May 31
I am living in a different country than six months ago. The pandemic precipitated a police and racial incidence in Minnesota. A cop suffocated a black by putting his knee on his neck. It was all captured on cell phone. The pandemic is somewhat under control, but hot spots now are increasing. We have had wide spread rioting and looting in our cities. Wall to wall protesting throughout our nation. The riots have overrun two police stations and burnt them to the ground. The world is utterly shocked with our destabilization.
How do I feel about the black rioting? We have had more rioting than the killing of MLK. Without the rioting of the 1960s, we never would have had the half ass reforms of those days and black voting. It is what good people do when they couldn't be seen and heard. Invisible people. Covid is devastating the blacks. There is a rainbow of people doing the protesting and rioting. I am most impressed by the young women. They are eyeball to eyeball fighting the police and knowingly taking the batons. Putting their bodies lines.
"Burn Baby. Burn"- Watts riots in 1965!!!
May 14
*NYT-The Federal Reserve chair, Jerome H. Powell, delivered a stark warning on Wednesday that the United States was experiencing an economic hit “without modern precedent,” one that could permanently damage the economy if Congress and the White House did not provide sufficient financial support to prevent a wave of bankruptcies and prolonged joblessness.
May 13
US infected 1,3700,116
deaths 82,389
We are pushing to open our country, but the infection level is still too high to allow it.
May 8
Worst jobs report in USA history...20.5% signed up for unemployment insurance last month and a 14.7% rate.
infected 1,256,976
Dead 75670
May 7
3.1 million unemployed this week. We are talking about plus 20% unemployment.
May 5
*NYT-The Federal Reserve chair, Jerome H. Powell, delivered a stark warning on Wednesday that the United States was experiencing an economic hit “without modern precedent,” one that could permanently damage the economy if Congress and the White House did not provide sufficient financial support to prevent a wave of bankruptcies and prolonged joblessness.
May 13
US infected 1,3700,116
deaths 82,389
We are pushing to open our country, but the infection level is still too high to allow it.
May 8
Worst jobs report in USA history...20.5% signed up for unemployment insurance last month and a 14.7% rate.
infected 1,256,976
Dead 75670
May 7
3.1 million unemployed this week. We are talking about plus 20% unemployment.
May 5
I have longed thought there were multiped strains of coronavirus plying the planet: 'A mutant coronavirus has emerged, even more contagious than the original, study says.
Today our nation is intentionally debating trading lives for opening up our nation again.
What we got in front of us, is waves of mutated coronavirus hitting us for years.
I am thinking about a fatality rate of 50% to 75% before this is over with?
May 3
USA infected
dead
"Excess U.S. deaths hit estimated 37,100 in pandemic’s early days, far more than previously known"
Today our nation is intentionally debating trading lives for opening up our nation again.
What we got in front of us, is waves of mutated coronavirus hitting us for years.
I am thinking about a fatality rate of 50% to 75% before this is over with?
May 3
USA infected
dead
"Excess U.S. deaths hit estimated 37,100 in pandemic’s early days, far more than previously known"
infections 1,133,069
deaths 66,385
April 29
infections 1,003,168
deaths 58, 368
Everyone is deep into pandemic days.
GDP down a sickening 4.8%
April 22
USA
Infected 825,306
dead 45,075
April 20
USA
infected 759,786
dead 40,683
They been talking about what is needed to open up the country for the last week. Basically test that immediately shows if infected and all infections investigated.
April 16
We are getting use to theses numbers:
USA infected 640,014
Dead 31,002
22 million file for unemployment
Curve seems to be flattening, but stays at startling high numbers.
April 12
The big talk in the USA is when are we going to open up the country...as the death rate keeps rising.
April 11
*2000 deaths in USA in a single day. They think the apex is here for the whole USA.
*USA...can you even believe this? The nightmare continues.
501,615 infected
18,777 dead
NYC is approaching their apex...with many other metropolitan areas weeks or a month away?
Do you think Covid is going to decline because of warm weather or does she got surprises for us?
April 9
*Top health officials in South Korea have raised concerns about COVID-19 patients who recovered and are in need of treatment again.
More than 50 patients who tested positive for the new coronavirus and recovered have tested positive again, the nation’s Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said on Monday.
*16.5% unemployed during the last weeks,
*Detroit hospital workers say people are dying in the ER hallways before help can arrive
*Everyone is waiting for the peak, it is just around the corner. Talking about starting up the economy May 1st. The President on a daily bases is on TV blabbering.
*The numbers: The novel coronavirus has infected almost 1.5 million people and killed over 88,000 worldwide, according to Johns Hopkins University.
US cases top 432,000: America's death toll stands at more than 14,800 after the country recorded 1,922 deaths on Wednesday -- the most in a single day.
UK's highest daily toll: Britain reported 938 fatalities on Wednesday, taking its death toll past 7,000, as London's mayor said the lockdown will continue for the foreseeable future. PM Boris Johnson remains in intensive care.
April 7
*US
infected 368,241
dead 10,986
*Our TV's have been flooded with pictures on overloaded IC rooms and people on ventilators. We got to repeatedly listen to multiple hospital announcement systems saying code 99. It meant another person is going on a ventilator. Nurses and doctors talking about maybe 10 deaths in one IC unit in a very short time.
*Trump continues to be a abomination. He basically has been having daily political reelection advertisement dressed up as national emergency pandemic press conferences. These goes on for a hour to a hour and half. I can't understand why he is still in office.
Some states are showing a slowing rate of incline with the deaths.
*UK's Boris Johnson has caught the virus and his condition is decline. He is in a intensive care unit on oxygen, but not on a ventilators. The Brits are having big issues with leadership succession if Boris dies. Who is going to be the new Boris? Everyone in is the USA is praying Trump will caught the virus.
*New York funeral homes overwhelmed by coronavirus
April 6
Our Surgeon General says the next two weeks is going to be a Pearl Harbor plus a 911 together catastrophe. We got to steel ourselves with seeing all the dead bodies.
April 4
Trump tells us this afternoon we should be prepared for a terrible-unbelievable death toll in the coming weeks.
We are beginning to hear of coronavirus deaths from the people around us...distance relatives, workers and or neighbor whom caught the virus and is dead.
I and most of the people around me believe we are living in a unbelievably unique and dangerous times. We are the generation who seen our economy pulled down to our ankles.
world
infected 1,187,798
Dead 64,084
USA infected 301,902
deaths 8,197
April 2
Infected 216,604
Dead 4844
Mind blowing 6.6 million unemployed numbers this week. "Absolutely devastating" and "market cash" are common words in the media.
April 1
*Americans are told to brace for “very, very painful” period, and U.N. says virus threatens global stability.
The United Nations warned on Wednesday that the unfolding battle against the coronavirus would lead to “enhanced instability, enhanced unrest, and enhanced conflict.”
As Americans steeled themselves for what President Trump said would be a “very, very painful two weeks,” the scale of the economic, political and societal fallout around the world came into ever greater focus.
“We are facing a global health crisis unlike any in the 75-year history of the United Nations — one that is killing people, spreading human suffering and upending people’s lives,” the United Nations declared in a report calling for global solidarity in the fight.
“This is much more than a health crisis,” the report added. “The coronavirus is attacking societies at their core.”
*New federal guidelines
*100,000 to 240,000 dead. Will last all month.
*Today 185,900+
3800+
March 31
160,700+ infected In USA
3,000+ dead
March 30
Cases exploding in USA. Nothing but talk about doubling time, shortages of medical equipment, ventilators and impending collapse of hospital systems. Trump admits it is going to last for another month.
140,440 infected
2438 dead.
March 27
Bodies are piling up outside hospitals. They are piling up bodies in refrigerated trailers and ice rinks. Humans are a inventive species.
March 26
*The deal here is about scale. This disaster is going to teach us about the scale of our economy versus our government. The scale of our economy dwarfs our government. It is just a illusion we can control our economy: big money and influence has severely reduced our ability to control our economy.
Unemployment at a historic level of 3.3 million...its just a beginning.
March 25
My god, USA:
*53,000+ infections
700+ deaths
*Is this stimulus 2 or 3. Now we finally got a 2 trillion dollar businesses and household stimulus...supposedly big checks to everyone. When the Pandemic is over, we are going to need a public works and infrastructure problem the likes of which we have been dreaming about for about for decades.
March 24
deaths 66,385
April 29
infections 1,003,168
deaths 58, 368
Everyone is deep into pandemic days.
GDP down a sickening 4.8%
April 22
USA
Infected 825,306
dead 45,075
April 20
USA
infected 759,786
dead 40,683
They been talking about what is needed to open up the country for the last week. Basically test that immediately shows if infected and all infections investigated.
We are getting use to theses numbers:
USA infected 640,014
Dead 31,002
22 million file for unemployment
Curve seems to be flattening, but stays at startling high numbers.
April 12
The big talk in the USA is when are we going to open up the country...as the death rate keeps rising.
April 11
*2000 deaths in USA in a single day. They think the apex is here for the whole USA.
*USA...can you even believe this? The nightmare continues.
501,615 infected
18,777 dead
NYC is approaching their apex...with many other metropolitan areas weeks or a month away?
Do you think Covid is going to decline because of warm weather or does she got surprises for us?
April 9
*Top health officials in South Korea have raised concerns about COVID-19 patients who recovered and are in need of treatment again.
More than 50 patients who tested positive for the new coronavirus and recovered have tested positive again, the nation’s Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said on Monday.
*16.5% unemployed during the last weeks,
*Detroit hospital workers say people are dying in the ER hallways before help can arrive
*Everyone is waiting for the peak, it is just around the corner. Talking about starting up the economy May 1st. The President on a daily bases is on TV blabbering.
*The numbers: The novel coronavirus has infected almost 1.5 million people and killed over 88,000 worldwide, according to Johns Hopkins University.
US cases top 432,000: America's death toll stands at more than 14,800 after the country recorded 1,922 deaths on Wednesday -- the most in a single day.
UK's highest daily toll: Britain reported 938 fatalities on Wednesday, taking its death toll past 7,000, as London's mayor said the lockdown will continue for the foreseeable future. PM Boris Johnson remains in intensive care.
April 7
*US
infected 368,241
dead 10,986
*Our TV's have been flooded with pictures on overloaded IC rooms and people on ventilators. We got to repeatedly listen to multiple hospital announcement systems saying code 99. It meant another person is going on a ventilator. Nurses and doctors talking about maybe 10 deaths in one IC unit in a very short time.
*Trump continues to be a abomination. He basically has been having daily political reelection advertisement dressed up as national emergency pandemic press conferences. These goes on for a hour to a hour and half. I can't understand why he is still in office.
Some states are showing a slowing rate of incline with the deaths.
*UK's Boris Johnson has caught the virus and his condition is decline. He is in a intensive care unit on oxygen, but not on a ventilators. The Brits are having big issues with leadership succession if Boris dies. Who is going to be the new Boris? Everyone in is the USA is praying Trump will caught the virus.
*New York funeral homes overwhelmed by coronavirus
April 6
*New York City is looking more and more apocalyptic every day.
As the COVID-19 pandemic continues to claim lives in the U.S's coronavirus epicenter, every aspect of city's resources for managing the dead have been overloaded. So to deal with the influx of dead bodies that have overtaken morgues, funeral homes, and cemeteries, the city will soon begin using a park for temporary burials, New York City Council member Mark Levine announced Monday.
April 5Our Surgeon General says the next two weeks is going to be a Pearl Harbor plus a 911 together catastrophe. We got to steel ourselves with seeing all the dead bodies.
April 4
Trump tells us this afternoon we should be prepared for a terrible-unbelievable death toll in the coming weeks.
We are beginning to hear of coronavirus deaths from the people around us...distance relatives, workers and or neighbor whom caught the virus and is dead.
I and most of the people around me believe we are living in a unbelievably unique and dangerous times. We are the generation who seen our economy pulled down to our ankles.
world
infected 1,187,798
Dead 64,084
USA infected 301,902
deaths 8,197
April 2
Infected 216,604
Dead 4844
Mind blowing 6.6 million unemployed numbers this week. "Absolutely devastating" and "market cash" are common words in the media.
April 1
*Americans are told to brace for “very, very painful” period, and U.N. says virus threatens global stability.
The United Nations warned on Wednesday that the unfolding battle against the coronavirus would lead to “enhanced instability, enhanced unrest, and enhanced conflict.”
As Americans steeled themselves for what President Trump said would be a “very, very painful two weeks,” the scale of the economic, political and societal fallout around the world came into ever greater focus.
“We are facing a global health crisis unlike any in the 75-year history of the United Nations — one that is killing people, spreading human suffering and upending people’s lives,” the United Nations declared in a report calling for global solidarity in the fight.
“This is much more than a health crisis,” the report added. “The coronavirus is attacking societies at their core.”
*New federal guidelines
*100,000 to 240,000 dead. Will last all month.
*Today 185,900+
3800+
March 31
160,700+ infected In USA
3,000+ dead
March 30
Cases exploding in USA. Nothing but talk about doubling time, shortages of medical equipment, ventilators and impending collapse of hospital systems. Trump admits it is going to last for another month.
140,440 infected
2438 dead.
March 27
Bodies are piling up outside hospitals. They are piling up bodies in refrigerated trailers and ice rinks. Humans are a inventive species.
March 26
*The deal here is about scale. This disaster is going to teach us about the scale of our economy versus our government. The scale of our economy dwarfs our government. It is just a illusion we can control our economy: big money and influence has severely reduced our ability to control our economy.
Unemployment at a historic level of 3.3 million...its just a beginning.
March 25
My god, USA:
*53,000+ infections
700+ deaths
*Is this stimulus 2 or 3. Now we finally got a 2 trillion dollar businesses and household stimulus...supposedly big checks to everyone. When the Pandemic is over, we are going to need a public works and infrastructure problem the likes of which we have been dreaming about for about for decades.
March 24
*Feds opened the money spigot wide open to save our economy. We got some horrific economic number coming out this and next week:
Dow Soars More Than 11% In Biggest One-Day Jump Since 1933
*Surge in cases suggests people fleeing New York City are infecting others, White House says
*Trump thinks we are ready to restart the USA.
*Worldwide 395,647 infected
deaths 17241
USA 43,925 infected
deaths 547
March 23
*Trump wants to open up the businesses believing there will be more deaths in a economic depression than in keeping the nation shutdown for two months.
*“We cannot let the cure be worse than the problem itself,” he wrote on Twitter. “At the end of the 15 day period, we will make a decision which way we want to go!”
*Unprecedented in our history: The Fed says it will buy as much debt as it needs to cushion the blow for businesses.
*US Surgeon General this morning: I didn't expect that I'd be on the "Today" show for such a somber occasion. I want America to understand, this week it's going to get bad, and we really need to come together as a nation.
*US Surgeon General this morning: I didn't expect that I'd be on the "Today" show for such a somber occasion. I want America to understand, this week it's going to get bad, and we really need to come together as a nation.
*Massive stimulus bill killed by democrats: Senate leaders and Trump administration officials are resuming talks Monday morning on a giant stimulus bill aimed at propping up an economy hard-hit by the coronavirus, after weekend negotiations failed to produce a deal. *US Surgeon General this morning: I didn't expect that I'd be on the "Today" show for such a somber occasion. I want America to understand, this week it's going to get bad, and we really need to come together as a nation.
March 22
Cuomo warns 80% will get virus over ‘9 months’ as Mnuchin tells 80m to prepare for 12-week shutdown are at least 30,565 cases of the novel coronavirus in the United States, according to CNN Health’s tally of US cases that are detected and tested in the country through public health systems,
So far, 384 people have died in the US.
*4800 dead in Italy, 793 died yesterday. WHO says Europe is the epicenter of the virus.
*Some states are dialing down on coronavirus testing in order to conserve protective clothing for the medical staff.
*Nothing but running out ventilators and protective clothing in the media last week and today.
March 21
*There are more than 23,000 coronavirus cases in the US and 295 deaths
*FEMA Declares New York a ‘Major Disaster’: Live Updates
*The number of confirmed coronavirus infections globally crossed 270,000 and deaths topped 11,000, even as more governments resorted to drastic measures to contain the spread.
*We are all hunkering down for the onslaught and I think we are all prepare for whatever happens.
*They have been preparing us for shocking unemployment numbers next week, utterly inconceivable of numbers of 2.5 million that sits our all history.
*All the talk in the last few days was about insufficient virus testing and the vast shortage of ventilators, hospital capacity and protection gear for medical employees and dollars.
*The stock market is lower than when Trump entered his presidency.
*The number of US coronavirus cases has topped 13,000 as testing becomes more available
By Dakin Andone, Christina Maxouris, Steve Almasy and Jen Christensen, CNN
*40 million people in lock down in California
*Empty streets and towns in my area of Hinsdale NH
March 19
Infections tops 11,000 in USA. You know that astonishing peaking infection rate curve, that upward trend of the infection curve would be a lot steeper if we could count all the infection, past and current. It would make that trend much steeper.
*We are at war, this was a Korean war regulation: Trump invokes the Defense Production Act to increase supplies of vital equipment.
*US coronavirus cases soar past 7,500 as officials try to head off overwhelming effects
By Holly Yan, Christina Maxouris and Steve Almasy, CNN
Updated 6:37 PM ET, Wed March 18, 2020
*Unbelievable huge...a much bigger one tomorrow.
The Senate approved paid sick leave, free testing and other benefits.
The Senate approved a relief package Wednesday to provide sick leave, unemployment benefits, free coronavirus testing, and food and medical aid to people affected by the pandemic, sending it to President Trump, who is expected to sign it. The House passed it. last week.
The Senate vote was 90 to 8, after the majority leader, Senator Mitch McConnell, Republican of Kentucky, urged conservatives who disliked the bill to “gag and vote for it anyway.”
*Mnuchin warns virus could yield 20% jobless rate without action
March 17
*The USA is going do helicopter money...dropping bags of money out of helicopters to the peons. The feds within two weeks are sending $1000 checks to every US America.
*Mayor Bill de Blasio of New York City has, from the beginning of the crisis caused by coronavirus, used the great disasters of the last hundred years as a reference point. On Tuesday, he warned New Yorkers to brace themselves for economic hardship like something out of the Great Depression.
*Health departments in the United States on Monday reported the largest number of coronavirus-related deaths on any one day since the onset of the outbreak. As of Monday evening, officials had reported 18 people dead, bringing the nationwide total to 85, according to a Washington Post tally.
March 16
*Stock futures are pegged down low before the market opens. Yesterday the Feds put the interest rates at zero to help the fragile market. It did exactly the opposite, it telegraphed how bad the Feds think our economy is going to become.
*Young people seem to be flocking to the bars now and if they have nothing to do. I would have lived in a bar when I was young under these conditions. So the Feds just shutdown all bars and restaurants today by presidential degree.
*The most critical issues facing us today: Coronavirus USA Update: 2 Emergency Room Doctors Hospitalized In ‘Critical Condition’ One is 40 years old and the other 70 years old. A lot of emergency personnel and doctors caught the virus and died in China. There is something going on different with infections with the emergency room staff than the normal public. They think it has something to do with the elevated virus levels they see in their work.
