NIH official says coronavirus 'on the verge' of becoming global pandemic unless containment becomes 'more successful'

The Hill ^ | 02 16 2020 | Justine Coleman

[SaxxonWoods]

“It would be tough on the economy world wide.”

It also might cause as many deaths as it stops.

[GOPJ]

President Trump needs to tell Pentagon Brass to release the plans they've made for a bio-attack. Accidental attacks OR intentional attacks have similar plans...

Now is the time.

Ultraviolet scanning at Post Offices, Amazon, and container ships coming in from China? Where else?

Stockpiled medications so China doesn't control medical care for Americans? When will they be release?

Where's the plans...

[I want the USA back]

Stop all international flights to/from China, and other third world countries. Use videoconferencing instead.

[Georgia Girl 2]

What that means is once you get past 3000 units of C you and your current novel may spend quality time in the reading room. 😆

[yldstrk]

two children so far

[yldstrk]

One non-Asian

[goodnesswins]

I take about 10,000 mg of C daily...for some that would mean diarrhea. ..you have to increase amount until it causes problem...then backoff...

[Jane Long]

10 grams of C/day??

Wow.

And, I thought hubby took a lot ;-)

[Jane Long]

Tolerance level (bowel tolerance, that is) is different for everyone.

One could start out taking 1 gram ea am and pm, and steadily increase (Vit C is available in 1,000 gram capsules), each dosage, until....well...one’s bowels say that’s enough!

[Jane Long]

UV systems....

https://www.cloroxpro.com/products/clorox-healthcare/optimum-uv-system/?msclkid=99a4ac7a38f91a8b050ef233ad36e70c&gclid=CMTcspjl1ucCFbyqxQId8ocOig&gclsrc=ds

[BusterDog]

The bat’s out of the bag on this one.

[Jamestown1630]

For colds and flu, a naturopath once told me to take powdered Vitamin C (Buffered Calcium or Magnesium Ascorbates) - 1 teaspoon in a little tepid water, just enough to dissolve. Take it every half hour until diarrhea starts.

I tried it twice when I felt I was coming down or already had symptoms. It seemed to help.

[Fai Mao]

I am still more concerned about the locusts in Africa than this disease. Not that cocid19 is not a problem but the locust could cause millions of deaths by next month an the situation is almost ignored in the news. This is the worst locusts have been in maybe 100 years

[bitt]

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[plain talk]

“At this point, the focus should include effective treatment strategies. There’s no way this is going to be contained.”

The focus should be on both containment AND treatment. Those are separate problems that should be dealt with simultaneously.

[GailA]

Test run on bio-weapon?

[calenel]

It’s not the flu. It is more contagious, has higher lethality and has stealth capabilities. In addition, this thing puts a higher percentage of its victims in the ICU.

It seems that a new cadre of “but, flu” newbies show up on every thread. Go do some reading. But here’s a spoiler: even if there are zero new cases worldwide, the death toll from the 60,000+ currently infected will overtake this year’s US flu deaths in about a month in Wuhan alone. This thing puts a much higher percentage of its victims in the ICU and once the medical infrastructure is saturated, that percentage will most likely die. Anywhere we lose containment will have this happen.

[grey_whiskers]

Probably goes back to two-time Nobel Prize winner Linus Pauling's studies on Vitamin C.

IIRC he said that Vitamin C is non-toxic, but that once you get up to 18-20 grams/day, it can cause diarrhea.

[calenel]

“Now, here’s something slightly encouraging that I read:”

It cuts both ways. Anybody not getting tested that dies, died of something else.

[neverevergiveup]

Of course. I said, the focus should ‘include’ effective treatment strategies. It would be great if we could contain it, but given the characteristics of this virus that is likely to be of limited efficacy. Still, of course we should try to contain it. If that fails, we better have been working on a strong back-up approach.

Viral pneumonia can be very, very bad, and this particular coronavirus is quite adept at infecting the lungs.