Politics The COVID-19 pandemic news and discussion.

[primer]

Not a bad idea wearing a mask. Needs to be well fitting. The Chinese health workers look to be wearing ordinary particle masks.

 

[PEMM]

Those two possible cases I wrote about before, were not infected.

Tests dispel coronavirus fears in Finland

Two tourists from China tested negative for the Wuhan strain of coronavirus, public health officials said Friday evening.

yle.fi

 

[Picanha]

Concerning the masks well use an ABC mask to be sure, I think an ffp2 has still too many leaks around the nose etc. They are not fully tight.

Dräger has some nice masks or use your fullface mask in the cockpit j/k

 

[Jake84]

Two cases have just been confirmed in Pawis and Bordeaux.

 

[Mordoror]

Concerning the masks well use an ABC mask to be sure, I think an ffp2 has still too many leaks around the nose etc. They are not fully tight.

Dräger has some nice masks or use your fullface mask in the cockpit j/k

ABC mask is a drag for civiluan activity.
An FFP2 is enough provided you cover you mouth and nose, change it every 2 hours and wash your hands often (on the contrary to common thoughts, the first way of infection even with respiratory aerosolized viruses is hand borne)

 

[Mordoror]

Two cases have just been confirmed in Pawis and Bordeaux.

Well just a few hours our health minister said everything was under controle. What a bunch of looneys

 

[Jake84]

Well just a few hours our health minister said everything was under controle. What a bunch of looneys

Glad to read from you that the French govt is totally incompetent. Back on topic though we’ll see how that pan out, said Health Minister wasn’t too confident in front of the journos.

 

[Junglejim]

The Latest: WHO says China virus not global health emergency

The World Health Organization says a viral illness in China that has sickened hundreds of people is not yet a global health emergency. The decision came after Chinese authorities moved to lock down three cities on Thursday and canceled major events in the capital, Beijing, during the Lunar New...

www.yahoo.com

 

[Ivan le Fou]

China announced its first case of cured coronavirus patient.

 

[droopy]

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My Chinese doctor friends have reached out, things are changing rapidly day to day, hour to hour, I would like to bring you up to date on everything I know with inside information that I'm getting from medical teams on the ground in China and all the significant developments.

 

[bdpopeye]

China building 25,000 square meter 1000 bed hospital for novel coronavirus patients to open FEB 3rd



Aerial photo taken on Jan. 24, 2020 shows mechanical equipment working at the contruction site of a special hospital in the Caidian District of western suburb of Wuhan, central China's Hubei Province. The central China metropolitan of Wuhan will follow Beijing's SARS treatment model to build a special hospital for admitting patients infected in the outbreak of pneumonia caused by the novel coronavirus. The Wuhan headquarters for the control and treatment of pneumonia caused by the novel coronavirus said on Friday the upcoming hospital designed to have an area of 25,000 square meters will be put into use by Feb. 3. (Xinhua/Xiao Yijiu)

WUHAN, Jan. 24 (Xinhua) -- The central China metropolitan of Wuhan will follow Beijing's SARS treatment model to build a special hospital for admitting patients infected in the outbreak of pneumonia caused by the novel coronavirus.

The Wuhan headquarters for the control and treatment of pneumonia caused by the novel coronavirus said on Friday the upcoming hospital designed to have an area of 25,000 square meters will be put into use by Feb. 3.

The special hospital planned to accommodate 1,000 beds is expected to pool medical resources to provide isolated and efficient treatment for infected pneumonia patients.

In the treatment and control of SARS, or Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome, that spread rapidly on the Chinese mainland in 2003, Beijing built the Xiaotangshan Hospital, a temporary medical center in the northern suburb of the city.

The Wuhan headquarters said Wuhan will have the hospital built near the Wuhan Workers' Sanatorium in the Caidian District in the western suburb to treat patients infected with the new coronavirus.

Construction equipment has been sent to the hospital construction site.

The headquarters said the upcoming hospital will follow the building model of the Xiaotangshan Hospital to use movable plank houses so that the construction will be completed quickly.

The Xiaotangshan Hospital was built in seven days. The hospital admitted one-seventh of the SARS patients in the country within two months, creating a miracle in the history of medicine.

Currently, novel coronavirus patients are being treated in several designated hospitals and 61 fever clinics in Wuhan.

