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

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  • #6572
    Snow Garden
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 3,126 ✭✭✭Snow Garden


    saabsaab wrote: »
    'If it takes 15 minutes of exposure to get it (heard that somewhere) then what about a person getting public transport to the airport. Then cueing up to check bags in. Then cueing up at security. Then having some food or drink. Then cueing up to get on plane. Then being on plane. Then waiting for bags at other end of destination.'


    If an infected person sneezes beside you and either of you don't have protection then you won't need 15mins to have a very high chance of infection.

    What are you on about? 15 mins of exposure? Ease up on the Chinese whispers. You can get it as soon as someone sneezes/coughs on you.
    It's 'queuing' unless you are playing snooker in the airport.


  • #6573
    SeaBreezes
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,554 ✭✭✭SeaBreezes


    Snow Garden wrote: »
    What are you on about? 15 mins of exposure? Ease up on the Chinese whispers. You can get it as soon as someone sneezes/coughs on you.
    It's 'queuing' unless you are playing snooker in the airport.

    The person who tested positive is likely the same person who tested negative before. Tests are not accurate..


  • #6574
    odyssey06
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 35,378 ✭✭✭✭odyssey06


    Snow Garden wrote: »
    What are you on about? 15 mins of exposure? Ease up on the Chinese whispers. You can get it as soon as someone sneezes/coughs on you.
    It's 'queuing' unless you are playing snooker in the airport.

    I think the 15 minutes thing comes from the definition of 'close contact' as per Ireland's Coronavirus Expert Advisory Group.

    I don't know what their basis for 15 minutes is. But here you go, this is the protocol:

    https://www.hpsc.ie/a-z/respiratory/coronavirus/novelcoronavirus/algorithms/2019%20nCoV%20Risk%20Assessment%20Primary%20Care%20v0.3.pdf

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



  • #6575
    RebelButtMunch
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,398 ✭✭✭RebelButtMunch


    saabsaab wrote: »
    'If it takes 15 minutes of exposure to get it (heard that somewhere) then what about a person getting public transport to the airport. Then cueing up to check bags in. Then cueing up at security. Then having some food or drink. Then cueing up to get on plane. Then being on plane. Then waiting for bags at other end of destination.'


    If an infected person sneezes beside you and either of you don't have protection then you won't need 15mins to have a very high chance of infection.

    15 minutes of exposure? All depends on the situation. It only takes 2 seconds to touch something that has some virons on it and then rub your eye


  • #6576
    sweetie
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,797 ✭✭✭sweetie


    Price of crude oil has dropped due to Coronavirus, from $65 to $56, 2.5c less per litre.


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  • #6577
    Jimbob1977
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,239 ✭✭✭Jimbob1977


    I saw a teenager with a face mask in Dunnes Stores Limerick today.

    Irish, not Chinese.

    It will become hipster within a week.


  • #6578
    Tipperary animal lover
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,505 ✭✭✭Tipperary animal lover


    Jesus christ just watched a video of Chinese police/military( which ever c#nts) beaten to death dogs with sticks and pits full of pigs been set alight to contain the virus, I'm sick to my stomach watching that poor dog just sit there and been beaten to death.


  • #6579
    SeaBreezes
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,554 ✭✭✭SeaBreezes


    China updates just nine(?) new cases today, and only 1 death...
    That fell off a cliff very quickly!
    I think those numbers are Wuhan only though? Hubei due in later?

    https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/


  • #6580
    wakka12
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,786 ✭✭✭wakka12


    https://www.reddit.com/r/China_Flu/comments/f4y7u9/japan_confirms_current_total_of_59_cases_outside/
    Japanese Health Minister urges public to avoid gathering in large crowds


  • #6581
    s7ryf3925pivug
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,007 ✭✭✭s7ryf3925pivug


    Looks like it can spread through shared soil pipes if the plumbing is done wrongly. Must have been the source of the idea that it could spread through sewage systems

    https://edition.cnn.com/2020/02/12/asia/hong-kong-coronavirus-pipes-intl-hnk/?iid=ob_mobile_article_footer_expansion

    That's gross anyway; sewer gas going through the building. I would think that it must have smelled pretty bad.

    Wonder if something like this is behind the spread on cruise ships.


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  • #6582
    MarkY91
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,071 ✭✭✭MarkY91


    Jimbob1977 wrote: »
    I saw a teenager with a face mask in Dunnes Stores Limerick today.

    Irish, not Chinese.

    It will become hipster within a week.

    I saw two Irish girls wearing them on two different occasions. They had stupid anime characters on the masks. 100% attention seeking anime comic book geek types.


  • #6583
    laurah591
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 326 ✭✭laurah591


    SeaBreezes wrote: »
    China updates just nine(?) new cases today, and only 1 death...
    That fell off a cliff very quickly!
    I think those numbers are Wuhan only though? Hubei due in later?

    https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/

    Hubei numbers not available yet .... these will probably show circa 2k cases and 100 odd deaths


  • #6584
    wakka12
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,786 ✭✭✭wakka12


    SeaBreezes wrote: »
    China updates just nine(?) new cases today, and only 1 death...
    That fell off a cliff very quickly!
    I think those numbers are Wuhan only though? Hubei due in later?

    https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/

    The numbers for China arent out. Hubei is at 10pm, usually much later, and the rest of China is at least an hour and half later


  • #6585
    Ulysses Gaze
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,570 ✭✭✭Ulysses Gaze


    SeaBreezes wrote: »
    China updates just nine(?) new cases today, and only 1 death...
    That fell off a cliff very quickly!
    I think those numbers are Wuhan only though? Hubei due in later?

    https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/

    If anyone believes anything the CCP are saying regards this virus, I've some nice beachfront property to sell you in Carlow.


