EMICT
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There is no irony in the fact the Qom has been the area in Iran that has been anti-regime.
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2:11 min
Foreign ministers from ASEAN, China meeting in Laos to discuss COVID-19 outbreak
Tom McDowell
BAMN
Feb 20, 2020 05:50 AM
SOCIETY & CULTURE
China Applies Stricter Criteria for Diagnosing Covid-19 Cases
By Liu Denghui, Di Ning and Denise Jia
All confirmed cases now have to go through nucleic acid tests, according to China’s newest version of Covid-19 diagnostic guidelines. Photo: Bloomberg
China’s top health authority changed its diagnostic guidelines for Covid-19 once again, applying stricter, unified criteria nationwide rather than a different, broader standard only for Hubei province as in the previous version.
The sixth national treatment and diagnostic plan for the deadly coronavirus issued Wednesday by the National Health Commission reverses a change in the fifth edition released last week. Under that plan, cases in the epidemic’s epicenter Hubei could be diagnosed clinically, such as via chest X-rays. Now all confirmed cases must be determined using laboratory tests known as nucleic acid tests (NATs).
The new, stricter diagnosing criteria are likely to result in further declines in the rate of reported new cases. The previous change that allowed chest X-rays to be used for diagnosis alongside standard lab tests resulted in a one-day jump in Hubei of nearly 15,000 new confirmed cases on Feb. 13. About 90% of them came from a clinical diagnosis.
As of the end of Tuesday, there were 74,279 confirmed cases of Covid-19 in China and 5,248 suspected cases, according to data from the National Health Commission.
Previously doctors raised concerns about false negatives from laboratory testing that sometimes failed to diagnose infected people. The new guidelines stress the accuracy of the lab test.
To address concerns about false negatives, the new guidelines emphasize the use of sound sampling procedures to safeguard the accuracy of the findings and suggest using multiple NATs alongside a new, rapid antibody screening test kit developed by Guangzhou Medical University under the guidance of Zhong Nanshan, a respiratory expert who discovered the SARS coronavirus in 2003.
The new test kit can detect an immunoglobulin produced only after a human body has contact with the Covid-19 virus, Zhong said Tuesday at a press conference in Guangdong. The use of the antibody screening test can be mutually verified with the NAT results and can help to identify suspected cases while increasing diagnostic accuracy, Zhong said.
The new test kit needs only one drop of blood and can produce results onsite within 15 minutes, according to a developer of the test kits. But experts said NATs are still considered the “gold standard,” while the sensitivity of the antibody test needs further clinical verification.
It takes time for the human body to produce antibodies, which are closely related to a patient’s own immune system. Consequently, antibody testing can fail to detect infected people, said Yao Tiancheng, chairman of Shenzhen Tisenc Medical Devices Co., one of the developers of the new test kits. The antibody testing and NATs cannot replace each other, he said.
To lower the risks of missing any infected person, the new guidelines also tighten the criteria for lifting quarantine for recovered patients. Under previous guidelines, people with two negative NATs tests could be released from quarantine. Now, in addition to that requirement, patients must resume normal temperature readings for at least three days and show significant improvement of respiratory symptoms and pulmonary imaging before their quarantine can be removed.
The health authority previously said there is no proven effective treatment for the coronavirus. The new guidelines remove that statement and add the antiviral drugs chloroquine phosphate and Arbidol to the treatment plan. But it is not recommended to use more than three antiviral drugs at the same time.
Chloroquine phosphate, a drug usually used to treat malaria, has been evaluated in hospitals and proven effective in treatment of the coronavirus, said Sun Yanrong, deputy head of the China National Center for Biotechnology Development under the Ministry of Science and Technology, at a press conference Monday.
The guidelines recommend the use of blood plasma from recovered people on patients in severe and critical condition. However, due to a limited plasma supply, it is difficult to apply on a large scale.
The new guidelines also for the first time raise the possibility of transmission through aerosol — tiny particle droplets suspended in the air ― in closed environments for extended periods of time.
Huang Shulun contributed to this report.
Contact reporter Denise Jia (huijuanjia@caixin.com) and editor Bob Simison (bobsimison@caixin.com)
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SOCIETY & CULTURE
China Applies Stricter Criteria for Diagnosing Covid-19 Cases
By Liu Denghui, Di Ning and Denise Jia
All confirmed cases now have to go through nucleic acid tests, according to China’s newest version of Covid-19 diagnostic guidelines. Photo: Bloomberg
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China’s top health authority changed its diagnostic guidelines for Covid-19 once again, applying stricter, unified criteria nationwide rather than a different, broader standard only for Hubei province as in the previous version.
