Posted on 02/26/2020 7:13:44 PM PST by SpeedyInTexas
A coronavirus patient in Japan who had been discharged from hospital after recovering has again tested positive, officials said on Thursday, as the country grappled with rising unhappiness over the slow pace of virus testing.
The woman, a tour guide in her 40s, had been treated at a hospital in Osaka prefecture and left early in February, NHK reported.
She was on a bus carrying tourists from Wuhan, China, where the coronavirus outbreak originated last December.
The woman tested positive on January 29 and was discharged after being confirmed to be virus-free on February 6, NHK World reported.
But on February 19, she felt throat and chest pain. She took a second test and was confirmed with the Covid-19 disease again.
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It’s very important to somehow figure out if it’s the very same strain of virus, and whether she was truly free of it when first released.
The implications of the answers to those questions are far reaching.
I got H1N1 after getting the so-called vaccine and spent a week in the hospital. Not fun.
Before this virus what was the biggest news story coming out of China on a daily basis? The protest in Hong Kong and their response to those protest... What have you not seen in the news since this ‘virus’ came about? The Hong Kong protest have vanished... Interesting correlation?
This virus has a mortality rate of 1% or less... The same mortality rate of a seasonal flu.
Interesting tidbit... “H5N1 has a fatality rate of about 60 percent—if you get it, you’re likely to die. Yet since 2003, the virus has killed only 455 people.”
Mass media hysteria... Ebola, H5N1, SARS... These all subsided and this ‘virus’ event will also subside. Until then, don’t get your panties in a knot.
I can explain.
COVID-19 appears to be able to use existing antibodies to itself or other SARS like virus to gain easy entry into cells. So once infected, a person is not only more likely to get the virus again, they are now even more at risk to serious issues.
https://jvi.asm.org/content/94/5/e02015-19
China has delt with SARS in the past and it may explain their high mortality rate and these cases of reinfection.
The coronavirus attacks the lung tissues creating shortness of breath. If you are having flu symptoms and are feeling “winded” while walking or climbing a short flight of stairs, go to your provider or ER right away. There are several types of inhalers you will need and antiviral medications.
I’m inclined to believe that present testing capabilities are not very accurate.
I’m wondering three things...
1)...Difference in “health care Conditions” & sanitation in different countries
2) How many are Asian?
3) Smokers?
Except the numbers the Chinese are reporting are not accurate.
What were they up to? The same thing other scientists were up to. Performing extremely risky Gain of Function studies in the hope of creating a cure and selling it.
The idea that this was created as a weapon doesnt fit. Viruses dont make very good weapons. They mutate, are impossible to control, and their use would be an attack on the world as well as yourself. Even Japan knew this in WWII hence why the Emperor shelved their plan to use them against the US.
China loves money. There is far more money in creating cures than in creating bioweapons. There are two things the Chicoms are known for: Recklessness and greed. Whether its trying to smuggle Ebola out of Africa, smuggling SARS out of Canada, stealing god knows how many patents out of the US, or damn near breaking the internet with their hacking, China makes big moves for big gains.
The number of coincidences and the anecodatal evidence pointing toward that lab in Wuhan is overwhelming. China’s reaction, the scientists working there and their previous experience, the fact that lab has 4 previous containment failures, and COVID-19’s details make it more likely than not that China screwed up big time. We were all warned about the risks of Gain of Function studies. Google it and see the timeline for yourself and what scientists were saying. They were predicting a scenario just like this.
It is rapidly ceasing to matter.
Presuming that this was a bioweapon experiment that escaped from the labs, it is clear that the Chinese do not have a vaccine or other effective means to control the disease.
Because of official propaganda and harsh penalties for contradicting the party line, the Chinese do not really know what they have loose in their country either. They are screwed.
"Now you know it works. Any questions?" (Stephen King - The Stand)
We might have better prospects in the West due to less control and concealment of adverse information. Effective responses will depend on actions from accurate information.
I can't assess the conflicting reports with much confidence. There are substantial (albeit short-term) incentives to lie or mislead on all sides of the question; "Just how bad is this, and what should we do about it?"
The purported effectiveness of Ebola and AIDS anti-viral drugs against COVID-19 is encouraging.
“This virus has a mortality rate of 1% or less... The same mortality rate of a seasonal flu.”
You are posting fake news. it is at least two to Three percent for this virus.
2) Seems like most are Asian
3) Considering how prevalent smoking is in Asia, I bet most are smokers.
It seems highly unlikely that she was reinfected, and she isn’t the first to “relapse”. Most likely, her body was able to fight off the virus in her lungs enough to produce negative tests, but it was still present in her organs or some other tissue not being examined. Kinda like the herpes zoster virus that causes Chickenpox hides in your spine, only to come back many decades later to inflict Shingles on its victims. Unfortunately, COVID-19 doesn’t wait.
The same problem might apply to those “cured” by anti-viral drugs. Maybe like with HIV, once you stop the drugs, the virus returns in detectable levels and you go from NEG back to POS. That might explain why China is pushing so hard for exclusive right to remdesivir.
S. Korea? Italy?
H1N1 infected a billion people globally. Probably not the best example to chose. Fortunately, H1N1 had a very low mortality.
Remdesvir is being developed by an American company (Gilead Sciences Inc.) and clinical testing is underway in Omaha, Nebraska, sponsored by the National Institute of Allergy and Infections Diseases.
To hell with the Chinese patent application. They caused this problem in the first place, and they will not be the ones who fix it. Nor should they be allowed to extract rental profits from somebody else's solution.
Anyway, if the drug is successful, India will produce it in quantity, patents be dammed.
Yes, I’m aware of who developed the drug, and that they already have a patent - in the USA. My point is China was threatening Gilead and demanding complete control of Remdesivir and ownership of the patent in China, as I posted about 3 weeks ago.
The Chinese pharma company BrightGene is already producing the drug themselves, and the Wuhan Institute of Virology has applied for a patent in China. Just today, China approved patents on Remdesivir for Gilead, so it looks like they may have reached some kind of agreement. But who knows, it’s China. After the crap they have pulled so far, I doubt Gilead will trust them much.
So after she was declared virus free, did they keep her in quarantine for 21 days, our was she a spreader, infecting others?
Think of this
There are 1.36 billion people in China and over half of them are on lockdown govt patrolled quarantine, including Bejing
The only reason some actories are working is that sick people are being ordered to work
It’s not “ just the flu”, bro
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