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Warm Wisconsin

Easy as 3.141592653589..
I have a whole another take on prevention. I believe you would want to catch an early mutation of this virus. The mutations normally make the virus stronger. I think an early resistance to this virus might be a good thing.
 

Shooter

Veteran Member
If you dont think its safe to send your kids to school. then dont. dont wait for the schools to decide there fate, I really can see them keeping the schools open so they dont creat a panic,
 

packyderms_wife

Neither here nor there.
If you really think you might end up wearing one for longer than a few minutes at a time, the masks with one-way valves are more comfortable. They're also better for those who already have breathing problems.

But it sounds like even a fabric surgical mask is effective... although I sure wouldn't want to count on that with something like Ebola!

One thing, touched on by the doctor who believes he caught it through his eyes... every time one of these "potential pandemic" viruses shows up, I think about how many people wear contact lenses. I think they're much better than they were years ago, but I still see people adjusting them, pok8ng at their eyes, etc...

That's fine in normal times, but if you are worried enough about catching something that you're wearing a mask, dump the contacts and wear glasses for the duration.

Summerthyme

VoggMask from Amazon and be aware that they do come in sizes. I own two.
 

Pinecone

Has No Life - Lives on TB
I wonder why they are refusing to ID the airports he flew through.


First U.S. coronavirus patient had at least 16 close contacts before he was placed in isolation, officials say


BY VICTORIA ALBERT
JANUARY 22, 2020 / 8:01 PM / CBS NEWS



The Washington man who developed the first case of the novel coronavirus in the U.S. had at least 16 close contacts before he was placed in isolation, health officials said Wednesday. The officials stressed that the risk to the public remains low.


The Wednesday night press conference came two days after the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced that a man in his 30s — who recently flew to Seattle from Wuhan, China — was the first confirmed case of the new virus strain in the U.S.

The man is being treated at Providence Regional Medical Center in Everett, outside Seattle, and is in good condition, officials said Wednesday. After interviewing him about what he did when he returned to Washington, officials said they identified 16 people who came in close contact with him before he was put in isolation.

The officials defined close contact as a person who was within 6 feet of the patient for a prolonged period of time.


Officials began reaching out to those contacts on Wednesday. "All the close contacts will be part of what we call 'active monitoring,'" said Washington state Secretary of Health John Wiesman.

"That means that a public health worker will call the person daily to do a symptom check for them, see if they have a fever, cough, any respiratory issues. And should anyone develop symptoms at any point in time, these people who are under monitoring will be instructed to immediately call a public health worker to report the symptoms, and then we would help facilitate a medical evaluation."


Because officials believe that patients don't become infectious until they begin experiencing symptoms, the close contacts have not been placed in isolation.

Officials emphasized the patient is faring well, and that the risk to the public is low. They added that the patient is the only person in the U.S. who has been tested for the virus.

"Patient continues to rest comfortably, appears in no distress," said Dr. Jay Cook, the chief medical officer at the Providence Regional Medical Center. "I had the opportunity to go by the unit early this morning, the patient was asleep, so I didn't wake him up, but the staff reported that he had a really good night."

The virus is believed to have originated at a food market in Wuhan, a city of 11 million people. But officials said the U.S. patient said he was "just traveling through the area," and did not visit the market or know anyone who was ill.

Officials added the man did not take a direct flight from Wuhan, but they declined to say which airports he flew through en route to Seattle-Tacoma International Airport on January 15.
 

Pinecone

Has No Life - Lives on TB
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After being diagnosed with Wuhan coronavirus, Seattle man now in isolation



After being diagnosed with Wuhan coronavirus, Seattle man now in isolation


by Alfred Charles, KOMONews.com Executive Producer
Wednesday, January 22nd 2020

Staff sell masks at a Yifeng Pharmacy in Wuhan, Chin, Wednesday, Jan. 22, 2020. Pharmacies in Wuhan are restricting customers to buying one mask at a time amid high demand and worries over an outbreak of a new coronavirus. The number of cases of the new virus has risen over 400 in China and the death toll to 9, Chinese health authorities said Wednesday. (AP Photo/Dake Kang)

The Seattle area man who is now the first confirmed U.S. patient to be diagnosed with the mysterious Wuhan coronavirus remains in isolation, and based on an interview with medical staffers his hospital stay can be described as challenging and harrowing.

The man remains under medical review, and authorities said Wednesday that they have identified 16 people who were in "close contact" with the patient and they are now being monitored in case they develop symptoms related to the virus.

Because of federal rules regarding medical privacy, the identity of the Snohomish County man who is in his 30s, is being closely guarded, and not much is known about his background.

We do know that he had traveled recently to China and arrived at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport one week ago on a Wednesday. He reached out to health officials a few days later after he started complaining about not feeling well.
John Wiesman, the state's health secretary, said at a press conference that a call center has been activated for those who suspect they may have the virus or have questions. The number is 425-388-5088.

Dr. J. Cook, the chief medical officer at Providence Medical Center, which is where the patient is being treated, said the man's condition is unchanged.

"Clinically, there is not much to report," Cook said. "The patient continues to rest comfortably."

Update on Snohomish Co. man with coronavirus

Health authorities say the newly discovered virus can be transmitted from human to human, but it is not clear how transmission occurs. Symptoms of infection include fever, difficulty breathing and lung lesions, officials say. The symptoms can resemble the flue or a bad cold, according to health officials.

Without a doubt, the patient's life has been turned upside down.

According to Dr. George Diaz, the head of the infectious disease program at Providence Regional Medical Center, the patient is isolated and will remain so until officials at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention say it's OK for him to be released from isolation.

Diaz spoke to ABC News on Wednesday about the patient and what his daily life and routine is like now that he has become the country's first patient with the mysterious virus.
According to Diaz:
  • Hospital staffers use a robot with a stethoscope to care for the man, an attempt to limit physical contact with him.
  • The patient resides in bio-containment room that is about 20x20, and it has security guards and four specially trained nurses who are assigned to his case.
  • Only 10-12 credentialed healthcare workers have access to room, and only a very few of them have have actually been inside his quarters.
News that a U.S. citizen has been diagnosed has activated some precautionary protocols.

