Santa Clara County confirms first case of coronavirus (Calif. South Bay Area)

YourCentralValley.com/KRON ^ | 1/31/2020 | KRON

[Drago]

SANTA CLARA COUNTY, Calif. (KRON) — The Santa Clara County Health Department confirmed Friday that a man has tested positive for the coronavirus.

This is the first case in the county and the first known case in the Bay Area.

The Santa Clara County Health Department will be holding a press conference at 2 p.m. to provide more information on the case.

[Drago]

Press conference by S.C. County officials at 2pm Pacific.

[Drago]

Press conference hasn’t started yet, but this link should work for coverage:

https://www.kronon.tv

[MagUSNRET]

That virus is gonna spread like wildfire in those crap filled homeless conclaves in LA and SF!!

[Cowboy Bob]

Chinese college student or Chinese businessman?

[Jewbacca]

Important questions, like:

1. Is he just back from China. If so, where?
2. How did he get it?

[Drago]

Another link for the story (a few less ads):

https://www.kron4.com/news/bay-area/santa-clara-county-confirms-first-case-of-coronavirus/

[cba123]

Just back from China.

[Red Badger]

I wonder if it can be transmitted on objects, like aircraft seats, toilets, doorknobs, etc......................

[Drago]

The “Paywalled” the KRON site after 30 seconds...another press conference link:

https://www.ktvu.com/live

[CatOwner]

Santa Clara County is large. Which city, business, education site?

[Drago]

They are not disclosing that info. according to the press conference.

[Jewbacca]

It can, but typically doesn’t live very long.

Under ideal circumstances, it can live 28 days.

Mostly, though, it’s a matter of hours or days, at most.

And you’d have to touch that doorknob and then your nose or mouth.

Which I don’t do! I never touch door knobs after that gay guy with the flu who bragged about licking doorknobs at the Bush whitehouse turn over.

[null and void]

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.

[dware]

Quarantine the entire state and let it take care of itself.

[Vendome]

“Oh my Gawd! I live in Santa Clara County. I’m gonna die....One Day...Far in the future....30 or 40 years from now...!

[Vendome]

[ProtectOurFreedom]

Easier said than done...

A study quantifying the hand-to-face contact rate and its potential application to predicting respiratory tract infection.
J Occup Environ Hyg. 2008 Jun;5(6):347-52. doi: 10.1080/15459620802003896.
by Nicas M., Best D.

Abstract
A substantial portion of human respiratory tract infection is thought to be transmitted via contaminated hand contact with the mouth, eyes, and/or nostrils. Thus, a key risk factor for infection transmission should be the rate of hand contact with these areas termed target facial membranes. A study was conducted in which 10 subjects were each videotaped for 3 hr while performing office-type work in isolation from other persons. The number of contacts to the eyes, nostrils, and lips was scored during subsequent viewing of the tapes. The total contacts per subject had sample mean x = 47 and sample standard deviation s = 34. The average total contact rate per hour was 15.7.

Awake 16 hours a day, 16 facial touches per hour = 256 facial touches per day!

[Pocketdoor]

Thats why is kind of important to where a mask. Not that the mask is great at protecting from the virus, but just by wearing it, it is a great reminder not to touch you face and will block those natural face touches.

[4Liberty]

[JohnBovenmyer]

>......................etc......................

Needles???? Via sex (including all the SF permutations)????