March 15
*The state of the USA's pandemic is we are shutting down everything.
*Health care and consumer industry groups concerned about supply shortages during coronavirus pandemic
*Army brought in to guard hospitals and supermarkets in UK fight against coronavirus
* We have 3100 coronavirus cases today and 61 deaths. I think we got at least two million infected today.
*I notice a massive difference in googling Coronavirus. It is one local town, city, municipality, school or politician notifying the public (one by one) this or that person has tested positive for coronavirus. Page after page.
*The Mulligans does hoarding: My wife and I were making fun of people hording last week. Then we watched the toilet paper grocery shelves empty for for days. We went around to all the local supermarkets and they were all empty. Something just clicked in my head. My daughter works in a facility that takes care of cognitively delayed children. The facility was shutting down. My wife and I had a long talk about supporting my daughter. This talk was extremely troubling as she owns her house. Yesterday we did some grocery shopping and the shelves were still empty. All coranavirus news is extremely unnerving and we just declared a national emergency. As I said, something just clicked my our heads. We agreed to check every stores in our local travels for toilet paper. By yesterday evening, my wife brought home three or four months worth of toilet paper. It was ridiculous and strangely satisfying. It is a coping mechanism. Seems some small gasoline stores still have toilet paper. Before this, we bought 6 boxes of tissue paper to replace the toilet paper. It is a least something we can control in these worsening coronavirus days.
*Coronavirus in Massachusetts: Baystate Medical Center treating 24 patients suspected of having COVID-19, urges public to take preventive actions seriously
March 17
*The USA is going do helicopter money...dropping bags of money out of helicopters to the peons. The feds within two weeks are sending $1000 checks to every US America.
*Mayor Bill de Blasio of New York City has, from the beginning of the crisis caused by coronavirus, used the great disasters of the last hundred years as a reference point. On Tuesday, he warned New Yorkers to brace themselves for economic hardship like something out of the Great Depression.
*Health departments in the United States on Monday reported the largest number of coronavirus-related deaths on any one day since the onset of the outbreak. As of Monday evening, officials had reported 18 people dead, bringing the nationwide total to 85, according to a Washington Post tally.
March 16
*Stock futures are pegged down low before the market opens. Yesterday the Feds put the interest rates at zero to help the fragile market. It did exactly the opposite, it telegraphed how bad the Feds think our economy is going to become.
*Young people seem to be flocking to the bars now and if they have nothing to do. I would have lived in a bar when I was young under these conditions. So the Feds just shutdown all bars and restaurants today by presidential degree.
*The most critical issues facing us today: Coronavirus USA Update: 2 Emergency Room Doctors Hospitalized In ‘Critical Condition’ One is 40 years old and the other 70 years old. A lot of emergency personnel and doctors caught the virus and died in China. There is something going on different with infections with the emergency room staff than the normal public. They think it has something to do with the elevated virus levels they see in their work.
March 15
*The state of the USA's pandemic is we are shutting down everything.
*Health care and consumer industry groups concerned about supply shortages during coronavirus pandemic
*Army brought in to guard hospitals and supermarkets in UK fight against coronavirus
* We have 3100 coronavirus cases today and 61 deaths. I think we got at least two million infected today.
*I notice a massive difference in googling Coronavirus. It is one local town, city, municipality, school or politician notifying the public (one by one) this or that person has tested positive for coronavirus. Page after page.
*The Mulligans does hoarding: My wife and I were making fun of people hording last week. Then we watched the toilet paper grocery shelves empty for for days. We went around to all the local supermarkets and they were all empty. Something just clicked in my head. My daughter works in a facility that takes care of cognitively delayed children. The facility was shutting down. My wife and I had a long talk about supporting my daughter. This talk was extremely troubling as she owns her house. Yesterday we did some grocery shopping and the shelves were still empty. All coranavirus news is extremely unnerving and we just declared a national emergency. As I said, something just clicked my our heads. We agreed to check every stores in our local travels for toilet paper. By yesterday evening, my wife brought home three or four months worth of toilet paper. It was ridiculous and strangely satisfying. It is a coping mechanism. Seems some small gasoline stores still have toilet paper. Before this, we bought 6 boxes of tissue paper to replace the toilet paper. It is a least something we can control in these worsening coronavirus days.
*Coronavirus in Massachusetts: Baystate Medical Center treating 24 patients suspected of having COVID-19, urges public to take preventive actions seriously
All of the patients exhibited symptoms indicative of a severe flu or a viral pneumonia and are suspected to have COVID-19, Baystate Health president and CEO Dr. Mark A. Keroack told The Republican today.
***The whole nation has been talking about hospitals in the last 24 hours. The governor of the state of Washington expects greater than 60,000 infected in two week with an additional 400 dead. We are going to have to completely destroy our economy to save our hospitals and prevent a massacre. We are deep into a national panic...shortages all over the place. People are deep into the worry and are hoarding their ass off.
March 13
*Shortages of all things are showing up in our communities. Toilet paper can't be had in my community. Baby formula is in shortage. The media is starting to show empty shelves in the stores and supermarkets. We are all seeing this with are own eyes. We are at the first stage of nationwide crazy panic that nobody has ever seen before. It is going to be devastating to everyone. I will call it novel panic. Society itself is beginning to unravel!!! We just don't know it yet!
*There are now nearly 1,700 known coronavirus cases in the US and 41 deaths in the USA. This number is going to double every day.
*Trump is going to be declaring a national emergency this afternoon. You know him, it will be a weak national emergency solely based his reelection. Maybe this afternoon he will resign based on his intervention with testing.
*Basically it is beginning to get personnel with coronavirus 24/7 in everything we see and hear.
March 12
Dow Down 2350 points...10%. Worst point decline ever and worst percentage decline since Black Monday 1987.
In the United States, the Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA) fell exactly 508 points (22.6%).[2] This was the largest one-day percentage drop in history.
*Ohio just Closed all schools.
*You get it, the feds are going to support us to a tune of $500 to a $1000 dollars and the feds are going to support the business companies to the tune of many tens of trillions of dollar.
Basically the feds are artificially increasing the price of stocks:Fed to Widen Treasury Buying, Expand Repo to Ease Market Strain By
Matthew Boesler
***The whole nation has been talking about hospitals in the last 24 hours. The governor of the state of Washington expects greater than 60,000 infected in two week with an additional 400 dead. We are going to have to completely destroy our economy to save our hospitals and prevent a massacre. We are deep into a national panic...shortages all over the place. People are deep into the worry and are hoarding their ass off.
March 13
*Shortages of all things are showing up in our communities. Toilet paper can't be had in my community. Baby formula is in shortage. The media is starting to show empty shelves in the stores and supermarkets. We are all seeing this with are own eyes. We are at the first stage of nationwide crazy panic that nobody has ever seen before. It is going to be devastating to everyone. I will call it novel panic. Society itself is beginning to unravel!!! We just don't know it yet!
*There are now nearly 1,700 known coronavirus cases in the US and 41 deaths in the USA. This number is going to double every day.
*Basically it is beginning to get personnel with coronavirus 24/7 in everything we see and hear.
March 12
Dow Down 2350 points...10%. Worst point decline ever and worst percentage decline since Black Monday 1987.
In the United States, the Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA) fell exactly 508 points (22.6%).[2] This was the largest one-day percentage drop in history.
*Ohio just Closed all schools.
*You get it, the feds are going to support us to a tune of $500 to a $1000 dollars and the feds are going to support the business companies to the tune of many tens of trillions of dollar.
Basically the feds are artificially increasing the price of stocks:Fed to Widen Treasury Buying, Expand Repo to Ease Market Strain By
Matthew Boesler
March 12, 2020, 12:58 PM EDT Updated on March 12, 2020, 1:14 PM EDT
The Federal Reserve took aggressive steps Thursday to ease what it called “temporary disruptions” in Treasury financing markets, flooding the market with liquidity and widening its purchases of U.S. government securities in a measure that recalls the quantitative easing it used during the financial crisis.
The Federal Reserve Bank of New York said in a statement that the moves were “to address temporary disruptions in Treasury financing markets” at the direction of Fed Chairman Jerome Powell in consultation with the Federal Open Market Committee.
*Down 2500 now heading for another circuit breaker. We should shutdown the stock market for a month!
*Princess Cruise and Viking Cruise have shutdown for months.
*We are deep into school closing and businesses are closing all over the nation. The level of change is startling from a few days ago. Got severe outbreaks in the state of Washington and containment is happening right outside NYC in New Rochelle in a severe outbreak. They are shutting down to outsiders the capital and talking about shutting down congress.
*Our stock market before opening is pegged down at low a 1200 points. We have no idea what they will be opening at. The stock markets are collapsing all over the world and new petroleum countries are piling on the flooding the world with petroleum. The is a new style of petroleum war and there is going to be bankruptcies all over the world from this.
*Iran is asking for billions of dollars of aid from the IMF their country has such poor medical. I wouldn't give them one nickel based on how their leaders structured their country over 50 years. Why don't they go begging to Russia or china for money instead the west.
*Trump gave a unfulfilling national speech last night. Banding entry into the USA for European countries.
Testing is grossly inadequate. This early, early, early stage of the US Pandemic is already traumatic with everyone around me and in my local area. But the reality of it all is you haven't really tasted the scale trauma that is coming. Undoubtable we are all going to be different people when this ends.
*My family is just starting to get how serious this is when they cancelled the NBA season last night.
March 11
*This is the kind of crisis that will uncover a lot of bad paper in our financial institutions:
The president of the European Central Bank has warned that the coronavirus outbreak will spark an economic downturn in Europe similar to the 2008 financial crash unless EU governments provide financial support for their economies.
Christine Lagarde held a call with EU leaders on Tuesday night to urge them to take action and raise spending in order to counter the economic effects of Covid-19, a source with knowledge of the matter told Bloomberg.
The eurozone’s central bank boss reportedly added that Europe would otherwise be at risk of a “scenario that will remind many of us of the 2008 Great Financial Crisis”. Lagarde said the ECB was considering all of its options before its meeting on Thursday, when it is widely expected to cut interest rates and expand its quantitative easing programme, according to Bloomberg.
*Pandemic declared By WHO two months late! Just saying, CNN called it a Pandemic yesterday. March 10
Andrew Cuomo said a containment area will be set up in the city of New Rochelle as Westchester County works to stop the spread of coronavirus. Schools and facilities within will be closed for two weeks, and the National Guard will deploy to this area to help support the community.
Stocks somewhat stabilized today. The futures were up about 1550 last night, up about 1000 point when the market opened...124 points at 1 pm.
March 9
*So the coronavirus precipitated a lack of demand with petroleum. OPEC and the Russians wanted to make a deal to reduce the production to boost the prices. Well, the deal failed and both Russia and OPEC are flooding the market with petroleum. Prices drastically crashed. Before the markets even opened, it is pegged at the limit stop down at 1300. The Russians and others seems to want to crater our fracking industry with low prices.
*Stocks down 2100 points today.
March 7
*70 Life Care Center employees show symptoms of coronavirus, spokesperson says
*Coronavirus: US deaths rise to 19 as New York declares state of emergency
*400 cases of coronavirus in USA
*New York governor declares state of emergency
*Italian, French Politicians Infected as Cases Grow: Virus Update
*He has been sick recently: Pope Francis cancels public events to avoid spread of coronavirus:
*The monster got another cruise ship: Nearly half of the 46 people tested for coronavirus onboard the Grand Princess cruise ship moored off San Francisco have returned a positive result, vice president Mike Pence has said, and the fate of its more than 3,500 passengers and crew from more than 50 countries remains unclear.
Pence said 21 positive results had been recorded – 19 crew members and two passengers – and that “those that will need to be quarantined will be quarantined. Those who will require medical help will receive it.” He urged elderly Americans to consider carefully taking future cruises during the crisis.
Usually busy tourist attractions and airports are empty worldwide amid the coronavirus outbreak
March 5
The exponential explosion of new cases begins: 282 cases of novel coronavirus confirmed in US
From CNN's Dave Alsup
*CDC says US coronavirus cases rise by 20 in a day, topping at least 149
*There are 205 cases of novel coronavirus in the US
There are 205 cases of the novel coronavirus in the United States, according to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, as well as state and local governments.
According to the CDC there are 49 cases from repatriated citizens. According to CNN Health’s tally of US cases that are detected and tested in the United States through US public health systems, there are 156 cases in 17 states, bringing the total of coronavirus cases to 205.
This includes presumptive positive cases that tested positive in a public health lab and are pending confirmation from the CDC, and confirmed cases have received positive results from the CDC.
Here's a breakdown of the cases:
California — 36 (includes 1 fatality)
Florida — 4
Georgia — 2
Illinois — 5
Massachusetts — 2
New Hampshire — 2
New Jersey — 1
New York — 22
North Carolina — 1
Oregon — 3
Rhode Island — 2
Washington state — 70 (includes 10 fatalities)
Wisconsin — 1
Texas — 1
Tennessee — 1
Nevada — 1
*Can you believe this? We are at the very early, early early stage of this. I think we be in the middle of this when I see 10,000 new infections a day in a city like NYC.
*Interest rates are approaching zero percent. You only do that when a deflationary depression is knocking at your door. These officials are all shaking in their boots. Last I looked, Dow is down 1100 points. As the infection numbers go up, our economy gets more and more fragile.
*Can you believe it? This virus only jumped into humans eight weeks ago.
*Believe me, you are going to be negligent if you wait for the evidence to show up in this game.
*This is big this morning: Cruise ship is held off at sea after California man dies from coronavirus less than 2 weeks after his trip.
*This is big this morning: Cruise ship is held off at sea after California man dies from coronavirus less than 2 weeks after his trip.
The trouble with us in the USA is everyone thinks a crisis is done in a time frame of a movie. It will be over in two hours.
We are so close to be in the phychology of a pandemic. We are still denying a pandemic could touch us.
March 4
It is amazing the number of new cases in the USA...updating the tally on a hourly bases. It is interesting seeing the CDC opinion the fatality rate is still 2.0 while WHO says it is 3.4%.
*I mentioned this could be two types of virus circulating around the world much earlier. I think the virus could have mutated in the host animals before independently infecting humans: Researchers in China have found that two different types of the new coronavirus could be causing infections worldwide.
*Italy will close all schools and universities across the country
The change in these numbers are amazing if you trust them. When will the world re-infect China: China announced 119 new cases Wednesday, along with 38 deaths, the lowest figures since at least Jan. 20. “We believe this decline is real,” WHO outbreak expert Maria Van Kerkhove told reporters the day before, adding that other hot spots may be able to reduce their new cases, too.
March 3
*WHO estimates coronavirus death rate at 3.4 percent — higher than earlier estimates. It was 2.0?
The top official of the World Health Organization said Tuesday that the disease caused by the new coronavirus has killed about 3.4 percent of those diagnosed with the illness globally — higher than what has previously been estimated.
By comparison, seasonal flu generally kills far fewer than 1 percent of those infected, said WHO Director General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus. Earlier estimates had put the coronavirus death rate in a range of about 2 percent, but officials have been hamstrung by the difficulty in getting an accurate count of those who may have had mild illnesses and not sought treatment.
Despite a total of 90,893 reported cases of covid-19 globally, including 3,110 deaths, containment is still possible — and necessary — to save lives, Tedros said. The biggest impediment to doing so, he said, is “the severe and increasing disruption to the global supply of personal protective equipment — caused by rising demand, hoarding and misuse.”
He called on governments and manufacturers to boost production and secure supplies for critically affected and at-risk countries.
*U.S. Weighs Paying Hospitals for Treating Uninsured Coronavirus Patients
Trump administration may use disaster recovery reimbursement program that would pay providers 110% of Medicare for treating patients
*At least two New York high schools close after suspected coronavirus case in local community March 3
*Coronavirus: Iran to mobilise 300,000 soldiers and volunteers as 23 MPs infected - latest news
*Another boring a day in the cosmos with a planet undergoing a viral pandemic. Then the Feds lowered interest rates on a emergency bases. by 50 points. Only did this kind operation in the past with 911 and our great recession. Everyone is wondering if it is a bend over and kiss your ass moment. There is absolutely no more arrows left in the Fed's quiver after this rate cut. The monster everyone is worrying about is deflation. The world now is in utter confusion with emergency Fed cut. This is a seismic event in the history of the USA. Everyone is wondering what kind of terribly bad new is the feds sitting on. Unbelievably Trump wants more cuts!
*THE WORLD HAS entered uncharted territory in its battle against the deadly coronavirus, the UN health agency warned, as new infections dropped dramatically in China today but surged abroad with the US death toll rising to six.
March 2
*One in four consumer products are not getting to the USA because of coronavirus.
*The big news over the weekend is the coronavirus has been circulating in our population for over a month and a half. Well, duh.
*Most people based on the media's propaganda think the coronavirus is going to be a unbelievably weak flu sickness.
*The stock market futures today are pretty benign compared to last week...but still down 200. The range since last night is 800 points. Everyone knows out economy is going to take a pretty big hit. Most people think the pandemic is going to be very mild.
*Two dead in Washington...amazing increase in cases of coronavirus in USA. But we are talking about dozens of people at a time today, the scale of it is important. We are soon going to be talking thousands, tens of thousands and millions of people infected. Remember the virus is new in the USA, the oldsters and people with pre existing conditions seem to be catching it earlier and dying quickly. In a few weeks to a month we will be seeing more younger people die as they just seem to be lasting longer. It can be a very a very slow death.
*(CNN)The total number of novel coronavirus cases in the United States jumped by two dozen over the weekend, as the first two deaths from the outbreak were confirmed.
New cases of the virus were announced in Oregon, Rhode Island, Washington state, New York and Florida on Sunday, bringing the US total to 89 as of Monday morning, up from 65 on Friday night.
The new cases prompted emergency declarations in at least two states and sparked new warnings. Schools in the Seattle area, Portland area, and Rhode Island all announced closures for cleaning this week after presumptive positive cases linked to either students or staff
Feb 29
*What is going on in Iran with some 49 deaths. It is interesting how the fatality rate is increasing drastically. Lot of new cases in the USA, four cases seemingly community related...Washington state got old age home infected with coronavirus. Most of the state agencies are in the big talk with coronavirus. It is interesting the China situation is improving massively. Still a huge effort ongoing, but the death and infection rate is heading down. China has taken a historic effort to shutdown the virus. Taking nothing but coronavirus in Europe. Got some dangerous infecting taking place in the second and third tiered countries.
*First US fatality.
Feb 28
Scary stock market declines for the past three days and it looks bad today. Still not doing a adequate surveillance testing and when they do that, expect another stock crash. We are going to have a set of stock market crashes before this is over and our economy is going to freeze up.
Feb 27
*Now they said the magic phrase "community spread". Arrogant Trump bungled the coronavirus press conference last night that is going to have broad ramifications. Trump had a terrible performance last night. We are repeating the mistakes China made. Now you people are going see why all of officialdom across many nations where lying their ass off about the fatality rate. Everyone knew when we said the magic phrase the stock markets worldwide would collapse and the worldwide news media would be filled with the word coronavirus. That phrase "community spread" within the next week is going to cost the business and politicians trillions of dollars and horrendous business damage.