  • #6586
    fritzelly
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,111 ✭✭✭✭fritzelly


    SeaBreezes wrote: »
    China updates just nine(?) new cases today, and only 1 death...
    That fell off a cliff very quickly!
    I think those numbers are Wuhan only though? Hubei due in later?

    https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/

    Numbers not released - they are probably just a few reported numbers but nothing official


  • #6587
    wakka12
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,786 ✭✭✭wakka12


    https://metro.co.uk/2020/02/16/schools-told-stay-open-even-suspect-coronavirus-12251161/
    Schools in the UK are advised not to close even if there is a suspected case, if proven positive then action will be taken. It's probably not bad advice given how few cases there seems to be in the UK, but if there is ever an epidemic in schools in UK heads will be rollin


  • #6588
    fritzelly
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,111 ✭✭✭✭fritzelly


    https://twitter.com/BNODesk/status/1229175389840429057


  • #6589
    fritzelly
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,111 ✭✭✭✭fritzelly


    40814 still being treated
    9797 still critical/serious
    4826 suspected


  • #6590
    cnocbui
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,998 ✭✭✭✭cnocbui


    Kaya Prehistoric Landlord wrote: »
    Looks like it can spread through shared soil pipes if the plumbing is done wrongly. Must have been the source of the idea that it could spread through sewage systems

    https://edition.cnn.com/2020/02/12/asia/hong-kong-coronavirus-pipes-intl-hnk/?iid=ob_mobile_article_footer_expansion

    That's gross anyway; sewer gas going through the building. I would think that it must have smelled pretty bad.

    Wonder if something like this is behind the spread on cruise ships.

    The sewer thing is likely a mixup/misinformation relating to a closely studied incident during the SARS outbreak in Hong Kong in the Amoy Garden high rise: https://www.infectioncontroltoday.com/personal-protective-equipment/sars-and-plumbing-role-sewage-plays-spreading-disease


  • #6591
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭ [Deleted User]


    wakka12 wrote: »
    https://metro.co.uk/2020/02/16/schools-told-stay-open-even-suspect-coronavirus-12251161/
    Schools in the UK are advised not to close even if there is a suspected case, if proven positive then action will be taken. It's probably not bad advice given how few cases there seems to be in the UK, but if there is ever an epidemic in schools in UK heads will be rollin

    Sounds like terrible advice to me


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  • #6592
    wakka12
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,786 ✭✭✭wakka12


    So, in the past the number of confirmed cases seemed to limited by the number of test kits they had. The maximum test appeared to be about 2500 daily. Seeing as there are still thousands of suspected left, why are they not being tested, and the 2500 limit still being reached daily?


  • #6593
    BanditLuke
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,600 ✭✭✭BanditLuke


    Like clockwork with the death rate.


  • #6594
    cnocbui
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,998 ✭✭✭✭cnocbui


    saabsaab wrote: »
    'If it takes 15 minutes of exposure to get it (heard that somewhere) then what about a person getting public transport to the airport. Then cueing up to check bags in. Then cueing up at security. Then having some food or drink. Then cueing up to get on plane. Then being on plane. Then waiting for bags at other end of destination.'


    If an infected person sneezes beside you and either of you don't have protection then you won't need 15mins to have a very high chance of infection.

    You possible heard about it here: https://www.nzherald.co.nz/world/news/article.cfm?c_id=2&objectid=12304897


  • #6595
    wakka12
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,786 ✭✭✭wakka12


    The death rate is increasing quite a lot as the number of new cases drop while deaths increase/remain consistent. In Hubei the mortality rate is now very close to 3%, a week ago it was just around 2.1%. It has also risen quite a lot in the rest of China to over 0.5%, last week it 0.3%.


  • #6596
    laurah591
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 326 ✭✭laurah591


    wakka12 wrote: »
    So, in the past the number of confirmed cases seemed to limited by the number of test kits they had. The maximum test appeared to be about 2500 daily. Seeing as there are still thousands of suspected left, why are they not being tested, and the 2500 limit still being reached daily?

    Are China's numbers accurate? just seem too predictable


  • #6597
    BanditLuke
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,600 ✭✭✭BanditLuke


    laurah591 wrote: »
    Are China's numbers accurate? just seem too predictable

    They are about as accurate as a blind guy playing darts whilst drunk.


  • #6598
    Kermit.de.frog
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,109 ✭✭✭✭Kermit.de.frog


    fritzelly wrote: »
    https://twitter.com/BNODesk/status/1229175389840429057

    tenor.gif?itemid=11209519


  • #6599
    circadian
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,430 ✭✭✭circadian


    Jimbob1977 wrote: »
    I saw a teenager with a face mask in Dunnes Stores Limerick today.

    Irish, not Chinese.

    It will become hipster within a week.

    Could be immunocompronised, I've seen a few in Dublin this last week. I'd imagine if you have any underlying issues and see this in the news then you'd take precautions.


  • #6600
    Kermit.de.frog
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,109 ✭✭✭✭Kermit.de.frog


    From what I have read apparently masks are next to useless for this infection.


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  • #6601
    wakka12
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,786 ✭✭✭wakka12


    Yes the immediate thought when seeing something like that is that the person is ridiculous and dramatic but for a lot of people a virus like this could have serious consequence. Underlying illnesses are more common than you think


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