CDC officials have activated the agency's national emergency center in response to the discovery of the potentially deadly virus in the U.S. The risk to the general public is considered "low,'" but CDC officials say they expect to find more cases in the U.S.

In addition, passengers from Wuhan, China, are being screened at J.F.K. Airport In New York, as well as at the major airports in Los Angeles, San Francisco, Atlanta and Chicago's O'Hare Airport. What's more, officials will begin forcing all passengers that originate in Wuhan to go to one of those five airports if they wish to enter the U.S.

Doctors treating the man say he is doing well and receiving supporting care.

According to the New York Times, more than 400 people have been infected by the virus in China and at least 17 people have died from the illness.
 

Mark D

Now running for Emperor.
I am currently at the hospital the U.S. case in quarantined at (wife's cancer surgery). I didn't have a clue until I walked past the news crew on my way to grab lunch... WooHoo! Ground Zero for WWZ (not).

Did China really quarantine an entire city?
 

TxGal

Day by day
Falls Church city is just down from the Tysons Corner mall area, down rt.7 Leesburg Pike. We're about 25 minutes away .Thank God they're staying over in Falls Church rather than where we're at. FFX CO schools made a good decision not to have these kids attend schools. One of few, to be honest.
Besides, the Chinese kids get a nice break from school. And it's cold too; that will help limit spread if any of them do end up showing symptoms.

I'm very familiar with the area, grew up not far from Lake Barcroft :-) Extremely familiar with FCPS.

It will be very interesting to see how this plays out.
 

goosebeans

Veteran Member
Goosebeans, is this a public school trip that was cancelled? I just wondered if anyone else has school aged children in public school. Is anyone aware of any pandemic plan schools may have? I don't want to send my kid to school if there's a pandemic. I wonder if schools would close.

forpetesake, it appears that these Chinese students are on a tour of the DC area and part of the trip was to spend a week in a US public school. Since these kids are from the Wuhan area - where the virus has originated, the parents and staff of the school decided to cancel the school visit, to be on the safe side. However, the kids will continue on with their tour of DC.

I haven't heard of any plans for public schools yet. Our son is an engineering student at Virginia Tech where there are many, many Chinese students. So far we've had no communication from Tech in regards to this virus. I was just wondering today, if they will put out any info. Son says they put great emphasis on encouraging students to still attend classes even if they're sick! Which is worrying, to say the least! Son commutes every day so even though we live rather remote, that's a huge, weak link in our family's plan to isolate from the general public.
 
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Truthsearch

Doom is ALWAYS 6 Months Away...

EXCLUSIVE: Chinese Coronavirus ‘Really Serious Business,’ Says Texas Research Physician
HOUSTON, Texas — A physician tasked with developing a vaccine for the prevention of coronavirus-type illnesses says this latest virus is the third variant since 2002. The doctor expressed concern about the frequency of new coronavirus contagions.

“This is the third new coronavirus since the turn of the century,” Dr. Peter Hotez, Dean of the National School of Tropical Medicine at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston told Breitbart Texas in a phone interview. “This is serious business.”

The doctor referenced the SARS (Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome) discovery in 2002, the MERS (Middle East Respiratory Syndrome) discovery in 2012, and the Wuhan coronavirus in 2020.
“It is still very early,” Dr. Hotez said in reference to a question about what we know about the Wuhan coronavirus. “What we don’t know is much more than what we do know.”

He does not believe the virus will be as deadly as SARS, which had about a 10 percent mortality rate. If the information provided by the Chinese government is correct, the current disclosed mortality rate is currently just under two percent. Early on Wednesday, Chinese officials directly reported nine deaths out of 479 reported cases.

“We will know more in the coming weeks,” the doctor continued. “Right now, it appears to be harder to transmit than the previous viruses, the flu, or measles.”

“We are now seeing person-to-person spreading of the virus,” he added. “We will know more in the coming weeks.”
To help prevent the spread of the virus, the doctor suggested prevention methods similar to the common cold or flu. This includes frequent hand washing, covering mouths during a cough or sneeze, and staying away from people who might be infected.

Chinese National Health Commission Vice-Minister Li Bin told reporters in a Wednesday (January 22) press conference regarding the Wuhan coronavirus (also known as 2019-nCo) that there is a “possibility of viral mutation and further spread of the disease,” the AFP reported. The news agency reported the number of confirmed cases in China now stands at 440.
Dr. Hotez said his researchers have not yet determined if a prototype vaccine developed for SARS will be effective against the new coronavirus.

The doctor said he is more concerned about this year’s flu season. He said at least six children under the age of 16 have died from flu-related symptoms since October 2019.

“If you’re concerned about your health, get a flu vaccine,” Dr. Hotez urged.
 

Pinecone

Has No Life - Lives on TB
Sorry to hear about your wife.
I am currently at the hospital the U.S. case in quarantined at (wife's cancer surgery). I didn't have a clue until I walked past the news crew on my way to grab lunch... WooHoo! Ground Zero for WWZ (not).

Did China really quarantine an entire city?
Sorry to hear about your wife. Prayers for you both.
And yes, they have started to quarantine Wuhan, where it started.
Are you wearing a mask? I would, just for the flu if nothing else.
 

forpetesake

Senior Member
forpetesake, it appears that these Chinese students are on a tour of the DC area and part of the trip was to spend a week in a US public school. Since these kids are from the Wuhan area - where the virus has originated, the parents and staff of the school decided to cancel the school visit, to be on the safe side. However, the kids will continue on with their tour of DC.

I haven't heard of any plans for public schools yet. Our son is an engineering student at Virginia Tech where there are many, many Chinese students. So far we've had no communication from Tech in regards to this virus. I was just wondering today, if they will put out any info. Son says they put great emphasis on encouraging students to still attend classes even if they're sick! Which is worrying, to say the least! Son commutes every day so even though we live rather remote, that's a huge, weak link in our family's plan to isolate from the general public.