Feb 26
Brazil announced its first case of coronavirus today, marking the first time the virus has been reported in South America.
The coronavirus outbreak — which started in the city of Wuhan in China — has now spread to six of the world's seven continents. It has not yet reached Antarctica.
Here's a look at the virus across the world:
Africa: Algeria confirmed its first case of coronavirus yesterday. Egypt has also reported a case.
March 4
It is amazing the number of new cases in the USA...updating the tally on a hourly bases. It is interesting seeing the CDC opinion the fatality rate is still 2.0 while WHO says it is 3.4%.
*I mentioned this could be two types of virus circulating around the world much earlier. I think the virus could have mutated in the host animals before independently infecting humans: Researchers in China have found that two different types of the new coronavirus could be causing infections worldwide.
In a preliminary study published Tuesday, scientists at Peking University’s School of Life Sciences and the Institut Pasteur of Shanghai found that a more aggressive type of the new coronavirus had accounted for roughly 70% of analyzed strains, while 30% had been linked to a less aggressive type.
The more aggressive type of virus was found to be prevalent in the early stages of the outbreak in Wuhan — the Chinese city where COVID-19 was first detected late last year.
But the frequency of this type of virus has since decreased from early January.
The researchers said their results indicate the development of new variations of the spike in COVID-19 cases was “likely caused by mutations and natural selection besides recombination.”
*Italy will close all schools and universities across the country
The change in these numbers are amazing if you trust them. When will the world re-infect China: China announced 119 new cases Wednesday, along with 38 deaths, the lowest figures since at least Jan. 20. “We believe this decline is real,” WHO outbreak expert Maria Van Kerkhove told reporters the day before, adding that other hot spots may be able to reduce their new cases, too.
March 3
*WHO estimates coronavirus death rate at 3.4 percent — higher than earlier estimates. It was 2.0?
The top official of the World Health Organization said Tuesday that the disease caused by the new coronavirus has killed about 3.4 percent of those diagnosed with the illness globally — higher than what has previously been estimated.
By comparison, seasonal flu generally kills far fewer than 1 percent of those infected, said WHO Director General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus. Earlier estimates had put the coronavirus death rate in a range of about 2 percent, but officials have been hamstrung by the difficulty in getting an accurate count of those who may have had mild illnesses and not sought treatment.
Despite a total of 90,893 reported cases of covid-19 globally, including 3,110 deaths, containment is still possible — and necessary — to save lives, Tedros said. The biggest impediment to doing so, he said, is “the severe and increasing disruption to the global supply of personal protective equipment — caused by rising demand, hoarding and misuse.”
He called on governments and manufacturers to boost production and secure supplies for critically affected and at-risk countries.
*U.S. Weighs Paying Hospitals for Treating Uninsured Coronavirus Patients
Trump administration may use disaster recovery reimbursement program that would pay providers 110% of Medicare for treating patients
*At least two New York high schools close after suspected coronavirus case in local community March 3
*Coronavirus: Iran to mobilise 300,000 soldiers and volunteers as 23 MPs infected - latest news
*THE WORLD HAS entered uncharted territory in its battle against the deadly coronavirus, the UN health agency warned, as new infections dropped dramatically in China today but surged abroad with the US death toll rising to six.
Globally, the virus has killed more than 3,100 people and infected over 90,000 even as a clear shift in the crisis emerges, with nine times as many cases recorded outside China as inside, according to the WHO.
“We are in uncharted territory,” WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said yesterday.
“We have never before seen a respiratory pathogen that is capable of community transmission, but which can also be contained with the right measures.”
March 2
*One in four consumer products are not getting to the USA because of coronavirus.
*The big news over the weekend is the coronavirus has been circulating in our population for over a month and a half. Well, duh.
*Most people based on the media's propaganda think the coronavirus is going to be a unbelievably weak flu sickness.
*The stock market futures today are pretty benign compared to last week...but still down 200. The range since last night is 800 points. Everyone knows out economy is going to take a pretty big hit. Most people think the pandemic is going to be very mild.
*Two dead in Washington...amazing increase in cases of coronavirus in USA. But we are talking about dozens of people at a time today, the scale of it is important. We are soon going to be talking thousands, tens of thousands and millions of people infected. Remember the virus is new in the USA, the oldsters and people with pre existing conditions seem to be catching it earlier and dying quickly. In a few weeks to a month we will be seeing more younger people die as they just seem to be lasting longer. It can be a very a very slow death.
*(CNN)The total number of novel coronavirus cases in the United States jumped by two dozen over the weekend, as the first two deaths from the outbreak were confirmed.
The new cases prompted emergency declarations in at least two states and sparked new warnings. Schools in the Seattle area, Portland area, and Rhode Island all announced closures for cleaning this week after presumptive positive cases linked to either students or staff
Feb 29
*What is going on in Iran with some 49 deaths. It is interesting how the fatality rate is increasing drastically. Lot of new cases in the USA, four cases seemingly community related...Washington state got old age home infected with coronavirus. Most of the state agencies are in the big talk with coronavirus. It is interesting the China situation is improving massively. Still a huge effort ongoing, but the death and infection rate is heading down. China has taken a historic effort to shutdown the virus. Taking nothing but coronavirus in Europe. Got some dangerous infecting taking place in the second and third tiered countries.
*First US fatality.
Feb 28
Scary stock market declines for the past three days and it looks bad today. Still not doing a adequate surveillance testing and when they do that, expect another stock crash. We are going to have a set of stock market crashes before this is over and our economy is going to freeze up.
Feb 27
*Now they said the magic phrase "community spread". Arrogant Trump bungled the coronavirus press conference last night that is going to have broad ramifications. Trump had a terrible performance last night. We are repeating the mistakes China made. Now you people are going see why all of officialdom across many nations where lying their ass off about the fatality rate. Everyone knew when we said the magic phrase the stock markets worldwide would collapse and the worldwide news media would be filled with the word coronavirus. That phrase "community spread" within the next week is going to cost the business and politicians trillions of dollars and horrendous business damage.
Feb 26
*CNN:Every continent except Antarctica has reported coronavirus cases
Brazil announced its first case of coronavirus today, marking the first time the virus has been reported in South America.
The coronavirus outbreak — which started in the city of Wuhan in China — has now spread to six of the world's seven continents. It has not yet reached Antarctica.
Here's a look at the virus across the world:
Africa: Algeria confirmed its first case of coronavirus yesterday. Egypt has also reported a case.
Asia: The vast majority of cases — and deaths — are in mainland China. Cases have been reported throughout Asia, with concentrations in South Korea and on board a cruise ship pocked in Japan.
In the Middle East, Iran has reported least 139 cases. The total official number of deaths due to coronavirus in Iran stands at 15.
Australia: The country has confirmed a total of 22 cases of the novel coronavirus as of Saturday, officials said.
Europe: Europe's biggest outbreak is in Italy, where over 320 have been infected and 12 have died.
*WHO-they serve the idiot political system on the planet, not the human inhabidents: Yesterday, the number of new cases reported outside China exceeded the number of new cases in China for the first time. The sudden increases of cases in Italy, the Islamic Republic of Iran and the Republic of Korea are deeply concerning. There are now cases linked to Iran in Bahrain, Iraq, Kuwait and Oman. There are now cases linked to Italy in Algeria, Austria, Croatia, Germany, Spain and Switzerland.
Yesterday, a joint team between WHO and the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control arrived in Rome to review the public health measures that have been put in place and provide technical support. A WHO team will travel to Iran this weekend to provide support.
The increase in cases outside China has prompted some media and politicians to push for a pandemic to be declared. We should not be too eager to declare a pandemic without a careful and clear-minded analysis of the facts. WHO has already declared a public health emergency of international concern – our highest level of alarm.
Using the word pandemic carelessly has no tangible benefit, but it does have significant risk in terms of amplifying unnecessary and unjustified fear and stigma, and paralysing systems. It may also signal that we can no longer contain the virus, which is not true. We are in a fight that can be won if we do the right things.
*Our Financial markets are a mess, it is coronavirus in the media 24/7...and the democrats heading to the next presidential are talking crazy.
I think I'd feel better if the USA just got a big outbreak and we just got on with dealing this virus.
The fatality rate for the second and third tiered countries are a concern with me. Italy is a example. They just popped up in the coronavirus news and death rate is astonishing.
The Spanish flu kept coming in waves and mostly lasted for three years. The second year of the pandemic for the USA was the worst.
*CNN: How the coronavirus went global in two monthsThe novel coronavirus began in December in the central Chinese city of Wuhan, Hubei province. Now, it's reached 40 other countries and territories, and is spreading in Europe and the Middle East.
Take a look at how we got here:
December 8: First patient develops symptoms of coronavirus in Wuhan.
December 31: Earliest cases of virus reported to World Health Organization (WHO).
January 1: Seafood and wildlife market in Wuhan, where the outbreak is believed to have originated, is closed for disinfection.
January 7: Chinese authorities confirm they have identified the virus as a novel coronavirus.
January 9: First person dies of the virus, though his death wasn't announced until January 11.
January 13: Thailand reports its first case -- a Chinese national who had arrived from Wuhan.
January 16: Japan confirms its first case.
January 21: The United States confirms its first case.
January 23: Wuhan and several other cities are placed on lockdown, and Lunar New Year celebrations are canceled across China. WHO says virus is not yet a public health emergency of international concern.
January 28: Death toll tops 100. The number of confirmed cases in mainland China overtakes the deadly 2003 severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) outbreak.
January 30: WHO declares a public health emergency of international concern.
February 2: A Chinese man dies in the Philippines -- the first coronavirus death outside China.
February 4: The Diamond Princess cruise ship is docked under quarantine in Japan's Yokohama Bay with more than 3,700 people on board.
February 6: Death toll tops 500 globally.
February 7: Chinese whistleblower doctor Li Wenliang, who was targeted by Wuhan police, dies of the coronavirus. Chinese social media is flooded with grief, anger, and calls for freedom of speech.
February 8: The US Embassy in Beijing confirms that a US national died in Wuhan on February 6, marking the first confirmed death of a non-Chinese national.
February 11: Death toll tops 1,000 globally. The WHO names the coronavirus Covid-19.
February 15: The first coronavirus death in Europe is confirmed.
February 17: American passengers on the Diamond Princess are evacuated out of Japan.
February 20: Death toll tops 2,000 globally.
February 23: Cases in South Korea surge past 600 after several hundred new infections were reported in 48 hours, with more than half the cases linked to a branch of a religious group. Italy also sees a spike -- cases rise from three to 152 over the same weekend
*Warren Buffet said the huge drop in the stock market for the last two days is just the tip of the iceberg.
*First City In USA Declares a Coronavirus State of Emergency
San Francisco declares local emergency amid coronavirus outbreak
*Dow down 550 points over the testing problems and CDC saying it is inevitable we have wide spread community infection and the result could be severe.
*This is our holy shit moment...we've done very narrow coronavirus surveillance testing regime on the general public. We have no idea how deep the virus is in society. Why isn't this Trump driven? We need a immediate House investigation on this: A faulty CDC coronavirus test delays monitoring of disease’s spread
Problems with a government-created coronavirus test has limited the U.S. capacity to rapidly increase testing, just as the outbreak has entered a worrisome new phase in countries around the world.
While South Korea has run more than 35,000 coronavirus tests, the U.S. has tested only 426 people for the virus, not including people who returned on evacuation flights. Only a handful of state laboratories can currently run tests outside of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta because the CDC kits sent out nationwide a week and a half ago included a faulty component.
Currently, U.S. guidelines recommend testing for a very narrow group of people - those who display respiratory symptoms and have recently traveled to China or had close contact with an infected person.
But many public health experts believe that in light of evidence the disease can take root and spread in Singapore, South Korea, Iran, and Italy, it's time to broaden testing in the United States. The small number of U.S. cases thus far may be a reflection of limited testing, not of the virus' spread. Infectious disease experts fear that aside from the 14 cases picked up by public health surveillance, there may be other people, undetected, mixed in with colds and flu. What scares them the most is that the virus is beginning to spread locally in countries outside China, but no one knows if that's the case here, because they aren't checking.
*Italy confirms 283 cases of coronavirus; more than 60 new infections within 24 hours
*How old: A fourth former passenger from the Diamond Princess cruise liner has died. He is in the 80s.
Trump claims coronavirus is 'going to go away' despite mounting concerns
Feb 24
*Coronavirus cases surge in Italy, Iran, South Korea
*The Dow was down 1000 points today over the upcoming coronavirus pandemic. They finially get it.
*Italy’s far-right former interior minister, Matteo Salvini, has attempted to politicise the coronavirus outbreak in the country, attacking the Italian government for not defending the country’s borders.
On Sunday, Salvini, who is also the leader of the League party, called on the prime minister, Giuseppe Conte, to resign “if he isn’t able to defend Italy and Italians”.
*World Health Organization says COVID-19 is not a pandemic By Jaimy Lee
*Not in my backyard: Alabama balks at plan to house coronavirus patients as global death toll tops 2,600
John BaconUSA TODAY
*China postpones parliament for first time in decades over COVID-19
*Why are we shocked...we could see this thing coming for a month: Global stocks hammered as coronavirus cases surge in South Korea and Italy.
We need something like a internet station for ccoronavirus. We really need some intensive gov TV coverage preparing us for the crisis.
Feb 23
*35 cases of coronavirus in the US
The CDC reported that at least 35 people in the United States are infected with the virus. Of those, 14 were travelers who fell ill after returning from a trip abroad, while 21 were were people “repatriated” by the State Department.
Messonnier, of the CDC, said more infections are expected from among passengers on the Diamond Princess cruise ship and are in quarantine.
She said they are “they are considered at high risk for infection” because they may have come in contact with infected pesons on the ship.
*People in California who have recently returned from visiting China are being asked to stay home for the rest of the month to help stop the spread of the new coronavirus, CBS Los Angeles reports. The California Department of Public Health said Friday that 7,600 people have been urged to self-quarantine: stay home, monitor their health and limit interaction with other people.
*South Korean Government Raised COVID-19 Alert to Its 'Highest' Level as Confirmed Cases Surpass 600.
*A third person died from coronavirus coming from the Diamond Princess in Japan. These people were in their 80s and 90s. We probably can get the fatality rate from this large group of people. I just think the fatality rate and its infectiousness was kept from us from the opening days as not to scare the crap out of us all and crater the economy. Today we know the infection is extraordinarily catchy.
Remember in recent years we have invented powerful new medicines and medical procedures for pneumonia and viruses. The patients who are going to die hang on for a long time and they eat of tremendous medical procedures as long as it is a small outbreak. Few fatalities occur in the in the small outbreaks because of our advanced medicines. As the outbreak gets bigger the fatality rate increase because the system is easily overwhelmed. The trend of the death rate is the fragile 80 or 90 years old dies first and early. Then the plain fragile of any age. Finally the rather young who just run out of luck. The worst the medical system, the death rate is highly elevated and people just die quicker. I am thinking with the Diamond Princess eventually 10 to 15 will die and a awful of lot of others will need really highly intensive medical needs.
Italy, south Korea, Japan and Iran have drastically increased cases. It gotten away from us. Did we ever really have a chance of containing this really. Just looking like they are just doing something.
Everyone knowns the virus is heading for Beijing next. Seems the tracing of those infected can't be traced back to the first infected.
China and many other countries are saying they can no longer trace back the infection to the first person...
Feb 22
*Chinese leader Xi Jinping has been advised that the situation in Wuhan “remains grim and complex.” Amid an alarming surge in cases with no clear link to China, infectious disease experts say they believe the flulike illness may soon be a pandemic and impossible to contain.
South Korea and Japan both reported a sharp spike in cases, with the number of cases in South Korea doubling in a day to at least 430. A sixth person died in Iran from the virus, while Italy now has at least 58 confirmed cases, making it the largest hot spot in Europe.
Nine South Korean tourists who recently toured Israel and the occupied West Bank tested positive for coronavirus Saturday. Israeli and Palestinian authorities are urging anyone who may have come in contact with them to report and self-isolate
*Two people diagnosed with COVID-19, the disease caused by the novel coronavirus, who were at one point on board a quarantined cruise ship have died, Japan’s health minister said in Parliament on Thursday.
*Here's the breakdown from the NHC, as reported by the World Health Organization:
- February 20: 118 deaths reported
- February 19: 114 deaths reported
- February 18: 136 deaths reported
- February 17: 98 deaths reported
- February 16: 106 deaths reported
- February 15: 142 deaths reported
- February 14: 143 deaths reported
- February 13: 121 deaths reported
- February 12: 254 deaths reported
- February 11: 100 deaths reported
- February 10: 106 deaths reported
- February 9: 97 deaths reported
- February 8: 89 deaths reported
- February 7: 86 deaths reported
- February 6: 73 deaths reported
- February 5: 73 deaths reported
- February 4: 65 deaths reported
- February 3: 64 deaths reported
- February 2: 57 deaths reported
- February 1: 45 deaths reported
- January 31: 46 deaths reported
- January 30: 43 deaths reported
- January 29: 38 deaths reported
- January 28: 26 deaths reported
- January 27: 26 deaths reported
- January 26: 24 deaths reported
- January 25 15 deaths reported
- January 24: 16 deaths reported
- January 23: 8 deaths reported
Feb 19
*I would characterize the world pandemic situation as being on the precipice of self sustaining spreading of coronavirus in South Korea, Japan, Singapore and Hong Kong! Japan is living in total fear over the Diamond Princess!
*Just awful and unbelievable: More people from the quarantined Diamond Princess cruise ship tested positive for the novel coronavirus Wednesday, according to the Japanese Health Ministry.
The ministry said 79 new cases were confirmed, adding that 68 of the people were said to be asymptomatic.
The cases were taken from 607 samples on the cruise ship that has been docked in the Japanese port of Yokohama for two weeks.
In Japan, a total of 692 novel coronavirus cases have been confirmed, with 624 from the Diamond Princess and 68 outside the ship.
Feb 18
*The site CCN has been implicated as a Russian troll site. China has twice the USA's population under a partial or total shutdown. This is unprecedented. Many US officials are saying the coronavirus infection is more like the typical flu. Many feel few symptoms. I feel it is preposterous China would shut their economy over a rather new type of mild flu with few fatalities and severe sickness. Now 50,000 dead would seemingly justify such a lockdown. This sickness is still such a puzzle. I believe this site started off "the virus came from a bioweapons facility" just a few miles from the fish market. In the last few days the mainstream media have discussed the bioweapons angle. An interesting new story in the main media is the Chinese bioweapons officials says these sites have been run in a lackadaisical manner. The Chinese say they are going tighten up regulations.
From what I am reading, outside China...I see no startling high fatality rates. But I trust no one!~
*There are 88 more cases of novel coronavirus on the Diamond Princess, the cruise ship currently docked in Yokohama, the Japanese health ministry announced on Tuesday.
A Chinese billionaire and whistleblower who lives in U.S. exile says Wuhan crematoriums have burned 50,000 coronavirus victims. | Credit: Chinatopix via AP
The official coronavirus death toll in China is a little over 800. But an exiled Chinese businessman says crematoriums are leaking the real figure.
