Wuhan Coronavirus: Megathread - Got too big

[Saint Skittles]

The CDC, 3 days after issuing a Level 1 Travel Watch for Japan, just bumped that up to a Level 2 Travel Alert.

• Japan is experiencing sustained community transmission of respiratory illness (COVID-19) caused by the novel coronavirus.
• The virus can spread from person to person.
• Older adults and those with chronic medical conditions should consider postponing nonessential travel.

 

[Kari Kamiya]

Meanwhile, Madagascar still hasn't closed everything down? If Italy can't find patient zero and are starting to go into lockdown mode, who's to say Madagascar is safe even with turning away planes coming in from China?

 

[Agent Abe Caprine]

That critically endangered salamander is fucked. Much like the pangolins, they might get hunted to extinction for the sake of revenge. Poor things will be blamed even though they don't just jump into people's mouths willingly.

As long as Corona-Chan only targets the otaku and none of the mangaka it would be a net win.

A lot of mangaka are otaku themselves. Be careful what you wish for.

Corona Chan is going to dance in Alabama? Better get the state song ready.

Spoiler: Sweet Home Alabama

 

[LetThemEatCake]

China shoves antibiotics at everyone and they managed to create azithromycin-resistant syphilis so draw your own conclusions there.

Antibiotic resistance is a problem because of idiots demanding antibiotics for viruses and doctors appeasing the loudest howling fools for far too long, too many idiots who are correctly prescribed antibiotics but refuse to take the full course because they're idiots, and because of way too many places around the world where you can buy antibiotics and more or less most other medicines OTC, and treat yourself, without the medical diagnostic or pharmaceutical training needed to do such a thing. It's the stupidest thing imaginable to do, yet there are whole societies where this is a the norm.

I know someone who managed to pick up TB in a western country you wouldn't associate with the disease a year or two back. He managed to get the antiobiotic resistant strain too, as a bonus. No clue who the vector was to this day. His country has had a continual parade of people being brought in from the recent alleged 'refugee' flows into Europe from the Middle East and various shitholes in Africa where medicine is a joke and disease is just rife. There have been all sorts of previously unseen diseases brought into Europe since 2015's migrant crisis. I'm actually way more concerned with antibiotic resistance than I am about the Wu Flu because it is an ongoing and burgeoning problem with the increase in diseased individuals allowed to cross oceans and borders they never normally would have been able to. There is a huge danger to entire populations if certain antibiotics stop working, right across the board. We could end up back in pre-war times medically where there is no treatment for many infections and they end up knocking off even healthy inviduals. It's very worrying.

 

[eternal dog mongler]

The CDC, 3 days after issuing a Level 1 Travel Watch for Japan, just bumped that up to a Level 2 Travel Alert.

Yeah it's fucking on now. CDC has been blasting me all day.

I don't want to create panic but this ain't lookin' good fam.

 

[MechanicusAdmin]

Coronavirus quarantine: Another confirmed case at Darwin base as others prepare for release
Summer Woolley and AAP
AAP/7NEWS
Sunday, 23 February 2020 4:22 am


Australian evacuees from China will be released from a Darwin camp after a 14-day quarantine ends. Credit: AAP

The number of coronavirus cases among passengers evacuated from a cruise ship in Japan has risen, with a 57-year old Queensland woman testing positive on Saturday evening.
Seven cases have now been confirmed among the group of 164, who are also being kept at the facility near Darwin after leaving the virus-hit Diamond Princess cruise ship in Yokohama on Thursday.
The woman spent the night in isolation and will be taken home to Queensland for treatment on Sunday.
There have now been 22 confirmed cases of the deadly illness across Australia.
The news comes as the first group of Australians evacuated from China’s Wuhan province to a Darwin camp is expected to be released following 14 days in quarantine.
About 266 people will leave the Howard Springs quarantine camp on Sunday, after they were evacuated earlier this month from the epicentre of the coronavirus at Wuhan, the capital of China’s Hubei province.
Confirmed cases
“This reaffirms the decision we made not just to conduct an airlift (from the cruise ship) but to ensure that these people were in supervised quarantine in a separate area within the Howard Springs facility,” federal Health Minister Greg Hunt told reporters on Saturday.
Two people from Victoria tested positive to the virus on Saturday and will be repatriated to their home state’s health system.
The Queensland woman will be transported to her home state on a specialised medical retrieval plane.