Thanks Goosebeans! Sure hope schools (elementary, universities etc) don't expect students to come to class for fear of becoming seriously ill. They should plan to close if it were widespread.
 

goosebeans

Veteran Member
I am currently at the hospital the U.S. case in quarantined at (wife's cancer surgery). I didn't have a clue until I walked past the news crew on my way to grab lunch... WooHoo! Ground Zero for WWZ (not).

Did China really quarantine an entire city?

Oh, Mark D. didn't know about your wife! Tell her people she doesn't know are thinking about her and sending hugs- and prayers for a speedy recovery!
 

Warm Wisconsin

Easy as 3.141592653589..
i wonder how many people fled the virus in Wuhan? The people had almost 8 hours to get out before the lock down.

250,000?
500,000?
1 or 2 million?

I would be tempted to bug out
 

jward

passin' thru
I am currently at the hospital the U.S. case in quarantined at (wife's cancer surgery). I didn't have a clue until I walked past the news crew on my way to grab lunch... WooHoo! Ground Zero for WWZ (not).

Did China really quarantine an entire city?

First, prayers for your wife.
...and yeah, sorta kinda sounds like.
 

Tarryn

Senior Member
I've seen this rumour floating around social media, but this is the first news story. Most of the rumours I've read say that hospital staff have to get approval to test for the virus.

https://amp.theguardian.com/world/2020/jan/21/coronavirus-chinese-hospitals-not-testing-patients-say-relatives

Coronavirus: Chinese hospitals not testing patients, say relatives
Number of cases, and deaths, could be much higher than those cited in official reports if claims are true
Lily Kuo and Lillian Yang in Beijing

On 12 January Huang got news his healthy 65-year-old mother had been checked into a hospital in the central Chinese city of Wuhan with a fever and a cough.
There had been reports of a strange new virus with similar symptoms, and the hospital staff were dressed in full hazmat suits. Still, Huang’s mother was not tested for the mystery illness, nor quarantined from other patients.
On 14 January she took a turn for the worse and was slipping in and out of consciousness. A CT scan showed her lungs covered in white nodules. The next evening, Huang’s brother and father watched her die. The official cause of death was severe pneumonia. Two doctors told the family privately that she had probably contracted the virus, but provided no documentation
The hospital pressured the family to immediately cremate Huang’s mother, but they refused, asking for more information. A few days later, they relented and workers from a funeral home, also in protective clothing, retrieved, cremated and buried her within a few hours, leaving the family no time to say goodbye. Afterwards, the staff disinfected the van they had travelled in and threw away their hazmat suits.
“My mother’s death was dealt with without any dignity,” said Huang, 40, who did not want to give his or his mother’s full name. “She wasn’t even counted as a number on the government’s list,” he said, referring to the six people authorities say have been killed by the virus.


In China cases have been confirmed in Beijing, Shanghai and Hubei and Guangdong provinces. Cases have also been reported in Taiwan, Thailand, Japan and South Korea

China is on high alert as a new strain of coronavirus – first detected in Wuhan – spreads across the country. If hospitals are not screening for the virus then the number of cases, and deaths, could be much higher than those cited in official reports.
Authorities reported three more deaths on Tuesday: an 89-year-old male, a 66-year-old male and a 48-year-old female. The government has confirmed 308 cases, with 270 of them in Hubei province, of which Wuhan is the capital.
Cases have been confirmed in Beijing, Shanghai, Chongqing, and Tianjin, as well as the provinces Henan, Zhejiang and Guangdong. Suspected cases have been flagged in 13 provinces across the country – many of them hundreds of miles away from Wuhan. Fifteen health workers in Wuhan have also been infected, according to authorities.


The number of confirmed infections is likely to have been underestimated, according to international public health experts, who say there could be as many as 1,700 cases.
On the microblog Weibo, another Wuhan resident posted images of her mother’s diagnosis of viral pneumonia and described the long queues of patients with similar symptoms late on Monday night, none of whom appeared to have been tested for coronavirus. “Could all these people suddenly have viral pneumonia?” she said.

Another Weibo user complained earlier this month that his father showed the symptoms of the virus but was sent home from the hospital without any screening. The post later disappeared.
The World Health Organization has said the recent rise in cases is a sign authorities are now more aggressively screening for the virus. It will consider declaring an international public health emergency – as it did with swine flu and Ebola – on Wednesday.
The Chinese political body responsible for law and order said on Tuesday that lower-ranking officials who covered up the spread of the virus would “be nailed on the pillar of shame for eternity”.
During the Sars outbreak in the early 2000s, China initially withheld information about it from the public and vastly underreported cases of infection. The virus, which was also caused by a coronavirus, killed 774 people.
Late on Monday, China’s National Health Commission confirmed that the new virus could be spread through human-to-human contact, heightening outbreak fears before the country’s week-long lunar new year holiday, which starts on Friday and during which hundreds of millions of people travel across the country.
On Tuesday internet users posted photos of shops with shelves emptied of face masks. The price of protective face masks sold online has at least doubled, prompting criticism from the state-run China Daily paper, which described the behaviour of sellers as “immoral”. In Beijing, many commuters wore masks indoors and on the subway.
Should the world be worried about the coronavirus in China?
In Wuhan, authorities have begun to control the number of people leaving and entering the city, according to state TV. Guards are keeping a 24-hour watch on the now closed Huanan seafood and animal market, suspected as the source of the outbreak. Tour groups are barred from leaving and random spot checks are being conducted on vehicles coming in and out of the city to see whether they carry live animals.

Advice online has ranged from washing one’s hands to not using the self-service screens at McDonald’s. Some people said they had cancelled plans to travel home for the holidays. Some internet users posted notices from their employers giving them permission to work from home this week.
At the crematorium in Wuhan, Huang said he met one other family whose relative had died in similar circumstances.
He was not sure how his mother would have caught the virus. She had not gone to the seafood market, and was healthy and active. “Everyone said she was a good person – always helping people,” he said. “In the end, she died alone and no one had a chance to say goodbye.”
 

jward

passin' thru
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Many travelers wore protective face masks at Shanghai’s high-speed railway station today. Hundreds of millions of people are traveling this week to attend Lunar New Year celebrations.
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WHO panel puts off decision on whether to sound alarm on rapid spread of new virus
By Jon CohenJan. 22, 2020 , 5:45 PM
emergency committee for the World Health Organization (WHO) today had a tie vote on whether to recommend sounding the loudest alarm available in response to the outbreak of a novel coronavirus that has spread from Wuhan, China, throughout that nation and to at least four other countries.