The sixth national treatment and diagnostic plan for the deadly coronavirus issued Wednesday by the National Health Commission reverses a change in the fifth edition released last week. Under that plan, cases in the epidemic’s epicenter Hubei could be diagnosed clinically, such as via chest X-rays. Now all confirmed cases must be determined using laboratory tests known as nucleic acid tests (NATs).
The new, stricter diagnosing criteria are likely to result in further declines in the rate of reported new cases. The previous change that allowed chest X-rays to be used for diagnosis alongside standard lab tests resulted in a one-day jump in Hubei of nearly 15,000 new confirmed cases on Feb. 13. About 90% of them came from a clinical diagnosis.
As of the end of Tuesday, there were 74,279 confirmed cases of Covid-19 in China and 5,248 suspected cases, according to data from the National Health Commission.
Previously doctors raised concerns about false negatives from laboratory testing that sometimes failed to diagnose infected people. The new guidelines stress the accuracy of the lab test.
To address concerns about false negatives, the new guidelines emphasize the use of sound sampling procedures to safeguard the accuracy of the findings and suggest using multiple NATs alongside a new, rapid antibody screening test kit developed by Guangzhou Medical University under the guidance of Zhong Nanshan, a respiratory expert who discovered the SARS coronavirus in 2003.
The new test kit can detect an immunoglobulin produced only after a human body has contact with the Covid-19 virus, Zhong said Tuesday at a press conference in Guangdong. The use of the antibody screening test can be mutually verified with the NAT results and can help to identify suspected cases while increasing diagnostic accuracy, Zhong said.
The new test kit needs only one drop of blood and can produce results onsite within 15 minutes, according to a developer of the test kits. But experts said NATs are still considered the “gold standard,” while the sensitivity of the antibody test needs further clinical verification.
It takes time for the human body to produce antibodies, which are closely related to a patient’s own immune system. Consequently, antibody testing can fail to detect infected people, said Yao Tiancheng, chairman of Shenzhen Tisenc Medical Devices Co., one of the developers of the new test kits. The antibody testing and NATs cannot replace each other, he said.
To lower the risks of missing any infected person, the new guidelines also tighten the criteria for lifting quarantine for recovered patients. Under previous guidelines, people with two negative NATs tests could be released from quarantine. Now, in addition to that requirement, patients must resume normal temperature readings for at least three days and show significant improvement of respiratory symptoms and pulmonary imaging before their quarantine can be removed.
The health authority previously said there is no proven effective treatment for the coronavirus. The new guidelines remove that statement and add the antiviral drugs chloroquine phosphate and Arbidol to the treatment plan. But it is not recommended to use more than three antiviral drugs at the same time.
Chloroquine phosphate, a drug usually used to treat malaria, has been evaluated in hospitals and proven effective in treatment of the coronavirus, said Sun Yanrong, deputy head of the China National Center for Biotechnology Development under the Ministry of Science and Technology, at a press conference Monday.
The guidelines recommend the use of blood plasma from recovered people on patients in severe and critical condition. However, due to a limited plasma supply, it is difficult to apply on a large scale.
The new guidelines also for the first time raise the possibility of transmission through aerosol — tiny particle droplets suspended in the air ― in closed environments for extended periods of time.
Huang Shulun contributed to this report.
Contact reporter Denise Jia (huijuanjia@caixin.com) and editor Bob Simison (bobsimison@caixin.com)
China Applies Stricter Criteria for Diagnosing Covid-19 Cases - Caixin Global
China Applies Stricter Criteria for Diagnosing Covid-19 Cases - National Health Commission’s sixth edition of coronavirus treatment and diagnostic plan overturns version issued last week that eased requirements in epicenter Hubei
www.caixinglobal.com
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Heliobas Disciple
TB Fanatic
Here are the links to the videos:
17 seconds in is a map of Africa that says Public ??? Deployments. Or does it say polio?! (Is polio around in Africa?). It's not Covid though..
At 42 seconds this map shows COVID, notice those countries in Africa aren't highlighted on the COVID map:
also at 42 seconds are what looks like another covid map and an ebola map:
second video, this one has the flashing screens that change maps. This was a lower resolution so even harder to see, but here are 2 maps I pulled from this video neither of which to be COVID (doesn't match the longer name given on the above screengrabs):
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pU3LVnOTkNk
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vector7
Dot Collector
Coronavirus COVID19 Chinese Prisoner Speaks Out (3:32)
View: https://youtu.be/jjQTChzA3Ns
Outlook for coronavirus to spread in the US (8:01)
View: https://youtu.be/dtCit-tAO30
Outlook for coronavirus to spread in the US (8:01)
adgal
Veteran Member
Don’t worry. They are for the government documents.
