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Wuhan Coronavirus: Megathread - Got too big
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A dog in Hong Kong has tested ‘weak positive’ for coronavirus
A dog in Hong Kong has tested 'weak positive' for coronavirus
If confirmed, the dog would be the first case of a pet catching the coronavirus amid a global outbreak.fortune.com
Can dogs get coronavirus? One pet in Hong Kong has tested positive | …
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Detection of low level of COVID-19 virus in pet dog
A spokesman for the Agriculture, Fisheries and Conservation Department (AFCD) said today (February 28) that a pet dog had been tested weak positive to COVID-19 virus. The...www.info.gov.hk
The pet dog of a coronavirus patient in Hong Kong has been found to have a “low level” of the virus, the Hong Kong government said early Friday.
The dog tested “weak positive” for the coronavirus, the city’s agricultural and fisheries department said in a statement, without giving further details. Officials will carry out further tests to confirm whether the dog has really been infected with the disease, or if it was a result of environmental contamination of its mouth and nose.
Much is still not known about the virus that is spreading around the world after emerging in central China late last year. It is thought to have transferred to humans from bats and has been shown to spread in a number of ways, but the Hong Kong agricultural department said it doesn’t have evidence that pet animals can be infected, or be a source of infection to people.
If confirmed, the dog would be the first case of a pet catching the coronavirus amid a global outbreak that’s now infected more than 82,000 people and claimed more than 2,800 lives.
The dog is being quarantined at an animal facility, the Hong Kong government said. The department strongly advised that pets of confirmed virus patients also be put under quarantine.
I’m extremely skeptical of this. Most likely explanation if true is the Dog was not infected or carrying the virus, but rather had it around it’s nose and mouth from environmental contact. Such as from licking it’s sick owners face. The dog maybe a vector to transfer the virus within a household, much like the toilet the food and linens can be. But it’s doubtful a Dog and almost certainly not likely for a Cat to function as active hosts. There are some major metabolic differences from humans.
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From Rush Limbaugh's interview with Vice President Pence earlier today:
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RUSH: What should the American people know today about the status of the coronavirus in America and how it is being dealt with, and — as best you can tell — what the future is?
THE VICE PRESIDENT: You bet. You bet. Well, look, President Trump has no higher priority than the health and safety of the American people. That’s why in the month of January, when we first learned of the coronavirus outbreak, the president took two steps that were unprecedented. No president in American history had ever done it. He suspended all travel to the United States from China by noncitizens of the United States.
Then he instituted a quarantine policy for American citizens that were coming home, that we would make sure that they were taken care of, but also receive treatment and the proper screening to determine that they were not in any jeopardy for their health, for the health of their family or their communities. We also instituted screening at about five different major airports around the country.
RUSH: This is in January.
THE VICE PRESIDENT: In January — and again, the first two steps had never been done by any president. I remember I was in the Oval Office at the time that the White House task force on the coronavirus came in, and they said, “Mr. President, we have a very low risk in this country of an outbreak.” That’s what they told him at the time. The risk remains low to this day. But they said, “We’re recommending you take this step even though it’s never been done before.” The president said without hesitating, “Do it,” and all of our health experts… I attended my first White House corona task force meeting yesterday.
We convened at HHS. I’ve been on the phone the whole way here to Florida with all of our team talking, and talking with governors around the country and members of Congress. Every single one of our health experts have said that if the president had not taken that action in January, we would be in a very different place than we are today. As of today, we have 15 people in the United States who contracted the coronavirus here. All of them have received treatment. All of them are doing well. There’s another 46 Americans that we brought back from China, from overseas. Again, all of them have received treatment, all of them are doing well.
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THE VICE PRESIDENT: I want your listeners to know, as we sit here today, the threat of the coronavirus spreading in the United States of America remains low.
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RUSH: What should the American people know today about the status of the coronavirus in America and how it is being dealt with, and — as best you can tell — what the future is?
THE VICE PRESIDENT: You bet. You bet. Well, look, President Trump has no higher priority than the health and safety of the American people. That’s why in the month of January, when we first learned of the coronavirus outbreak, the president took two steps that were unprecedented. No president in American history had ever done it. He suspended all travel to the United States from China by noncitizens of the United States.
Then he instituted a quarantine policy for American citizens that were coming home, that we would make sure that they were taken care of, but also receive treatment and the proper screening to determine that they were not in any jeopardy for their health, for the health of their family or their communities. We also instituted screening at about five different major airports around the country.
RUSH: This is in January.
THE VICE PRESIDENT: In January — and again, the first two steps had never been done by any president. I remember I was in the Oval Office at the time that the White House task force on the coronavirus came in, and they said, “Mr. President, we have a very low risk in this country of an outbreak.” That’s what they told him at the time. The risk remains low to this day. But they said, “We’re recommending you take this step even though it’s never been done before.” The president said without hesitating, “Do it,” and all of our health experts… I attended my first White House corona task force meeting yesterday.
We convened at HHS. I’ve been on the phone the whole way here to Florida with all of our team talking, and talking with governors around the country and members of Congress. Every single one of our health experts have said that if the president had not taken that action in January, we would be in a very different place than we are today. As of today, we have 15 people in the United States who contracted the coronavirus here. All of them have received treatment. All of them are doing well. There’s another 46 Americans that we brought back from China, from overseas. Again, all of them have received treatment, all of them are doing well.
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Have there been any estimates/reports on how long people stay sick? I'm curious to know after however many people have been cured.
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I talked to my brother again, and he's furious that no one seems to be telling the truth.
