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new coronavirus outbreak China, Korea, USA - mod warnings in OP (updated 24/02/20)

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  • #5282
    fritzelly
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,114 ✭✭✭✭fritzelly


    Fr_Dougal wrote: »
    Case confirmed in London: https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2020/feb/12/coronavirus-live-updates-deaths-infections-symptoms-transmission-wuhan-china-cruise-ship-quarantine-cases-latest-update-news

    Source is the Sun - large pinch of salt needed


  • #5283
    MD1990
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,740 ✭✭✭✭MD1990


    Asked about reports that the Chinese authorities silenced those warning of the virus at the end of last year, Dr Michael Ryan says that the country’s government notified WHO as soon as there was evidence of the outbreak.

    He said that given the country’s huge population and the fact that the symptoms are so similar to influenza, the speed of the identification of the outbreak was impressive. “Now is not the time for recrimination, now is not the time for forensics, now is the time to fight this virus,” he said.

    A few would want to read that.

    Stop falling for twitter conspiracy theories.

    Hopefully new cases will continue to fall over next few days.


  • #5284
    fritzelly
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,114 ✭✭✭✭fritzelly


    fritzelly wrote: »
    Source is the Sun - large pinch of salt needed

    Now being cited by other news outlets including Sky


  • #5285
    tara73
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,358 ✭✭✭tara73


    Fr_Dougal wrote: »
    Case confirmed in London: https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2020/feb/12/coronavirus-live-updates-deaths-infections-symptoms-transmission-wuhan-china-cruise-ship-quarantine-cases-latest-update-news


    ...that one person loudly coughing at the beginning in the background...:D


  • #5286
    Fr_Dougal
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,166 ✭✭✭Fr_Dougal


    fritzelly wrote: »
    Source is the Sun - large pinch of salt needed

    I had linked to the Guardian!


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  • #5287
    fritzelly
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,114 ✭✭✭✭fritzelly


    Fr_Dougal wrote: »
    I had linked to the Guardian!

    Guardian were using the Sun as the source


  • #5288
    Cody montana
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,584 ✭✭✭Cody montana


    Timberrrrrrrr wrote: »
    No lol live from WHO

    Saying 44,730 cases in China 1,114 deaths

    441 cases rest of the world over 24 countries with one death.

    They also said cases were levelling off.


  • #5289
    MD1990
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,740 ✭✭✭✭MD1990


    Ghebreyesus has defended the reaction of the Chinese authorities to the outbreak.
    We were in this board room for a board meeting and almost all members states were praising China for what it did. And they had a reason ... China took action massively at the epicentre, at the source of the outbreak, in shutting down Wuhan city. And that helped prevent cases from being exported to other provinces in China and the rest of the world. And I remember a board member from the UK saying, verbatim, ‘this is heroic’. Because when you shut down a city like that it has consequences – economic and so on – serious consequences.

    seems like China have done all they can.


  • #5290
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭ [Deleted User]


    Going to Namibia myself early March, via Doha. Namibia has second lowest population density and most time there will be in airy and outdoor places. However Doha airport and flights could be a focus for infection. Last time I flew through that airport I caught Influenza which was prevalent there and Australia at the time. Fortunately the vaccine turned what was going to be a very nasty couple of weeks into a two day illness.


  • #5291
    cnocbui
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,012 ✭✭✭✭cnocbui


    auspicious wrote: »
    Meanwhile Russia is putting penitentiary inmates to making grade quality masks and Putin has suggested stripping licences off pharmacies if they increase price of masks.
    They are checking flight passengers temperatures e.g. flights from Prague to Moscow.
    India are checking 29 airports and have checked over 1100 flights so far.

    A Dublin based company has developed a test which can confirm infection in patients in 60 mins. It's being fast-tracked to China for clinical evaluation.

    Damn that Putin is a crafty beggar. I thought the grabbing of Crimea was pretty stealthy, but now he's gone pure ninja to nab the Czech Republic without a murmur.


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  • #5292
    Tipperary animal lover
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,505 ✭✭✭Tipperary animal lover


    First case in london been confirmed another chinese national who arrived in the last few weeks.


  • #5293
    Larbre34
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,447 ✭✭✭✭Larbre34


    I say we take off, nuke the entire China from orbit. Its the only way to be sure.


  • #5294
    odyssey06
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 35,435 ✭✭✭✭odyssey06


    Larbre34 wrote: »
    I say we take off, nuke the entire China from orbit. Its the only way to be sure.

    I'm sure it has crossed the mind of the the Donald...

