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[riderboy]

Must everything be politically correct these days? God help us.

 

[Ivan le Fou]

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Confirmed cases: 154k
Suspected cases: 79k
Cured: 269
Deaths: 24k

 

[droopy]

I hope that is a typo or fake news. 24.000 is a huge number.
Dose anyone know what those 11+ million people eat or how they are getting payed if they don't go to work ?

Must everything be politically correct these days?

As with that coronavirus, i hope this political corectness never reaches and multiplies in my country.

 

[Fluff]

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Confirmed cases: 154k
Suspected cases: 79k
Cured: 269
Deaths: 24k

Hopefully some typo/ spreadsheet issue.

cured 24k

deaths 269

sounds more realistic....

 

[BCNTM]

Hopefully some typo/ spreadsheet issue.

cured 24k

deaths 269

sounds more realistic....

hope so

 

[BCNTM]

An elf? ?

Its British thing

Macmillan Dictionary Blog | Vocabulary | Adults | Onestopenglish

www.macmillandictionaryblog.com

About 20 years ago I was working somewhere in winter when the heating failed - so they brought in portable gas heaters - only issue was the place was sealed so once the heaters had used all the oxygen up they went out. So we were cold and blue from lack of oxygen.

So I chucked out all the heaters into the snow and I went and bought about 20 fan heaters - only thing is when all the staff were there it kept blowing the fuse - so I just stuck a big nail across the fuse and away we go

H'elf and Safety officer came round with a pair of cutters and threaded to cut the plugs off the heaters - I told him that if he touched any of the heaters the next thing the cutters would take off would be his balls - much to the amusement of my staff at the time

So he left with his tail between his legs - we had a few run-ins with him he was an absolute knob - it was that idiot that put in the gas heaters...........

 

[snowmanca]

Hopefully some typo/ spreadsheet issue.

cured 24k

deaths 269

sounds more realistic....

IIRC there was at least one report saying it was taking like 3 weeks for young otherwise health people to get over it, there also may be some caution in confirming someone is cured causing further delay of that showing up in reports, so it makes sense that at this point their would only be a small percent of the known infections having had it long enough to be reported as cured.

 

[bdpopeye]

Workers prepare beds at a mobile cabin hospital in Wuhan Salon, Central China's Hubei province, on Feb 4, 2020. [Photo by Zhu Xingxin/chinadaily.com.cn]

A cabin hospital is a mobile medical structure with multiple functions, such as emergency treatment, surgical treatment and clinical examination.

A mobile structure can be real houses or tents and other temporary structures easily shipped and installed, and are widely used in various emergency treatments.





The Wuhan Parlor convention center is renovated into a cabin hospital in Wuhan, capital of Central China's Hubei province, on Feb 4. [Photo by Yuan Zheng/for chinadaily.com.cn]



A worker disinfects facilities at a mobile cabin hospital in Wuhan Salon, Central China's Hubei province, on Feb 4, 2020. [Photo by Zhu Xingxin/chinadaily.com.cn]



Workers start building a mobile cabin hospital in Wuhan, Central China’s Hubei province on February 4, 2020. A total of 8 more cabin hospitals will be set up in Wuhan, making the number of such hospital reaching 11. The city's sports stadium and two convention centers have been renovated into three mobile hospitals to offer a total of 3,400 beds to treat novel coronavirus infected patients with mild symptoms.（Photo: China News Service/ Zhang Chang）

 

[bdpopeye]

Medical workers have lunch in their office at the Shaoxing People's Hospital in Shaoxing, East China's Zhejiang province. (Photo: China News Service/Yuan Yun)



Medical workers chat after work in the Shaoxing People's Hospital in Shaoxing, East China's Zhejiang province. (Photo: China News Service/Yuan Yun)



Medical workers help each other to put on the protective suits in Shaoxing People's Hospital in Shaoxing, East China's Zhejiang province. (Photo: China News Service/Yuan Yun)



A nurse gives a thumbs-up outside a ward in the Shaoxing People's Hospital in Shaoxing, East China's Zhejiang province. A total of 17 patients infected with the novel coronavirus are now treated and taken care of by over 20 medical workers in the designated hospital. Those nurses are staying at their posts to treat patients, with little regard for their own safety. (Photo: China News Service/Yuan Yun)