Australian evacuees from a virus infected cruise ship in Japan arriving in Darwin for isolation. Credit: AAP
Two other Queensland women aged 54 and 55 who tested positive on Friday night have been flown to a Brisbane hospital for further treatment.
A 78-year-old man from Western Australia was transferred to Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital in Perth on Friday, while a 24-year-old woman from South Australia has been transferred to Royal Adelaide Hospital.
The latest cases posed no risk to the Darwin community and strict public health measures remain in place.
Virus in numbers
It brings the total number of confirmed coronavirus cases in the country to 22, including 10 people who have recovered from the illness.
Health authorities have declared the coronavirus contained within the general Australian community.

As a result, some Year 11 and 12 students outside the Hubei province enrolled in Australian schools will be able to apply to get back into the country as long as they are not unwell.
The process to return to Australia comprises of 13 steps, with states and territories to have the final say on whether to let students return.
A similar relaxation of travel restrictions will be considered for university students this week, but no decision has been made yet.

Article in full

University starts back this week in Aus, going to be a very interesting time for the returning Asian students who are allowed to return.

 

[Consenticles]

Debating on tossing some money at 3M stocks. At a yearly low right now and I cant see it going anywhere but up in the coming months.

They make a shitton of stuff, but most notably have plenty of international orders for masks and medical equipment atm, yet cant churn it out fast enough. Only thing I would worry about is government interference or competition, if the situation gets bad enough.

What say you all?

 

[Mike Stoklasa]

Debating on tossing some money at 3M stocks.
[...]
What say you all?

Do not seek financial or investment advice from the Kiwi Farms webzone.

 

[BipolarPon]

Korea Update:
Distributions of the infected in Korea (suspected cases)
View attachment 1157192
Seoul: 383
Busan: 90


Having virus 346
Cured 17
Checking 5481

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Caption: “I cannot go outside because of the corona virus”

Shopping Market in Daegu, lots of non perishables are being bought

I have heard from friends the Korean government is attempting to censor information related to the virus.

Daegu is the area with the cult.

Any confirmed deaths in Korea yet?

 

[Lithos]

Any confirmed deaths in Korea yet?

Just one Two, so far. (as per the following post)

I'm keeping tabs on that place because I was watching the news for people who were going to relocate there.

State Department bumped them up to Level 2, just like Japan. Exercise increased caution. I'm telling them they better get everything written from their employer as to how they plan on helping workers in this time. What supplies and steps they are doing to aid their employees and keep them from getting sick. Or finding medical help. So on.

 

[RodgerDodger]

Well this really makes me feel confident about the people making the decisions...

Trump is 'furious' about bungling Diamond Princess coronavirus evac

Trump had been told last Saturday that only evacuees who didn't have symptoms or positive test results would be allowed on State Department charter planes back to the US from Japan.

www.dailymail.co.uk

Apparently the 14 known infected patients that were flown back to the US against CDC wishes. It was against the Presidents wishes as well. State Dept taking matters into their own hands. Oopsie!

