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NON_POLITICAL China Coronavirus THREAD

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I'm rating this as "not great, no need to panic. Dont go on holiday to affected areas" at the moment, may rise to "HONEY! OPEN UP THE BUNKER!" later.

As of 24:00 on [20 Jan 2020], 258 cases of pneumonia of new coronavirus infection have been reported in our city; 25 cases have been cured, and 6 cases have died. Currently, 227 patients are still being treated in the hospital, of which 51 cases are seriously ill and 12 cases are critically ill. They are all under isolation treatment at designated medical institutions in Wuhan. A total of 988 close contacts have been tracked; 739 have been released from medical observation, and 249 are still under medical observation.

We will continue to conduct timely sampling and detection of newly discovered suspected cases.
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WelshBloke said:
I'm rating this as "not great, no need to panic. Dont go on holiday to affected areas" at the moment, may rise to "HONEY! OPEN UP THE BUNKER!" later.
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OLD INFO...

17 dead, over 500 sick. entire city to be quarantined. spread to hong kong, macau, and what seems to be most major cities in china now.
 
herm0016 said:
OLD INFO...

17 dead, over 500 sick. entire city to be quarantined. spread to hong kong, macau, and what seems to be most major cities in china now.
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Most recent source I trust is reporting...
"At 00:00 on [20 Jan 2020, our committee received 77 new cases of pneumonia diagnosed with a new type of coronavirus infection in 3 domestic provinces (regions, municipalities) (72 in Hubei Province, 2 in Shanghai, and 3 in Beijing). Cases); 27 new suspected cases were reported in 9 provinces (districts, cities) (4 in Guangdong, 1 in Sichuan, 1 in Yunnan, 7 in Shanghai, 10 in Zhejiang, 1 in Anhui, and Hainan). 1 case, 1 case in Guizhou Province, and 1 case in Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region).

As of 24:00 on [20 Jan 2020], our committee had received 291 confirmed cases of pneumonia of new coronavirus infection in 4 provinces (regions, cities) in China"
 
Lost_in_the_HTTP said:
www.smithsonianmag.com

Officials Pinpoint First COVID-19 Case in United States

The mostly mysterious pathogen is known to pass from person to person, causing respiratory illness
www.smithsonianmag.com www.smithsonianmag.com
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Guy in the US caught it in the hot spot, until we get figures on the human to human transmission rate this could be a small outbreak or it could be Black Death 2.0.

We know really little about it. We dont know how contagious it is, what its mortality or morbidity rates are, we know that it can be serious but we dont know if its serious in lots of cases or if there are a bunch of minor cases that aren't getting reported and we are just seeing the edge cases.

If we see large outbreaks in areas far removed from the original then we can all reinstall Plague Inc and try to map it ourselves! 😉
 
To be safe avoid ordering stuff from China for the time being too. I would imagine if a package is contaminated the virus would die in the cold when the packages are sitting in the truck but better safe than sorry without knowing for sure what conditions it can survive.
 
Red Squirrel said:
To be safe avoid ordering stuff from China for the time being too. I would imagine if a package is contaminated the virus would die in the cold when the packages are sitting in the truck but better safe than sorry without knowing for sure what conditions it can survive.
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actually...probably better in the cold for this bug than in the heat. ...well, I think anyway. I'm not that familiar with viruses, but colder temperatures tend to have a slowing effect for the actual living things, like well, bacteria and larger creatures (jury still out on viruses, sorta). It could extend the critter's viability outside of hosts, maybe.

Now, one of the big concerns regarding the melting of millennia-old ice caps out there in the north (as well as glaciers that are much closer to humans) is the thawing of eons-dormant viruses, completely unknown to any human species that ever evolved on this planet, or even any primates for that matter (major bad for us), so I'm guessing viruses do tend to survive better in the cold (but proper freezing is different from improper freezing, and other temps, so again, a case by case basis, to some degree)
 
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Actually that's a good point.. and think that is the idea behind cryogenics, they can preserve viruses, bacteria, tissues etc longer. So yeah could be bad if products do end up contaminated.
 
Red Squirrel said:
To be safe avoid ordering stuff from China for the time being too. I would imagine if a package is contaminated the virus would die in the cold when the packages are sitting in the truck but better safe than sorry without knowing for sure what conditions it can survive.
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Parts of Canada is basically China now, Vancouver and Toronto can be considered Chinese cities.
 
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