    "To follow knowledge like a sinking star..." (Tennyson's Ulysses)



  • #5295
    cnocbui
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,012 ✭✭✭✭cnocbui


    Well that was sensible.
    Mobile World Congress canceled after coronavirus outbreak makes conference ‘impossible’


  • #5296
    wakka12
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,786 ✭✭✭wakka12


    Now 17 patients in a serious /critical condition outside of China. Up from 12 yesterday, almost 4% of international cases.
    https://bnonews.com/index.php/2020/02/the-latest-coronavirus-cases/

    Over 15% of patients in Singapore in a critical condition


  • #5297
    fritzelly
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,114 ✭✭✭✭fritzelly


    Oops

    https://twitter.com/sciencecohen/status/1227641164494462977?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1227641164494462977&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fpublish.twitter.com%2F%3Fquery%3Dhttps%253A%252F%252Ftwitter.com%252Fsciencecohen%252Fstatus%252F1227641164494462977%26widget%3DTweet


  • #5298
    Fr_Dougal
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,166 ✭✭✭Fr_Dougal


    20x N95 masks, original price £20, now cost £120 and went as high as £120

    https://uk.camelcamelcamel.com/3M-Particulate-Respirator-8210-Pack/product/B008MCUZZS

    Some amount of gouging going on.


  • #5299
    saabsaab
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,722 ✭✭✭saabsaab


    Fr_Dougal wrote: »
    20x N95 masks, original price £20, now cost £120 and went as high as £120

    https://uk.camelcamelcamel.com/3M-Particulate-Respirator-8210-Pack/product/B008MCUZZS

    Some amount of gouging going on.


    Always happens when demand outstrips supply. Think a bed in Galway City during race week!


  • #5300
    Drumpot
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,306 ✭✭✭✭Drumpot


    Larbre34 wrote: »
    I say we take off, nuke the entire China from orbit. Its the only way to be sure.

    Ha , snap, I only watched aliens at the weeekend...... You don’t see the Chinese f**king each over for a percentage....


  • #5301
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭ [Deleted User]


    gmisk wrote: »
    True but what is the fatality rate for someone that catches it?
    Isn't coronavirus 1-2%? That's pretty high
    Flu seems to be roughly 0.095% a bit of a difference

    What's the death rate going to be when people get it a second , third, fourth time


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  • #5302
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 17,378 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    [Deleted User] wrote: »
    What's the death rate going to be when people get it a second , third, fourth time

    Lower?


  • #5303
    wakka12
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,786 ✭✭✭wakka12


    https://twitter.com/ScottGottliebMD/status/1227680583322603520


  • #5304
    1800_Ladladlad
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,452 ✭✭✭1800_Ladladlad


    Minime2.5 wrote: »
    another super spreader found

    the-fortyfoot-ii2a5943_90574133-2-752x501.jpg


  • #5305
    car_radio19834
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 247 ✭✭car_radio19834


    This thing is spreading faster than a hoors legs!


  • #5306
    BloodBath
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,299 ✭✭✭✭BloodBath


    Deleted User wrote: »
    What's the death rate going to be when people get it a second , third, fourth time

    Ehh that's not even possible.

    Your body becomes immune to it if you fought it off the first time unless it mutates rapidly or your immune system is fecked.


  • #5307
    ardinn
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,246 ✭✭✭ardinn


    Youtubes tags on john are gone arseways! - Impossible to embed!

    Doc John
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  • #5308
    fritzelly
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,114 ✭✭✭✭fritzelly


    BloodBath wrote: »
    Ehh that's not even possible.

    Your body becomes immune to it if you fought it off the first time unless it mutates rapidly or your immune system is fecked.

    Nope, antibodies are not lasting long, same with flu, colds etc so you are at as much chance to catch it again as someone who never had it


  • #5309
    4068ac1elhodqr
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,586 ✭✭✭4068ac1elhodqr


    1st the $1,000 type of overpriced 10 camera hyped up 100px mobile phone show get's cancelled,
    next the F1 calander is disrupted somewhat,
    now Jeeves informs me Bulgari (fancy watches) Is Pulling Out of Baselworld 2020!

    If the next P&P party over in Monaco gets cancelled, will just have to dust off the billards room for the summer, and consider a liquid reducement of the wine cellar.


  • #5310
    SeaBreezes
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,554 ✭✭✭SeaBreezes


    BloodBath wrote: »
    Ehh that's not even possible.

    Your body becomes immune to it if you fought it off the first time unless it mutates rapidly or your immune system is fecked.

    Not true. You have immunity for a short while about 4 months...


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  • #5311
    4068ac1elhodqr
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,586 ✭✭✭4068ac1elhodqr


    SeaBreezes wrote: »
    Not true. You have immunity for a short while about 4 months...
    14days average antibodies some med reckoned on the interweb.
    Assuming that is, 'zero' mutation, or even full 2nd/3rd wave later in year.

    Hence the boat people in Japan may be very good experimental subjects.


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