Trump was 'furious' that 14 Americans infected with coronavirus boarded a plane back to the US from Japan without his permission, which officials admit was a 'big mistake'

• President Trump is furious that infected evacuees were flown back to US from Japan last Saturday
• Decision was made on the fly after infections were confirmed at last minute at the Tokyo airport
• US evacuated 328 passengers from coronavirus cruise ship Diamond Princess in Japan last week
• But any confirmed infected or symptomatic cases were supposed to remain in Japan for treatment
• State Department overruled CDC objections and decided to bring the 14 back anyway
• Trump reportedly blasted aides for not telling him, saying he disagreed with the decision

By KEITH GRIFFITH FOR DAILYMAIL.COM and ASSOCIATED PRESS

PUBLISHED: 12:51 EST, 22 February 2020 | UPDATED: 16:50 EST, 22 February 2020

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President Donald Trump is reportedly furious after underlings at the State Department decided to fly 14 Diamond Princess passengers who tested positive for coronavirus back to the U.S. without telling him, and against his wishes.
Trump had been told last Saturday that only evacuees who didn't have symptoms or positive test results would be allowed on State Department charter planes back to the US from Japan, according to the Washington Post.
Officials on the ground realized late in the evacuation process, on the airport tarmac in Tokyo, that 14 of the roughly 350 evacuees had tested positive for the virus.
State Department underlings made the quick decision to allow the infected citizens onto the flights, but separated from the other passengers within portable bio-containment units that were already on the planes, in case passengers showed symptoms during the flight.

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State Department underlings made the quick decision to allow them onto the flights, but separated from the other passengers withing bio-containment units (seen in background)

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President Donald Trump is reportedly furious after underlings at the State Department decided to fly 14 Diamond Princess passengers with coronavirus back to the US
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Trump learned of the decision only after the fact and was angry that he wasn't consulted first, complaining that the decision could damage his administration's handling of the response, administration officials told the Post.
Some members of the coronavirus task force back in Washington were not told in advance that the infected people would be placed on the plane, and learned about it only after the plane was on its way back to the U.S.
One senior White House official said not informing Trump of the decision ahead of time was a 'big operational mistake.'
Trump has since expressed in outrage on phone calls with top White House officials, saying he should have been told, that it should have been his decision — and that he did not agree with the decision that was made.
All of the Diamond Princess passengers who returned to the U.S. are currently under a 14-day mandatory quarantine on military bases in California and Texas.
On Friday, the CDC said there were now 28 U.S. residents brought home from the Diamond Princess cruise ship who have tested positive for the virus.
US planes carrying cruise ship coronavirus escapees departs Tokyo





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Officials on the ground realized late in the evacuation process, on the airport tarmac in Tokyo (above), that 14 of the roughly 350 evacuees had tested positive for the virus

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The bio-containment units that were already on the planes, in case passengers showed symptoms during the flight from Tokyo to the US
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Those who tested positive for coronavirus are receiving medical care in top-level medical isolation units.
The State Department underlings countermanded the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in ruling that the infected citizens could return to the U.S. on the evacuation flights.
Sources involved in the decision told the Washington Post that CDC staunchly warned the State Department against transporting infected and uninfected people side-by-side, but were ultimately overruled.
'It was like the worst nightmare,' said a senior US official involved in the decision, who spoke to the Post on the condition of anonymity.
'Quite frankly, the alternative could have been pulling grandma out in the pouring rain, and that would have been bad, too.'
Asked about the conflict between the two agencies during a Friday press briefing, CDC spokesperson Nancy Messonnier punted curtly to the State Department.
Americans evacuated from Diamond Princess cruise land in Texas





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A plane carrying American passengers, who were recently released from the Diamond Princess cruise ship in Japan, arrives at Travis Air Force Base in California on February 16

