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[Skyraider]

These guys don't ask for an rx. When I order from alldaychemist.com, I just leave all that blank except for the allergy questions.

Kraft Drug – Your source for fish antibiotics

I have been dealing with Alldaychemist.com for two days. They want scripts or photos of the current meds. I have had direct contact. Also need photo id sent to them. Just my experience in the past 48hrs.
Skyraider

 

[marsh]

For those of you having trouble finding the bookmarks thread, it is here:

http://xf.timebomb2000.com/xf/index.php?threads/bookmarks-for-the-2019-novel-corona-virus.568020/

Please feel free to add bookmarks, but no comments please. Prep bookmarks and posts should go in that thread.

 

[Tristan]

The Japan Times‏Verified account @japantimes 9m9 minutes ago

29 Japanese and 15 non-Japanese aboard the quarantined cruise ship have tested positive for coronavirus

That's additional NCoV cases, total up to 218.

 

[Jubilee on Earth]

BNO Newsroom‏Verified account @BNODesk 5m5 minutes ago

BREAKING: Jiang Chaoliang has been removed as Party Secretary of Hubei province, according to state-run media; no reason given

Come on, Jiang...you weren’t actually supposed to reveal the real “clinically confirmed” numbers! When will you learn??

 

[night driver]

Well, that's exponential, with a period of 2.4 days (doubling every 2.4 days).

So technically it is an epidemic and can be a pan demic should it hit a few more countries.

Wonderfulness.

 

[bw]

That's additional NCoV cases, total up to 218.

Are the passengers being kept informed on all this? If so, this must be the Chinese Water Torture rewrit. What kind of hellacious legal trouble are the ship owners letting themselves in for?

 

[northern watch]

Vincent Lee‏Verified account @Rover829 3m3 minutes ago

Reuters: "The adjustment of the data today proved without doubt that they have had two sets of numbers for confirmed infected all along," he said. "If that were not the case, the government could not have added so many new cases in one day."

 

[jward]

I have been dealing with Alldaychemist.com for two days. They want scripts or photos of the current meds. I have had direct contact. Also need photo id sent to them. Just my experience in the past 48hrs.
Skyraider

Hmm...last week, as a returning customer, I just clicked past the box asking for that info, did not have it, did not provide it, and the order is still said to be in route... Just sharing my recent experience in case that is useful....gluck to yas

 

[night driver]

BNO Newsroom‏Verified account @BNODesk 5m5 minutes ago

BREAKING: Jiang Chaoliang has been removed as Party Secretary of Hubei province, according to state-run media; no reason given

Vincent Lee‏Verified account @Rover829 8m8 minutes ago

Reuters: SHANGHAI MAYOR YING YONG APPOINTED AS NEW HUBEI COMMUNIST PARTY BOSS -STATE MEDIA

Come on, Jiang...you weren’t actually supposed to reveal the real “clinically confirmed” numbers! When will you learn??

You didn't REALLY NEED a reason given, did you?

 

[Allotrope]

Are the passengers being kept informed on all this? If so, this must be the Chinese Water Torture rewrit. What kind of hellacious legal trouble are the ship owners letting themselves in for?

Great trouble but the docking country imposed the quarantine and I believe is legally in charge just as when a smaller ship is berthed in a larger one there is the Right of Angary.

 

[night driver]

northern watch said:


The sudden jump in new cases raises questions about China's commitment to transparency,

Made me smile.

Made MY ribs hurt...

 

[auxman]

Zerohedge

ZeroHedge - On a long enough timeline, the survival rate for everyone drops to zero

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The reported militarization of Wuhan's P4 Lab has raised new questions about the origin of the Covid-19 virus and the apparent cover-up that has occurred since it was first made public.
Following the removal of the most senior health officials in Wuhan yesterday, Chinese State Media has just reported that Chen Wei, China's chief biochemical weapon defense expert, is now to be stationed in Wuhan to lead the efforts to overcome the deadly, pneumonia-like pathogen.
According to the PLA Daily report, Chen Wei holds the rank of major general, and along with reports that Chinese troops have started to "assist", it strongly suggests that the PLA has taken control of the situation.



As Epoch Times reports, before this latest report, Chen’s military rank and specialization was not widely known. She was first interviewed on Jan. 30 by the state-run China Science Daily. In a second interview the next day, she predicted that the outbreak in Wuhan would let up over the next few days, but could worsen again soon...

“We need to prepare for the worst-case scenario, find the best solutions, and be ready to fight the longest battle,” she said.

Amid constant propaganda from CCP officials, and widespread censorship, many - including US Senator Tom Cotton - have wondered if the virus was bio-engineered, and was ‘leaked’ from the lab (which just happens to be located at the epicenter ofg the virus).
The militarization, and bringing in of China's foremost bio-weapons expert raises the question once again of whether the Wuhan Strain of coronavirus (Covid-19) is the result of naturally emergent mutations against the possibility that it may be a bio-engineered strain meant for defensive immunotherapy protocols that was released into the public, most likely by accident since China’s rate of occupational accidents is about ten-times higher than America’s, and some twenty-times more than Europe’s – the only other regions with high-level virology labs.


