Wuhan Coronavirus: Megathread - Got too big

[codeswhitchsperer]

The Federal Judge is actually wrong in every way possible.

>California judge

 

[Mike Hunt]

Very , sure, but I figured this thread could do with a little bit of good news, no matter how optimistic.

https://edition.cnn.com/2020/02/24/investing/gilead-sciences-coronavirus-who-remdesivir/index.html

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"Shares of American biotech firm Gilead Sciences rose nearly 5% Monday after an official from the World Health Organization said that Gilead's drug remdesivir is showing signs that it may be able to help treat the deadly coronavirus.

Gilead Sciences (GILD) was the second-best performing stock in the S&P 500 and was just one of two stocks in the Nasdaq-100 that was trading higher on Monday, when the Dow plunged more than 1,000 points due to fears about the disease spreading to Italy, South Korea and Iran.

"There is only one drug right now that we think may have real efficacy and that's remdesivir," Bruce Aylward, an assistant director-general of the World Health Organization (WHO), said at a press conference in Beijing.

WHO officials added that clinical trials for remdesivir in humans are now taking place and results could be available within weeks.

Gilead Sciences confirmed in an e-mail to CNN Business that that it is working with health authorities in China on two trials for patients who have been infected with Covid-19, the official name of this particular strain of coronavirus.

"The two studies -- one in patients with severe disease and another in patients with moderate disease -- are currently enrolling participants and we anticipate results in April," the Gilead Sciences spokesman said.

Gilead Sciences also said earlier this month that it has been working with Chinese health authorities to see if remdesivir, an experimental drug that has been used to treat the Ebola virus, can combat coronavirus symptoms.



Coronavirus is fast becoming an 'economic pandemic'
The company also said in a statement a few weeks ago that remdesivir has demonstrated some success in treating MERS and SARS, two viruses similar to the Wuhan coronavirus, in animals.

Gilead Sciences is not the only drug firm hoping to find a successful treatment for the coronavirus. Pharmaceutical giants Johnson & Johnson (JNJ) and GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) are also working on vaccines.

Biotech company AbbVie (ABBV) has said that it has seen promising results for treatment using a mixture of two of its HIV medications and Tamiflu, which is made by Swiss pharma giant Roche (RHHBF) and Japan's Chugai Pharmaceutical Co (CHGCY).

Smaller drug companies Moderna (MRNA), Inovio Pharmaceuticals (INO) and Novavax (NVAX) are also working on treatments."

 

[Mike Stoklasa]

I would ask Null to give everyone their suits back.

But it's already too late.

 

[codeswhitchsperer]

I would ask Null to give everyone their suits back.

But it's already too late.

 

[Zero Day Defense]

This might have come up any of the 427 pages of this thread, but a running theory was that this was actually the result of losing control of an experimental bioweapon .

...but how likely is it, from that frame of mind, that this was actually the Chinese government trying to cull their own population?

 

[Burd Turglar]

@codeswitchperer
Lurk more faggot.

Edit: I'm too high for this shit right now

 

[bippu_as_fuck_ls400]

Minnesota experts: It’s time families plan for COVID-19 outbreak
https://www.mprnews.org/story/2020/...y-its-time-families-plan-for-covid19-outbreak (http://archive.vn/lAikt)

So far, there are a few dozen confirmed cases of COVID-19, the disease caused by the new coronavirus, in the United States.

But Minnesota Department of Health infectious disease director Kris Ehresmann said it's very likely there will be outbreaks of the virus here. And Michael Osterholm, an expert in infectious disease at the University of Minnesota, said people should assume the virus will hit hard.

Ehresmann said Monday that the state is well prepared to identify cases quickly and isolate them. But if cases are widespread, it's likely that schools, churches and other public meeting spaces would be closed.

"When we talk about shutting things down, we look at how can we use that strategy effectively to slow down the spread of the disease so that we can manage it better," she said.

Ehresmann said slowing the spread of a fast-moving virus can be critical to helping manage it. The World Health Organization has praised China for shutting down communities in an effort to slow the virus.

She explained why the speed with which the virus spreads is important: “Because if you have a really steep acceleration of new cases of disease, that has the potential to overwhelm your health care system."

Ehresmann said health officials are concerned about adequate supplies for hospitals in the event of a pandemic. Many hospitals are already handling a lot of patients from a busy influenza season, she said.