A billionaire whistleblower alleges Wuhan has crematoriums working 24/7. He claims they’ve cremated some 50,000 coronavirus victims.
Guo Wengui is a Chinese billionaire living in exile in the United States.
The official coronavirus death toll is some 800 people in China. The current official death toll worldwide, outside of China, is 774. But a Chinese billionaire with a history of blowing the whistle on his former government says the real figure is much higher.
Exiled Chinese businessman Guo Wengui recently revealed leaks from Wuhan crematoriums. He claims based on the number of bodies their furnaces are burning, the death toll could be as high as 50,000. Wengui made the bombshell allegations in an interview with former White House chief strategist Steve Bannon.
That brings the total number of cases from the ship to 544, and 606 in Japan as a whole.
Around 3,600 passengers have been quarantined on the vessel in the Japanese port since February 4.
*BEIJING — A respected neurologist who was also director of Wuchang Hospital in Wuhan died Tuesday after contracting the novel coronavirus. Liu Zhiming, who was 51, passed away despite a “full effort rescue,” according to a statement from Wuhan’s municipal health commission.
*BEIJING: The death toll from China’s Covid-19 coronavirus epidemic jumped past 1,800 on Tuesday after 93 more people died in Hubei province, the hard-hit epicentre of the outbreak.
In its daily update, the province’s health commission also reported 1,807 new cases, a smaller number of infections compared to those declared on Monday.
The new cases mean that 72,436 people have now been affected across the country.
Most of the cases are in Hubei, where the virus first emerged in December before spiralling into a nationwide epidemic.
In its daily update, the province’s health commission also reported 1,807 new cases, a smaller number of infections compared to those declared on Monday.
The new cases mean that 72,436 people have now been affected across the country.
Most of the cases are in Hubei, where the virus first emerged in December before spiralling into a nationwide epidemic.
*The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has listed 467 people under investigation for the novel coronavirus in 42 states, according to an update posted to the agency's website Monday.
Of them...
15 have tested positive
392 have tested negative
60 are still pending
*WHO says. Photograph: AP
I just don't buy it. Don't trust WHO or the Chinese: Covid-19, the new coronavirus that has killed nearly 1,800 people in China, causes only mild disease in four out of five people who get it, the World Health Organization has said.
“It appears that Covid-19 is not as deadly as other coronaviruses, including Sars and Mers,” said the WHO director general, Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, adding that officials were “starting to get a clearer picture of the outbreak”.
The conclusion comes from analysis of data from Chinese authorities relating to 44,000 cases of Covid-19 in Hubei province, where the coronavirus was first recorded.
*99 more infected on the Diamond Princes. Doubts now being raised if the containment on the ship works.
*Japan issues guidelines to prevent rush on hospitals as COVID-19 cases surge
by Satoshi Sugiyama
Feb 17, 2020
The newly identified people raise the total toll from the ship to 454. Meanwhile, many public events have been scrapped or scaled down due to fears of an epidemic.
*An American couple who traveled in the Diamond Princess cruise ship that's docked at the Daikoku Pier Cruise Terminal in Yokohama, Japan, have had their hopes of coming home dashed. Rebecca Frasure has tested positive for the coronavirus, which means she has to remain in quarantine at a nearby hospital.
*The rule was with flight, nobody who tested positive was allowed on theflight. They even had to split up a husband and wife over this rule: CNN)Fourteen passengers aboard US chartered flights evacuating Americans and their families from the Diamond Princess cruise ship have tested positive for novel coronavirus, according to a joint statement from the US Departments of State and Health and Human Services.
Feb 16
*Death toll from the virus rises to 1,770 globally
From CNN’s Steven Jiang and Shanshan Wang in Beijing
There were 100 more deaths due to the coronavirus in China's Hubei province Sunday, the health authorities there said. That raises the death toll at the center of the outbreak to 1,696.
The global death toll now stands at 1,770, with the vast majority of those deaths in mainland China.
More than 1,900 additional cases of the virus were confirmed Sunday, Hubei authorities said, bringing the total number of cases in the center of the outbreak to 58,182.
The global tally: There have been more than 71,204 cases of the virus recorded worldwide, with the vast majority in mainland China.
*A top National Institutes of Health official said Sunday that at least 40 Americans on a quarantined cruise ship in Japan have been infected with the deadly coronavirus.
Dr. Anthony Fauci, the director of the NIH’s National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, said in an interview with host Margaret Brennan on CBS’ “Face the Nation” that infected Americans aboard the Diamond Princess cruise ship would be treated at hospitals in Japan. Fauci gave the number as 40, though other reports indicated that the number might be higher.
*Another 142 people died from coronavirus in mainland China on Saturday, the country's National Health Commission said today. That brings the worldwide total of deaths to 1,669, all but four of which occurred in mainland China.
Feb 15
So far, almost 9,500 patients with the coronavirus have been treated and discharged from hospitals across China, the commission said.
Much US talk around this virus, is going to be with us for forever as the flu and will be community affliction...
*SHANGHAI/TOKYO: More than 2,600 new cases of a coronavirus have been confirmed in China with deaths up by 143, health officials said on Saturday (Feb 15), as the United States urged its citizens to leave a virus-struck cruise ship under quarantine in Japan.
*TOKYO: Another 67 people onboard a cruise ship quarantined off Japan's coast have tested positive for the new coronavirus, the country's health minister said on Saturday (Feb 15).
The new cases, from 217 tests, bring the number of people diagnosed on the Diamond Princess to 285, excluding a quarantine officer who also contracted the illness.
*Hubei province reports 2,420 new cases and 139 new deaths
Then on Friday, China added 121 new deaths – but also removed 108 fatalities from the total, due to what China’s National Health Commission said were “duplicate statistics”.
*In its latest update, the commission reported 121 new deaths and 5,090 new coronavirus cases, bringing the total number of people infected to more than 64,000 worldwide, with 63,851 of the cases in China.
The death toll stands at 1,383 – with three of those deaths outside of mainland China, one in Hong Kong, one in Japan and one in the Philippines.
The commission did not give further explanation of the double-counted cases on Friday.
Feb 13*Texas confirms first coronavirus patient, bringing total cases in US to 15
From CNN's Jacqueline Howard
Asymptomatic transmission of the novel coronavirus is possible, Dr. Robert Redfield, director of the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, told CNN.
In other words, Redfield said that an infected person not showing symptoms could still transmit the virus to someone else based on information from his colleagues in China.
“There’s been good communication with our colleagues to confirm asymptomatic infection, to confirm asymptomatic transmission, to be able to get a better handle on the clinical spectrum of illness in China. What we don’t know though is how much of the asymptomatic cases are driving transmission,” he told CNN’s Chief Medical Correspondent Dr. Sanjay Gupta in an interview on Thursday.
Redfield continued: “What I’ve learned in the last two weeks is that the spectrum of this illness is much broader than was originally presented. There’s much more asymptomatic illness. A number of the confirmed cases that we confirmed actually just presented with a little sore throat.”
*The U.S. does “not have high confidence in the information coming out of China” regarding the count of coronavirus cases, a senior administration official told CNBC.
The official also noted that China “continues to rebuff American offers of assistance.”
*The crisis also deepened in Hong Kong, where the education minister announced that schools would remain closed until at least the middle of March. They have been closed since the start of the lunar new year at the end of January.
*Another USA confirmed with coronavirus. So that is three in recent days. They all come from our quarantined. It is just interesting the delay time of the detection. Is it a result of getting late testing results or is it a result of the virus level not being high enough to detect?
The first case of COVID-19 has been diagnosed in Texas, bringing the U.S. total to 15.
*Another 44 cases on the Japanese Diamond Princess...
*There is no doubt in my mind the USA is going to be overwhelmed by the coronavirus...it is going to be historic national and political story.
*China’s leaders shake up political ranks as coronavirus cases near 60,000; Japan announces second virus fatality outside China
*They are already are confused by the tracking/tracing the infections.
Taxi driver in Japan tests positive for coronavirus
A taxi driver in the Japanese capital Tokyo has tested positive for the novel coronavirus, Japanese state broadcaster NHK reported on Thursday.
*This tracks with what WHO said, the percentage of the severe patients, on artifical resperation and in intensive care. Remember it is a very lenghty process from infection to death...some three weeks or more.
Another 44 people onboard Diamond Princess cruise ship test positive to virus
Japan’s health minister, Katsunobu Kato, said five of the patients sent to hospitals earlier have severe symptoms and are on artificial respirators or under intensive care.
The ship, which is still carrying about 3,500 passengers and crew members, now has 218 people infected with the virus out of 713 people tested, the largest cluster of infections outside China.
Panic grows as the Wuhan Coronavirus Spreads in Hong Kong, China
*Can't tell if they are catching up on backed up paperwork or if this is the new daily rate of the infected and dead based on more accurate paperwork: China's Communist Party removed senior officials in the virus-stricken province of Hubei, as the country's leadership looks to tighten control over its epidemic response and assuage public outrage over authorities' handling of the crisis.
*Is the death toll a result of infections weeks ago and those patients succumbing yesterday?
CNN: Almost 60,000 coronavirus cases confirmed in China
From Shanshan Wang in Beijing
As of end of day Wednesday, the number of confirmed cases of the novel coronavirus in mainland China rose to 59,804, the country's National Health Commission announced on Thursday.
That's an increase of 15,152 cases from the previous day.
The death toll from the coronavirus outbreak in the country now stands at 1,367 deaths, a jump of 254 from the previous day, the NHC said.
A total of 5,911 patients have recovered and been discharged from hospital.
Changing the definition of confirmed cases: Hubei's health commission changed its tally of cases to include "clinically diagnosed cases," in addition to those confirmed by a test. It means that any suspected cases of coronavirus in Hubei province will now be counted as confirmed.
According to NHC spokesman Mi Feng, the introduction is intended to help patients receive treatment as soon as possible to increase the recovery rate.
On Thursday, Hubei announced 242 new deaths from the novel coronavirus, twice as many as on the previous day. New infections there jumped by more than 14,000.
All can say is there is a tremendous amount of time between being tested and public disclosure!!!
*Two recent confirmed cases of coronavirus in the USA within the last few days. Is this the beginning of a big uptick in cases...
*Forty one more infected on the Diamond Princess plus the guy taking the temperatures of the passenger.
*Yikes, 242 fatalities. WHO seemely warned us this morning with this phrase :the length of the illness is comparatively long, so we are now seeing the “end of life moments” of those who were diagnosed weeks ago.
From CNN’s Steven Jiang in Beijing
The Hubei health authority reported that 242 more people died from the coronavirus in Hubei province on Wednesday, raising the death toll in the epicenter since the beginning of the outbreak to 1,310.
This brings the total number of deaths in mainland China to at least 1,355. The global death toll is at least 1,357, with one death in Hong Kong and another in the Philippines.
Hubei authorities confirmed an additional 14,840 cases of the virus in Hubei on Wednesday, which brings the total number of cases in the epicenter of the outbreak to 48,206. The 14,840 figure includes both test confirmed cases and clinically diagnosed cases.
The government explained they are now adding "clinically diagnosed cases" in the tally of cases to make it easier for these patients to receive treatment early.
Feb 12
*The only thing for certain we know about covid-19 is a significant number of people become seriously sick, tremendous amounts of medical resources...many taking three weeks to die. My greatest worry so far is our limited surge medical resources.
*The WHO officials are asked why the numbers of diagnoses is stabilising but the death rate is going up. Dr Ryan says that this is because the length of the illness is comparatively long, so we are now seeing the “end of life moments” of those who were diagnosed weeks ago.
*So the controversy of the day is how bad the undercount with the infected. If there are many more people effected, but the death rate is stable or trending up at the same rate as a week ago, then the fatality rate goes down. Why is there absolutely no questions if the death rate has been severely down played?
*97 dead yesterday. Has the main stream media decided to drop the daily death toll? Why?
*I hope this failure is not widespread: Florida health officials received testing kits for novel coronavirus earlier this week but can’t use them yet because it’s unclear whether the tests are working.
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Wednesday morning said issues with the tests the agency has developed for the respiratory illness spreading rapidly through China surfaced after they were sent out to state labs.
After state labs receive testing kits from the CDC, they must verify their accuracy, but the labs flagged “inconclusive results,” or returns that were neither positive nor negative, CDC officials said on a call with journalists Wednesday.
*WHO is terrified with a coronavirus outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. They have minimal medical facilities without the novel verus. A country like this is a nightmare with them spiting out uncontrolled the infected all though the world. WHO says virus outbreak in winding down. It was always inevitable this virus would go into the third world and then spread all though the planet.
WHO seems to be saying as the virus expands out from China it get less infectious and kills less people.
*The issues I got today are broadly virus testing reliability/availability and the reliability of Chinese information. Nobody wants to create a panic until the time is ripe.
*Experts are investigating if the coronavirus can spread through piping systems
*Japanese Health Minister Katsunobu Kato said an additional 40 virus cases had been confirmed on board the Diamond Princess as of Wednesday, bringing the total number on board to 175
*How widespread is the shortage: Health minister Katsunobu Kato said Wednesday his ministry will seek measures to screen everyone aboard the ship but Japan apparently has had its hands tied, as the number of test kits to diagnose the new coronavirus has been limited, in addition to logistics difficulties.
*So the new name of Wuhan coronavirus covid-19. It seems too late to stick.
*There are two critical pieces of research that were released within the last week. The first was a study evaluating the persistence of coronaviruses on inanimate objects and inactivation processes. While the authors evaluated research related to all coronaviruses that infect humans, they did find that across 22 studies, the virus can persist on inanimate objects (metal, glass, or plastic) for up to 9 days. Coronaviruses are enveloped viruses, meaning that they are easier to inactivate with disinfectants and that the use of EPA-registered hospital disinfectants is effective.
*Every week brings something new with the novel coronavirus first identified in Wuhan, China. Reporting on case counts seems futile as these numbers are changing daily. The World Health Organization (WHO) has provided a name for the disease though, COVID-19. “COVI” referring to coronavirus and “D” for disease, meaning that this is the name of the disease caused by the virus that will likely be called SARS-CoV-2. Similar to the naming aspects of HIV/AIDs, the COVID-19 refers to the illness and disease caused by the infectious agent, 2019-CoV (until it is officially given the taxonomy of SARS-CoV-2).
* Did somebody botch the paperwork or was there something wrong test? It is known there are a lot of false negatives in the test. Did the infectee not have enough of a virus load yet? It is very important the public understands what went wrong: First US evacuee infected with coronavirus was mistakenly released from hospital and returned to quarantine
*Global death toll passes 1,000
From CNN’s Steven Jiang in Beijing and Larry Register in Atlanta
The Hubei health authority reported that 103 more people died of the coronavirus in Hubei province on Monday, raising the death toll in the epidemic's epicenter to 974.
This brings the total number of deaths in mainland China to at least 1,011. Globally, a total of 1,013 people have died, including one death in Hong Kong and one in the Philippines.
Hubei authorities confirmed an additional 2,097 cases of the virus in Hubei on Monday, which brings the total number of cases in the region to 31,728.
More than 25,000 patients have been hospitalized in Hubei, including 1,298 who are in critical condition, according to the health authority. More than two thousand patients have been cured and discharged.
The global number of confirmed coronavirus cases now exceeds 42,500. The vast majority of cases remains in mainland China.
*As far as the Diamond Princes parked in Japan, one hundred and thirty five passengers have been tested as coronavirus positive. Only one passenger has emerged from the infection and is talking to the public...he says he has always been symptom free? Don't you find that suspicious. Why don't they list out all the passengers who are seriously sick, in the ICU or on the respirators. Why don't the Japanese list out all the medical conditions with all the passengers for the next few weeks. Can you see the implications for Japan right now if we discovered ten passengers on the artificial ventilators and near death. There would be mind-blowing panic on the streets of Japan and severe pressure to get that ship outside Japan if that was so. Everybody lies for there own agenda. If the death rate is 2% to 4%, then you are going to see two to four dead before the virus burns out on the Diamond Princes. This is going to be a excessively shocking event for Japan. It is going to look like everyone was being deceptive. This is the nature of panics in pandemics, for good reasons, we end up not trusting our leaders!!!
*The swine flu and avian flu taking a told with all the slaughter of the pigs and chickens to control the contagions. There are currently three separate contagions ravishing China at this point: China food prices spike 20.6% in January
* The Singapore happy land express. You get it, it is terribly dangerous if Singapore is wrong:SINGAPORE There is no evidence the novel coronavirus is passed on through aerosol transmission, the Ministry of Health (MOH) said on Monday (Feb 10) as it gave an update on the coronavirus situation in Singapore.
The ministry said it looked into reports the virus could be transmitted through aerosol, but that there was currently no indication this could happen.
*Many outbreaks in the past have been found to follow the 20:80 rule, with about 20% of individuals contributing to 80% of the disease's spread.
*Billionaire Whistleblower: Wuhan Coronavirus Death Toll Is Over 50,000
*Certainty/uncertainty gaming!
Sanjay Gupta: He just justified the Pandemic isn't as bad as it seems. He justified without proof the 800 dead today in China might not be that bad. It was based on the infection might be much more widespread than disclosed today. He said there is a increasing possibility that between 200,000 and 250,000 are infected or have been infected because of inadequate testing. We just don't know how many are infected. I call this certainty/uncertainly gaming. It is a corruption tactic. So you just exaggerate, say the infected numbers, for a agenda, the spread of the virus is much more than reported. This is a gross uncertainly with the amount of infected because of testing issues by incompadence or intentional, so you inflate these numbers to drive down the lethality of this infection for a unseen agenda. None of less lethality is based on any evidence. Gupta is risking his public credibility. So Gupta wants you to believe the infection rate is wildly larger that what is posted by the Chinese system while the death rate is solid as hell. So why isn't the fatality rate wildly higher than what the Chinese have posted just like the infection rate. CNN just might be doing this to get access to the Chinese system...to appease them to get something. Certainty/ uncertainly gaming might go the other way too. Say you got a secret 70% assurance of the failure rate of with a component. You might disclose to outsiders we have absolutely no failure rates when you know it is not true. The agenda behind this might be a bonus or lying for your boss so he might get a promotion. Basically Gupta is picking and choosing what numbers he publicly is using without proof, to meet a secret agenda. He has got two weakly credible data points of equal value, but is exaggerated one of them to a absolute credible value to meet his agenda or lack of knowledge.
*The only thing for certain we know about covid-19 is a significant number of people become seriously sick, tremendous amounts of medical resources...many taking three weeks to die. My greatest worry so far is our limited surge medical resources.
*The WHO officials are asked why the numbers of diagnoses is stabilising but the death rate is going up. Dr Ryan says that this is because the length of the illness is comparatively long, so we are now seeing the “end of life moments” of those who were diagnosed weeks ago.
*So the controversy of the day is how bad the undercount with the infected. If there are many more people effected, but the death rate is stable or trending up at the same rate as a week ago, then the fatality rate goes down. Why is there absolutely no questions if the death rate has been severely down played?
*97 dead yesterday. Has the main stream media decided to drop the daily death toll? Why?
*I hope this failure is not widespread: Florida health officials received testing kits for novel coronavirus earlier this week but can’t use them yet because it’s unclear whether the tests are working.