Ragnarok
On and On, South of Heaven
I'm centrally located...
Seeker22
Has No Life - Lives on TB
Did you notice the Chinese gentleman say the count was 4-5 million instead of the 75,000 they said it was? Anything worth their time to censor is worth my time to listen carefully. Even if that was very hard to do. It is up to me to figure out what is true, not up to them to hide the real facts and tell me what the truth is. If you think I'm hot, the people of China are hotter. Civil War soon. Bannon is doing some amazing work IMHO. History in real time.
Tom McDowell
BAMN
1 hr 15 min ago
Cruise industry focusing on "health and safety" amid coronavirus outbreak
From CNN’s Alison Kosik
The cruise industry is “focused on protecting the health and safety of passengers and crew” amid the coronavirus outbreak, according to the industry’s largest trade group.
“The enhanced screening measures, the first of which were adopted within hours of the WHO declaring a global health emergency, do appear to be working and have enabled operations to continue as usual in many parts of the world,” said Bari Goin-Blaugrund, senior director of strategic communications of Cruise Lines International Association, or CLIA.
Goin-Blaugrund also said that within the global CLIA fleet of 272 cruise ships, only one has experienced any cases of coronavirus on board.
Passengers aboard that ship, the Diamond Princess in Japan, began disembarking Wednesday after a 14-day quarantine. A total of 624 cases of the virus are linked to the stricken ship.
Analysts say the coronavirus could take a financial toll on the industry, especially in China. If operators cancel cruises through March, JP Morgan predicts revenue could fall as much at 15%.
Shares for two of the biggest cruise operators — Royal Caribbean and Carnival — are down more than 16% and 14% this year, respectively.
www.cnn.com
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The enhanced screening measures....
hr 7 min ago
No US coronavirus cases have been caught by airport temperature checks
From CNN's Elizabeth Cohen and John Bonifield
Since mid-January, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has been employing temperature checks at selected airports, at first on people flying in from Wuhan, China, the epicenter of the coronavirus outbreak, and now on all passengers who've been anywhere in mainland China in the past 14 days.
While the CDC has screened more than 30,000 passengers in the past month, not a single US coronavirus case has been caught by airport temperature checks, according to a CNN investigation.
CNN reviewed statements by local, state and federal health officials, and emailed and spoke with officials, to determine how many people eventually diagnosed with the novel coronavirus went through airport temperature checks.
By the numbers: Ten passengers flew into US airports on commercial airliners and were later diagnosed with coronavirus.
Four of those 10 passengers went through temperature checks and were found not to have a fever or any other symptoms of the virus. Two of those passengers flew into Los Angeles International Airport and two flew into San Francisco International Airport. Previously, a CDC spokesperson had told CNN that two of the passengers were symptomatic during flight, but the spokesperson later said they were asymptomatic while flying.
Another four out of the 10 passengers were not screened because they flew into airports that did not have screening at the time. Those cases are in Illinois, Washington state, Massachusetts and California.
It's unclear whether the final two passengers went through temperature checks because health officials at the CDC and in Wisconsin and Arizona refused to say when asked by CNN.
How the screening works: The temperature checks are part of an overall screening effort that includes giving passengers cards telling them to watch out for fever, cough and trouble breathing, all symptoms of the novel coronavirus disease, also called COVID-19.
While airport temperature checks haven't caught any coronavirus cases, the information cards have helped catch US cases of the virus at least twice – once in a passenger who flew into San Francisco, and once in a passenger who flew into Los Angeles.
1 hr 24 min ago
www.cnn.com
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Cruise industry focusing on "health and safety" amid coronavirus outbreak
From CNN’s Alison Kosik
The cruise industry is “focused on protecting the health and safety of passengers and crew” amid the coronavirus outbreak, according to the industry’s largest trade group.
“The enhanced screening measures, the first of which were adopted within hours of the WHO declaring a global health emergency, do appear to be working and have enabled operations to continue as usual in many parts of the world,” said Bari Goin-Blaugrund, senior director of strategic communications of Cruise Lines International Association, or CLIA.
Goin-Blaugrund also said that within the global CLIA fleet of 272 cruise ships, only one has experienced any cases of coronavirus on board.
Passengers aboard that ship, the Diamond Princess in Japan, began disembarking Wednesday after a 14-day quarantine. A total of 624 cases of the virus are linked to the stricken ship.
Analysts say the coronavirus could take a financial toll on the industry, especially in China. If operators cancel cruises through March, JP Morgan predicts revenue could fall as much at 15%.
Shares for two of the biggest cruise operators — Royal Caribbean and Carnival — are down more than 16% and 14% this year, respectively.