Osterholm, director of the university’s Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy, said people should plan for the worst.

"We're sure not trying to project doom and gloom,” he said. “But we have to be honest so that when people begin to see this unfold that they say, ‘Well, you know, we knew this could happen, and this is what we're going to do about it.’"

Osterholm said there need to be plans for keeping basic infrastructure like electricity flowing and food supplies on store shelves if large numbers of people are sick. And families also need to have a plan.

"Families need to have plans for how they will stay in contact with each other,” he said. “Who's going to take care of Grandma if she gets sick? For single parent families, who's going to be there when the kids get sick or the or the mom or dad gets sick? That's the kind of thing right now that is really important that we need to begin to address, and you know we haven't."

Ehresmann said there are some simple but important things everyone can do to reduce the spread of a virus: Stay home when you're sick. Limit physical contact like handshakes.

And she said everyone should think about what they would need to care for sick family members at home.

“Just to make sure that you know you have some basic resources, in terms of foodstuffs and things like that,” she said. “So that if you would have family members get sick and you were unable to go out for a few days, do you have enough basic supplies to kind of keep going?"

Ehresmann and Osterholm both said no one should panic, but everyone should prepare.

 

[codeswhitchsperer]

This might have come up any of the 427 pages of this thread, but a running theory was that this was actually the result of losing control of an experimental bioweapon .

...but how likely is it, from that frame of mind, that this was actually the Chinese government trying to cull their own population?

If you watch the featured videos on liveleak you will understand why some call them "insect people". Also, they have no safety standards, technical prowess, their materials are shoddy, and they are extremely shallow/selfish.

You just need to see all of the industrial stupidity resulting in funny snuff videos for us to realize that it is %99.9 chink incompetence.

 

[Shoggoth]

Rare earth mineral shortage on the horizon

This will fuck with the entire field of electronics and some precision manufacturing, right?

 

[codeswhitchsperer]

This will fuck with the entire field of electronics and some precision manufacturing, right?

>precision manufacturing

yeah so present-day USA won't be affected at all at least, you don't even have imprecise manufacturing anymore lolz.

 

[Ow The Edge]

I would ask Null to give everyone their suits back.

But it's already too late.

 

[MediocreMilt]

This might have come up any of the 427 pages of this thread, but a running theory was that this was actually the result of losing control of an experimental bioweapon .

Mods, is there any way to rate a post "late", but multiple times on the same post?

 

[Tasty Tatty]

We don't really know anything about the origin of this virus because everyone involved is autistic and stupid.

Incompetence seems the actual answer, but could also be other reason.

 

[codeswhitchsperer]

They also make the banned aluminum cladding that turns skyscrapers into sparklers.

Always looking for a reason to drop this one.

 

[Zero Day Defense]

Mods, is there any way to rate a post "late", but multiple times on the same post?

What I wanted to preemptively recognize as potentially late was the idea that they may have been trying to cull their own population rather than create a bioweapon for standard warfare purposes.

 

[Considered HARMful]

You'll find Norinco firearms are cheap and very reliable for a Chinese product; their military industry doesn't skimp out on quality

Except for the pistols. Don't get pistols from Norinco, get "longer" guns.

 

[Dolphin Lundgren]

>California judge

>Appointed by Obama.

Josephine Staton - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

 

[codeswhitchsperer]

>Appointed by Obama.

Josephine Staton - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

*rubs hands together*

 

[Coleslaw]

Kiwis - is it too early to start planning a Farms safe zone? Or maybe pick several locations to gather when things get hot, reduce reliance on public services.

With proper planning, we could have our own quarantine camp, stock it with rations / ammo / medicine, establish protocols for detection and containment of the infected. We could set up HAM radios for communications between the safe zones, maybe even solar panels to ensure continuous electric service. This could come together fast.

Local officials where I live are a bunch of Communists who are already blaming white males for valuing profit over disease. Pretty sure it will be time to skip town if there's a single confirmed case. Would rather be shitposting from a secluded mountain retreat with an autistic militia than take my chances with society.

Everybody thinks where they live now is the perfect place already.

 

[spiritofamermaid]

I would ask Null to give everyone their suits back.

But it's already too late.

Not for us!!! We kept our suits on.