China on Thursday morning locked down Wuhan, the provincial capital of Hubei, in an unprecedented effort to curb the spread of the epidemic, after it resulted in 25 deaths, including 24 in Hubei and one in northern China's Hebei Province.

 

[Ivan le Fou]

Coronavirus link to China biowarfare program possible, analyst says

The deadly animal-borne coronavirus spreading globally may have originated in a laboratory in the city of Wuhan linked to China’s covert biological weapons program, said an Israeli biological warfare analyst.

m.washingtontimes.com

A third case has apparently been detected in France.

Death toll has, also, apparently reached 41.

 

[Dercius]

Well just a few hours our health minister said everything was under controle. What a bunch of looneys

When government says that everything is under control, it usually is a good idea to hoard supplies and water, while preparing your route to run to the hills

 

[Picanha]

Saw that construction site yesterday in the news - mindboggling. Whats the reason to do that?

Hope they can contain that and lets see how it ist handled elsewhere the Robert Koch Institute says: No panic

 

[Ivan le Fou]

China is now reporting 38 cured patients.

 

[PEMM]

Saw that construction site yesterday in the news - mindboggling. Whats the reason to do that?

This might sound harsh but: communists love grand gestures. They now need to show people that they are tackling the issue.

If you believe the numbers, Wuhan has 6.51 hospital beds / 1000 people. Which would add up to 70 000 beds. So how much difference does 1000 more do? I doubt they were at peak 99% right before the outbreak. They could also much more easily use some already constructed space for that, which would be ready for use in a day.

The biggest problem seems to be lack of proper equipment for health care personnel.

 

[riderboy]

Not to be a contrarian or anything, nor to discount the need for action, but this virus does not appear to be terribly lethal.

 

[Jake84]

Not to be a contrarian or anything, nor to discount the need for action, but this virus does not appear to be terribly lethal.

Most victims appear to be the ederly and youths, along with people suffering from a chronic lung disease, I sort of agree and I’ll even dare say it’s quite surprising for the PRC to lockdown a whole region and dozen millions people for weeks over it.

I am not looking to dismiss what seems to be quite contagious but still.

 

[bdpopeye]

Pictures uploaded to social media on Jan 25, 2020 by the Central Hospital of Wuhan show medical staff attending to patients, in Wuhan, China. [Photo/Sina Weibo]

Although huge amounts of medical resources are pouring into Wuhan, the center of the new viral outbreak, the local government on Saturday called for more material support such as masks and protective clothing.

"We're facing a particularly serious public safety and health emergency. Materials for protection and medical treatment are in urgent need," Hu Yinghai, deputy director of the Department of Civil Affairs of Hubei, said at a news conference.

As of Saturday noon, the country's central medical reserve had sent 14,000 protection suits and 110,000 pairs of medical gloves to Wuhan. It also helped to arrange the purchase of 3 million masks, 100,000 protection suits and 2,180 pairs of goggles for the city, according to the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology.

From social donations, the Hubei Charity Federation had received more than 1.2 million masks and other materials for epidemic prevention and control by Friday midnight. The organization also received donated funds of more than 30 million yuan ($4.32 million), Hu said.

These materials have been allocated to hospitals and some public transport stations, and the funds will be delivered and used as soon as possible, he said.

However, these materials are not enough. "We'll make every effort to organize and mobilize the whole society, at home and abroad, to carry out special donations of emergency medical materials and relevant medicines," Hu said.

Some materials are in urgent need, such as medical protective clothing, the N95 masks, medical masks, protective masks, positive pressure isolation clothing, goggles and disinfectant, he said.

Hubei Charity Federation and the Red Cross Society of Hubei are designated to receive donations. Materials unrelated to the epidemic prevention and control work will not be accepted at the moment.

The public can supervise the usage of the donated materials, and the provincial headquarters of the epidemic prevention and control work is the unified organization to allocate the materials to hospitals and other medical treatment institutions, Hu said.

Since Friday, traffic control authorities in Hubei have taken measures to speed up the flow of necessary medical personnel and materials, such as giving a green light to the transportation of emergency materials.

Wuhan calls for more material help to deal with virus

Although huge amounts of medical resources are pouring into Wuhan, the center of the new viral outbreak, the local government on Saturday called for more material support such as masks and protective clothing.

www.chinadaily.com.cn

 

[riderboy]

I'm sure the Chicoms will be able to contain the spread..