He said that as a doctor you have to be completely honest, and have statistics, and facts that you can trust to fully understand, and prepare for what you're up against. We don't have that in this case, and it cannot be stressed enough how much harder this makes this virus to treat. Yes, you don't want to cause a panic, but by blatantly withholding, and obscuring vital information like the actual rate of infection, the number of deceased, and how long the incubation phase is, you drastically increase the death toll in the meantime, and the amount of panic that's going to occur once the truth finally gets out.
When I asked him to give it in layman's terms, he said. "The sooner we know what this thing actually does, the sooner we can cure it. Until then, we're basically playing a randomized game of Punch-Out!! while blindfolded. Yes, we know we're boxing, but we don't know if we're up against Glass Joe, or Mike Tyson. And unfortunately, it's starting to appear to be the latter."
He said that as a doctor you have to be completely honest, and have statistics, and facts that you can trust to fully understand, and prepare for what you're up against. We don't have that in this case, and it cannot be stressed enough how much harder this makes this virus to treat. Yes, you don't want to cause a panic, but by blatantly withholding, and obscuring vital information like the actual rate of infection, the number of deceased, and how long the incubation phase is, you drastically increase the death toll in the meantime, and the amount of panic that's going to occur once the truth finally gets out.
When I asked him to give it in layman's terms, he said. "The sooner we know what this thing actually does, the sooner we can cure it. Until then, we're basically playing a randomized game of Punch-Out!! while blindfolded. Yes, we know we're boxing, but we don't know if we're up against Glass Joe, or Mike Tyson. And unfortunately, it's starting to appear to be the latter."
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Thanks man, take your time on reporting, medical life is always busy. Just good to hear from you
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Well, it didn't take long for Democratic politicians to use the Coronavirus to get elected. People like Michael Bloomberg are talking about Trump's decisions in their shitty ads to get voters.
How pathetic, and not surprising.
How pathetic, and not surprising.
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In 1918 immigrants had to go through Ellis Island and people were afraid of disease.
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I know I'm working the wrong crowd for details but what the hell do they think was done wrong? The response was a little low-key but it wasn't out of line with everyone else.
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Your the one that pulled the Not tru communism card and you have the nerve to call me stereotypical. Sweatheart I really hate to brake it to you but the European countries that don't force you to pay have limited services given. Maybe when you get older or injured in a non generic way you can test these systems out and see how awfull they can be. They always run short on budgets and even in countries like england and france they have options to pay for better services.
As for my economic theory, here's the aid we give to european countries https://www.securityassistance.org/programs?page=2. throw in the middle east and africa and there is a couple trillion were using to pay for the worlds problembs. Laughable, I mean in the sick twisted we could cut this for a year and solve our deficit way you bet it is.
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They're also repeating the false statement that the CDC got defunded, Trump proposed it, but was never approved by congress. Meanwhile all the democrats support less immigration controls, making pandemic spread much easier
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Michael Bloomberg won't shut up about how Trump cut funding. I think the ad is annoying and misleading and unfortunately that ad keeps showing up at almost every commercial break.
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The American system is probably the least prepared out of all of the western countries. The insurance bureaucracy and high cost of going to the doctor + the lack of safety nets means people will work when sick because they have to and not go to the doctor.
I can see the coronavirus forcing a shift in the view on healthcare. Eisenhour's ww2 experience was the basis for his belief in investing in infrastructure and Teddy had the panama canal built based on Mahan's naval theories.
Public healthcare reduces the costs and gets more people to go to the doctor.
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I'm like fifty pages behind, trying to catch up but I wanted to check this out. It's been a month, wanted to see if any new satellite images of Wuhan/China have been released, but I guess I'm too stupid to know where to look. So instead, I decided to check the air pollution stats.
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Well that doesn't look bad. If it's in the green/high yellows, guess the air quality's going up.
What's all of China looking like?
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They're fucked.
That's a lot of burnt corpses, man...
Also reminder that Xi is saying no new contagion is happening and the factories will reopen.
Knowing their precedent I'mma go with *existing*. That seems the only thing they really hate about the guy.
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Which is a crock because that budget cut didn't make it through Congress (Yet) and it's all stuff that's included in the 2021 budget, it has nothing to do with the current or former budgets. The funding for the CDC and NIH has actually increased because Trump tried to take a hatchet to it and they cranked up their budgets in response. Welcome to checks and balances with a touch of Orange Man Bad.
Even Snopes is calling this one out as misinformation.
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So, with February coming to a close, what are we thinking the number of dead in China is? It's gotta be really bad if the CCP have stopped posting updates. I haven't had time to catch up with the thread, so sorry if it's already been posted.
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Here's an article from ABC News about Michael Bloomberg using the Coronavirus to get votes.
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And here's the ad:
This is the lowest thing I've seen him do. The fact that he's using this to get votes just pisses me off.
Bloomberg criticizes Trump’s response to coronavirus as he launches campaign blitz ahead of Super Tuesday
Kicking off the day at a Houston rally with more than 300 people, Bloomberg committed to funneling his resources into “turning Texas blue.”
Bloomberg hits Trump on coronavirus response in new ad
Bloomberg is the first candidate to air an ad about the coronavirus.
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— Bloomberg campaign ad
And here's the ad:
This is the lowest thing I've seen him do. The fact that he's using this to get votes just pisses me off.
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“Israeli passenger of the Diamond Princess cruise ship who was presumed to have recovered and released from quarantine has tested positive after returning home - Ynet/JP”
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I'm starting to suspect that these "test kits" are just some retard in a lab coat shaking a Magic 8-Ball at the patients.
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“Israeli passenger of the Diamond Princess cruise ship who was presumed to have recovered and released from quarantine has tested positive after returning home - Ynet/JP”
Every time I see a story like this I wonder how many of them were false negatives.
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