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American evacuees from the Diamond Princess cruise ship arrive at Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland on February 17 in Texas
'It's important to remember this was an emerging and unusual circumstance,' said Ian Brownlee, Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary, Bureau of Consular Affairs.
'We had 328 people on buses, a plan to execute and we received lab results on people who were otherwise asymptomatic, un-ill people on a bus on the way to the airport.
'The people on the ground did exactly the right thing...in bringing them home.'
People who had tested positive were put into isolation units on board the two cargo planes, which then flew to Joint Base San Antonio - Lackland in Texas and Travis Air Base in California.
Although officials reassured the press that the sick passengers were thoroughly contained and every precaution had been taken to ensure the safety of the healthy people onboard, reports later emerged that people on the flights had no idea they were sharing yet another even more confined space with infected individuals.
When the planes landed at their respective destinations late Sunday night, six 'high risk' passengers from Lackland and seven from Travis were ushered onto an additional flight to Omaha Eppley Airfield in Nebraska.
Eleven of the 13 American passengers evacuated from the Diamond Princess cruise ship in Japan who were deemed 'high risk' for coronavirus have been confirmed to have the infection that's spread to nearly 77,000 people around the world.
Twelve of those 13 passengers were being held at the National Quarantine Center in Omaha, Nebraska, while one was transferred immediately to the Nebraska Biocontainment Unit because they had developed symptoms of the virus and had an underlying condition.
All 11 new cases were confirmed Thursday by the University of Nebraska Medical Center (UNMC) and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), while the other two passengers at UNMC tested negative.
Before the passengers were brought back, there were only 15 confirmed cases in the U.S., a number that has more than doubled thanks to the Diamond Princess evacuees.


WHO says 'untraceable' clusters in Iran, Singapore and South Korea signal that virus is spreading uncontrollably
Alarm bells are sounding as three countries reported clusters of infected patients with no traceable source vector from China, the first sign that the virus is spreading uncontrollably and could reach pandemic levels.
Doctors are unable to identify the source of coronavirus clusters in South Korea, Singapore and Iran, the World Health Organization said Saturday.
WHO officials said China's crackdown on parts of the country bought time for the rest of the world to prepare for the new virus. But as hot spots emerge around the globe, trouble finding each source - the first patient who sparks every new cluster - might signal the disease has begun spreading too widely for tried-and-true public health steps to stamp it out.
World Health Organization officials said China's crackdown on parts of the country bought time for the rest of the world to prepare for the new virus. But as hot spots emerge around the globe, trouble finding each source - the first patient who sparks every new cluster - might signal the disease has begun spreading too widely for tried-and-true public health steps to stamp it out.
'A number of spot fires, occurring around the world is a sign that things are ticking along, and what we are going to have here is probably a pandemic,' said Ian Mackay, who studies viruses at Australia's University of Queensland.

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In South Korea, medical workers wearing protective gear transfer a suspected coronavirus patient to another hospital from Daenam Hospital where a total of 16 infections have now been identified with the COVID-19 coronavirus, in Cheongdo county

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In Singapore, visitors wearing masks as a precaution against a new coronavirus arrive for the Singapore Airshow. The virus becomes more widespread, trying to trace every contact would be futile, Singapore's Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong said

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In Iran, a young woman wearing a protective mask crosses a busy street in the capital Tehran on Saturday. Iran today reported one more death among 10 new cases of coronavirus, bringing the total number of deaths in the Islamic republic to five
That worst-case isn't here yet, the WHO insists. It isn't convinced that countries outside China need more draconian measures, but it pointed to spikes in cases in Iran and South Korea to warn that time may be running out to contain the virus.
'What we see is a very different phase of this outbreak depending where you look,' said WHO's Dr. Sylvie Briand. 'We see different patterns of transmission in different places.'
The World Health Organization defines a 'global pandemic' as a disease spreading on two continents, though some public health experts would call an outbreak a pandemic if the spread is over a wide area or across many international borders.
The newest red flag: Iran has reported 28 cases, including five deaths, in just days. The cluster began in the city of Qom, a popular religious destination, but it's not clear how. Worse, infected travelers from Iran already have been discovered in Lebanon and Canada.
In South Korea, most of the hundreds of new cases detected since Wednesday are linked to a church in the city of Daegu and a nearby hospital. But health authorities have not yet found the 'index case,' the person among the church´s 9,000 followers who set off the chain of infections.
There also have been several cases in the capital, Seoul, where the infection routes have not yet been traced. In Europe, Italy saw cases of the new virus more than quadruple in a day as it grapples with infections in a northern region that apparently have spread through a hospital and a cafe.

