Coronavirus Sars-CoV-2/Covid-19 Megathread

[viper37]

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.

[jimmy olsen]

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%

[jimmy olsen]

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.

[celedhring]

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]

Yeah, it's much, much better to panic early than late.

[Syt]

Wilbur Ross on FOX News re: Corona Virus

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

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

[Eddie Teach]

Gotta keep our priorities straight.

[Valmy]

Unless the virus takes out computers probably not.

[Grey Fox]

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.

[FunkMonk]

Wilbur Ross on FOX News re: Corona Virus

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

I 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.

[Valmy]

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.

[Duque de Bragança]

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

Milhares 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]

WHO just declared it an international public health emergency

A 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]

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]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TCvZjn1uhSU

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