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Wednesday morning said issues with the tests the agency has developed for the respiratory illness spreading rapidly through China surfaced after they were sent out to state labs.
After state labs receive testing kits from the CDC, they must verify their accuracy, but the labs flagged “inconclusive results,” or returns that were neither positive nor negative, CDC officials said on a call with journalists Wednesday.
*WHO is terrified with a coronavirus outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. They have minimal medical facilities without the novel verus. A country like this is a nightmare with them spiting out uncontrolled the infected all though the world. WHO says virus outbreak in winding down. It was always inevitable this virus would go into the third world and then spread all though the planet.
WHO seems to be saying as the virus expands out from China it get less infectious and kills less people.
*The issues I got today are broadly virus testing reliability/availability and the reliability of Chinese information. Nobody wants to create a panic until the time is ripe.
*Experts are investigating if the coronavirus can spread through piping systems
*Japanese Health Minister Katsunobu Kato said an additional 40 virus cases had been confirmed on board the Diamond Princess as of Wednesday, bringing the total number on board to 175
*How widespread is the shortage: Health minister Katsunobu Kato said Wednesday his ministry will seek measures to screen everyone aboard the ship but Japan apparently has had its hands tied, as the number of test kits to diagnose the new coronavirus has been limited, in addition to logistics difficulties.
*So the new name of Wuhan coronavirus covid-19. It seems too late to stick.
*There are two critical pieces of research that were released within the last week. The first was a study evaluating the persistence of coronaviruses on inanimate objects and inactivation processes. While the authors evaluated research related to all coronaviruses that infect humans, they did find that across 22 studies, the virus can persist on inanimate objects (metal, glass, or plastic) for up to 9 days. Coronaviruses are enveloped viruses, meaning that they are easier to inactivate with disinfectants and that the use of EPA-registered hospital disinfectants is effective.
*Every week brings something new with the novel coronavirus first identified in Wuhan, China. Reporting on case counts seems futile as these numbers are changing daily. The World Health Organization (WHO) has provided a name for the disease though, COVID-19. “COVI” referring to coronavirus and “D” for disease, meaning that this is the name of the disease caused by the virus that will likely be called SARS-CoV-2. Similar to the naming aspects of HIV/AIDs, the COVID-19 refers to the illness and disease caused by the infectious agent, 2019-CoV (until it is officially given the taxonomy of SARS-CoV-2).
*They are making a big deal in the insignificant amount of deaths: As of midnight on Tuesday, China’s health commission said there were 2,015 new cases across the country, compared with 2,478 on Monday – a fall of 18.6%. The number of cases in China is now 44,653.
The death rate also fell across the country for the second time since the outbreak began. The number of new deaths reported as of midnight on Tuesday in China was 97. That compares with 108 reported for Monday – a fall of 10.2%. Of the new deaths, 94 were in Hubei province.
Feb 10* Did somebody botch the paperwork or was there something wrong test? It is known there are a lot of false negatives in the test. Did the infectee not have enough of a virus load yet? It is very important the public understands what went wrong: First US evacuee infected with coronavirus was mistakenly released from hospital and returned to quarantine
*The coronavirus epidemic could spread to about two-thirds of the world’s population if it cannot be controlled, according to Hong Kong’s leading public health epidemiologist.
His warning came after the head of the World Health Organization (WHO) said recent cases of coronavirus patients who had never visited China could be the “tip of the iceberg”.
Prof Gabriel Leung, the chair of public health medicine at Hong Kong University, said the overriding question was to figure out the size and shape of the iceberg. Most experts thought that each person infected would go on to transmit the virus to about 2.5 other people. That gave an “attack rate” of 60-80%.
“Sixty per cent of the world’s population is an awfully big number,” Leung told the Guardian in London, en route to an expert meeting at the WHO in Geneva on Tuesday.
*Yep, I worried about this. The part of a article I posted on my blog saying there is maybe some 50,000 deaths in China comes from a Russian troll. It is fake information and is grossly inaccurate. I am sorry I post that article. *Global death toll passes 1,000
From CNN’s Steven Jiang in Beijing and Larry Register in Atlanta
The Hubei health authority reported that 103 more people died of the coronavirus in Hubei province on Monday, raising the death toll in the epidemic's epicenter to 974.
This brings the total number of deaths in mainland China to at least 1,011. Globally, a total of 1,013 people have died, including one death in Hong Kong and one in the Philippines.
Hubei authorities confirmed an additional 2,097 cases of the virus in Hubei on Monday, which brings the total number of cases in the region to 31,728.
More than 25,000 patients have been hospitalized in Hubei, including 1,298 who are in critical condition, according to the health authority. More than two thousand patients have been cured and discharged.
The global number of confirmed coronavirus cases now exceeds 42,500. The vast majority of cases remains in mainland China.
*As far as the Diamond Princes parked in Japan, one hundred and thirty five passengers have been tested as coronavirus positive. Only one passenger has emerged from the infection and is talking to the public...he says he has always been symptom free? Don't you find that suspicious. Why don't they list out all the passengers who are seriously sick, in the ICU or on the respirators. Why don't the Japanese list out all the medical conditions with all the passengers for the next few weeks. Can you see the implications for Japan right now if we discovered ten passengers on the artificial ventilators and near death. There would be mind-blowing panic on the streets of Japan and severe pressure to get that ship outside Japan if that was so. Everybody lies for there own agenda. If the death rate is 2% to 4%, then you are going to see two to four dead before the virus burns out on the Diamond Princes. This is going to be a excessively shocking event for Japan. It is going to look like everyone was being deceptive. This is the nature of panics in pandemics, for good reasons, we end up not trusting our leaders!!!
*The swine flu and avian flu taking a told with all the slaughter of the pigs and chickens to control the contagions. There are currently three separate contagions ravishing China at this point: China food prices spike 20.6% in January
* The Singapore happy land express. You get it, it is terribly dangerous if Singapore is wrong:SINGAPORE There is no evidence the novel coronavirus is passed on through aerosol transmission, the Ministry of Health (MOH) said on Monday (Feb 10) as it gave an update on the coronavirus situation in Singapore.
The ministry said it looked into reports the virus could be transmitted through aerosol, but that there was currently no indication this could happen.
*Many outbreaks in the past have been found to follow the 20:80 rule, with about 20% of individuals contributing to 80% of the disease's spread.
*Billionaire Whistleblower: Wuhan Coronavirus Death Toll Is Over 50,000
*Certainty/uncertainty gaming!
Sanjay Gupta: He just justified the Pandemic isn't as bad as it seems. He justified without proof the 800 dead today in China might not be that bad. It was based on the infection might be much more widespread than disclosed today. He said there is a increasing possibility that between 200,000 and 250,000 are infected or have been infected because of inadequate testing. We just don't know how many are infected. I call this certainty/uncertainly gaming. It is a corruption tactic. So you just exaggerate, say the infected numbers, for a agenda, the spread of the virus is much more than reported. This is a gross uncertainly with the amount of infected because of testing issues by incompadence or intentional, so you inflate these numbers to drive down the lethality of this infection for a unseen agenda. None of less lethality is based on any evidence. Gupta is risking his public credibility. So Gupta wants you to believe the infection rate is wildly larger that what is posted by the Chinese system while the death rate is solid as hell. So why isn't the fatality rate wildly higher than what the Chinese have posted just like the infection rate. CNN just might be doing this to get access to the Chinese system...to appease them to get something. Certainty/ uncertainly gaming might go the other way too. Say you got a secret 70% assurance of the failure rate of with a component. You might disclose to outsiders we have absolutely no failure rates when you know it is not true. The agenda behind this might be a bonus or lying for your boss so he might get a promotion. Basically Gupta is picking and choosing what numbers he publicly is using without proof, to meet a secret agenda. He has got two weakly credible data points of equal value, but is exaggerated one of them to a absolute credible value to meet his agenda or lack of knowledge.
*Coronavirus Threat Set to Trigger a Massive U.S. Housing Market Crash
Chinese customers could pull out of the U.S. housing market thanks to coronavirus, which could weaken demand and cause a crash.
Chinese customers could pull out of the U.S. housing market thanks to coronavirus, which could weaken demand and cause a crash.
*UK declares Wuhan coronavirus an imminent public health threat
*The coronavirus spread outside of China is at the ‘tip of the iceberg,’ says WHO chief
Ghebreyesus, who heads the WHO , made the comments in a tweet on Sunday, where he discussed the coronavirus’s contagion between people who had not traveled to China.
*The coronavirus spread outside of China is at the ‘tip of the iceberg,’ says WHO chief
The director-general of the World Health Organization warned Sunday that countries outside of China should be prepared for the spread of the deadly coronavirus to accelerate.
‘The detection of a small number of cases may indicate more widespread transmission in other countries; in short we may only be seeing the tip of the iceberg.’
Ghebreyesus, who heads the WHO , made the comments in a tweet on Sunday, where he discussed the coronavirus’s contagion between people who had not traveled to China.
His comments came as the death toll from the virus rose to over 900. China reported 3,062 new virus cases in the 24 hours through midnight Sunday, raising the total on the mainland to 40,171. Fresh cases were also reported in Japan, South Korea, Vietnam, Malaysia, the U.K. and Spain.
*CNN is advertising this morning about a almost symptomless passenger in the hospital from the Diamond Princess. The passenger preening about I am in the hospital and feeling great. The rub is, patients with mild symptoms offend die by the end of a week or so when the virus suddenly flares. See, everyone is fixated on making people feel better than they should at this point of the pandemic. Whistling in the dark on global scale. Nobody knows the breakout with the symptomless, the severe cases and the others on the deathbed. You know what is ominous, they are covering the outer ship with a plastic wrap: Coronavirus cases on a cruise ship in Japan nearly double, surpassing 130.
Feb 9
* The NYT tonight says China has been late in testing their population for the virus.
*New Zealand-another nation's point of view the Chinese said its aerosolized. This is a big deal: However, over the weekend, an official in Shanghai confirmed the virus also travelled through aerosol transmission, which means it can float a long distance through the air and cause infection later when it is breathed in.
"Aerosol transmission refers to the mixing of the virus with droplets in the air to form aerosols, which causes infection after inhalation, according to medical experts," Shanghai Civil Affairs Bureau deputy head Zeng Qun said at press briefing on Saturday, the China Daily reports.
"As such, we have called on the public to raise their awareness of the prevention and control of the disease caused by family gatherings.
*I told the first Sunday disclosure sounds fishy: Coronavirus global death toll rises to 910
From CNN’s Steven Jiang, Karen Smith and Larry Register
*In the span of about two hours, six more people were reported to have died from coronavirus.
China’s National Health Commission confirmed Sunday evening that the death toll in China is now 908. The global death toll is 910, with one death in Hong Kong and one in the Philippines.
The global number of confirmed coronavirus cases is more than 40,000, with the vast majority in mainland China.
*Well, the deaths and infections have not increased by much in the last two days. I find this suspicious as the numbers seem artificially too close to each other. I'd like to see the numbers erratic for a week up and down, then a steady decline. But the Chinese have took extraordinary measures to contain the virus. I think everyone is focused on the outside China coronavirus infections more today. No sane person should ever trust the Chinese death and infection numbers: Coronavirus global death toll rises to 904.Feb 9
* The NYT tonight says China has been late in testing their population for the virus.
*New Zealand-another nation's point of view the Chinese said its aerosolized. This is a big deal: However, over the weekend, an official in Shanghai confirmed the virus also travelled through aerosol transmission, which means it can float a long distance through the air and cause infection later when it is breathed in.
"Aerosol transmission refers to the mixing of the virus with droplets in the air to form aerosols, which causes infection after inhalation, according to medical experts," Shanghai Civil Affairs Bureau deputy head Zeng Qun said at press briefing on Saturday, the China Daily reports.
"As such, we have called on the public to raise their awareness of the prevention and control of the disease caused by family gatherings.
*I told the first Sunday disclosure sounds fishy: Coronavirus global death toll rises to 910
From CNN’s Steven Jiang, Karen Smith and Larry Register
*In the span of about two hours, six more people were reported to have died from coronavirus.
China’s National Health Commission confirmed Sunday evening that the death toll in China is now 908. The global death toll is 910, with one death in Hong Kong and one in the Philippines.
The global number of confirmed coronavirus cases is more than 40,000, with the vast majority in mainland China.
From CNN’s Steven Jiang and Larry Register
The Hubei Health Authority reported that 91 more people died of coronavirus in Hubei province on Sunday, raising the death toll in the epicenter since the beginning of the coronavirus outbreak to 871.
The total number of deaths in mainland China is now at least 902. The global toll is at least 904, with one death in Hong Kong and one in the Philippines.
Hubei authorities confirmed an additional 2,618 cases of the virus on Sunday, which brings the total number of cases in the epicenter of the outbreak to 29,631.
The global number of confirmed coronavirus cases now exceeds 40,000, with the vast majority in mainland China.
CNN:
*As energy prices fall, and China cancels liquefied natural gas purchases, the Israel Electric Corp. is snapping up cheap gas on the spot-market.
Electricity consumers in Israel are likely to profit from the plunging global prices for liquefied natural gas (LNG) resulting from the coronavirus outbreak. Sources inform "Globes" that in its latest meeting, Israel Electric Corporation's (IEC) (TASE: ELEC.B22) board of directors authorized the company to buy LNG consignments on short notice in order to take advantage of the unprecedentedly low prices.
*China already was struggling with surging food prices due to an outbreak of African swine fever that began in 2018.-The chinese are being inudated right now with a bird flu whereby they killed many millions of chickens and swine fever was a few years ago. Why does China have this big infection events.
*European Spread Fuels Worry; China Fights Rumors: Virus Update
*KFC worker is 'diagnosed with coronavirus' as company shuts thousands of restaurants in China and introduces 'contactless' deliveries to combat spread of infection
*CNN
Chinese health officials have identified aerosols as one of the transmission routes for the deadly novel coronavirus that has infected at least tens of thousands and stirred concern worldwide, according to a Shanghai press conference on Saturday.
*I trust this guy as much as I trust the Chinese. The massive level of containment tilts me to post this. He did summit this too twitter and they didn't remove his post: Whistleblower: 1.5 million coronavirus cases in China, 50,000 coronavirus deaths in Wuhan
Whistleblower: 1.5 million coronavirus cases in China, 50,000 coronavirus deaths in Wuhan
*Taipei, Feb. 9 (CNA) Experts have blamed a form of systemic inflammatory response syndrome called "cytokine storm" for killing some novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV)-infected patients who were not very sick in the early stage of infection but eventually died of multiple organ failure, according to Chinese media reports.
The epidemic, which started mid-December in Wuhan, in China's Hubei Province, had claimed more than 800 lives in China as of Feb. 8, including Li Wenliang (李文亮), a 34-year-old ophthalmologist at Wuhan Central Hospital who tried to issue the first warning about the deadly coronavirus outbreak late last year but was silenced by the Chinese authorities.
Li was confirmed Feb. 1 to have been infected after treating a patient who later tested positive for coronavirus. He died on Friday.
While most victims have been middle-aged, elderly or suffering from chronic disease according to official Chinese data, Li's death, as well as that of a 39-year-old man in Hong Kong, drew media attention as the epidemic has attacked more than 37,000 people in 28 countries around the world.
According to Chinese media reports, Zhong Ming (鍾鳴), a physician at the department of critical care medicine of Zhongshan Hospital in Shanghai, warned that in some novel coronavirus cases, patients who developed only moderate symptoms at the onset of the disease later fell seriously ill and died of multiple organ failure.
*Westerdam cruise ship in negotiations to dock
From CNN's Mick Krever in Tokyo
Holland America is in negotiations with two different ports to have passengers from the Westerdam cruise ship disembark, the company told CNN in a statement on Sunday. It would not identify which ports it is in negotiation with.
There are 1,455 guests and 802 crew onboard the Westerdam.
The Westerdam was denied port by three different authorities -- Taiwan, the Philippines, and Japan -- despite having no confirmed cases of coronavirus on board. The company made clear that the ship is not under quarantine. There are 1,455 guests and 802 crew onboard.
“We are currently working through all the various required logistical support in both ports to determine the best course of action for our guests,” the company said, adding that their deadline for a decision -- in terms of navigation -- is 3 a.m. ET on Monday (4 p.m. local for the Westerdam).
The Westerdam is currently at sea about 300 km east of Taiwan.
*Coronavirus mass arrests: Eighty-six people die of virus in a DAY in China as Beijing starts rounding up sufferers and videos show hazmat suit-clad goons dragging people from their homes while death toll hits 724
*Can you even believe these days: Eleven military bases near major airports in the United States are setting up quarantine centers for possible coronavirus patients, the Department of Defense said.
Feb 8
*China's coronavirus death toll rises to 813
From CNN's Steven Jiang in Beijing
Another 89 people have died of the Wuhan coronavirus, bringing the death toll globally to 813, China’s National Health Commission confirmed today.
That includes 811 people who have died in mainland China and one person each in Hong Kong and the Philippines.
The new deaths push the Wuhan coronavirus death toll above that of the 2003 severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) outbreak, which killed 774 people.
The number of confirmed coronavirus cases in mainland China is at least 37,198, an increase of 2,656 from Saturday, according to the health authorities.
From CNN's Mick Krever in Tokyo
Holland America is in negotiations with two different ports to have passengers from the Westerdam cruise ship disembark, the company told CNN in a statement on Sunday. It would not identify which ports it is in negotiation with.
There are 1,455 guests and 802 crew onboard the Westerdam.
The Westerdam was denied port by three different authorities -- Taiwan, the Philippines, and Japan -- despite having no confirmed cases of coronavirus on board. The company made clear that the ship is not under quarantine. There are 1,455 guests and 802 crew onboard.
“We are currently working through all the various required logistical support in both ports to determine the best course of action for our guests,” the company said, adding that their deadline for a decision -- in terms of navigation -- is 3 a.m. ET on Monday (4 p.m. local for the Westerdam).
The Westerdam is currently at sea about 300 km east of Taiwan.
*Coronavirus mass arrests: Eighty-six people die of virus in a DAY in China as Beijing starts rounding up sufferers and videos show hazmat suit-clad goons dragging people from their homes while death toll hits 724
*Can you even believe these days: Eleven military bases near major airports in the United States are setting up quarantine centers for possible coronavirus patients, the Department of Defense said.
Feb 8
*China's coronavirus death toll rises to 813
From CNN's Steven Jiang in Beijing
Another 89 people have died of the Wuhan coronavirus, bringing the death toll globally to 813, China’s National Health Commission confirmed today.
That includes 811 people who have died in mainland China and one person each in Hong Kong and the Philippines.
The new deaths push the Wuhan coronavirus death toll above that of the 2003 severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) outbreak, which killed 774 people.
The number of confirmed coronavirus cases in mainland China is at least 37,198, an increase of 2,656 from Saturday, according to the health authorities.
*JAMA: Question What are the clinical characteristics of hospitalized patients with 2019 novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV)–infected pneumonia (NCIP) in Wuhan, China?
Findings In this single-center case series involving 138 patients with NCIP, 26% of patients required admission to the intensive care unit and 4.3% died. Presumed human-to-human hospital-associated transmission of 2019-nCoV was suspected in 41% of patients.