February 19, 2020 coronavirus news
The novel coronavirus has now killed more than 2,000 people, all but five of them in mainland China. It has infected more than 75,000 people, with over 1,000 cases outside mainland China.
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The enhanced screening measures....
hr 7 min ago
No US coronavirus cases have been caught by airport temperature checks
From CNN's Elizabeth Cohen and John Bonifield
Since mid-January, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has been employing temperature checks at selected airports, at first on people flying in from Wuhan, China, the epicenter of the coronavirus outbreak, and now on all passengers who've been anywhere in mainland China in the past 14 days.
While the CDC has screened more than 30,000 passengers in the past month, not a single US coronavirus case has been caught by airport temperature checks, according to a CNN investigation.
CNN reviewed statements by local, state and federal health officials, and emailed and spoke with officials, to determine how many people eventually diagnosed with the novel coronavirus went through airport temperature checks.
By the numbers: Ten passengers flew into US airports on commercial airliners and were later diagnosed with coronavirus.
Four of those 10 passengers went through temperature checks and were found not to have a fever or any other symptoms of the virus. Two of those passengers flew into Los Angeles International Airport and two flew into San Francisco International Airport. Previously, a CDC spokesperson had told CNN that two of the passengers were symptomatic during flight, but the spokesperson later said they were asymptomatic while flying.
Another four out of the 10 passengers were not screened because they flew into airports that did not have screening at the time. Those cases are in Illinois, Washington state, Massachusetts and California.
It's unclear whether the final two passengers went through temperature checks because health officials at the CDC and in Wisconsin and Arizona refused to say when asked by CNN.
How the screening works: The temperature checks are part of an overall screening effort that includes giving passengers cards telling them to watch out for fever, cough and trouble breathing, all symptoms of the novel coronavirus disease, also called COVID-19.
While airport temperature checks haven't caught any coronavirus cases, the information cards have helped catch US cases of the virus at least twice – once in a passenger who flew into San Francisco, and once in a passenger who flew into Los Angeles.
1 hr 24 min ago
February 19, 2020 coronavirus news
The novel coronavirus has now killed more than 2,000 people, all but five of them in mainland China. It has infected more than 75,000 people, with over 1,000 cases outside mainland China.
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Heliobas Disciple
TB Fanatic
I didn't misunderstand you, no worries. I was extrapolating from what you said that it might have been this virus as it first emerged from the bats and snakes and whatever else it emerged from and it took 5 or so months to mutate into this virulent version. I'm not a dr or any type of medical person so that's just conjecture from reading about how these diseases supposedly work.
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Melodi
Disaster Cat
Yes I did hear at least part of that, but I wasn't sure that was exactly what he said - it wasn't his fault, the sound kept distorting and I lost the feed that had subtitles (I use them when I can because I am somewhat hard of hearing anyway).
But I feel exactly the same way you do, and while I don't always agree with Bannon on everything, I told Nightwolf he seems to be doing the best job he can on this one.
He also didn't contradict the doctor who was explaining that in his view, such and such paper convinced him that it probably wasn't a bio-weapon which is fine - I don't know enough to be sure either way (and Steve probably doesn't know either) but that still doesn't mean that it didn't escape from that lab.
As Nightwolf told me it only matters in terms of trying to treat it, as a practical matter it is now out there and "someone" in China and the rest of the world knows something about it most of us don't.
You simply don't shut down a country like China over a flu outbreak (for weeks) and what is happening in Persia's main religious center/city is scary as heck (they probably know something too or their government and scientists do).
But I feel exactly the same way you do, and while I don't always agree with Bannon on everything, I told Nightwolf he seems to be doing the best job he can on this one.
He also didn't contradict the doctor who was explaining that in his view, such and such paper convinced him that it probably wasn't a bio-weapon which is fine - I don't know enough to be sure either way (and Steve probably doesn't know either) but that still doesn't mean that it didn't escape from that lab.
As Nightwolf told me it only matters in terms of trying to treat it, as a practical matter it is now out there and "someone" in China and the rest of the world knows something about it most of us don't.
You simply don't shut down a country like China over a flu outbreak (for weeks) and what is happening in Persia's main religious center/city is scary as heck (they probably know something too or their government and scientists do).
Tom McDowell
BAMN
11 min ago
Coronavirus patients can have similar "viral load" whether or not they show symptoms
From CNN's Jacqueline Howard
People with the novel coronavirus may have the same viral load — or amount of virus in the body — whether or not they are showing symptoms of illness, according to researchers in China.