At a late evening press conference in Geneva, WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, chair of the committee, and other WHO officials explained that half the committee decided there were still too many unknowns to a declare Public Health Emergency of International Concern (PHEIC), a designation that can affect travel and the movement of goods. The decision came hours after Wuhan authorities revealed that the city will shut down all transportation from the city of 11 million people on 10 a.m. local time on Thursday.

Didier Houssin, an adviser to France’s top health agency and chair of the committee, said half the committee still had questions about whether the patterns of transmission of the disease and its severity warranted a PHEIC. “The committee felt it was a little too unprecise to very clearly state that it was time” to recommend declaring a PHEIC, Houssin said. The committee, which advises WHO’s director-general, will meet again tomorrow to review whether fresh data tip the scales one way or another.

Alexandra Phelan, a lawyer at Georgetown University who specializes in global health policy and listened in on the press call, says based on Chinese government and media reports, she thinks the criteria for a PHEIC have been met. But the committee is focusing on a “level of granularity” not in the International Health Regulations, the treaty that allows WHO to declare a PHEIC, Phelan says. “It really came down to their interpretation of what is ‘international spread,’” Phelan says. If all known cases outside China were in people who had traveled from China, some might argue that it does not count as international spread, she says. But the available data may not be clear enough to know whether that’s the case.

Phelan, who has lived in China, says the reports of Wuhan restricting transportation are “particularly concerning from a public health perspective” as they could backfire. “You want people to have trust in public health officials if they are sick, and these sorts of heavy-handed decisions make people scared and mistrust authority.”

To date, there have been 555 confirmed cases of infection with the virus, temporarily dubbed novel coronavirus 2019, and 17 deaths. About 80% of the cases are in Wuhan, where the first patient sought care on 12 December 2019 and a cluster initially was linked to a large animal market there. Health officials suspect that an infected animal for sale at the market initially transmitted the virus to humans, but human-to-human transmission has since occurred in family members and health care workers who had close contact with confirmed cases.

The exact origin of the virus, which is similar to one that causes sudden acute respiratory syndrome and is most closely related to one found in bats, remains a mystery. Animals sold in the market are being tested for the virus, and environmental samples are also being analyzed.

Mike Ryan, executive director of WHO’s Health Emergencies Programme, said an official from China’s National Health Commission today gave the committee a “very deep presentation” that underscores how many questions remain. According to the Chinese data, 72% of the cases were more than 40 years old, and 40% had underlying diseases like diabetes, high blood pressure, and cardiovascular disease, Ryan said. “If the disease more severely affects older people because of underlying conditions, that doesn’t mean there aren’t infections in other age groups,” he said. “It just means that the visible infections of very sick people are in those older age groups.” Many of the fatal cases had “significant underlying conditions,” Ryan added.

No cases have yet been detected of what’s known as a third-generation transmission: a human infected by a human who was infected by a human. If transmissions occur for three generations or more, there’s a much greater threat of a virus rapidly spreading through communities

 

jward

passin' thru
Well now that Wuhan is shut down. Will this slow this?

No. But that was never going to happen, anyway. What it does is concentrate things, follows predetermined protocols, and helps buy a bit of breathing room to see what this will pan out to be.
 

Truthsearch

Doom is ALWAYS 6 Months Away...
i wonder how many people fled the virus in Wuhan? The people had almost 8 hours to get out before the lock down.

250,000?
500,000?
1 or 2 million?

I would be tempted to bug out

And guess what..........it only takes a *FEW* of those people to be infected beforehand to spread the disease all around. I got the bad feeling that we are #!*@^%)($ed!
 

jward

passin' thru
Wow. According to this report, the incubation period is possibly 3 weeks long ?!

Yes. That is consistant with what I have read earlier, too. . . the jury thinks, but is not certain, that this is going to prove milder and less problematic than sars and mers (?) Were....they just don't have enough data points yet...
 
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jward

passin' thru
And guess what..........it only takes a *FEW* of those people to be infected beforehand to spread the disease all around. I got the bad feeling that we are #!*@^%)($ed!

Oh its definitely made its way around the globe...but what problems' it brings remain to be seen...
 

jward

passin' thru
so we're definitely looking at comorbidity here, at least with the new deaths in this specific time period...which is good imho, as it is expected, predictable and those vulnerable populations are aware and presumably proactive...j

As of 24:00 on January 22, our committee had received a total of 571 confirmed cases of pneumonia of new coronavirus infection in 25 provinces (autonomous regions, municipalities) in China, including 95 severe cases and 17 deaths (all from Hubei Province).

A total of 393 suspected cases were reported in 13 provinces (autonomous regions and municipalities).
  At 00:00 on the 22nd, 24 provinces (autonomous regions and municipalities) reported 131 new confirmed cases and 8 new deaths, of which 5 were males and 3 were females, with the exception of 1 except 53 years old, and the rest were 65 Elderly people over 5 years old and 5 cases over 80 years old have chronic and basic diseases such as postoperative cancer, liver damage, hypertension, coronary heart disease, diabetes, and Parkinson. 13 provinces (autonomous regions and municipalities) reported 257 new suspected cases. A total of 25 provinces (autonomous regions and municipalities) reported epidemics nationwide, and 4 provinces including Hebei, Liaoning, Jiangsu and Fujian were added.
  Confirmed cases reported overseas: 1 case in Hong Kong, China, 1 case in Macau, 1 case in Taiwan, China; 1 case in the United States, 1 case in Japan, 3 cases in Thailand, and 1 case in South Korea.
  At present, 5897 close contacts have been traced, 969 people have been released from medical observation, and 4928 people are still receiving medical observation.
 
