Coronavirus

Seems even worse than it appears. China is known to under-report health status numbers and the virus has an incubation period of 1-14 days and it's contagious even then. With the immense holiday migrations, it sounds like the worst is yet to come. BTW, the two US cases are in Wash state and Illinois, travelers who returned from China.

https://www.yahoo.com/finance/news/china-extend-holiday-curb-fast-173133134.html
Anxiety is growing amid evidence that the disease has an incubation period of as long as two weeks before those infected start to show signs of the illness. That raises the possibility that people who are carrying the virus but don’t show symptoms could infect others.

The U.S. has five cases, with three confirmed within 24 hours: two in Southern California and one in Maricopa County, Arizona. All the patients had recently been in Wuhan and are hospitalized. Their close contacts are being monitored for signs that they may be developing the disease, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Sunday. Washington state and Chicago earlier had confirmed infections.
 
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Liberty said:
That's not what they said. The China issue bears watching.
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Yep. Just about every market headline this morning mentions the virus. CNBC is one of the exceptions trying to make it political and their headline blames Bernie Sanders.
 
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AnnieA said:
Yep. Just about every market headline this morning mentions the virus. CNBC is one of the exceptions trying to make it political and their headline blames Bernie Sanders.
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Get out of here...headline blames Bernie Sanders?
 
Pinky said:
Two cases of Coronavirus in my city. Why do people insist on traveling while ill?

https://www.ctvnews.ca/canada/secon...osed-in-canada-first-case-confirmed-1.4784799
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They may not have known. A really bad feature of this bug is that even after the incubation period, the symptoms are so mild at first that people don't realize they have it. One report I read said that in the first few days, there's no fever.

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Five verified cases in Australia now. We have a large number of overseas students from China and the academic year is about to start. Exclusion from classes so far is voluntary if a student is feeling unwell. This is a big worry by the authorities are not panicking just yet. There are also upwards of 100 Australian children in the affected province right now and we have no plans to evacuate them. Meanwhile planes from other parts of China keep arriving at the rate of 3 per day.

There is a rush in the medical labs to produce a vaccine ASAP.
 
Warrigal said:
Five verified cases in Australia now. We have a large number of overseas students from China and the academic year is about to start. Exclusion from classes so far is voluntary if a student is feeling unwell. This is a big worry by the authorities are not panicking just yet. There are also upwards of 100 Australian children in the affected province right now and we have no plans to evacuate them. Meanwhile planes from other parts of China keep arriving at the rate of 3 per day.

There is a rush in the medical labs to produce a vaccine ASAP.
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Just as I predicted. And I'm sure the vaccine will be as useful as the flu vaccine. :D
 
Think "lung issues"...pneumonia ...that's the issue. People can have it and think its the cold, the flu and then as it hangs on and gets worse, go to the hospital and its treated as pneumonia. Why? Because it does produce pneumonia.

This can take a much longer time. There are undoubtedly more cases than reported at this time due to the fact the symptoms are so weak for possibly weeks as it presents as pneumonia.
 
This is not good news. So far, cases outside China have been patients who had just returned from affected areas in China. This new German case is the first confirmed person-to-person case outside China. The German guy contracted it from a Shanghai based coworker who was in Germany January 19-23 and had no symptoms while she was in Germany.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-...s-of-transmission-outside-china-idUSKBN1ZR057
From the article:

Germany has declared its first confirmed case of the coronavirus after a 33-year-old man contracted it from a colleague visiting his workplace from Shanghai, in one of the first cases of person-to-person transmission outside China. ...​
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...she had arrived in Germany on Jan. 19, appearing not to have any symptoms, but began to feel ill on her flight home on Jan. 23. She sought medical treatment after landing and tested positive for coronavirus.​
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When that information was relayed back to the German company, a male employee said he felt like he had flu over the weekend and was on Monday advised to get medical treatment.​
 
AnnieA said:
This is not good news. So far, cases outside China have been patients who had just returned from affected areas in China. This new German case is the first confirmed person-to-person case outside China. The German guy contracted it from a Shanghai based coworker who was in Germany January 19-23 and had no symptoms while she was in Germany.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-...s-of-transmission-outside-china-idUSKBN1ZR057
From the article:

Germany has declared its first confirmed case of the coronavirus after a 33-year-old man contracted it from a colleague visiting his workplace from Shanghai, in one of the first cases of person-to-person transmission outside China. ...​
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...she had arrived in Germany on Jan. 19, appearing not to have any symptoms, but began to feel ill on her flight home on Jan. 23. She sought medical treatment after landing and tested positive for coronavirus.​
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When that information was relayed back to the German company, a male employee said he felt like he had flu over the weekend and was on Monday advised to get medical treatment.​
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Japan reported one too...a bus driver that had not gone to China:

https://news.yahoo.com/person-japan-not-visited-wuhan-103535924.html
 
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