Coronavirus Sars-CoV-2/Covid-19 Megathread

Started by Syt, January 18, 2020, 09:36:09 AM

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viper37

#120
January 30, 2020, 03:20:59 AM
Quote from: mongers on January 29, 2020, 08:55:33 AM
At what point during that time did they become infectious?
Between January 16th and today, I'd say. ;)
Well, they are infectious before they are symptomatic.
But the good news is, this spreads like the flu: close contact.
Unless they were shaking hands and kissing random people before they were symptomatic, the probability of infecting someone else is minimal.
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jimmy olsen

#121
January 30, 2020, 03:36:36 AM
Quote from: DGuller on January 29, 2020, 08:36:13 PM
Or it could be that nothing grows exponentially forever, exponential growth is usually just the very beginning of the S-shaped curve.

Or it could mean the Chinese authorities are no longer able to keep up with the numbers. Suspected cases in China went from 8k to 12k. 50%
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jimmy olsen

#122
January 30, 2020, 03:37:50 AM
Quote from: viper37 on January 30, 2020, 03:20:59 AM
Quote from: mongers on January 29, 2020, 08:55:33 AM
At what point during that time did they become infectious?
Between January 16th and today, I'd say. ;)
Well, they are infectious before they are symptomatic.
But the good news is, this spreads like the flu: close contact.
Unless they were shaking hands and kissing random people before they were symptomatic, the probability of infecting someone else is minimal.
It's spread by droplet at least.
It is far better for the truth to tear my flesh to pieces, then for my soul to wander through darkness in eternal damnation.

Jet: So what kind of woman is she? What's Julia like?
Faye: Ordinary. The kind of beautiful, dangerous ordinary that you just can't leave alone.
Jet: I see.
Faye: Like an angel from the underworld. Or a devil from Paradise.
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celedhring

#123
January 30, 2020, 05:18:46 AM
Quote from: mongers on January 29, 2020, 10:32:46 PM
Maybe we* will get lucky and the draconian measures taken by the Chinese along with the increasing global co-operation will be enough to halt this new illness.

That's what worries me the most (and worried my Chinese colleagues). The fact that the Chinese Gov - who always wants to keep a lid on any internal crisis and downplay it - is so visibly losing their shit over this means it's probably bigger than they are letting on.

Legbiter

#124
January 30, 2020, 08:00:41 AM
Yeah, it's much, much better to panic early than late.
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Syt

#125
January 30, 2020, 08:37:06 AM
Wilbur Ross on FOX News re: Corona Virus

https://twitter.com/atrupar/status/1222863896882679808

QuoteI think it will help to accelerate the return of jobs to North America.
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Eddie Teach

#126
January 30, 2020, 10:43:17 AM
Gotta keep our priorities straight.
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Valmy

#127
January 30, 2020, 10:49:34 AM
Unless the virus takes out computers probably not.
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Grey Fox

#128
January 30, 2020, 10:59:23 AM
Semiconductor fabs are less automated than it seems. They also cost 4-5 billions$ to build. But, I guess, if 900 millions Chinese die there might be an opportunity.
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FunkMonk

#129
January 30, 2020, 12:54:23 PM
Quote from: Syt on January 30, 2020, 08:37:06 AM
Wilbur Ross on FOX News re: Corona Virus

https://twitter.com/atrupar/status/1222863896882679808

QuoteI think it will help to accelerate the return of jobs to North America.

Yes America will definitely only benefit from its largest trading partner stopping its foreign trade because of a deadly epidemic.
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Valmy

#130
January 30, 2020, 12:57:59 PM
Quote from: FunkMonk on January 30, 2020, 12:54:23 PM
Yes America will definitely only benefit from its largest trading partner stopping its foreign trade because of a deadly epidemic.

Less trade = more jobs

Nothing at all to do with automation.
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Duque de Bragança

#131
January 30, 2020, 02:16:51 PM
Sixth case reported in France. A military plane set to evacuate French people from, you have guessed it, Wuhan.
https://www.france24.com/en/20200130-france-confirms-sixth-case-of-coronavirus-infection-health-official-says

Air France won't fly to China till February 9 at least.
https://www.france24.com/en/20200128-chinese-tourist-in-serious-condition-in-france-s-fourth-coronavirus-case

Portugal to evacuate some 17 Portuguese and other Europeans from Wuhan as well.

https://www.rtp.pt/noticias/mundo/dezassete-portugueses-retidos-em-wuhan-vao-ser-retirados-na-sexta-feira_n1201708
QuoteMilhares retidos em Wuhan

Milhares de estrangeiros estão retidos na cidade chinesa de Wuhan, onde a epidemia começou, e que está isolada há uma semana.

Thousands of foreigners have been stuck in Wuhan, city quarantined since a week.

crazy canuck

#132
January 30, 2020, 03:49:15 PM Last Edit: January 30, 2020, 03:51:50 PM by crazy canuck
WHO just declared it an international public health emergency

QuoteA declaration of a public health emergency of international concern — known as a PHEIC in WHO jargon — is rare. Only five have been declared in the past decade: The H1N1 virus that caused an influenza pandemic in 2009, West Africa's Ebola outbreak, polio in 2014, Zika virus in 2016 and the ongoing Ebola outbreak in Congo

https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/who-reconvenes-assess-latest-coronavirus-1.5445775

Tamas

#133
January 30, 2020, 04:11:19 PM
So is it possible the real numbers are not published? Or is it normal to declare a flu that kills 180 elderly in a city of 11 million an international emergency?

Admiral Yi

#134
January 30, 2020, 04:14:01 PM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TCvZjn1uhSU

US evacuees are being quarantined at an air force base in southern California.
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