Coronavirus Sars-CoV-2/Covid-19 Megathread

[celedhring]

I loved the Kentucky Fried Movie when I was a kid, and it cemented my mental image of Detroit 

[Syt]

I liked Detroit in the X-Men cartoon.

[Valmy]

remdesivir.  First antiviral administered to a patient in France, with sucess.  No more signs of the virus, no clinical symptoms on the patient.

Tests are to begin soon in China.

The French have saved human civilization once again. You're welcome world.

[Iormlund]

... it cemented my mental image of Detroit 

Same, but with Robocop.

[Eddie Teach]

remdesivir.  First antiviral administered to a patient in France, with sucess.  No more signs of the virus, no clinical symptoms on the patient.

Tests are to begin soon in China.

The French have saved human civilization once again. You're welcome world.

  you aren't French

[Savonarola]

The French have saved human civilization once again. You're welcome world.

  you aren't French

He's practically French.

[Eddie Teach]

Close is only good enough for hand grenades and horseshoes.

[Camerus]

Valmy is French enough that he can speak of «nos ancêtres les Gaulois».

[crazy canuck]

Close is only good enough for hand grenades and horseshoes.

Practically is better than merely close.

[jimmy olsen]

remdesivir.  First antiviral administered to a patient in France, with sucess.  No more signs of the virus, no clinical symptoms on the patient.

Tests are to begin soon in China.

Let's hope that success can be replicated, else the economy will collapse in a month

https://edition.cnn.com/2020/02/14/economy/coronavirus-china-economy-small-businesses/index.html

[mongers]

This virus seems far more contagious than the UK's official guideline of 15 minutes of close contact, would suggest.

I've just seen an item on how two Chinese tourists in Singapore created one of the clusters there as a result of a guided shopping trip, just a few minutes of shop based contact each was enough to result in 7 new cases, including secondary cases.

[Monoriu]

I doubt if it is possible to contain it.  We may have to accept that it is a kind of serious flu that is going to infect millions and is here to stay for many years.  Right now it seems it is very contagious, but isn't particularly deadly. 

[Legbiter]

Right now it seems it is very contagious, but isn't particularly deadly.

Only if your health system has an available hospital bed to treat the complications. I shudder to think what would happen here if 500 people simultaneously needed to go on a ventilator.

[viper37]

remdesivir.  First antiviral administered to a patient in France, with sucess.  No more signs of the virus, no clinical symptoms on the patient.

Tests are to begin soon in China.

Let's hope that success can be replicated, else the economy will collapse in a month

https://edition.cnn.com/2020/02/14/economy/coronavirus-china-economy-small-businesses/index.html

not collapse, but we could enter into a short recession, yes.

[Duque de Bragança]

First Coronavirus death in France. A 80-year old Chinese tourist.

https://www.france24.com/en/20200215-france-announces-first-coronavirus-death-outside-asia

The deceased patient, a Chinese tourist from the province of Hubei, had a serious lung infection caused by the COVID-19 virus.