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northern watch

TB Fanatic
China Locks Down City at Center of Virus Outbreak; Wuhan to halt all outbound flights and trains as authorities try to stem spread of new pneumonialike illness ahead of Lunar New Year; death toll jumps to at least 17
Wednesday, January 22, 2020, 9:11 PM ET
By Shan Li, James T. Areddy and Chao Deng
Wall Street Journal

WUHAN, China—The city in central China where a new coronavirus originated will halt outbound flights and trains and shut its public-transportation system, the Chinese government said, a dramatic escalation in the battle to contain a pneumonia outbreak that has killed at least 17 people.

The decision to lock down Wuhan, a major travel hub and a city of 11 million, comes as the country is entering one of its busiest travel periods, its Lunar New Year holiday. Hundreds of millions will travel across China and outside the country, increasing the risk of transmission for the virus.

After days in which authorities appeared reluctant to impose sweeping bans on the movement of the general public in Wuhan, the mood began to shift on Monday, when the number of confirmed cases jumped and health authorities confirmed the virus could be transmitted between humans.

That day, President Xi Jinping gave his first public direction to officials to work with international authorities and share information more openly. Since then, as the number of deaths and confirmed cases has risen, authorities in Wuhan have stepped up their own countermeasures.

The lockdown will begin at 10 a.m. local time on Thursday and continue for an indefinite period, Wuhan health authorities said. Service on subways, city buses, long-distance coaches and ferries will also be suspended.

At Wuhan's Hankou rail station, thousands of travelers hustled to catch trains, many booked or changed at the last minute, to get out of the city before the lockdown on public transportation. Inside the station, people wearing face masks and dragging luggage jogged to catch departing trains. Almost every seat on the trains was occupied.

Lai Xuan, a 25-year-old accountant, was awakened by her husband, Tang Hao, at 2 a.m. after he read about the pending transportation closure.

"I wanted to flee immediately," said Ms. Lai, who has been avoiding restaurants, movie theaters and other public spaces to avoid infection.

Mr. Tang, who works in advertising at a tech firm, said he believes the government is doing only what is necessary to ensure public health. "It's normal to try to control the population flow when people are sick," he said.

But they hurried over to the train station at 5 a.m. to exchange their noon tickets to Shiyan in the Hubei province for an 8:30 a.m. train. His employer told employees to try to stay away from Wuhan.

Many of the top comments on Weibo, China's Twitter -like microblogging service, have been supportive of the city at the epicenter of the outbreak and the government's efforts to contain the virus.

"Wuhan, we are in this together. You are one city but part of the country. Please don't lose hope. The dark days will pass," read a post that got more than 15,000 likes.

Chinese authorities have suggested that the newly identified coronavirus is spreading between people primarily through coughing, kissing or contact with saliva. The number of infections from the new pneumonia-causing coronavirus has multiplied in recent days, with 568 confirmed cases in mainland China as of the end of Wednesday, according to the Communist Party mouthpiece People's Daily, up from more than 300 announced on Tuesday.

Public anxiety, the holiday and cold, wet weather had cleared many from Wuhan's streets, restaurants, subway and airport by Wednesday, but the entrances to front-line hospitals were busy, with patients' relatives dropping off food and other daily supplies.

"My dad is 65, and he's right in that vulnerable age of danger," said a woman waiting inside the Wuhan Medical Treatment Center, also known as Jinyintan Hospital, in a newish northern section of the city.

She said her father had suffered a high fever for several days and been transferred to the center—where staffers donned blue surgical-type gowns, as did some police officers, who fit them over their uniforms and wore plastic shields over their faces—from a different city hospital the day before for additional testing. She said doctors didn't know whether he had the virus. "I'm very afraid for his health," she said.

From its initial emergence in a seafood and livestock market in Wuhan, the virus has spread across China and into the U.S., Japan, South Korea and Thailand.

In Hong Kong, health authorities on Thursday said they were investigating two patients who are suspected of having been infected with the new coronavirus, in what would be the Chinese territory's first confirmed cases. One of the patients, a 39-year-old man from Wuhan, had arrived in Hong Kong on Tuesday, Hong Kong Food and Health Secretary Sophia Chan said at a press conference. Preliminary examinations had shown the man testing positive for the virus, Ms. Chan said. The other is a 56-year-old Hong Kong resident who traveled to Wuhan this month to visit relatives, authorities said.

Additionally, across the Pearl River, the Chinese territory of Macau confirmed its first case on Wednesday: a 52-year-old woman who had taken a high-speed train from Wuhan, Chinese state media reported.

Several other provinces and territories in China, including Fujian, Anhui, Liaoning and Guizhou, announced their first confirmed infection cases on Wednesday, according to CCTV and local Chinese authorities. The province of Hubei, of which Wuhan is the capital and largest city, late Wednesday reported a total 444 confirmed cases, up from 270 announced the previous day. It has been the only region to report deaths from the virus so far—rising to 17 from six a day earlier.

Outside mainland China, health authorities have tallied at least three infected patients in Thailand, and one each in Japan, South Korea and Taiwan. On Tuesday, health officials confirmed that a man who had recently arrived in Washington state after a visit to Wuhan had become the U.S.'s first confirmed case.

The World Health Organization on Wednesday postponed for a day a decision on whether to declare that the outbreak constitutes a public-health emergency of international concern. That designation would help mobilize resources to prevent the virus's spread.

After debating the matter for hours, the emergency committee was split on the decision, said Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus , the WHO's director-general.

"It was clear that to proceed, we need more information," Dr. Tedros said.

The agency has a team in China trying to answer important questions such as how transmissible the virus is and what is being done to contain it, he said.

"The situation is evolving very rapidly," said Didier Houssin, chairman of the WHO's emergency committee, who is an adviser to the French Agency for Food, Environment and Occupational Health and Safety.

The start of the Lunar New Year this week has prompted fears of a repeat of the crisis involving severe acute respiratory syndrome, or SARS, which spread through China in late 2002 and early 2003, also overlapping with the holiday. SARS, caused by a different strain of coronavirus, spread globally and killed 774 people after its emergence in southern China.

