Coronavirus Sars-CoV-2/Covid-19 Megathread

[crazy canuck]

NASA Ames is on mandatory telework after an employee tested positive.

Oh no, we moved things from there 3 years ago when UCSC had researchers there - can I get the disease from that?

There are people spreading false news that it can linger so definitely panic

[Legbiter]

It's a coronavirus cc, they linger on surfaces. Why is this a hill to die on?

[Richard Hakluyt]

Yeah, its why I'm so concerned about this outbreak.

[Legbiter]

I see these self-checkout terminals in supermarkets as the modern plague pit.  This is how I'll gradually morph into wearing a spacesuit.

[Richard Hakluyt]

Our local medical practice has a touchscreen booking in facility 

[mongers]

I see these self-checkout terminals in supermarkets as the modern plague pit.  This is how I'll gradually morph into wearing a spacesuit.

I always use the outside of a finger joint on these touch screens, that's a bit of me less likely to come into contact with other parts of me till I wash my hands.

[celedhring]

I have an itchy nose and I'm always touching it as a result. I'm so getting this shit.

[PDH]

I work at a university of 20k students from all over the world, including a sizable foreign student population who returned from Winter Break just as this was starting...I figure I have been breeding this for a while inside of me.

[DGuller]

Does picking your nose count as touching your face?  Asking for a friend.

[mongers]

WHO Covid-19 situation reports, some interesting data:

https://www.who.int/emergencies/diseases/novel-coronavirus-2019/situation-reports

Interesting that multiple Chinese provinces have not reported new cases in several days, even a week or two, whereas it's rolling through Western Europe now.

[Josephus]

Series A has been suspended

I see Israel just announced 2 week quarantine for anyone travelling to the country.

which of course effictively bans anyone wanting to go there.

[viper37]

2 new cases in Quebec, 1 came back from France, the other from a "Northwest European country".  No indication which one.

[Grey Fox]

I have a cold. I will try to not enjoy freaking every one out over the next week.

[viper37]

I have a cold. I will try to not enjoy freaking every one out over the next week.

I keep coughing due to my asthma.  Imagine the reactions of strangers...

[frunk]

Nice video on exponential growth.  One point he doesn't make is why it is so important to get the growth factor down, in that it gives us time to respond either with better targeted responses to the specific infection model or a vaccine.