known links to an infected person.”
I agree. Once schools start closing next week, sports will follow. With so many kids having mild symptoms, they could end up being the silent spreaders of cv.
CV19 not only found in stool and urine as previously reported, it’s also found in tears:
https://www.taiwannews.com.tw/en/news/3883037
Fine. Take all you wish.
CANADA
Staff and students at midtown ESL centre may have been exposed to individual with COVID-19 virus
NEW: France reports 16 new cases of coronavirus, raising total to 73
Quick math percentages are remaining fairly constant.
Mainland China, 2,835 deaths/79,251 cases = 3.6%
Other, 98 deaths/6,433 cases = 1.5%
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Mainland China recoveries, 39,002
Other, 465 recoveries
BREAKING: French health minister says all gatherings with more than 5,000 people in a confined space are banned due to coronavirus
NEW: UK reports 3 new cases of coronavirus, raising total to 23
I’d like to see her cart.
“Right? I can’t find enough good animal proteins that are prep worthy. However, if it’s just illness quarantine, you still can have a freezer full of beef. Wish we could have fresh eggs though.”
Yep, I wound up buying an extra chest freezer just for the fun of Coronavirus (storing meat), and a medium-sized generator to run it, although I agree, if we get there...then things are really, really, bad! The nice thing is that they use so little power that you can run them for weeks on 5 gallons of gasoline.
Once the price goes up, it won’t come down - ever.
A few years ago during the drought, ranchers were practically giving away their cattle. There was an influx of beef on the market but prices skyrocketed instead of coming down. Now that the beef industry has leveled out and become normal again, prices are still high.
“Yep, I wound up buying an extra chest freezer”
We have been thinking about picking up a freezer chest for a year now. We often overfill our regular freezer when we see meat on sale. This might be a reason for me to purchase one finally.
“Have these folks not been following what is going on in the world?”
Has anyone? All they know are templates from the past (it’s just an Asian or African thing, throw liquidity at it and goods will materialize in those empty containers, wait until we have enough cases here - then restrict travel).
It’s pathetic. That’s why I BRAG about never having medical training nor a medical background (nor economic, for that matter) - that means I’m actually open-minded and willing to use reports from the field to make my decisions. I was reading Barron’s or something and they said the ‘experts’ were shocked about how bad China is. According to one important index, China is running at 70% of last year. They thought it would be 90%. Right. Shutdown Wuhan and their region, restrict travel everywhere, lock-down 800M people, stop loading ships...and a 10% impact? Right. If anything, I think the 70% number is very high...by my estimate, based on power production (coal usage), they’re only 15% recovered from their Lunar New Year shutdown. It’s hard to see how they can be doing much when their power usage is only slightly above the level needed for residential service only. [however it is trending up, about 5% per week...so some ‘good’ news]
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