Meaning In this case series in Wuhan, China, NCIP was frequently associated with presumed hospital-related transmission, 26% of patients required intensive care unit treatment, and mortality was 4.3%
*Details After 27 In NJ Tested For Coronavirus; 4 In Hospital
Here's the latest after 27 passengers from a cruise ship were tested for the coronavirus – and four remain in the hospital – in NJ.*How many more coronavirus outrages are we going to see in the world in the next year:Death of whistleblower doctor unleashes fury in China; more trouble for cruise passengers.
*Japan has the highest concentration of the coronavirus infection in the world outside China. Japan, Singapore and Hong Kong are now at the forefront with coronavirus. Today's focus seems to be about the spread to countries outside China.
*Coronavirus: Royal Caribbean bans all Chinese nationals from its cruise ships
*The virus: 86 people died in a single day in China on Friday. The coronavirus death toll now stands at 724, and all but two of those died in mainland China. Globally, the virus has infected more 34,400 people across 27 countries and territories.
Foreign fatalities: A 60-year-old US national died in Wuhan Thursday, the US Embassy in Beijing said Saturday, marking the first confirmed death of a foreigner. Japan also reported its first death of suspected coronavirus in Wuhan on Saturday.
Feb 7
*China is now saying the coronavirus death toll has risen to 636, while confirmed cases have climbed to 31,161.
*This guy got to be mutating into a more danger form after so many generations and cycling though the host. For the NJ cruise ship, seems like they are isolating potentially infected patients and letting everyone else leave. What happens if somebody test positive, then all released passengers start showing up being infected. Will this became a scandal? How about we really got two or more strains of coronavirus? One being a highly infectious flu like virus with little fatalities and the other being a highly infectious and deadly strain?
*A cruise ship that docked in New Jersey earlier today carrying at least 27 Chinese nationals who will be quarantined in a hospital upon arrival, local NBC News reports.
The cruise left Bayonne, New Jersey, on Jan. 27.
The passengers reportedly returned from mainland China–the current hotbed of the Wuhan coronavirus–and were screened for the new virus when they arrived. The cruise line, Royal Caribbean’s Anthem of the Seas, reported one passenger who thought they had a fever on the ship. The fever went away after administering Tylenol.
Three other passengers are “under close observation for their health” at the University Hospital in Newark. The hospital is said to have negative-pressure isolation rooms suitable for handling quarantine.
So far, the majority of passengers who recently traveled to the Chinese mainland, 23 out of the 27 Chinese nationals, do not appear to have the coronavirus. They will reportedly be escorted to the Newark airport for a return flight to China.
*Already:
The world is running out of masks and other gear to protect against the new coronavirus, the World Health Organization has warned.
The WHO chief, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, told the organisation’s executive board in Geneva:
The world is facing a chronic shortage of personal protective equipment.
*We got a cruise ship docking in NJ this morning with 12 people suspected with having coronavirus. The CDC is on the scene. Are we heading for a Diamond Princess situation in Japan on the docks of NJ. We already got proof these cruise ships are nothing but ultra petri dishes! Will all the passenger be stuck on the ship for a month. Will we see infected passengers one by one get get spit off the ship heading to a hospital for the next month? Just what are we going to do with the potentially infected passengers? Are they heading for coronavirus military interment camps. I believe we got at least ten right now.
*The citizens are mad as hell over the virus and the dislocation...the failure of their govermenmt. The world is ripe with rebellion and anger. Is everyone ready for the anger with the population...the flash point: Outrage in China over death of whistleblower doctor. What if we had to lockdown NYC in order to save our nation? I doubt out our government could perform any better than the Chinese!!! It is going to be a spectacle watching the Trump show.
Feb 6
Confirmed cases and deaths continue to tick upward
WASHINGTON — Chinese health officials said Friday morning that they had confirmed more than 31,000 cases of the novel coronavirus, including 16 on the self-governing island of Taiwan. More than 4,800 of the cases were considered severe.
The death toll rose to more than 630, up from about 560 the previous day. The deaths remain almost entirely confined to China, with the exception of a man who died in the Philippines. That man, 44, was a resident of Wuhan in Hubei province, the epicenter of the outbreak.
*This guy right how is roiling the stock markets: Some 3,700 passengers and crew members aboard Diamond Princess are under a two-week quarantine in their rooms after a Hong Kong man tested positive for the virus on Jan. 25.
Screenings of the 273 passengers believed to have come in contact with the man have so far found 20 infected by the virus, all of whom have been transported to medical facilities in Japan.
Just minutes ago they discovered 41 more passengers are infected.
*Just think about the implication of this and how broad the Chinese coronavirus is. China is the largest petroleum importer in the world. Petroleum demand in China has virtually collapse in the last two weeks. The Chinese stock market started back up after a artificial shutdown. I believe it went down 8 or 9%. It would have gone down a lot more if not for circuit breakers. Similarly in the last two weeks petroleum prices world wide have declined about 8%. Russia and Opex are angling to reduce petroleum supply to support prices. Traders think not before long US gasoline prices are going to be below $2.00.
The ships in Japan and Hong Kong are caught up in a global health emergency that seems to worsen by the day.
*Obviously this is fake news. But Trupism tells the facts don't matter, the Chinese nation just might be a distraction from their current virus woes. In the world of fake narratives, how is this going to mutate the the coronavirus game plan : Chinese military news agency discloses 2019-nCoV was product of lab: Guo Wengui.
China critic reveals Xilu news network said Wuhan coronavirus engineered by US
*The Chinese authorities are clamping down on negative news about the outbreak.
In the early days of the new coronavirus, the Chinese public’s frustrations over how the Communist government was handling the problem were left largely uncensored online, and news outlets reported rigorously on the outbreak.
Those days may now be over.
With the number of confirmed cases now officially put at 28,018, there is a crackdown on the media and on the internet. It signals an effort to control the narrative about a crisis that has become a once-in-a-generation challenge for leaders in Beijing.
*(100 bodies a day) 'We can't stop': Funeral worker says Wuhan cremating ‘at least 100’ bodies a day amid coronavirus outbreak.
This brings the total number of deaths in mainland China to at least 562. The global death toll is 564, with one death in Hong Kong and one death in the Philippines.
Authorities confirmed an additional 2,987 cases of the virus in Hubei on Wednesday, which brings the total number of cases in the epicenter of the outbreak to 19,665.
There has been 14,314 patients have been hospitalized in Hubei, including 756 who are in critical condition, according to the health authority.
The number of confirmed cases in mainland China is at least 27,378. The global number of confirmed coronavirus cases now stands at 27,602.
*Just think about the implication of this and how broad the Chinese coronavirus is. China is the largest petroleum importer in the world. Petroleum demand in China has virtually collapse in the last two weeks. The Chinese stock market started back up after a artificial shutdown. I believe it went down 8 or 9%. It would have gone down a lot more if not for circuit breakers. Similarly in the last two weeks petroleum prices world wide have declined about 8%. Russia and Opex are angling to reduce petroleum supply to support prices. Traders think not before long US gasoline prices are going to be below $2.00.
The ships in Japan and Hong Kong are caught up in a global health emergency that seems to worsen by the day.
*Obviously this is fake news. But Trupism tells the facts don't matter, the Chinese nation just might be a distraction from their current virus woes. In the world of fake narratives, how is this going to mutate the the coronavirus game plan : Chinese military news agency discloses 2019-nCoV was product of lab: Guo Wengui.
China critic reveals Xilu news network said Wuhan coronavirus engineered by US
*The Chinese authorities are clamping down on negative news about the outbreak.
In the early days of the new coronavirus, the Chinese public’s frustrations over how the Communist government was handling the problem were left largely uncensored online, and news outlets reported rigorously on the outbreak.
Those days may now be over.
With the number of confirmed cases now officially put at 28,018, there is a crackdown on the media and on the internet. It signals an effort to control the narrative about a crisis that has become a once-in-a-generation challenge for leaders in Beijing.
*(100 bodies a day) 'We can't stop': Funeral worker says Wuhan cremating ‘at least 100’ bodies a day amid coronavirus outbreak.
*Man, oh man, oh man: The Hubei health authority reported that 70 more people died after contracting the coronavirus in Hubei province on Wednesday, raising the Hubei death toll since the beginning of the outbreak to 549.
This brings the total number of deaths in mainland China to at least 562. The global death toll is 564, with one death in Hong Kong and one death in the Philippines.
Authorities confirmed an additional 2,987 cases of the virus in Hubei on Wednesday, which brings the total number of cases in the epicenter of the outbreak to 19,665.
There has been 14,314 patients have been hospitalized in Hubei, including 756 who are in critical condition, according to the health authority.
The number of confirmed cases in mainland China is at least 27,378. The global number of confirmed coronavirus cases now stands at 27,602.
*Chatter on the internet about Wuhan crematoriums going full throttle. It is so hard to evaluation real information from bs information.
*This would explain the draconian shutdown throughout China: TAIPEI (Taiwan News) — As many experts question the veracity of China's statistics for the Wuhan coronavirus outbreak, Tencent over the weekend seems to have inadvertently released what is potentially the actual number of infections and deaths, which were astronomically higher than official figures.
On late Saturday evening (Feb. 1), Tencent, on its webpage titled "Epidemic Situation Tracker", showed confirmed cases of novel coronavirus (2019nCoV) in China as standing at 154,023, 10 times the official figure at the time. It listed the number of suspected cases as 79,808, four times the official figure.
*Bloomberg News China Sacrifices a Province to Save the World from Coronavirus
* The 12th confirmed case of the Wuhan coronavirus in the US has been reported by the Wisconsin Department of Health Services.
*You know, I just got to say this. It just has been a struggle for China's development for centuries. We never made it easier for them. They choose the political command and control model for development. The progress of the Chinese over one hundred years has been amazing. You just have to give credit to political dictatorship for the startling development. Maybe if we were so far behind the times as the Chinese once were, the most efficient and quickest development for us might have been a dictatorship. Certainly from inside the USA I feel the USA is no more stable than China. I can make the case today we are less stable than China. I love our form of government and the USA in general with all my might. In my earlier life, I promised to die for my country if it came to it to protect us. Do you believe for one second if a new novel virus broke out in the ghettoes surrounding Los Angelus we could have handled it better than China. The infectiousness would be just as worst. We would have bungled it just as bad a China. Our politicians would have moved mountains to shift blame and responsibility away from themselves. It doesn't matter what political party! That is our history over and over again! I feel so much sympathy and sorrows for the Chinese people at this moment in time, because behind all the bullshit, politics, and the struggles to make money, we are all one. There is no distance between us. Maybe we are all abused by our governments in one way or another!
*This drives me crazy, is it or infectious or less infectious, does it mutate or doesn't mutate: Infectious disease specialists and scientists say the new coronavirus that’s shuttering companies across mainland China may be more contagious than current data shows.
Chinese scientists worry the respiratory illness, which world health officials say likely came from a fish market, has mutated to adapt to its new human hosts far more quickly than SARS. Data on the virus is changing by the day, and some infectious disease specialists say it will take weeks before they can see just how contagious it is. What they’re seeing so far is concerning and leading U.S. and international scientists to believe the virus is more contagious than the current data shows, according to interviews with epidemiologists, scientists and infectious disease specialists.
Researchers from Lancaster University in England estimated the virus’s R naught may be closer to 3.1, saying “current clinical and epidemiological data are insufficient to understand the full extent of the transmission potential of the epidemic” and the outbreak comes “at a time when there is a substantial increase in travel volume” due to the Lunar New Year holiday.
*WHO just said the majority of the deaths in China doesn't come from the Cytokine storm or other issues in the lungs, but comes from organ failure. To control organ failure takes an extraordinary level of medical care! Cytokine storm of mostly associated with the Spanish flu.
*But Hubei -- known for its car factories and bustling capital Wuhan -- is paying the price, with the mortality rate for coronavirus patients there 3.1%, versus 0.16% for the rest of China.
*Blumberg: U.S. Readies for Coronavirus Pandemic Some Experts Now See as Likely
“This is about mitigation at this point.”
By
Robert Langreth and
Michelle Cortez
February 4, 2020, 7:21 PM EST
Just a couple of weeks ago, scientists held out hope the new coronavirus could be largely contained within China. Now they know its spread can be minimized at best, and governments are planning for the worst.
“It is not a matter of if—it is a matter of when,” said Amesh Adalja, a senior scholar at the Johns Hopkins University Center for Health Security and a spokesman for the Infectious Diseases Society of America. “There is not a doubt this is going to end up in most countries eventually.”
“This is about mitigation at this point, and keeping the global spread as minimal as possible,” said Rebecca Katz, a professor and director of the Center for Global Health Science and Security at Georgetown University.
*The one thing everyone wants in this devilish caldron is hope. Is this false hope? Maybe even malicious false hope. Might be a scam to bolster the stock markets around world. Some people already has made a lot of money over false hope: A Chinese research institute in Wuhan announced it had applied to patent a medicine made in the US after discovering it was effective in dealing with the novel coronavirus, triggering debate on Chinese social media over whether the move violates intellectual property regulations.
*The Wuhan Institute of Virology under the Chinese Academy of Sciences released a statement on its website on Tuesday, saying their researchers discovered that two medicines - Remdesivir and chloroquine - could effectively inhibit the recently emerged novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV).
*There must be a god. Where is the USA's vaccine? A lot of showboating or the opposite of fatalism. But I am skeptical: China Global Television Network, citing a report from China's Changjiang daily, said researchers at Zhejiang University had zeroed in on two drugs to successfully fight the coronavirus. Separately, Sky News reported progress in the U.K. on creating a vaccine.
*Cruises to hell: Here's what we know about the two cruise ships under quarantine
* You got to admit, the USA so far has done a good job at isolating us from the virus mostly.
*The numbers of infected people in mainland China once again rose sharply, with 65 new deaths and 3,887 cases reported on Tuesday alone, authorities said Wednesday morning. This brings the total number of confirmed cases in China to 24,324, with more than 3,000 in critical condition. The increase once again represented the biggest jump since the National Health Commission began releasing statistics and continues the trend of larger increases in cases confirmed every day of the outbreak. China has reported 490 deaths, and two others have succumbed from the illness, one in Hong Kong and one in the Philippines.
Feb 4
*Ten passengers infected with coronavirus on cruise ship in Japanese waters
*World wide death toll passes 490 people
From Steven Jiang in Beijing
The health authority in Hubei province in China says that 65 people died of the coronavirus in the province on Tuesday, raising the Hubei death toll since the beginning of the coronavirus outbreak to 479 people.
This brings the global death toll to at least 490 victims.
Authorities confirmed an additional 3,156 cases of the virus in Hubei, where more than 50 million people live, which brings the total number of cases in the epicenter of the outbreak to 16,678.
A total of 12,627 patients have been hospitalized in the province, including 771 who are in critical condition, according to the health authority.
The global number of confirmed coronavirus cases is now well over 23,000.
*Basically I started this timeline on Jan 25. Two weeks from that is Saturday Feb 8. I expect the US infection numbers to drastically increase by this upcoming weekend or next week for sure.
*Call me crazy, no increase in reported coronavirus in USA in two days. It is either a real or artificial trend? This trend doesn't make sense.
*Should the most transparent and greatest nation on the planet already have detailed studies on the virus mutation rates for the people who got infected in the USA? All the western nations have a running total of all mutation rates. Why are they keeping this information away from us. And historically explain mutation rates.
*Everyone knows the reporting rate is grossly inaccurate and subject to national security concerns: The early outbreak data largely follows the exponential growth. We estimated that the meanR ranges from 2.24 (95%CI: 1.96-2.55) to 3.58 (95%CI: 2.89-4.39) associated with 8-fold to 2-fold increase in the reporting rate. We demonstrated that changes in reporting rate substantially affect estimates of R CONCLUSION: The mean estimate ofR for the 2019-nCoV ranges from 2.24 to 3.58, and significantly larger than 1. Our findings indicate the potential of 2019-nCoV to cause outbreaks.
*Beijing (CNN)Two flights evacuating hundreds of US citizens from the epicenter of the coronavirus outbreak in China are scheduled to depart for the United States on Tuesday, a US official with knowledge of the matter told CNN.
About 550 passengers will be aboard the two flights departing from Wuhan, China, the official told CNN on condition of anonymity. These are the second and third such flights from Wuhan that were arranged by the US government in roughly the past week.
*Oh yea, cases will shortly decline: The Brits told all citizens to emediately leave China!
*You know what would be the best thing for world? If and when the USA becomes as infected as China. We be pumping our information like a madman and we would move mountains to fix this god damn thing. We would throw every god damn thing we own at this virus. We would spend prodigious amounts of money on basic and advanced research for the next decade on similar virus and pathogens. It would be a unbelievable advance in science. Imagine how much the social media portray us...the whole world would see everything about our struggle. Maybe we need a great "stimulus" to demonstrate how good a peoples we could become? Can you imagine if we get slowly as infected as Wuhan during our current election cycle peaking at the end of the elections. Do you understand, we are all too flawed as humans beings to contain the eval contagion.
*What all we have seen here from the getgo is the great competition and fake credibility of the world's great powers.
*I wouldn't Trust the World Health Organization for one god damn thing. See, everyone picks and chooses what information to release or twist for their particular agenda: "It is a quite a stable virus," said World Health Organization's director of Pandemic and Epidemic Diseases Department Sylvie Briand. So far, @WHO has no evidence of #coronavirus mutation @SCBriand said during a press conference Tuesday.
*Striking’ coronavirus mutations found within one family cluster, Chinese scientists say
‘More work needed’ to determine impact of genetic changes on patients
Case points to viral evolution in human-to-human transmission, researchers say
*Does the US have enough crematorium for this...how we going to get rid of our bodies: Fears thick 'death' smog over Wuhan confirms China is burning coronavirus bodies
*Several Chinese nationals have shared their concern over a fog which has engulfed Wuhan, fueling fears the death toll inside coronavirus-hit China is higher than what has been reported
Wuhan coronavirus can survive for 5 days outside the body: Chinese expert
Feb 3
*This thing is getting more dire by the hour...it is just unbelievable. The state Department is telling our people still in China to stock up on food: President Xi warns virus 'directly affects' economic and social stability of China.
The Chinese state news agency Xinhau reports that China’s President Xi has made an important speech to the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China Central Committee on Monday to address the coronavirus outbreak.
The outcome of the epidemic prevention and control directly affects people’s lives and health, the overall economic and social stability and the country’s opening-up, Xinhau says.
*Unbelievable: Coronavirus Cases Have More Than Tripled In Past Week; 20,000 Sickened In China
*Japan quarantines 3,500 on cruise ship over new coronavirus
* Chinese state media has confirmed that confirmed cases of the coronavirus in the country have passed 20,000. The People’s Daily says there are now 20,438 cases confirmed on the Chinese mainland. The death toll in China remains at 425.
*I swear our US officials are not telling us what they already know? They know it all: An "explosive" outbreak in China
While cases of the new coronavirus have been diagnosed in at least two dozen countries, including 11 cases in the U.S., by far, China has the greatest number of cases worldwide. As of Monday morning, Chinese health officials had reported more than 17,000 patients, and more than 360 deaths.
