Coronavirus Live Thread Feb 9, 2020

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[janetjanet998]

There are currently 40,221 confirmed cases worldwide, including 904fatalities.

[Jane Long]

Can you imagine having to ride in one of the MANY high rise elevators, in NYC, right now??

Long waits to get on....stops at EVERY stinking floor...full of sneezy, snotty people....and, it’s your only way down (up), unless you want to hike 30 floors on the stairs.

[Black Agnes]

It’s a mental illness.

Just enough of me, way way too many of all the rest of you!

But, as Kissinger said, fewer people are easier to control. So it’s not about the environment, it’s what they’ve got planned for the rest of the population once the cull is complete.

[janetjanet998]

Sky News
@SkyNews
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BREAKING: A medical centre in Northamptonshire has closed due to a potential #coronavirus incident.

Get the latest on the virus outbreak here: https://trib.al/aUKxKpW

[GOPJ]

Flying in from Taiwan, previously in Hong Kong, previously in China, he was asked at departure in Taiwan if he had been in China in the last 14 days and on arrival at LAX if he had been in China in the last 30 days. He said nobody verified what he verbalized. His is not the first video posted about this topic; there was another one about a Chicago-bound traveler who was also has claimed there is nothing special said to them and nobody is taking temps or ‘enhanced screening’, and no one is telling them about a self-quarantine. That entry into the US was ‘anti-climatic’ compared to the checks they’d experienced on their routes here. This particular fellow intends to continue on to Mexico City from LA.

Would this fall under "homeland security'? Someone needs to do something NOW....

[abigkahuna]

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[janetjanet998]

Alex Lam 林偉聰 @lwcalex Chinese National Health Commission has changed their definition of #WuhanCoronavirus "confirmed case" in their latest guidelines dated 7/2. Patients tested positive for the virus but have no symptoms will no longer be regarded as confirmed. This inevitably will lower the numbers. https://twitter.com/lwcalex/status/1226840055869632512

[Myrddin]

Yesterday I did an assessment asking, "If the doors were going to be welded shut on Tuesday, what must I get today?". We added more dog/cat food, cat litter, vitamins. Things that were available. We can't do much about my wife's diabetic supplies. She's a type 1. Continuous glucose monitor sensors need to be changed every 10 days. The insulin pump infusion site gets changed every 3 days. Her insulin prescription allows only a month at a time. She gets the sensor/pump supplies in 90 day increments. Unsure about Chinese component dependencies.

[Think free or die]

We’ve gotten some prescription refills, extra food, paper goods, etc. We have lots of camping supplies including camp stoves. We’re currently without pets, apart from an occasional mouse in the garage or garter snake in the basement. If the entire grid goes down, things get complicated. We’re better off than many. I’m in charge of worrying on behalf of the whole family. I do it best, and they don’t do their share.

[LilFarmer]

An emergency evacuation of an apartment building in Tsing Yi due to two confirmed cases in flats sharing a common sewage system.

https://news.rthk.hk/rthk/en/compone...0-20200211.htm

[LilFarmer]

The above is in Hong Kong ^^^^

[LilFarmer]

English translation and details here: https://flutrackers.com/forum/forum/-2019-ncov-new-coronavirus/china-2019-ncov/822159-hong-kong-2019-ncov-confirmed-cases-and-news?p=828607#post828607

[SE Mom]

I can’t imagine, honestly.

I may be wrong but I think authorities here are being quite cavalier. Or their simply not up to speed and the knowns and unknowns.

[Black Agnes]

https://news.rthk.hk/rthk/en/component/k2/1507800-20200211.htm?spTabChangeable=0

Shades of Amoy Gardens.

[LilFarmer]

Just over 1,000 staff at “Indeed” Dublin office are told to go home and only work from home for fear of being infected with CoronaVirus - a short video from one of the staff https://youtu.be/cTdKri4G5iI

https://twitter.com/aliceTweet123/status/1226932371561291776

[LilFarmer]

I know, it’s unreliable numbers from China, but I’m posting this to show they have changed their CFR numbers:

WUHAN - The government of Hubei province, the central Chinese province that is the epicentre of the coronavirus outbreak, has given the official fatality rates for the virus for the first time, Chinese media reported.

Unexpectedly, Wuhan, the provincial capital city where the virus first emerged, registerd a fatality rate of 4.06 per cent, came in second. It was topped by Tianmen, a nearby city, which has a death rate of 5.08 per cent, Caixin Global reported on Sunday (Feb 9).

https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/coronavirus-hubei-province-reveals-fatality-rate-for-first-time-wuhan-comes-in-second

[SE Mom]

Eric Feigl-Ding
@DrEricDing

UK cutting itself off from China:
@British_Airways
is now suspending all flights to Beijing and Shanghai until April 1st. These two China flights are among the biggest money makers for BA. If they’ve given up on them, that’s pretty effing big deal.

[LilFarmer]

WHO on China changing its definition for a confirmed case: “We’re not aware of that change. We’ll check it out obviously, but we’re not aware of any significant change to the case definition, certainly not one that discounts lab-confirmed cases .. It sounds strange.”

https://twitter.com/BNODesk/status/1226941772451975168

[Paul R.]

I read the article and so far as I can see it does not state the denominator.

4.06% of who? Confirmed cases with symptoms? Confirmed infections? Confirmed residents-with-bat-breath?

What the article DOES state is that in Wuhan (and by implication, Tianmen), the health care facilities are insufficient to the task, apparently even with the (unmentioned) “instant hospitals” put up. No surprise, but it does confirm the potential of 2019-nCoV to create havoc. Adding a quite contagious pathogen with a significant mortality rate to the normal illnesses this time of year is a back breaker. I wonder how this will affect the flu fatality rate?

[Paul R.]

Interestingly, that change will push UP the fatality rate many publish.

[Black Agnes]

https://twitter.com/globaltimesnews/status/1226892034310410241

“A cleaning worker who had worked on 20 bullet trains, was confirmed infected with the novel #coronavirus pneumonia. Authorities released her travel routes and warned potential contacts to stay home for medical observation.”