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China virus latest: first US case confirmed

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The United States has confirmed its first case of the new coronavirus, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said on 21 January. A 30-year-old man in Washington state has been diagnosed with the illness after a trip to China, making the United States the fifth country to report the disease — and the first outside Asia.
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Source: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-00154-w

With 440 cases in China, and adding more than 100 new cases every day, plus more than 100 cases in South Korea, if this virus spreads to the US we could be talking about a pandemic. For a virus that was only discovered just last month and has already killed 9, it is moving at a remarkable rate.

See also: New virus surging in Asia rattles scientists
 
We have to have a new doomsday virus every winter to peddle. They make great clickbait during flu season.
 
Joke's on you. I died from H5N1 in 2013.
 
Drawdown said:
We have to have a new doomsday virus every winter to peddle. They make great clickbait during flu season.
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True. We don't need CDC. Get rid of them.
 
AProudLefty said:
True. We don't need CDC. Get rid of them.
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"...across the globe, dangerous gaps in public health systems still exist. About 70% of the world’s countries report that they are not fully prepared for an outbreak.

Outbreaks can start anywhere and spread across the globe almost overnight, with devastating results1. In 2003, an outbreak of severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) infected approximately 8,100 people, killed more than 700, and reached more than two dozen countries, heightening the world’s awareness that we must all work together to stop diseases from spreading. About Global Health Security
| Division of Global Health Protection | Global Health | CDC
 
Hamish Howl said:
The right hates the parts of government that still accomplish things.
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I don't understand why you're trying to make this new thread political. :(
 
nota bene said:
"...across the globe, dangerous gaps in public health systems still exist. About 70% of the world’s countries report that they are not fully prepared for an outbreak.

Outbreaks can start anywhere and spread across the globe almost overnight, with devastating results1. In 2003, an outbreak of severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) infected approximately 8,100 people, killed more than 700, and reached more than two dozen countries, heightening the world’s awareness that we must all work together to stop diseases from spreading. About Global Health Security
| Division of Global Health Protection | Global Health | CDC
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Tell that to Drawdown.
 
AProudLefty said:
Tell that to Drawdown.
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His post was a cynical social/media assessment of "peddling clickbait." I don't agree, but his was not a political statement.
 
nota bene said:
His post was a cynical social assessment of "peddling clickbait." I don't agree, but his was not a political statement.
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He was downplaying the seriousness of viruses, hence the sarcasm.

And there was nothing political in my post.
 
AProudLefty said:
He was downplaying the seriousness of viruses, hence the sarcasm.

And there was nothing political in my post.
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You're right; I was thinking of Hamish's post.
 
Drawdown said:
We have to have a new doomsday virus every winter to peddle. They make great clickbait during flu season.
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Count me among those who are taking this coronavirus very seriously. The UK may now also have its first case, and when you think of how a virus can spread in an airport, think about it.

A friend and I were discussing this at lunch (and Hot Zone and The Stand) and wondering if our community will be affected because we have so many Chinese grad students just back from the break between semesters.
 
nota bene said:
Count me among those who are taking this coronavirus very seriously. The UK may now also have its first case, and when you think of how a virus can spread in an airport, think about it.

A friend and I were discussing this at lunch (and Hot Zone and The Stand) and wondering if our community will be affected because we have so many Chinese grad students just back from the break between semesters.
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And now there's another possible case in Mexico.
 
nota bene said:
Count me among those who are taking this coronavirus very seriously. The UK may now also have its first case, and when you think of how a virus can spread in an airport, think about it.

A friend and I were discussing this at lunch (and Hot Zone and The Stand) and wondering if our community will be affected because we have so many Chinese grad students just back from the break between semesters.
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You can take it as seriously as you want to take it, but if it starts spreading to pandemic levels, there really isn't much additional you can do to prevent potential exposure unless you want to rolll up and down the street in one of those hamster balls.
 
Drawdown said:
You can take it as seriously as you want to take it, but if it starts spreading to pandemic levels, there really isn't much additional you can do to prevent potential exposure unless you want to rolll up and down the street in one of those hamster balls.
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I am taking this seriously.

Have you seen the pics yet of the Chinese patient being transported in a tube?
 
nota bene said:
I am taking this seriously.

Have you seen the pics yet of the Chinese patient being transported in a tube?
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They used to do that level containment with HIV/AIDS patients back in the day too. Now no big deal. Like I said before, every winter there is a new hysterical infection going around. Last year it was the Aussie Flu that was going to kill us all.
 
Drawdown said:
They used to do that level containment with HIV/AIDS patients back in the day too. Now no big deal. Like I said before, every winter there is a new hysterical infection going around. Last year it was the Aussie Flu that was going to kill us all.
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So the serious viruses don't have the potential to kill us all to you?
 
Drawdown said:
They used to do that level containment with HIV/AIDS patients back in the day too. Now no big deal. Like I said before, every winter there is a new hysterical infection going around. Last year it was the Aussie Flu that was going to kill us all.
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There is an interested middle between hysteria and dismissal. :roll:
 
nota bene said:
There is an interested middle between hysteria and dismissal. :roll:
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We've been remarkably fortunate so far that a pandemic hasn't occurred since 1918. The last one before 1918 was the third Bubonic plague pandemic that began in China in 1855. They appear to pop up sometime during each century for the last six centuries. The one thing they all have in common is that they all kill tens of millions, the bigger the world population at the time, the more people end up dead. Which means that the next pandemic should be the largest of them all, in regards to casualties.
 
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New update.

A second city in China — Huanggang — is going into a similar lockdown as Wuhan. Huanggang has a population of about 6 million people and is about 70 kilometres from Wuhan. Public bus and railway operations will be suspended from midnight, Reuters reports. A third city, nearby Ezhou, has shut its train stations.

The World Health Organization (WHO) has decided against declaring the coronavirus outbreak a global health emergency, it said on 23 January. "At this time there is no evidence of human-to-human transmission outside China," said WHO director-general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus. "That doesn't mean it won't happen."
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Source: China virus latest: Second Chinese city in lockdown
 
nota bene said:
Count me among those who are taking this coronavirus very seriously. The UK may now also have its first case, and when you think of how a virus can spread in an airport, think about it.

A friend and I were discussing this at lunch (and Hot Zone and The Stand) and wondering if our community will be affected because we have so many Chinese grad students just back from the break between semesters.
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Update: Now it has been. Test results won't be back from the CDC until tomorrow, but the patient is in voluntary isolation. The hospital hasn't been identified yet, but my daughter was at the ER of one of them this morning.
 
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