The letter from the researchers, which was published in The New England Journal of Medicine, details how the researchers monitored viral loads of the novel coronavirus in samples taken from the nose and throat of 18 patients: nine men and nine women ranging in age from 26 to 76 in Zhuhai, in China’s Guangdong province.
For those samples, a total of 72 nasal swabs and 72 throat swabs were collected and analyzed.
The analysis revealed that higher viral loads were detected soon after a person was showing symptoms, with higher viral loads found in the nose than in the throat. Among the patients, only one was asymptomatic.
Yet overall, “the viral load that was detected in the asymptomatic patient was similar to that in the symptomatic patients, which suggests the transmission potential of asymptomatic or minimally symptomatic patients,” the researchers wrote in the letter.
It also turned out that, when it comes to viral shedding, the novel coronavirus seemed to resemble influenza more than SARS, according to the letter.
How many affected: Globally, the World Health Organization has reported that there have been more than 75,000 laboratory or clinically confirmed cases of novel coronavirus and more than 2,000 deaths.
www.cnn.com
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Coronavirus patients can have similar "viral load" whether or not they show symptoms
From CNN's Jacqueline Howard
People with the novel coronavirus may have the same viral load — or amount of virus in the body — whether or not they are showing symptoms of illness, according to researchers in China.
The letter from the researchers, which was published in The New England Journal of Medicine, details how the researchers monitored viral loads of the novel coronavirus in samples taken from the nose and throat of 18 patients: nine men and nine women ranging in age from 26 to 76 in Zhuhai, in China’s Guangdong province.
For those samples, a total of 72 nasal swabs and 72 throat swabs were collected and analyzed.
The analysis revealed that higher viral loads were detected soon after a person was showing symptoms, with higher viral loads found in the nose than in the throat. Among the patients, only one was asymptomatic.
Yet overall, “the viral load that was detected in the asymptomatic patient was similar to that in the symptomatic patients, which suggests the transmission potential of asymptomatic or minimally symptomatic patients,” the researchers wrote in the letter.
It also turned out that, when it comes to viral shedding, the novel coronavirus seemed to resemble influenza more than SARS, according to the letter.
How many affected: Globally, the World Health Organization has reported that there have been more than 75,000 laboratory or clinically confirmed cases of novel coronavirus and more than 2,000 deaths.
February 19, 2020 coronavirus news
The novel coronavirus has now killed more than 2,000 people, all but five of them in mainland China. It has infected more than 75,000 people, with over 1,000 cases outside mainland China.
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Shadow
Swift, Silent,...Sleepy
It's possible. See post 15228. Ooops. 15528.
Ragnarok
On and On, South of Heaven
Not including Florida numbers ( And, I am sure Florida isn't the only state being less than honest )
Washington State: 746 People Under Observation for Coronavirus
Officials: 746 people in Washington being supervised due to coronavirus outbreak
Across the US, 750 people are being quarantined in 5 different locations for coronavirus
View: https://twitter.com/EndGameWW3/status/1230184178110652426
Coronavirus evacuees from Lackland transported to state infectious disease hospital in San Antonio
State: Coronavirus evacuees from Lackland transported to state infectious disease hospital in San Antonio
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Momof5
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I saw this a bit ago, a bit woo but is really in the book. Not sure if anyone else posted
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US Author Dean Koontz Predicted The Coronavirus in His 1981 Eye of Darkness Novel
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Andy Sanders
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An excerpt of the novel ‘The Eyes of Darkness’, a 1981 thriller by bestselling suspense creator Dean Koontz, which tells of a Chinese language navy lab that creates a virus as half of its organic weapons programme, is making rounds on social media.
In chapter 39 of his ebook, Koontz writes that the lab is situated in Wuhan, which lends the virus its identify, Wuhan-400.
Congress chief Manish Tewari has additionally tweeted excerpts from a ebook that went viral on the Web that the coronavirus concerned in the outbreak in China’s Wuhan seems to be man-made.
“Is coranavirus a organic weapon developed by the Chinese language known as Wuhan-400? This ebook was printed in 1981. Do learn the excerpt,” Congress chief Manish Tewari tweeted.
Tewari highlighted a paragraph that learn: “They name the stuff ‘Wuhan-400’ as a result of it was developed at their RDNA labs outdoors of the town of Wuhan, and it was the 4 hundredth viable pressure of man-made microorganisms created at that centre.”
Because the publish went viral, Twitterati flooded the social media with their reactions.
A consumer wrote, “Haha infinite monkey theorem. Decide any occasion and likelihood is that some ebook written at some would have an identical plot. Conspiracy principle has no finish.”
One other wrote, “Sensational … Little doubt China had changed Russia and USSR as rogue nation in Hollywood movies and later James Bond films.”
