[DannyTN]

UK Healthcare workers infected. Another would be quarantine runner.

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In before the "It's less lethal than halitosis" crowd...

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.

[GulfMan]

I suspect “super spreaders” will turn out to be folks that don’t wash their hands after going to the bathroom and or love to let a cough rip in public without covering because ... well, they’re pigs

[11th_VA]

including two health care workers.

[11th_VA]

From another source:

Professor Piot, who co-discovered ebola and the presence of Aids in Africa, warned that coronavirus is more dangerous than ebola.

“It’s a greater threat because of the mode of transmission. The potential for spread is much, much higher,” he told The Times.

“If the number of people who get infected is huge, then that will also kill a number of people.”

[Karl Spooner]

Creamatoriums still running fine!

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[dp0622]

I figured there would be thousands of new cases outside of china by now.

if this thing spreads any slower it will be going backwards.

That’s good news.

[sauropod]

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[bgill]

GP SURGERY SHUTS DOWN

A health centre in Brighton has been closed after four more cases of Coronavirus are linked to the city.

The clinic was closed for urgent operational health and safety reasons.

The County Oak Medical Centre closed on Monday morning.

A message on the health centre answering machine said: “Unfortunately, the building has had to close due to an urgent operational health and safety reason.”

Another health centre in nearby Seaford closed unexpectedly on Friday morning.

It reopened soon after.

https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/10913096/coronavirus-uk-nhs-live/

[terart]

I read the whole article...something that stuck out and concerned me—

“a reporter in Hong King found many provinces and cities had begun subtracting confirmed cases from the records the last few days. The move happened because the National Health and Medical Commission apparently changed the definition of what constitutes a “confirmed” case. Patients who test positive but have no confirmed symptoms will no longer be counted. The disguise prevented the public from knowing the actual number of infections”