 

[bdpopeye]

Hundreds of photos action taken in China against the coronavirus from the Chinese media mouthpiece Xinhuanet;

Photo - China | English.news.cn

Xinhua, xinhuanet.com/english，english.news.cn, chinaview，brings you headlines, photos, video and news stories from china, Asia and Pacific, Europe, Asia, Africa, the Middle East, Americas and Organizations on politics, economy, culture, sports, entertainment, science, technology, health, travel, odd

www.xinhuanet.com

 

[BCNTM]

Someone must be making an absolute killing out of the sales of all those masks and disposable suits

 

[Quakecry]

Does feel like the coronavirus has lost a little of its news value.

 

[primer]

First NZer reproted with it on a cruise ship, passengers are ordered to stay in their rooms.

 

[PEMM]

Coronavirus 'kills Chinese whistleblower doctor Li Wenliang'

A Chinese doctor who tried to issue the first warnings about the deadly coronavirus outbreak has died of the infection, Chinese media say.

Li Wenliang was working as an ophthalmologist at Wuhan Central Hospital when he sent out a warning to fellow medics on 30 December.

Police then visited him to tell him to stop, as authorities tried to keep the news under wraps.

The virus has now killed more than 560 people and infected 28,000 in China.

Li Wenliang: Coronavirus kills Chinese whistleblower doctor

Li Wenliang warned fellow medics in December - but police told him to stop "making false comments".

www.bbc.com

 

[Mumstermann]

First NZer reproted with it on a cruise ship, passengers are ordered to stay in their rooms.

I've read somewhere that there are some cruise ships with the possibility of / confirmed cases onboard being quarantined. To eventually clear all of those passanger&crew cabins + all the other spaces where people have access to will be a bitch of a job to disinfect. As long as the ship facilities (loundry, sanitation, basic food supplies) are kept running and people themselves act accordinly I would find it an acceptable place to be held up.

 

[primer]

"We downloaded those sequences, immediately ran them through our computer algorithm, which is what we use to design our DNA medicine, and approximately three hours later we had a fully designed DNA vaccine against the novel coronavirus," said Kate Broderick, senior vice president of research and development at the US-based Inovio Pharmaceuticals, one of the companies working with CEPI on an effective treatment.

 

[droopy]

I know medication takes years to be approved for humans. I guess a vaccine takes less, but it might be some time before we see a vaccine, right ?

 

[Dercius]

Coronavirus 'kills Chinese whistleblower doctor Li Wenliang'

A Chinese doctor who tried to issue the first warnings about the deadly coronavirus outbreak has died of the infection, Chinese media say.

Li Wenliang was working as an ophthalmologist at Wuhan Central Hospital when he sent out a warning to fellow medics on 30 December.

Police then visited him to tell him to stop, as authorities tried to keep the news under wraps.

The virus has now killed more than 560 people and infected 28,000 in China.

Li Wenliang: Coronavirus kills Chinese whistleblower doctor

Li Wenliang warned fellow medics in December - but police told him to stop "making false comments".

www.bbc.com

Looked a little bit about him, and the doctor was 34yo. So, he doesnt fit with the group of frail/elderly person that we have been told by Chinese Gov that this virus is supposed have a heavy incidence/lethality on.

Some more food for thought. Just in case the waters were no muddy enough regarding the information coming out of China regarding this outbreak.

 

[snowmanca]

Count update, looks like they did have yesterday’s death/cured number messed up.
Deaths 566
Recovered 1,431

 

[Mordoror]

I know medication takes years to be approved for humans. I guess a vaccine takes less, but it might be some time before we see a vaccine, right ?

In case of emergency national and international health authorities can bypass safeties regulations to field experimental drugs or vaccines. This was the case for Ebola. But what is justified with a 70% lethality disease may be not with a 2% one.
BTW a synthetic DNA vaccine can be produced in small batches in less than few days provided the protein choosen as vaccine is not too tricky to express in recombinant systems.
The bigger issue would be industrial scale up