A publish learn, “Intriguing for positive, hope the reality comes out.”
A consumer remarked, “Okay whether it is then it certainly backfired on them!”
By the tip of Sunday, a complete of 1,770 individuals had died of the illness and 70,548 confirmed circumstances of novel coronavirus an infection had been reported in 31 provincial-level areas and the Xinjiang Manufacturing and Building Corps in China.
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In chapter 39 of his ebook, Koontz writes that the lab is situated in Wuhan, which lends the virus its identify, Wuhan-400.
Congress chief Manish Tewari has additionally tweeted excerpts from a ebook that went viral on the Web that the coronavirus concerned in the outbreak in China’s Wuhan seems to be man-made.
“Is coranavirus a organic weapon developed by the Chinese language known as Wuhan-400? This ebook was printed in 1981. Do learn the excerpt,” Congress chief Manish Tewari tweeted.
Tewari highlighted a paragraph that learn: “They name the stuff ‘Wuhan-400’ as a result of it was developed at their RDNA labs outdoors of the town of Wuhan, and it was the 4 hundredth viable pressure of man-made microorganisms created at that centre.”
Because the publish went viral, Twitterati flooded the social media with their reactions.
A consumer wrote, “Haha infinite monkey theorem. Decide any occasion and likelihood is that some ebook written at some would have an identical plot. Conspiracy principle has no finish.”
One other wrote, “Sensational … Little doubt China had changed Russia and USSR as rogue nation in Hollywood movies and later James Bond films.”
A publish learn, “Intriguing for positive, hope the reality comes out.”
A consumer remarked, “Okay whether it is then it certainly backfired on them!”
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Because I am in regular commo with some of the residents and I have a feeling they would know and tell if something unusual was occurring.
bw
Fringe Ranger
Reading between the lines, these are a combination wood-chipper and incinerator. Picture that.
Well, way back when I suggested that the gov start construction of mobile crematories because if what is claimed is true, they will be needed.
vector7
Dot Collector
Recap: Coronavirus was most likely made in a Wuhan Biolab (12:45)
View: https://youtu.be/eJ3-ZbneA0g
pops88
Girls with Guns Member
For those that believe in spiritual gifts, the word I've been getting is "bloom." The interpretation of that is that I think we are going to see something akin to an algae bloom with this- sudden, explosive growth. We've already seen that in Wuhan. Hopefully it won't be as bad here or in other areas. YMMV.
Ragnarok
On and On, South of Heaven
Not just going home to Japan... 50 different countries were represented by those on board...
Is it possible that all the Diamond Princess quarantine did was infect more people with Covid-19 and that the aftermath of the poorly-executed quarantine will spread the virus across the globe?
The only folks who are remaining in quarantine are those who were sharing a cabin with infected people and each day a few hundred more people will be released willy-nilly into Japan’s public transportation system to make their way back to 50 different countries – most likely on public transportation
Did The Diamond Princess "Quarantine" Just Infect More People With Covid-19 And Spread It Further?
20Gauge
TB Fanatic
Then you are too close to Atlanta..... I win... sort of.....
Good points. But this stuff seems to be very contagious. So if there is something to note, it should affect a whole bunch of people, all at about the same time. And that would be noticed.
Ragnarok
On and On, South of Heaven
State hospital in San Antonio begins treating coronavirus evacuees from Lackland
An unknown number of evacuees at Lackland connected to the coronavirus outbreak have been...www.mysanantonio.com
State: Coronavirus evacuees from Lackland transported to state infectious disease hospital in San Antonio
By Lauren Caruba
Updated 2:36 pm CST, Wednesday, February 19, 2020
An unknown number of evacuees connected to the coronavirus outbreak have been transported from Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland to a state hospital in San Antonio.
Chris Van Deusen, a spokesman for the Texas Department of State Health Services, said that patients were transported to the Texas Center for Infectious Disease on Tuesday and Wednesday. He declined to specify the number of patients being treated there.
The 75-bed hospital typically treats only tuberculosis patients, but state officials have reserved 22 beds in a separate wing for people suspected of having coronavirus, as well as infected patients who are experiencing mild symptoms.
Patients who need a higher level of medical attention would be transferred to an acute care hospital in the area, Van Deusen said.
This is some Bowl-Sheet!
Doc1
Has No Life - Lives on TB
Reading this thread and pondering the current coronavirus situation remonded me of a 1972 movie featuring George C. Scott, titled "Rage". The movie's story line was about a father (Scott) and his son who are exposed to an Army nerve agent while on a camping trip. Both father and son receive lethal doses of the nerve agent, though the son succumbs first. Scott does his level best to exact revenge on everyone who was involved in the nerve agent exposure and its cover-up.
