Coronavirus Sars-CoV-2/Covid-19 Megathread

[DGuller]

In the short run, a 34-year old whistleblowing doctor has died from the disease, almost a month after contracting it.  That seems like an alarming, if anecdotal, development.

[Barrister]

We finally made BB into a Keynesian.

My work here is complete.

[Caliga]

I was at Midway this morning and a lot of people were wearing surgical masks.

[FunkMonk]

In the short run, a 34-year old whistleblowing doctor has died from the disease, almost a month after contracting it.  That seems like an alarming, if anecdotal, development.

There will be a fascinating "Chernobyl"-like HBO miniseries of all this a decade from now.

If anyone is left to produce it, anyway.

[Iormlund]

They now deny he's dead.

[viper37]

Does anyone know what this has done to sales of corona beer?

[Maximus]

They now deny he's dead.

Zombie outbreak confirmed.

[DGuller]

It appears he died again.

[alfred russel]

They now deny he's dead.

He and tank man are doing well, just take our word for it.

[mongers]

Is the death rate rise beginning to level off a bit?

China's Hubei province reports 69 new coronavirus deaths on February 6: state TV
The number of deaths in China's central Hubei province from a coronavirus outbreak had risen by 69 to 618 as of Thursday, Chinese state television reported on Friday.

BEIJING (Reuters) - The number of deaths in China's central Hubei province from a coronavirus outbreak had risen by 69 to 618 as of Thursday, Chinese state television reported on Friday.

There had been a further 2,447 cases detected in Hubei, the epicenter of the outbreak, taking the total in the province to 22,112.

Most of the new deaths were in Hubei's provincial capital of Wuhan, where the virus is believed to have originated.

Wuhan reported 64 new deaths on Thursday, up from 52 on Wednesday. A total of 478 people in Wuhan have now died from the virus.

New confirmed cases in Wuhan increased by 1,501 on Thursday.

Full item here:
http://feeds.reuters.com/~r/Reuters/worldNews/~3/r0vAFqNps6Q/chinas-hubei-province-reports-69-new-coronavirus-deaths-on-february-6-state-tv-idUSKBN2002ZG

However the UK's third confirmed case is a British national who wasn't in China, instead it's believed he was infected in Singapore. 

[mongers]

Rather worrying that so many on the cruise liner in the Japanese port have come down with the virus:

Another 41 people on a cruise liner off Japan tested positive for coronavirus, bringing the total confirmed from the ship to 61, Japan's health minister said on Friday.

Full item here:
http://feeds.reuters.com/~r/Reuters/worldNews/~3/TDhDiWcpdf0/another-41-on-cruise-liner-off-japan-test-positive-for-coronavirus-government-idUSKBN20102S

[jimmy olsen]

Professor working for the  Abdul Latif Jameel Institute for Disease and Emergency Analytics at Imperial College London says there are under 10% detected. Perhaps 50,000 new cases a day in China. Epidemic doubling every 5 days. 

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

[Admiral Yi]

If that guy's right then lethality should be significantly lower than 2%.

[Tonitrus]

Rather worrying that so many on the cruise liner in the Japanese port have come down with the virus:

Another 41 people on a cruise liner off Japan tested positive for coronavirus, bringing the total confirmed from the ship to 61, Japan's health minister said on Friday.

Full item here:
http://feeds.reuters.com/~r/Reuters/worldNews/~3/TDhDiWcpdf0/another-41-on-cruise-liner-off-japan-test-positive-for-coronavirus-government-idUSKBN20102S

Given all the epidemics one hears about on cruise ships, it seems like the worst place to keep people holed up on.

[Eddie Teach]

Better to keep them on the ship than let them spread it on shore.