The CDC called the outbreak in China "explosive" and "unprecedented."
"We are preparing as if this were the next pandemic," Dr. Nancy Messonnier, director of the CDC's National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases, said during a call with journalists Monday.
She said the Department of State — which last week, issued a "do not travel" advisory for China — is planning to pull out additional U.S. citizens from Hubei province in the coming days. The city of Wuhan, the epicenter of the outbreak, is located in Hubei. The first group of evacuees from Wuhan arrived in California last week and remain under federal quarantine.
*Sixty-four new deaths were confirmed on Tuesday – surpassing Monday’s record to post the new biggest daily increase since the virus was detected late last year in the central city of Wuhan.*The movie "Contagion" is a metaphor for what? Maybe a very condensed version of what a real pandemic would feel... how we would feel like out a year or two from patient zero.
*Jesus, coronavirus worries in Mexico City and the poor/ghettoes in South America: Uber temporarily shutters 240 accounts in Mexico because of coronavirus Mexico City's health department tells Uber that two of its drivers may have been exposed to the virus.
*It is specious as hell, coronavirus and now the highly virulent bird flu in circulation around Wuhan: China sees bird flu outbreak near coronavirus epicenter: report
*I'd be talking about billions of dollars to a half a trillion dollars: The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services notified Congress on Sunday it may need to transfer up to $136 million to help combat the fast-moving coronavirus epidemic, a new sign of how the White House has increased its response in recent days.
The notification came as the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is quickly burning through $105 million that was set aside for emergency public-health responses to things such as the coronavirus.
The additional money would address growing demands on CDC, HHS’s Office of the Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response and HHS’s Office of Global Affairs, HHS confirmed Monday. About $75 million would be available for CDC, $52 million for ASPR and $8 million for the Office of Global Affairs.
*This is beyond curious: Chinese leader Xi Jinping described the coronavirus outbreak rampaging through central China as a major test of the country’s system of governance, and vowed consequences for officials who shirk responsibility in tackling the crisis.
Meantime, American health authorities on Monday reported a second case of the coronavirus being passed from one person to another in the U.S. as they raised the number of confirmed cases in the country to 11.
*I told you early in this bug would test governance planet wide: Chinese leader Xi Jinping described the coronavirus outbreak rampaging through central China as a major test of the country’s system of governance, and vowed consequences for officials who shirk responsibility in tackling the crisis.
Meantime, American health authorities on Monday reported a second case of the coronavirus being passed from one person to another in the U.S. as they raised the number of confirmed cases in the country to 11.
*CDC has investigated 260 US patients for coronavirus
From CNN Health’s Michael Nedelman
The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has listed 260 “patients under investigation” for the novel coronavirus across 36 states as of February 3, according to an update posted on the agency's website Monday. That’s an increase of 19 from the last update, provided Friday.
Of the 260 patients under investigation, 11 have tested positive, 167 negative, and 82 are still pending.
*A video apparently filmed in No 5 Wuhan hospital went viral showing body bags in a bus, and a man weeping next to his dead father. In the video, the person filming says: “So many people just died. There are so many dead bodies … they are still moving bodies.
*The latest: The coronavirus outbreak has killed at least 362 people and infected more than 17,300 globally, as it continues to spread beyond China. One person outside mainland China, a man in the Philippines, has died.
As businesses in China remain shuttered and travel bans mount, crude oil and shares in Australia and Japan also take a hit
Feb 2
*I see it this way. Say you have the virus being a RO of 3. Maybe 20 to 35 people who have severe respiratory problem plus the ones who only get admitted to the hospital for common flue symptoms.So 72 people who catch the coronavirus but have the regular flu symptoms. These 72 people are going all over the place shedding the virus. It won't be stopped by putting people in the hospital.
*You catch the mixed messages, end of days travel restrictions from China and beyond and risk remains low at this: (CNN)The United States will implement stringent travel restrictions Sunday evening in an effort to contain the novel coronavirus outbreak that has so far killed more than 300 people in China and infected more than 14,000 worldwide.
The plan, which goes into effect at 5 p.m. ET, includes temporarily denying entry to foreign nationals who visited China in the 14 days prior to their arrival to the US, Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar said Friday.
This is where Wuhan coronavirus cases have been confirmed worldwide
Restrictions also apply to US citizens who have been in China's Hubei province, the epicenter of the coronavirus outbreak, in the two weeks prior to their return to the US. Upon their return to the US, those citizens will be subject to a mandatory quarantine of up to 14 days, he said.
US citizens returning from the rest of mainland China in the 14 days prior will undergo health screenings at selected ports of entry and face up to 14 days of self-monitored quarantine.
Azar outlined the restrictions Friday as he declared the coronavirus a public health emergency in the United States, stressing that "the risk to the American public remains low at this time, and we are working to keep this risk low."
* Would it be better if we had a hard pandemic panic attack sooner rather than latter. So we will have a large panic attack with little death rates versus a huge panic attack when the death rate is drastically high. I think if we have a fake pandemic panic attack right now, it would minimize the later stage panic attacks. Especially hording,
* NYTs: Experts think this virus will circle the world and it will be a pandemic. They just don't know the death rate or RO (R-naught).
*White House economic advisers are studying the potential impact that the coronavirus scare could have on the U.S. economy, according to two people familiar with the internal review, as federal officials enact unprecedented travel restrictions amid the disease’s spread in China.
The White House National Economic Council and the Council of Economic Advisers are jointly assessing both the potential short-term and long-term effects of the coronavirus, these officials said, with fears mounting over the virus’s spread into the United States.
Administration officials stressed that the work was preliminary and precautionary. While global markets slid Friday, White House economists only see a limited economic impact from the virus on the first quarter of 2020 of about 20 basis points, or 0.2 percentage points. That is largely in line with the predictions of external analysts.
The two officials spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss internal assessments of the coronavirus. Publicly, White House officials have largely downplayed the potential economic impact on the United States, with White House economic adviser Larry Kudlow saying it will probably only have a “minimal” impact on the economy.
Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross, though, said the coronavirus outbreak “will help” persuade companies to move operations back to the United States and Mexico, a sentiment that other White House officials have not voiced publicly.
*This sounds like the virus is real catchy:
All eight people diagnosed with coronavirus in Bavaria, Germany, are in a stable condition, the Bavarian Health Ministry said in a statement Sunday.
Germany has confirmed its eighth case of coronavirus on Saturday. The patient, a 33 year-old man from Munich, works at the same company as six of the previously known coronavirus cases in Germany. The eight person with the virus in Germany is a child of one of the people diagnosed earlier, the ministry said.
*Coronavirus infection is doubling every 6.4 days?
*When with the Wuhan coronavirus death rate pass the flue death rate in the USA? 12,000 to 61,000 per year according to the CDC. Imagine if we had a death rate in excess of this?
*China Pledges Market Support, Quarantine Expanded: Virus Update
*Lancets says some 75,000 people are now infected in Wuhan China?
*cnn: The latest: The coronavirus outbreak has killed at least 305 people and infected more than 14,300 globally, as it continues to spread beyond China. One person outside mainland China, a man in the Philippines, has died.
*Don't kid yourself, we are doing the same thing in the USA in a more decentralized way. Our excuse for minimal transparantcy is we got to respect the privcy of the patients more or less: "As New Coronavirus Spread, China’s Old Habits Delayed Fight".
Feb 1
*Public health officials offer scant details on US coronavirus patients
By Anna Maria Barry-Jester and Anna Almendrala Kaiser Health News (TNS)
Jan 31, 2020 Updated 20 hrs ago
Disclosure this week of a seventh case in the United States of a new viral infection emerging from China — in addition to the first confirmed case of the virus passing from person to person in this country — is fueling public concerns about how easily the deadly virus can spread.
It is also raising pointed questions about why authorities aren’t disclosing more information about the risk of exposure.
The person-to-person case announced Thursday involves a man in his 60s with underlying health issues who is married to a Chicago-area woman who contracted the virus while traveling in Wuhan, China, and was diagnosed upon her return. During a news briefing, state and federal health officials said they believe the threat from the virus remains low within the United States and remained cautious about sharing details about patients and their movements.
Unlike the more detailed accounting of patients’ movements released during measles outbreaks, public health departments are not sharing precise timelines of people’s activities and locations in the days before they were diagnosed with the new coronavirus. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has said that while there’s a risk for everyone who comes in contact with a person with the virus, it appears minimal for those with only casual contact, such as being in the same grocery store or movie theater.
On Thursday, health officials declined to name the hospital where the infected couple are being treated, saying the patients are isolated and the risk to others in the hospital remains low. Health care workers who are caring for them and at a higher risk of contracting the virus are being monitored. Jennifer Layden, an epidemiologist with the state of Illinois, told reporters that the wife is doing well and the husband’s condition is stable...
*Health officials confirm eighth US coronavirus case is a UMass Boston student
* NYTs: Experts think this virus will circle the world and it will be a pandemic. They just don't know the death rate or RO (R-naught).
*I wonder if the well noted air pollution problems in China is going to interact with coronavirus?
*White House economic advisers are studying the potential impact that the coronavirus scare could have on the U.S. economy, according to two people familiar with the internal review, as federal officials enact unprecedented travel restrictions amid the disease’s spread in China.
The White House National Economic Council and the Council of Economic Advisers are jointly assessing both the potential short-term and long-term effects of the coronavirus, these officials said, with fears mounting over the virus’s spread into the United States.
Administration officials stressed that the work was preliminary and precautionary. While global markets slid Friday, White House economists only see a limited economic impact from the virus on the first quarter of 2020 of about 20 basis points, or 0.2 percentage points. That is largely in line with the predictions of external analysts.
The two officials spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss internal assessments of the coronavirus. Publicly, White House officials have largely downplayed the potential economic impact on the United States, with White House economic adviser Larry Kudlow saying it will probably only have a “minimal” impact on the economy.
Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross, though, said the coronavirus outbreak “will help” persuade companies to move operations back to the United States and Mexico, a sentiment that other White House officials have not voiced publicly.
All eight people diagnosed with coronavirus in Bavaria, Germany, are in a stable condition, the Bavarian Health Ministry said in a statement Sunday.
Germany has confirmed its eighth case of coronavirus on Saturday. The patient, a 33 year-old man from Munich, works at the same company as six of the previously known coronavirus cases in Germany. The eight person with the virus in Germany is a child of one of the people diagnosed earlier, the ministry said.
*Coronavirus infection is doubling every 6.4 days?
*When with the Wuhan coronavirus death rate pass the flue death rate in the USA? 12,000 to 61,000 per year according to the CDC. Imagine if we had a death rate in excess of this?
*China Pledges Market Support, Quarantine Expanded: Virus Update
*Lancets says some 75,000 people are now infected in Wuhan China?
*cnn: The latest: The coronavirus outbreak has killed at least 305 people and infected more than 14,300 globally, as it continues to spread beyond China. One person outside mainland China, a man in the Philippines, has died.
*BEIJING: The number of deaths in China's central Hubei province from the new coronavirus outbreak had risen by 45 to 304 as of the end of Saturday (Feb 1), Chinese state television reported.
*Don't kid yourself, we are doing the same thing in the USA in a more decentralized way. Our excuse for minimal transparantcy is we got to respect the privcy of the patients more or less: "As New Coronavirus Spread, China’s Old Habits Delayed Fight".
Feb 1
*Public health officials offer scant details on US coronavirus patients
By Anna Maria Barry-Jester and Anna Almendrala Kaiser Health News (TNS)
Jan 31, 2020 Updated 20 hrs ago
Disclosure this week of a seventh case in the United States of a new viral infection emerging from China — in addition to the first confirmed case of the virus passing from person to person in this country — is fueling public concerns about how easily the deadly virus can spread.
It is also raising pointed questions about why authorities aren’t disclosing more information about the risk of exposure.
The person-to-person case announced Thursday involves a man in his 60s with underlying health issues who is married to a Chicago-area woman who contracted the virus while traveling in Wuhan, China, and was diagnosed upon her return. During a news briefing, state and federal health officials said they believe the threat from the virus remains low within the United States and remained cautious about sharing details about patients and their movements.
Unlike the more detailed accounting of patients’ movements released during measles outbreaks, public health departments are not sharing precise timelines of people’s activities and locations in the days before they were diagnosed with the new coronavirus. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has said that while there’s a risk for everyone who comes in contact with a person with the virus, it appears minimal for those with only casual contact, such as being in the same grocery store or movie theater.
On Thursday, health officials declined to name the hospital where the infected couple are being treated, saying the patients are isolated and the risk to others in the hospital remains low. Health care workers who are caring for them and at a higher risk of contracting the virus are being monitored. Jennifer Layden, an epidemiologist with the state of Illinois, told reporters that the wife is doing well and the husband’s condition is stable...
*Health officials confirm eighth US coronavirus case is a UMass Boston student
* Military preparing 1000 beds for possible infected cases.
*Here's how coronavirus outbreak went global in two months
The first case of coronavirus in China was detected in early December. Now, nearly two months later, it's a full-blown global emergency, with close to 12,000 confirmed cases across the world.
Here's a look back at how we got here:
- December 8: First patient develops symptoms of Wuhan coronavirus
- December 31: Earliest cases of virus reported to World Health Organization (WHO)
- January 1: Seafood and wildlife market in Wuhan, where the outbreak is believed to have originated, is closed for disinfection
- January 7: Chinese scientists identify pathogen involved as new strain of coronavirus
- January 9: First death linked to virus
- January 20: Cases reported in Beijing and Shenzhen
- January 23: Wuhan is placed on lockdown, with movement halted in or out of the city. A total of 60 million people are affected by travel restrictions in Wuhan and neighboring cities. WHO says virus is not yet a public health emergency of international concern
- January 28: Death toll tops 100. The number of confirmed cases in mainland China overtakes the deadly 2003 SARS outbreak
- January 30: WHO declares a public health emergency of international concern
- January 31: Death toll tops 200
*I am surprised I haven't seen more infections and fatalities is the USA. I wondering if they have just gone undetected? I wonder how much virus antigens are in the population. What are the recent trends for pneumonia, on ventilators and death rate ins the USA?
*The discovery of the Wuhan virus, dubbed 2019-nCoV, in the fecal material of the 35-year-old man treated at the Providence Regional Medical Center Everett in Washington is “interesting," said Scott Lindquist, the state epidemiologist for infectious disease at Washington’s Department of Health.
*The Trump administration on Friday took dramatic steps aimed at containing the Wuhan coronavirus' risk to Americans as officials grapple with an outbreak that sent financial markets plunging, led airlines to cancel flights and has challenged scientists with its unusual speed and symptoms.
The administration declared a public health emergency in the United States and said it would close the border to foreign nationals who have recently been in China. Meanwhile, U.S. citizens returning from China's Hubei province, the epicenter of the outbreak, will undergo a mandatory two-week quarantine. Officials also announced that all incoming flights from China will soon be funneled through seven U.S. airports.
The developments showed how the scope of the outbreak is seeping into the U.S. conscience, even as public health officials work to calm the growing fears. The Dow Jones Industrial Average tumbled 603 points on Friday, with investors concerned about the economic impact of the outbreak.
"I want to emphasize the risk to the American public is low," said CDC Director Robert Redfield at a White House press briefing. "Our goal is to do all we can do to keep it that way."
Jan 31
It is just a global emergency, not a Pandemic yet.
*The Trump administration on Friday took dramatic steps aimed at containing the Wuhan coronavirus' risk to Americans as officials grapple with an outbreak that sent financial markets plunging, led airlines to cancel flights and has challenged scientists with its unusual speed and symptoms.
The administration declared a public health emergency in the United States and said it would close the border to foreign nationals who have recently been in China. Meanwhile, U.S. citizens returning from China's Hubei province, the epicenter of the outbreak, will undergo a mandatory two-week quarantine. Officials also announced that all incoming flights from China will soon be funneled through seven U.S. airports.
The developments showed how the scope of the outbreak is seeping into the U.S. conscience, even as public health officials work to calm the growing fears. The Dow Jones Industrial Average tumbled 603 points on Friday, with investors concerned about the economic impact of the outbreak.
"I want to emphasize the risk to the American public is low," said CDC Director Robert Redfield at a White House press briefing. "Our goal is to do all we can do to keep it that way."
Jan 31
It is just a global emergency, not a Pandemic yet.
The world is increasingly isolating China.
*The latest: At least 213 people are dead and more than 9,709 cases have been confirmed in mainland China, as the virus spreads globally.
Jan 30
*WHO Declares Global Health Emergency for Novel Coronavirus
By Ron Brackett and Jan Wesner Childs
*President Trump announced the formation of a coronavirus task force, which the White House said has met daily since the start of the week.
Coordinated through the National Security Council, the group is led by Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar and includes national security adviser Robert O'Brien, Deputy Secretary of State Stephen Biegun, Department of Homeland Security acting Deputy Secretary Ken Cuccinelli, and Domestic Policy Council Director Joseph Grogan.
*China has reported its biggest single-day jump in coronavirus deaths as countries struggled to evacuate citizens still trapped in Wuhan, the central Chinese city where the outbreak began.The death toll rose to 170 on Thursday – up from 132 the previous day, a rise of 29%. The number of confirmed cases in China now stands at 7,711, up from 5,974 a day ago.
Coronavirus: 6,000 locked down on cruise ship off Italy – live news
It is understood that 162 of the deaths – or 95% – are in Hubei province, where Wuhan is located. Of the new deaths, 37 were in Hubei province and one in the south-western province of Sichuan.
*The latest numbers: At least 170 people are dead and more than 7,700 cases have been confirmed in mainland China, as the Wuhan coronavirus spreads across Asia and the rest of the world.
Jan 29
*It sounds like a old world wide pandemic movie. Can you even believe we are there? The USA is taking this seriously sending these people to a military base. This kind of news is our new normal: US evacuees from China head to California military base as coronavirus outbreak grows.
*From here on out, we are going to see shocking increases in the spread and deaths. You can't tell if they are catching up on the back log of samples or it is a real increase. But buckl up.
CNN: The latest numbers: At least 132 people are dead and more than 6,000 cases have been confirmed in mainland China, as the Wuhan coronavirus spreads across Asia and the rest of the world.
China on lockdown: Nearly 60 million people are under partial or full lockdowns in Chinese cities.
Global spread: There are 91 confirmed cases outside of China, including at least five in the US.
Evacuations: The US, Japan, and several other countries are now flying out their citizens out of Wuhan.
Jan 28
*Come on this in WHO's internal politics: The World Health Organization (WHO) said Monday the global risk from the deadly coronavirus was “high,” admitting it made a mistake in previous reports that rated the risk of the virus as “moderate.”
The United Nations health body said in a situation report published Sunday that the risk was “very high in China, high at the regional level and high at the global level,” and explained in a footnote there had been an error in reports published Thursday, Friday and Saturday which incorrectly said the global risk was “moderate.”
WHO last week decided not to declare the virus an international public health emergency. WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said Thursday, “This is an emergency in China, but it has not yet become a global health emergency.”
The agency noted that the mistake made in three of its situation reports was the result of an “error in the wording.”