The movie illustrates phenomenon we are widely seeing with the coronavirus situation. There are coverups, government pressure on civilian doctors to toe the party line and the usual government mendacities we've all - sadly - become accustomed to.
Worth a watch if you can find it and - seen through the right prisms - will remind you of what we are experiencing with Corona.
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Doc
The movie illustrates phenomenon we are widely seeing with the coronavirus situation. There are coverups, government pressure on civilian doctors to toe the party line and the usual government mendacities we've all - sadly - become accustomed to.
Worth a watch if you can find it and - seen through the right prisms - will remind you of what we are experiencing with Corona.
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There were 2 cruise ships affected. One had quite a few with coronavirus, the other docked in Cambodia, and a passenger from that particular ship was discovered sick in Malaysia. God only knows if anyone else she was onboard with was infected, not to mention on the plane she took to Malaysia.1 hr 15 min ago
Cruise industry focusing on "health and safety" amid coronavirus outbreak
From CNN’s Alison Kosik
The cruise industry is “focused on protecting the health and safety of passengers and crew” amid the coronavirus outbreak, according to the industry’s largest trade group.
“The enhanced screening measures, the first of which were adopted within hours of the WHO declaring a global health emergency, do appear to be working and have enabled operations to continue as usual in many parts of the world,” said Bari Goin-Blaugrund, senior director of strategic communications of Cruise Lines International Association, or CLIA.
Goin-Blaugrund also said that within the global CLIA fleet of 272 cruise ships, only one has experienced any cases of coronavirus on board.
Passengers aboard that ship, the Diamond Princess in Japan, began disembarking Wednesday after a 14-day quarantine. A total of 624 cases of the virus are linked to the stricken ship.
Analysts say the coronavirus could take a financial toll on the industry, especially in China. If operators cancel cruises through March, JP Morgan predicts revenue could fall as much at 15%.
Shares for two of the biggest cruise operators — Royal Caribbean and Carnival — are down more than 16% and 14% this year, respectively.
February 19, 2020 coronavirus news
The novel coronavirus has now killed more than 2,000 people, all but five of them in mainland China. It has infected more than 75,000 people, with over 1,000 cases outside mainland China.
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No US coronavirus cases have been caught by airport temperature checks
From CNN's Elizabeth Cohen and John Bonifield
Since mid-January, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has been employing temperature checks at selected airports, at first on people flying in from Wuhan, China, the epicenter of the coronavirus outbreak, and now on all passengers who've been anywhere in mainland China in the past 14 days.
While the CDC has screened more than 30,000 passengers in the past month, not a single US coronavirus case has been caught by airport temperature checks, according to a CNN investigation.
CNN reviewed statements by local, state and federal health officials, and emailed and spoke with officials, to determine how many people eventually diagnosed with the novel coronavirus went through airport temperature checks.
By the numbers: Ten passengers flew into US airports on commercial airliners and were later diagnosed with coronavirus.
Four of those 10 passengers went through temperature checks and were found not to have a fever or any other symptoms of the virus. Two of those passengers flew into Los Angeles International Airport and two flew into San Francisco International Airport. Previously, a CDC spokesperson had told CNN that two of the passengers were symptomatic during flight, but the spokesperson later said they were asymptomatic while flying.
Another four out of the 10 passengers were not screened because they flew into airports that did not have screening at the time. Those cases are in Illinois, Washington state, Massachusetts and California.
It's unclear whether the final two passengers went through temperature checks because health officials at the CDC and in Wisconsin and Arizona refused to say when asked by CNN.
How the screening works: The temperature checks are part of an overall screening effort that includes giving passengers cards telling them to watch out for fever, cough and trouble breathing, all symptoms of the novel coronavirus disease, also called COVID-19.
While airport temperature checks haven't caught any coronavirus cases, the information cards have helped catch US cases of the virus at least twice – once in a passenger who flew into San Francisco, and once in a passenger who flew into Los Angeles.
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===February 19, 2020 coronavirus news
The novel coronavirus has now killed more than 2,000 people, all but five of them in mainland China. It has infected more than 75,000 people, with over 1,000 cases outside mainland China.
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Seeker22
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What a hit piece! Not a peep about the multiple gaps in the Genome and the spike proteins that we discussed for pages on end. This vid was made to steer the narrative but I am still in the gene engineered camp.
Its all good. Thanks for posting just so we can see another angle.
Melodi
Disaster Cat
My personal reaction when it finally sunk in that the Japanese had just released people on that ship even though a bunch of people had continued to test positive - I mean released them to "make their own way home" using cabs, airports, etc was to say out loud:
"That's not the end of a quarantine, that's the start of a biological timebomb"
"That's not the end of a quarantine, that's the start of a biological timebomb"
vector7
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Strange coincidences...