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A map shows the spread of coronavirus worldwide, with untraceable clusters now in Iran, Singapore and South Korea

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People rest in a temporary hospital situated in the Tazihu Gymnasium in Wuhan, Hubei province, China on Friday. The epidemic-stricken city plans to build 19 more makeshift hospitals to ensure enough beds for COVID-19 patients

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Nurses distribute meals to patients at a temporary hospital situated in the Tazihu Gymnasium in Wuhan on Friday

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A doctor instructs recovered COVID-19 patients to be discharged from a temporary hospital in Wuhan on Friday
A cluster of cases isn't inherently worrying - in fact, it's expected as an infection that's easy to spread is carried around the world by travelers. The first line of defense: Isolate the sick to treat them and prevent further spread, and quarantine people who came in contact with them until the incubation period is over.
But as the virus becomes more widespread, trying to trace every contact would be futile, Singapore´s Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong acknowledged earlier this month.
'If we still hospitalize and isolate every suspect case, our hospitals will be overwhelmed,' he said. So far, the city-state has identified five clusters of transmission, including two churches. But there remain eight locally transmitted cases with no links to earlier cases, or to China.
Viruses vary in how they infect. The new coronavirus - unlike its cousins SARS, or severe acute respiratory syndrome, and MERS, or Middle East respiratory syndrome - spreads as easily as a common cold.
And it's almost certainly being spread by people who show such mild symptoms that no one can tell, said Dr. Amesh Adalja of the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security.
'If that's the case, all of these containment methods are not going to work,' Adalja said. 'It's likely mixed in the cold and flu season all over the place, in multiple countries' and gone unnoticed until someone gets severely ill.
These milder symptoms are good news 'in terms of not as many people dying,' said Mackay, of Australia. 'But it´s really bad news if you are trying to stop a pandemic,' he added.

Is it too early to start hanging fools?

 

[BipolarPon]

Well this really makes me feel confident about the people making the decisions...

Trump is 'furious' about bungling Diamond Princess coronavirus evac

Trump had been told last Saturday that only evacuees who didn't have symptoms or positive test results would be allowed on State Department charter planes back to the US from Japan.

www.dailymail.co.uk

Apparently the 14 known infected patients that were flown back to the US against CDC wishes. It was against the Presidents wishes as well. State Dept taking matters into their own hands. Oopsie!


Is it too early to start hanging fools?

There goes his boomer voting base. Will the corona virus in someway effect the election? Imagine if Joe Biden or Bernie sanders get axed by this disease.

 

[Bob's Fries]

Well this really makes me feel confident about the people making the decisions...

Trump is 'furious' about bungling Diamond Princess coronavirus evac

Trump had been told last Saturday that only evacuees who didn't have symptoms or positive test results would be allowed on State Department charter planes back to the US from Japan.

www.dailymail.co.uk

Apparently the 14 known infected patients that were flown back to the US against CDC wishes. It was against the Presidents wishes as well. State Dept taking matters into their own hands. Oopsie!


Is it too early to start hanging fools?

He had better start eviscerating the morons right now. Are you fucking kidding me.

 

[Slap47]

Debating on tossing some money at 3M stocks. At a yearly low right now and I cant see it going anywhere but up in the coming months.

They make a shitton of stuff, but most notably have plenty of international orders for masks and medical equipment atm, yet cant churn it out fast enough. Only thing I would worry about is government interference or competition, if the situation gets bad enough.

What say you all?

You should invest in ammunition and food if anything.

 

[Shoggoth]

Well this really makes me feel confident about the people making the decisions...