*You get it, the USA doesn't have proof virus shedding before symptoms, while the most experience nation on the planet says they see it. This is USA Trump speak: Speaking at a press conference last Sunday, China’s National Health Commission Minister Ma Xiaowei said that the disease can spread during its incubation period, which may last as long as 14 days. “From our observation, the disease can be spread during the incubation period,” Ma said, according to Reuters.
But some, including the U.S. CDC, question whether that has been sufficiently proven. “We at CDC don’t have clear evidence that patients are infectious before symptom onset, but we are actively investigating that possibility,” Nancy Messonnier, director of the CDC’s National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases said in response to Ma’s statement, according to CNN.
*There is a increasing probability the virus came from a lab or bio weapons lab! There is a bioweapons lab in the vicinity of the fish market. This best crack pot theory I heard so far is the virus was engineered by space Alians in a attempt the subdue the planet.
*In other words blackmail: A WHO panel of 16 independent experts twice last week declined to declare an international emergency. Traditionally, the WHO is reluctant to antagonize or ostracize countries dealing with epidemics for fear of undermining future willingness to report cases of infectious disease outbreaks.
*Airport screening and interviewing in general...so do we have scientific proof this kind of screening is effective. The idea of, if I tell them I am not feeling well, means they are going to send me to the hospital and I am going to have to squeal on my friends leading to huge life disruptions. Everyone lies!!! We got unprecedented loss of faith in government and our institutions, a tremendous anti government contingent in the USA...I put screening as only 30% effective. What proof does anyone have screening is effective? We need something like incentives. If in a screening or interview, if we become suspicious, the gov will pay any and all bills associated with infection discovery,including all medical bills and housing, plus a bonus. Imagine our poor people and our struggling middle class with no or little medical insurance, little excess cash for a layover...they are not going to submit to any questioning at all. I rich guy heading to a interview for the perfect job, he is going to lie his ass off. All the people who tasted a brutal totalitarianism government, this is going to remind them of bad old torturing days.
*CDC: contact investigations only occur once a infection is verified.
*Apple supply chain braces for disruption from coronavirus outbreak.
*Chinese medical virus testing kits are in a severe shortage status preventing us from understanding the extent with spread of the virus. You see the developing roads blocks surrounding all of this? It is only going to get worst. Does the CDC have all they need including the infrastructure to detect this virus in us all. Are there any CDC road blocks in any of this. We should call a pandemic national emergency because this would give us power to ramp up all the resources to attack and containing this monster. It would energize us all to be actively engaged with fighting this monster.
*Why haven't we prohibit anyone who travelled though China or all Chinese nationals from entering the USA after Dec 1 2019?
*A German man who tested positive for the strain of coronavirus sweeping across China was infected by a work colleague, officials said on Tuesday, in what is believed to be the first human transmission in Europe, AFP reports.
*My grandchild has recently come down with the symptoms of the flu. We have a Chinese company in town. He was diagnosed with influenza yesterday and given Tamiflu. I doubt his flu testing even considered coronavirus as a possible cause.
* The lastest update is this virus has circulating in the human population since Dec 1 2019 and the first person detected with the virus didn't come from the fish market.
*Imagine this happening in the USA:
BEIJING (AP) — Hong Kong said Tuesday it will cut all rail links to mainland China as the United States and other governments prepared to evacuate citizens from the Chinese city at the center of a virus outbreak that has now killed more than 100 people.
Wearing a green surgical mask, Hong Kong leader Carrie Lam told a news conference that train service would stop at midnight Thursday and that the two stations connecting to the mainland would be closed.
*I count the USA China travel ban or restricgtions has been updated three times in the last 24 hours: an 27 (Reuters) - The U.S. State Department urged Americans on Monday to reconsider going to China because of the coronavirus, after warning against travel to the Hubei province of China, where the respiratory illness is believed to have originated,
*60% increase in infection overnight: 4000 infected and 100 dead. These numbers are highly inaccurate.
*(CNN)The Centers for Disease Control is monitoring for symptoms of the Wuhan coronavirus at 20 US airports, the agency said on its website Monday.
The CDC had previously announced enhanced screening of passengers from Wuhan, China, at five airports: John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York, San Francisco International Airport, Los Angeles International Airport, Chicago's O'Hare International Airport and Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport.
*Just the beginning: Hong Kong health workers threatened to strike from tomorrow over the territory’s response to the coronavirus outbreak. One of their demands is to close the border with the mainland.
What a day?
*China official TV. My god, look how many have been discharged from the hospitals and how many are still in the hospital. Many people with symptoms are being told not to come to the hospital :
#CoronavirusOutbreak in Hubei, central China:
- 2,714 confirmed
- 100 deaths
- 2,567 hospitalized
- 47 discharged from hospitals
*Has the CDC travel ban been raised twice in one day or just a few days: CDC issues highest travel warning, urges U.S. citizens to avoid nonessential travel to China
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention raised its travel warning Monday to a level 3, its highest alert level, urging U.S. citizens to avoid all nonessential travel to China because of the coronavirus outbreak. The warning says those who travel should avoid all contact with sick people, animal markets and products that come from animals. It advises travelers to wash hands often with soap and water for at least 20 seconds. Older adults and travelers with underlying health issues may be at risk for more severe effects of the disease and should discuss travel with their health-care provider, the agency said.
The warning also advises people who have traveled to China in the last 14 days and feel sick with fever, cough, or have difficulty breathing to seek medical care right away. Before going to a doctor’s office or emergency room, those people are advised to call ahead and tell them about recent travel and symptoms.
*"Roughly 110 people across 26 states are under investigation because they may have the Wuhan coronavirus, and officials are “imminently” considering updating federal travel recommendations, the CDC said today".
*WASHINGTON, Jan 27 (Reuters) - The U.S. State Department on Monday warned against visiting China and said Americans should not travel to the Hubei province, given that the province's city of Wuhan is ground zero for a new deadly coronavirus.
*Everyone is intentionally throwing sand in the gears with getting accurate testing results-REVEALED: 110 patients across 26 states are being tested for deadly coronavirus which has struck five Americans so far - but process may be bottlenecked because only CDC has capability to test. The ostrich's head in the sand phenomena.
*Indications the virus didn't come from the fish market, the infection began circulating in Nov 2019. The most probable source is the surrounding animals and insects. Scientist are increasingly thinking only a draconian lockdown is going to stop this.
*Premier Li_Keqiang will be heading out the door shortly over the botched containment with the Wuhan coronavirus. How many other nation's leaders will end up being toppled over this pandemic?
*Shanghai stock market in a emergency manner shutdown for two weeks. I bet it is for six months. When are they going to close us.
*Here comes the circling firing squads with the elites and rich?. Can't wait to see the USA doing this: Wuhan Mayor Says Beijing Rules Partially Responsible for Lack of Transparency
*We are no better than the Chinese, utterly sickening. There are considerable forces in the USA trying to downplay the extent and significant of the pandemic based politics and profits. Think about this when the Chinese premier and WHO are meeting in Wuhan today. There is no question in my mind the premier OK'd this. We got many Wuhan, China mayors in the USA. This guy should be hung: Wuhan mayor admits 'withholding information' about the coronavirus outbreak after revealing FIVE MILLION residents had left the city before it went into lockdown'.
Mayor Zhou confessed his government had not released information 'in time.
Mayor Zhou confessed his government had not released information 'in time.
The superspreader: He also revealed the city was seeing large scale human-to-human transmission.
* Does anyone think we have only five cases in the USA today? Remember there is a one day to two weeks incubation period and these patients are going to be shedding out viruses the whole time. The greater truth here is the bad influenza season is going to drown out the early coronavirus signals. The testing capabilities, doctors and hospitals are overwhelmed within the heart of the flue season with influenza right now. In two weeks, we are all going to be panicking trying to figure out if we got influenza symptoms or coronavirus symptoms. That is when our USA medical system is going fail. In two week! Surely in two weeks we have the death rate of this disease. How is the circulating influenza and coronavirus going intermix in the genetic level and within medical system...the system level? The big picture? Can you have influenza and a coronavirus at the same time? Our media should be blaring at us 24/7 right now preparing for our near future with the coronavirus pandemic. The biggest story in 100 years is being drowned our by our constitutional crisis.
*This is just the beginning. The coronavirus panic is hitting stock market. This is just the beginning of sickening decline: Global markets hit hard as coronavirus fears grow. The most important data point now is the death rate coming from the virus. It is accurately available today but I think it is world wide conspiracy to keep this information away from the masses. The death rate is the key to how hard a containment philosophy we are going to need. We need a world wide containment policy and strict punishments to nations to enforce it. These shit-hole nations are going spiting the virus to the rest of the world for the next decade! We need a very cohesive world wide military force to enforce containment.
*The commercialized WHO and China's premier are meeting in Wuhan today. You know they are going to call this as a global emergency. WHO failed to call this a global emergency on Thurs Fed 23. The Mayor of Wuhan is offering to quit. What is the worth of a PhD if you are too cowardly to use your knowledge. Just a poppet to income and position?
*Nothing but "containment is useless" worldwide is the talk today. 80% chance we are getting a new president.Contagious before symptoms: People can spread the virus before symptoms show, China's health minister said Sunday, complicating efforts to contain the outbreak.
Update Jan 26
*Coronavirus: China death toll climbs to 80 with more than 2,700 cases
*NYT: Coronavirus Infections Expanding at a Growing Rate
*About 100,000 people could be infected with the new coronavirus around the world, experts have warned, as the UK government faced calls to reassure people that the NHS is ready to deal with any British cases within days.
*The power of exponentials. Coronavirus cases in China increase by 50% in 24 hours.
*4th case in USA.
Update Jan 25
*I think the USA is doing the delay on purpose to see what the environment is in a few days-we could get a unlimited set of big military cargo planes to evacuate all American emediately. Everyone is worried how this will look: US warns it CAN'T evacuate all Americans from coronavirus epicenter in Wuhan and rescue flight won't arrive for TWO days - as Canada confirms first case after Chicago and Washington.
*According to Lancaster University researchers, Wuhan is estimated to have around 190,000 cases by February 4, with the infection spreading to other Chinese cities and other countries in the process.
*
In Hong Kong residents are protesting about the construction of a quarantine camp for people infected with the coronavirus. The reference in the first tweet to yellow and blue, alludes to the colours adopted by supporters of the city’s protest movement against Chinese interference and those who suppport the police, respectively*60 million now under complete or partial lockdown
*3 confirmed cases in USA.
*56 cases in China
*In humans, the incubation period - during which a person has the disease, but no symptoms yet - ranges from between one and 14 days, officials believe.
Without symptoms, a person may not know they have the infection, but still be able to spread it.
*People with Sars (the last deadly coronavirus outbreak to hit China) and Ebola are contagious only when symptoms appear.
Such outbreaks are relatively easy to stop - identify and isolate people who are sick and monitor anyone they came into contact with.
Flu, however, is the most famous example of a virus that you spread before you even know you're ill.
We are not at the stage where people are saying this could be a global pandemic like swine flu.
But stopping such "symptomless spreaders" will make the job of the Chinese authorities much harder
*Health officials are also continuing to track down around 2,000 people who have recently flown into the UK from Wuhan.
*Here is a full quote from the press conference today, from Ma Xiaowei, China’s health commission minister.
The transmissibility shows signs of increasing and the ‘walking source of infection’ [where patients have few signs of disease] has made it difficult to control and prevent the disease.
For this new coronavirus we have not identified the source of the infection and we are not clear about the risk of its mutation and how it spreads. Since this is a new coronavirus there might be some changes in the coming days and weeks, and the danger it poses to people of different ages is also changing.
Update: Should we prohibit anyone who entered China within the last month or any Chinese citizen from entering the USA for the duration of the crisis. Lets face it, the USA is the last hospital of resort for these people who are infected. Once they feel they might be infected, they are going to jumping on airplanes heading to the USA. The incubations period might be as long as two weeks and there are indications they might be shedding the virus from the moment they are infected...
Update: The Spanish Flu in Keene NH Basically this was in the horse and buggy period of the USA. Today's mobility is going to make this much worst. Watch how the news on this changes from day to day...we are going to be living in a whole new world in week. The world has drastically changed in the last three days!!!!
Chinese coronavirus outbreak sparks evacuation of US citizens, diplomats from Wuhan: report
This is us in a month: China orders nationwide measures to detect virus on flights, trains, buses
Chinese medic: “The infection is much more horrible than it’s reported on TV."
"There are so many cases. Doctors have estimated about 100,000 infected.”
"Don’t ever trust the government. We are on our own now.”
Stores in central Texas are running out of medical masks after possible case of coronavirus reported.
Jan 25:The virus has also been detected in Thailand, Vietnam, Singapore, Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, Nepal, and the United States.
They estimated that the central Chinese city of Wuhan where the outbreak began in December will alone have around 190,000 cases of infection by Feb. 4., and that “infection will be established in other Chinese cities, and importations to other countries will be more frequent.”
Each person infected with coronavirus is passing the disease on to between two and three other people on average at current transmission rates, according to two separate scientific analyses of the epidemic.
Technical name: 2019-nCoV
***Everyone lies and is deceptive in a pandemic of this nature. We are in a global mindset in which facts and evidence defines what we do. This mindset in like turning half your brain off. The game in front of us now is forget about the political facts, you got to act solely on how you predict the future will turn out. History is more important than the facts and evidence today.
China discovered a new and novel virus now name the Wuhan Coronavirus three weeks ago. Wuhan is a city of 11 million people. This city now is total lockdown meaning everyone is required to stay in their homes. All businesses are shutdown. In recent days, we watch the lockdown going from 11 million, to 20 million, to 30 million and now 50 million. The scale of this is unimaginable. We got a few cases of Coronavirus in the USA today and 500 to 100 suspected cases. We are exactly where China was three weeks ago. The virus is now called a super-spreader. What we don't know now clearly because China is withholding information, is the fatality rate and how much is this a inhalation problem. There is no vaccine on the horizon. We have a high probability of Los Angles, New York City and Washington DC being in a lockdown status in a month! In a month all that is going to matter is will we survive...our media will be overwhelmed with survival matters. All the other nations on the planet will end up in a dire pandemic condtions and the poor nations will fare much worst.
1) Think about it: will Trump still be president in a month? Will the commander in chief be Pence? We are a highly unstable nation.
2) The only thing that can stop this is a airtight lockdown of a area. It is draconian military control with the lockdown! How are we preparing the public for this? Do we have enough medical supplies and protective gear? Are we going to give it all to china and the rest of the world first?
4) We are going to have a global stock market collapse. Our economy is loaded up with debt and record breaking US debt. The stock market are already going crazy and petroleum prices are collapsing as we speak. Is this a black swag event? We have just entered a unprecedented and dangerous deflationary period.
5) How will the Wuhan coronavirus respond to the enclosed spaces of winter?
6) Our kids won't be going to school for months?
Coronavirus live update: China’s leader warns of ‘accelerating spread’ of virus
TOKYO — China's leader Xi Jinping warned Saturday of an "accelerating spread" of the coronavirus, adding to worries about the scope of a health crisis that has claimed at least 42 lives triggered emergency health measures in cities across China.
Xi's remarks of a "grave" situation came as kicked off its traditional New Year celebrations amid a backdrop of caution and stark measures seeking to contain the virus.
At least 48 million people were ordered on lockdown in central China with a travel ban covering 15 cities in the central Hubei province, where the virus was first encountered.
Business Insider: Health experts issued an ominous warning about a coronavirus pandemic 3 months ago. Their simulation showed it could kill 65 million people.Jan 23, 2020, 12:04 PMEric Toner, a scientist at the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security, wasn't shocked when news of a mysterious coronavirus outbreak in Wuhan, China, surfaced in early January.Less than three months earlier, Toner had staged a simulation of a global pandemic involving a coronavirus.Coronaviruses typically affect the respiratory tract and can lead to illnesses like pneumonia or the common cold. A coronavirus was also responsible for the outbreak of severe acute respiratory syndrome in China, which affected about 8,000 people and killed 774 in the early 2000s."I have thought for a long time that the most likely virus that might cause a new pandemic would be a coronavirus," Toner said.The outbreak in Wuhan isn't considered a pandemic, but the virus has been reported in Thailand, Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, Vietnam, Singapore, and Saudi Arabia. The US reported its first case on Tuesday: a man in his 30s living in Washington's Snohomish County, north of Seattle, who recently visited China.So far, the virus has killed 18 people and infected more than 630."We don't yet know how contagious it is. We know that it is being spread person to person, but we don't know to what extent," Toner said. "An initial first impression is that this is significantly milder than SARS. So that's reassuring. On the other hand, it may be more transmissible than SARS, at least in the community setting."Toner's simulation of a hypothetical deadly coronavirus pandemic suggested that after six months, nearly every country in the world would have cases of the virus. Within 18 months, 65 million people could die.Toner's simulation imagined a fictional virus called CAPS. The analysis, part of a collaboration with the World Economic Forum and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, looked at what would happen if a pandemic originated in Brazil's pig farms. (The Wuhan virus originated in a seafood market that sold live animals.)The virus in Toner's simulation would be resistant to any modern vaccine. It would be deadlier than SARS, but about as easy to catch as the flu.A coronavirus. BSIP/UIG Via Getty ImagesThe pretend outbreak started small: Farmers began coming down with symptoms that resembled the flu or pneumonia. From there, the virus spread to crowded and impoverished urban neighborhoods in South America.Flights were canceled, and travel bookings dipped by 45%. People disseminated false information on social media.After six months, the virus had spread around the globe. A year later, it had killed 65 million people.Public-health officials run thermal scans on passengers arriving from Wuhan at the Suvarnabhumi Airport in Thailand on January 8. Lauren DeCicca/Getty ImagesThe Spanish flu pandemic of 1918, by contrast, claimed as many as 50 million lives.Toner's simulated pandemic also triggered a global financial crisis: Stock markets fell by 20% to 40%, and global gross domestic product plunged by 11%."The point that we tried to make in our exercise back in October is that it isn't just about the health consequences," Toner said. "It's about the consequences on economies and societies."He added that the Wuhan coronavirus could also have significant economic effects if the total number of cases hits the thousands.On Tuesday, Hong Kong's stock market fell by as much as 2.8%. The drop was led by the tourism and transportation sectors, including airlines, tour agencies, hotels, restaurants, and theme parks.An age of epidemicsPeople wearing masks in Guangzhou, China. Stringer/Anadolu Agency via Getty ImagesIn the CAPS simulation, scientists were unable to develop a vaccine in time to stop a pandemic. That's a realistic assumption: Even real coronaviruses like SARS or MERS (a virus that has killed more than 840 people since 2012) still don't have vaccines."If we could make it so that we could have a vaccine within months rather than years or decades, that would be a game changer," Toner said. "But it's not just the identification of potential vaccines. We need to think even more about how they are manufactured on a global scale and distributed and administered to people."If scientists don't find a way to develop vaccines quicker, he said, dangerous outbreaks will continue to spread. That's because cities are becoming more crowded and humans are encroaching on spaces usually reserved for wildlife, creating a breeding ground for infectious diseases."It's part of the world we live in now," Toner said. "We're in an age of epidemics."