Public-health officials are particularly concerned about the new virus because there are many unknowns. It is unclear, for example, how many people have actually been infected, and how transmissible it is from one person to another. The more it spreads, the greater the chance of a mutation that could make the virus even deadlier, scientists say.

Some experts have questioned whether China has been too slow in providing updates to the international health community.

"It is still not transparent enough," said Harry Yi-Jui Wu, director of medical ethics and humanities at the University of Hong Kong, while calling on the Chinese government to provide better updates on cases outside of Wuhan. "It should communicate more effectively with citizens, instead of reiterating a wishful phrase saying, 'Disease is in general controllable.' "

In Beijing, Chinese health officials said at a briefing on Wednesday that they are still working to understand more about the virus, while pledging to release timely information.

This week, Zhong Nanshan, one of the country's best-known epidemiologists, confirmed suspicions that the novel coronavirus was spreading between humans , which would allow the disease to be transmitted among people who don't interact with any animals. The virus is believed to have spread to humans from animals at the Wuhan market.

Chinese hospitals are stepping up preventive measures, health officials said. Hubei province plans to ask the national government for emergency aid, the official Communist Party mouthpiece People's Daily reported on Wednesday. Hubei is short of face masks , the report said.

Chinese authorities have yet to determine which animal originally harbored the virus and passed it on to humans, although they have said it was likely a wild animal. They also have yet to announce what they believe is the incubation period for the disease, or the time it takes for infected patients to start showing symptoms.

"If you knew the incubation period, you could do quarantining of people who are in close contact with infected patients," said Melissa Nolan, an assistant professor at the University of South Carolina's Arnold School of Public Health.

"You would monitor those people for the incubation period."

As China's government races to find out more about how the disease is spreading, it is paying attention to the possibility of superspreaders—infected patients who have been able to pass the virus to several people—Gao Fu, a director at China's Center for Disease Control and Prevention, said at the government's press briefing.

On Tuesday, the epidemiologist Dr. Zhong, who leads an expert committee organized by the Beijing government, said one patient in Wuhan had infected more than a dozen medical staff.

But Mr. Gao said there was no evidence yet of superspreaders.

One reason SARS spread so quickly nearly two decades ago was that some individuals were able to transmit the disease to dozens of others.

At Wuhan Lung Hospital, another facility designated to treat virus patients, people huddled outside a quarantine ward that serves as a preliminary location for testing.

One man said his 39-year-old wife had been admitted on Monday after developing a high fever and troubled breathing. Doctors said tests would confirm within a day whether she had the new virus, but 48 hours later, he said, there had been no update.

"Specialists from Beijing have come, but there are so many people sick that they're overwhelmed," he said. "I hope it's normal pneumonia and she can leave soon, but when you hear nothing you get worried."

Yijun Yin, Lucy Craymer, Liyan Qi, Betsy McKay and Yoko Kubota contributed to this article.

Write to Shan Li at shan.li@wsj.com , James T. Areddy at james.areddy@wsj.com and Chao Deng at Chao.Deng@wsj.com

China Locks Down City at Center of Virus Outbreak
 

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Introduction of 17 deaths




  1. Zeng XX, male, 61 years you, has a history of liver cirrhosis and myxoma. Fever started on December 20, 2019, with cough and weakness. She was hospitalized in the Department of Respiratory Medicine of Wuhan Puren Hospital on the 27th, transferred to the ICU on the 28th, was endowed with mechanical intubation on the 30th, and transferred to the ICU of Jinyintan Hospital on the 31st; Shock coma when entering. On January 1, ECMO support, anti-infection, anti-shock, and corrective acid symptomatic supportive treatment. At 20:47 on January 9, the heart rate of the patient suddenly became zero, and the ECMO blood flow rate decreased rapidly to 0.2 liters / minute. Rescue immediately. By 23:13, the heart rate was still 0, and clinical death was announced.

  2. Xiong XX, male, 69 years old, was admitted to Wuhan Red Cross Hospital for 2 days due to fever and cough for 4 days, and exacerbated with dyspnea. On January 3, 2020, a tracheal intubation was connected to a ventilator to assist breathing. Myocardium The enzyme profile persists. Transferred to Jinyintan Hospital on January 4. Admission diagnosis was acute respiratory distress syndrome, respiratory failure, severe pneumonia, unconsciousness, pleural effusion, and aortic atherosclerosis. A CT scan of the patient's chest revealed large ground-glass opacities in both lungs. ECG: ST segment changes. After admission, he was treated with intensive care, ventilator-assisted breathing, prone ventilation, and symptomatic and supportive treatments such as CRRT, anti-infection, and liver protection. His condition did not improve. Septic shock, microcirculation failure, coagulation dysfunction, and internal environment disorders Sexual aggravation. At 00:15 on January 15, the patient's heart rate dropped to 0, and norepinephrine, epinephrine, pituitary, and dopamine were continuously pumped into the anti-shock therapy. The patient failed to recover spontaneous breathing and heartbeat until 0:45. The electrocardiogram at the bedside showed total cardiac arrest, and clinical death was declared.

  3. Wang XX, male, 89 years old, has a history of hypertension, cerebral infarction, and cerebral softening. Due to urinary incontinence, she was referred to the Department of Urology, Tongji Hospital on January 5, 2020, and was transferred to the emergency department on January 8 due to drowsiness and unconsciousness. The examination revealed lung infection (viral pneumonia) and acute respiratory failure. On January 8th, a physical examination revealed that the patient had 77mmHg and showed hypoxia. Lung CT showed double lung patch shadow, bilateral pleural effusion, and pleural adhesion. Blood routine showed a progressive increase in white blood cell count and a low lymphocyte count. On January 9th, he was transferred to the outpatient clinic for emergency treatment and was given symptomatic supportive treatment. On January 13, the ventilator was assisted with positive pressure ventilation. Drowsiness occurred on January 14th. With ventilator-assisted ventilation, blood oxygen saturation fluctuated between 50% and 85%. Entered the Infectious Diseases Ward on January 15. Before transfer at 10:30 on January 18, Bp140 / 78mmHg, SPO2 85% under non-invasive ventilator-assisted ventilation. During the transfer, the patient suffered a respiratory arrest, continued rescue for 2 hours, and the treatment was invalid. The clinical death was announced at 13:37 on January 18, 2020.