Trump is 'furious' about bungling Diamond Princess coronavirus evac

Trump had been told last Saturday that only evacuees who didn't have symptoms or positive test results would be allowed on State Department charter planes back to the US from Japan.

www.dailymail.co.uk

Apparently the 14 known infected patients that were flown back to the US against CDC wishes. It was against the Presidents wishes as well. State Dept taking matters into their own hands. Oopsie!


Is it too early to start hanging fools?

Trump is a known germaphobe, no? I imagine several state dep. personnel got, or will so be, fired.

 

[Feline Supremacist]

Well this really makes me feel confident about the people making the decisions...

Trump is 'furious' about bungling Diamond Princess coronavirus evac

Trump had been told last Saturday that only evacuees who didn't have symptoms or positive test results would be allowed on State Department charter planes back to the US from Japan.

www.dailymail.co.uk

Apparently the 14 known infected patients that were flown back to the US against CDC wishes. It was against the Presidents wishes as well. State Dept taking matters into their own hands. Oopsie!


Is it too early to start hanging fools?

What the fuck is going on in the State Dept? He needs to purge every Obama and Clinton operative in that dumpster right now, especially the idiot claiming Russia is shitposting about Corona-chan. Their obsession with Russia is dangerous.

 

[HumanHive]

What the fuck is going on in the State Dept? He needs to purge every Obama and Clinton operative in that dumpster right now, especially the idiot claiming Russia is shitposting about Corona-chan. Their obsession with Russia is dangerous.

Welcome to the Fourth Branch of Government. You didn't vote for them and nobody can fire them.

 

[Rudy Russo]

Well this really makes me feel confident about the people making the decisions...

Trump is 'furious' about bungling Diamond Princess coronavirus evac

Trump had been told last Saturday that only evacuees who didn't have symptoms or positive test results would be allowed on State Department charter planes back to the US from Japan.

www.dailymail.co.uk

Apparently the 14 known infected patients that were flown back to the US against CDC wishes. It was against the Presidents wishes as well. State Dept taking matters into their own hands. Oopsie!


Is it too early to start hanging fools?

UPDATE: CDC on coronavirus health emergency

The CDC stresses that the coronavirus is not spreading rapidly in the U.S. but it could happen.

www.wowt.com

This is an update for the Omaha 11 virus people at the ebola center. Whats funny is this in the story:

"The state department says Americans who get sick in Asia can no longer expect to be repatriated to the U.S."

Maybe they got the message from Trump.

 

[MarvinTheParanoidAndroid]

Went to the commissary today. Wife wanted frozen salmon. Looked around, found frozen salmon. Caught in China. No. Found some USA-produced salmon fillets. Paid more than for the Chinese-caught fish, but don't care. Look around at your frozen fish. More from China than might be thought. That will be another group of products that will be in short supply before long.

If the fish is frozen then your chances for Wu Flu are zero, but I still don't blame you for avoiding it.

Also got the new laptop today, and have put it away.

What kind of laptop did you get? Is it that Asus G703G that runs at 5Ghz?

 

[Jarolleon]

NFG. Those who don't listen just have to feel. Anyone with two brain cells could tell that having so many supplier eggs in one basket, at such a great distance from home, combined with the just-in-time inventory model was just asking for trouble. just too many vulnerable nodes in the system.

So these companies will spend the money they thought saved on getting substitutes, if possible, and relocating operations outside of China. Hey, when you are blinded by short-term profits you tend not to see a lot of things.

Went to the commissary today. Wife wanted frozen salmon. Looked around, found frozen salmon. Caught in China. No. Found some USA-produced salmon fillets. Paid more than for the Chinese-caught fish, but don't care. Look around at your frozen fish. More from China than might be thought. That will be another group of products that will be in short supply before long.

Also got the new laptop today, and have put it away.

"But my consultants told me that we don't get epidemics or big wars anymore. It's the end of history and everything will be peaceful and harmonious in perpetuity!"-Some executive, probably.