UN Troops Featured in World Military Games in Wuhan China Just Weeks Before Coronavirus Outbreak (9:36)
View: https://youtu.be/WE8m309gKVE
UN Troops Featured in World Military Games in Wuhan China Just Weeks Before Coronavirus Outbreak (9:36)
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Tom McDowell
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bsharp
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Move along folks. Nothing to see here. Just cleaning things up to match our reported numbers.
John Deere Girl
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True, but I'd say the chances of this lady being sick while onboard is pretty high.
psychgirl
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Thank you for your reply. Actually, she did answer my text that I sent her to please not go...she’s actually visiting Egypt but have no further details just thanking me for being concerned for her... sigh.., she’s a hardheaded one.
Tristan
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vector7
Dot Collector
Tons of spin and speculation are everywhere as it's difficult to confirm facts that are slowly emerging now after the horses have long left the barn.
Tarryn
Senior Member
Interesting videos out of iran. This a thread of several videos
View: https://mobile.twitter.com/BabakTaghvaee1/status/1230262104353099776
#BREAKING: Security forces of #Iran's Islamic Regime including #IRGC Ground Force are now sending their troops and military equipment including these MRAPs to the city of #Qom in-order to establish military curfew over #CoronaVirus outbreak & death of two people in the city!
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@BabakTaghvaee1
#BREAKING: Another video shows arrival of the MRAPs of #IRGC Ground Force at the entry points of the city of #Qom for military curfew and closure of main roads to the city over the #CoronaVirus outbreak in the city!
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Babak Taghvaee (Backup)
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Video shows a #CoronaVirus infected patient who was transported from #Qom to #Tehran's Farmaniyeh hospital. He was a high profile patient (probably relative of a regime authority).
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#BREAKING:While #Iranian security forces are preparing for military quarantine of #Qom following to reports about increasing number of #COVID2019/#CoronaVirus cases, the hospitals are put on high alert in the city to receive the patients. Video recorded an hour ago in #Qom!
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Babak Taghvaee (Backup)
@BabakTaghvaee1
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#BREAKING: Ate-least 10 new #COVID2019 infected patients can be seen in an ambulance bus on their ways to one of two hospitals of #Qom (Kamkar & Forghani) those are dedicated for #CoronaVirus cases. Video recorded few minutes ago.
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Babak Taghvaee (Backup)
@BabakTaghvaee1
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#BREAKING: Video shows the ambulance bus carrying the new #CoronaVirus/#COVID2019 infected patient in front of the Nekuee (Forghani) hospital of #Qom in #Iran minutes ago. The hospital is quarantined. #COVID19
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View: https://mobile.twitter.com/BabakTaghvaee1/status/1230262104353099776
#BREAKING: Security forces of #Iran's Islamic Regime including #IRGC Ground Force are now sending their troops and military equipment including these MRAPs to the city of #Qom in-order to establish military curfew over #CoronaVirus outbreak & death of two people in the city!
0:19
6.1K views
Replying to
@BabakTaghvaee1
#BREAKING: Another video shows arrival of the MRAPs of #IRGC Ground Force at the entry points of the city of #Qom for military curfew and closure of main roads to the city over the #CoronaVirus outbreak in the city!
0:44
950 views
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Babak Taghvaee (Backup)
@BabakTaghvaee1
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Video shows a #CoronaVirus infected patient who was transported from #Qom to #Tehran's Farmaniyeh hospital. He was a high profile patient (probably relative of a regime authority).
0:24
1.3K views
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Babak Taghvaee (Backup)
@BabakTaghvaee1
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#BREAKING:While #Iranian security forces are preparing for military quarantine of #Qom following to reports about increasing number of #COVID2019/#CoronaVirus cases, the hospitals are put on high alert in the city to receive the patients. Video recorded an hour ago in #Qom!
0:07
1K views
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Babak Taghvaee (Backup)
@BabakTaghvaee1
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#BREAKING: Ate-least 10 new #COVID2019 infected patients can be seen in an ambulance bus on their ways to one of two hospitals of #Qom (Kamkar & Forghani) those are dedicated for #CoronaVirus cases. Video recorded few minutes ago.
0:25
1.4K views
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Babak Taghvaee (Backup)
@BabakTaghvaee1
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#BREAKING: Video shows the ambulance bus carrying the new #CoronaVirus/#COVID2019 infected patient in front of the Nekuee (Forghani) hospital of #Qom in #Iran minutes ago. The hospital is quarantined. #COVID19
0:35
1.3K views
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