  4. Patient Chen X, male, 89 years old, had previous hypertension, diabetes, coronary heart disease, frequent premature ventricular contractions, and coronary stent implantation. The patient developed symptoms on January 13, 2020. There was no obvious inducement of asthma 4 hours before the consultation, and he felt dyspnea and no fever. On January 18, she went to the emergency department of Wuhan Union Medical College for treatment due to severe breathing difficulties. The patient was old and had a positive pathogenic examination of Chlamydia pneumoniae, no A and B flow, a new coronavirus positive, and CT of the lung: typical changes in viral pneumonia. At 23:39 on January 19, 2020, his condition deteriorated, and the rescue died.

  V. Li XX, male, 66 years old, previously had COPD, hypertension, type 2 diabetes, chronic renal insufficiency, ascending aortic artificial aorta replacement in 2007, abdominal aortic stent placement in 2017, Cholecystectomy, multiple organ damage. The patient was admitted to Wuhan Iron and Steel General Hospital on January 16, 2020 for 6 days due to intermittent cough, headache, fatigue and fever. Chest CT on January 16 showed bilateral pneumonia, fibrosis of the left upper lung, and nodules of the left upper lung. Dyspnea occurred on January 17 and blood gas analysis revealed type 1 respiratory failure. Symptoms such as oxygen inhalation, anti-infection, anti-virus, and sputum treatment were given. At 10:10 on January 20, the patient suddenly reduced the finger pulse oxygen to 40%. He had been given non-invasive ventilator-assisted ventilation. The patient was again informed of severe respiratory failure, and asked again whether to undergo tracheal intubation. . At 10:35 on January 20, the condition deteriorated and the rescue died.

  6. Wang XX, male, 75 years old, was admitted to Wuhan Fifth Hospital at 17:19 on January 11, 2020 due to fever with cough, sputum for 5 days, and vomiting for 2 days. Previous history of hypertension and hip arthroplasty. The admission temperature was 38.2 ° C, accompanied by fatigue, anorexia, cough, nasal congestion, dizziness, and headache. There was no obvious chills, chills, and sore muscles and joints. A CT of the chest revealed an interstitial lung infection.
  After being admitted to the hospital, she was in critical condition and was given oxygen, anti-infection, anti-virus, phlegm, fever, and fluid rehydration as appropriate. The patient's condition worsened progressively, and she was transferred to the ICU on January 15 for mechanical ventilation. At 11:30 on January 20, the family members expressed their understanding of the condition and are now required to stop the ventilator and pull out the tracheal tube for observation. The tracheal intubation ventilator assisted breathing and CPR rescue are no longer required. He was pronounced dead at 11:25 on January 20.

  7. Yin XX, female, 48 years old, had previous diabetes and cerebral infarction. On December 10, 2019, there was no cause of fever (38 ° C), sore body and fatigue, and cough and sputum gradually appeared. Anti-infective treatment in primary hospitals did not improve for 2 weeks. On December 27th, chest tightness and shortness of breath occurred. After the activity, it was obvious. Tongji Hospital was given non-invasive ventilation and conventional anti-infective treatment. The condition still worsened. On December 31st, she was transferred to Jinyintan Hospital and given symptomatic treatments such as high-flow oxygen inhalation of nasal catheter. Hypoxia condition has not improved significantly, and the condition is still worsening. On January 14, 2020, chest CT showed diffuse mechanized changes in both lungs, some with traction bronchiectasis, especially in the lower lungs. At 11:50 on January 20th, tracheal intubation was performed, and analgesia and sedation were given. The terminal oxygen saturation and blood pressure continued to decline, and then the heart rate decreased. Eventually, the rescue failed.

  8. Liu XX, male, 82 years old, was admitted to Wuhan Fifth Hospital at 15:41 on January 14, 2020 due to chills and soreness in the whole body for 5 days. She was given ECG monitoring, non-invasive ventilator assisted breathing, anti-infection, anti-virus and symptomatic treatment. On January 19, he had unclear speech, and his left limb was weak. Considering a stroke, the disease progressed, and respiratory failure continued to worsen. At 00:30 on January 21, the patient's sudden heart rate decreased progressively, the heart sounds were not heard, the aortic pulse disappeared, and he was rescued immediately. The family members still refused mechanical ventilation of the intubation and continued rescue. The heart rate remained unrecovered. The clinic was announced at 1:18 death.

                                                              
  Nine, Luo XX, male, 66 years old, no inducement cough on December 22, 2019, mainly dry cough, no fever; December 31, chest tightness, shortness of breath, obvious after the activity, went to the central hospital for treatment; 2020 He was transferred to Jinyintan Hospital on May 2nd, and his imaging findings showed diffuse lung lesions with "white lung-like" changes. After admission, symptomatic treatment such as nasal high-flow oxygen was given. Refractory hypoxemia is difficult to correct. At 10:00 on January 12, the tracheal intubation ventilator assisted breathing, sedation, body temperature of 36.7 ° C, respiratory distress, and continued active antibacterial treatment. On the day, the oxygenation of the patient did not improve significantly. The inspiratory oxygen concentration of the ventilator had been reduced to about 50%, and the partial pressure of arterial oxygen was 80mmHg. The patient had a long course of disease, extremely poor immune function, and there was a risk of septic shock. At 9:50 on January 21, the rescue failed.

  X. Zhang XX, male, 81 years old, was admitted to Wuhan First Hospital on January 18, 2020 due to fever for 3 days. Admission to the chest CT showed infectious lesions in both lungs. Considering viral pneumonia, the patient's renal function and pulmonary infection continued to worsen. On the morning of January 22, 2020, consciousness gradually appeared, and the respiratory heart rate and blood pressure continued to decline. He refused rescue measures such as chest compressions and tracheotomy. The patient stopped breathing at 10:56 on January 22 and declared clinical death.

