Posted on 02/22/2020 5:21:25 AM PST by nuconvert
The number of people in Italy infected with the new virus from China more than quadrupled Friday due to an emerging cluster of cases in the country’s north that prompted officials to order schools, restaurants and businesses to close.
Many of the 14 new cases represented the first infections in Italy acquired through secondary contagion and brought the country’s total to 17. The cluster was located in a handful of tiny towns southeast of Milan in the Lombardy region, said Lombardy regional health chief Giulio Gallera.
“This was foreseeable even if we hoped it wouldn’t have happened,” Gallera said.
The first to fall ill was a 38-year-old Italian who met with someone who had returned from China on Jan. 21 without presenting any symptoms of the new virus, health authorities said. That person was being kept in isolation and appears to present antibodies to the virus.
The 38-year-old is now hospitalized in critical condition. His wife and a friend of his, who was a member of his running club, also tested positive for the virus. Three patients at the hospital in Codogno where he went with flu-like symptoms on Feb. 18 also have infections, as do five nurses and doctors.
In addition, another three elderly people, who frequented the same cafe as the runner’s father, also tested positive Friday, Gallera said.
Tests were under way, meanwhile, on the 38-year-old’s doctor, who made a house call on him, as well as on 120 people he worked with in the research and development branch of Unilever in Casalpusterlengo, Gallera said.
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Italy now reporting 55 cases, 2 deaths
https://www.politico.eu/article/coronavirus-cases-climb-to-over-100-in-italy/
89 more cases added today. The cdc refuses to test people here in the USA I’m betting there’s over 500 cases in the USA currently marked as pneumonia due to flu complications even though flu tests are negative for those people. . There’s simply too much money at stake for wall street to allow a panic bank run and market sell off. They figure let it run it’s course until it’s “unstoppable” and not “containable” they will gladly let 20% of the sheep down off bank on it.
“The cdc refuses to test people here in the USA “
Where do you get that from?
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