  Eleven, Zhang XX, female, 82 years old, has a history of Parkinson's disease for 5 years, orally takes Medopa. Onset on January 3, 2020, he was diagnosed with "viral pneumonia and respiratory failure" on January 6 at the Integrated Traditional Chinese and Western Medicine Hospital of Hubei Province due to "fever, cough, chest tightness and fatigue". He was transferred to Wuhan Jinyintan Hospital on January 20, and his condition was progressively worsened. On January 22, he was treated with tracheal intubation ventilator to support treatment, and his respiratory failure did not improve. On January 22, 2020, he was declared invalid by rescue at 18:00. .

  Twelve, week XX, male, 65 years old, January 11, 2020 due to shortness of breath accompanied by fatigue for 3 days, increased 3 days into Wuhan First Hospital. At the time of admission, the patient had difficulty breathing, chest tightness, shortness of breath, and acute illness. He was diagnosed with severe pneumonia, acute respiratory failure, and liver damage. At 19:00 on January 21, a decrease in heart rate and blood pressure, disappearance of light reflection by both pupils, and immediate treatment of tracheal intubation, artificial chest compressions, cardiac strengthening and other treatments. At 19:54, the autonomic rhythm was not restored, and clinical death was declared.

  Thirteen, Hu XX, female, 80 years old, became ill on January 11, 2020. He was admitted to China Resources Wuhan Iron & Steel General Hospital on January 18, 2020 due to fever, cough, wheezing, and dyspnea. He was transferred to Wuhan Jinyintan Hospital on January 20, 2020 because of a new coronavirus positive. He has a history of hypertension for more than 20 years, a history of diabetes for more than 20 years, and a history of Parkinson's disease. After admission, she was in critical condition, intensive care, anti-infection, ventilator-assisted breathing, and symptomatic supportive treatment. However, the patient's condition did not improve, persistent hypoxemia, unconsciousness, mechanical ventilator-assisted breathing, invalidated after rescue at 16:00 on January 22, 2020, and clinical death was declared.

  14. Lei XX, male, 53 years old. He had been treated in a community hospital for fever in early January, but it was not effective after a few days of treatment, and fever, cough, and chest tightness worsened. On January 13, 2020, he went to the emergency department of Tongji Hospital. CT showed bilateral lung infection and respiratory failure. He was critically ill on January 18 and was treated with non-invasive ventilator support. On January 20, 2020, he was transferred to Wuhan Jinyintan Hospital for isolation and treatment. . He was admitted to hospital with anti-infection and anti-shock, ventilator-assisted respiratory support treatment, and the patient's condition did not improve. Respiratory failure continued to worsen. At 4 o'clock on January 21, the rescue was invalid, and clinical death was declared.

  XV. Wang XX, male, 86 years old, was admitted to Xinhua Hospital on January 9, 2020 due to fatigue for one week. No fever, diabetic hypertension, and colon cancer 4 years after surgery. After admission, CT of the lungs showed multiple ground glass shadows in both lungs, obvious hypoxia, difficulty in eating, rapid breathing, and lethargy. The family refused to be intubated and only inhaled oxygen through the nose. At 17:50 on January 21, 2020, the heartbeat stopped breathing and declared clinical death.

  16. Yuan XX, female, 70 years old. On January 13, 2020, the city's No. 1 Hospital was owing to the continued high fever. At the time of admission, he had blurred consciousness, acute illness, weakened heart sounds, and thick breathing sounds in both lungs. Imaging results showed severe pulmonary infection. Consider severe pneumonia with severe respiratory failure. That is, symptomatic treatment such as active anti-infection and oxygen inhalation is given, but respiratory failure is difficult to correct. The patient was pronounced dead on January 21, 2020 due to respiratory failure.

  17. Zhan XX, male, 84 years old. The patient was admitted to the Fifth Hospital of the City for 3 days due to fever, cough and wheezing at 17: 4 on January 9, 2020. Previous history of chronic bronchitis, unstable angina pectoris, coronary stenting, hypertension, gastrointestinal bleeding, renal insufficiency, hyperlipidemia, hyperuricemia, lacunar cerebral infarction. Due to the exacerbation of the disease and persistent high fever, the patient was transferred to the ICU on January 18th for anti-infection and symptomatic supportive treatment. At 10:16 on January 22, the patient stopped breathing, his heart rate gradually slowed down, and clinical death was announced at 10:52.


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If you don't already have some sort of face masks or respirators, you should buy some now before they become unavailable. The N100 is the better but more expensive mask ant the recommended mask.

The book 3 seconds to midnight that one of our members recommended it very good. I am about 50 Percent through the book. It says that one of the key ways of influenza transmission is through the eye. The surface tension of the fluid on the outside of the eye acts like an attraction to the virus. Touching or rubbing the eye is one way to get it but also walking into a room where the virus has been aerosolized by a sneeze or a cough can transmit the virus to a person. It says that wearing a face mask is only 60 percent effective in preventing transmission of the virus. The book recommends that if a pandemic occurred with a lethal influenza strain that people wear eye protection. Something like a ski mask or a helmet with a face plate and air filters built in. The book was only 10 dollars on kindle and may be well worth buying and reading by all members. This corona virus is probably transmitted like the cold or influenza virus.

The book also talks about how a pandemic will shut down everything, Water, electric, gas, food medical care and so on. It only takes 10 percent of the population to become sick and 30 or 40 percent to not go to work for this to happen. Congress will give vaccines to themselves and key political people, , then the military then first responders, next medical people. It is a long time before it gets to electric, gas and water workers. Much longer to get it to the grocers, farmers and truckers and so on. Also then there needs to be body disposal and cremation service and those people will be quickly overwhelmed as well as becoming sick themselves or not wanting to work due to self quarantine.

In fact most necessary workers, medical and support staff and utilities will not go to work due to fear of becoming sick.
I may have some of my numbers wrong but it is very close to this.
 
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