A new report - a product of a collaboration between a retired professional scientist with 30 years of experience in genomic sequencing and analysis who helped design several ubiquitous bioinformatic software tools, and a former NSA counterterrorism analyst - suggests that this possible mistake may have been precipitated by the need to quickly finish research that was being rushed for John Hopkin’s Event 201 which was held this past October and meant to gameplan the containment of a global pandemic. Research may also have been hurried due to deadlines before the impending Chinese New Year – the timing of these events point to increased human error, not a globalist conspiracy.
Beijing has had four known accidental leaks of the SARS virus in recent years, so there is absolutely no reason to assume that this strain of coronavirus from Wuhan didn’t accidentally leak out as well.
Given that this outbreak was said to begin in late December when most bat species in the region are hibernating and the Chinese horseshoe bat’s habitat covers an enormous swath of the region containing scores of cities and hundreds of millions people to begin with, the fact that this Wuhan Strain of coronavirus, denoted as Covid-19, emerged in close proximity to the only BSL-4 virology lab in China, now notoriously located in Wuhan, which in turn was staffed with at least two Chinese scientists – Zhengli Shi and Xing-Yi Ge (both virologists who had previously worked at an American lab which already bio-engineered an incredibly virulent strain of bat coronavirus) – the accidental release of a bio-engineered virus meant for defensive immunotherapy research from Wuhan’s virology lab cannot be automatically discounted, especially when the Wuhan Strain’s unnatural genomic signals are considered.
Zhengli Shi notably co-authored a controversial paper in 2015 which describes the creation of a new virus by combining a coronavirus found in Chinese horseshoe bats with another that causes human-like severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) in mice.


This research sparked a huge debate at the time over whether engineering lab variants of viruses with possible pandemic potential is worth the risks.
As Nature.com reported in 2015, the findings reinforce suspicions that bat coronaviruses capable of directly infecting humans (rather than first needing to evolve in an intermediate animal host) may be more common than previously thought, the researchers say.

But other virologists question whether the information gleaned from the experiment justifies the potential risk. Although the extent of any risk is difficult to assess, Simon Wain-Hobson, a virologist at the Pasteur Institute in Paris, points out that the researchers have created a novel virus that “grows remarkably well” in human cells.

“If the virus escaped, nobody could predict the trajectory,” he says.

In October 2014, the US government imposed a moratorium on federal funding of such research on the viruses that cause SARS, influenza and MERS (Middle East respiratory syndrome, a deadly disease caused by a virus that sporadically jumps from camels to people).

“The only impact of this work is the creation, in a lab, of a new, non-natural risk,” agrees Richard Ebright, a molecular biologist and biodefence expert at Rutgers University in Piscataway, New Jersey.

Ebright and his co-author also conceded that funders may think twice about allowing such experiments in the future.

"Scientific review panels may deem similar studies building chimeric viruses based on circulating strains too risky to pursue," they write, adding that discussion is needed as to "whether these types of chimeric virus studies warrant further investigation versus the inherent risks involved”.

Previously, scientists had believed, on the basis of molecular modelling and other studies, that it should not be able to infect human cells. The latest work shows that the virus has already overcome critical barriers, such as being able to latch onto human receptors and efficiently infect human airway cells, he says.
“I don't think you can ignore that.”

Which brings us to perhaps the most notable finding.
A genetic analysis of the spike-protein genes – the exact region that was bio-engineered by the UNC lab in 2015, where Zhengli Shi and Xing-Yi Ge previously isolated a batty coronavirus that targets the ACE2 receptor just like this 2019-nCoV strain of the coronavirus does – indicates an artificial and unnatural origins of the Wuhan Strain’s spike-protein genes when they are compared to the genomes of wild relatives.

Instead of appearing similar and homologous to its wild relatives, an important section of the Wuhan Strain’s spike-protein region shares the most genetic similarity with a bio-engineered commercially available gene sequence that’s designed to help with immunotherapy research. It is mathematically possible for this to happen in nature – but only in a ten-thousand bats chained to ten-thousand Petri dishes and given until infinity sense.

And so, as the report goes on, a scientist who’s been prolifically involved with studying the molecular interaction of coronaviruses and humanity, spending decades and millions of dollars, and having even helped build a hyper-virulent coronavirus from scratch at UNC – just so happens to be working at the only BSL-4 virology lab in China that also just so happens to be at the epicenter of an outbreak involved a coronavirus that’s escaping zoological classification and whose novel spike-protein region shares more in common with a commercial genetic vector than any of its wild relatives

However, most recently, as an increasing number of global experts questioned China's initial official story that this came from the food market in Wuhan, Zhengli Shi hurriedly wrote a new report, claiming instead of the initial findings that the novel virus came from a bat in Yunnan, the Chinese chrysanthemum. She said that this was a new discovery that she had worked hard for several years, and coincidentally wrote a paper after the outbreak and published it in the famous international academic journal Nature.

Which all seems like a very sudden about face for someone who had been working on bio-engineering the exact virus for decades...

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is that they were waiting for Dr. Shi Zhengli's paper to be published at Nature so that they could claim bat is the origin. #COVID2019
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Giving further credence to the idea that the Wuhan Strain was bio-engineered is the existence of a patent application that looks to modulate a coronavirus’ spike-protein genes – the precise region altered by Zhengli Shi at UNC to make a hyper-virulent strain of coronavirus, and whose alteration and adaptation would explain the Wuhan Strain’s unusual behavior as discussed above.
Given the above facts, either:
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• A coronavirus spontaneously mutated and jumped to humans at a wet market or deep in some random bat cave which just so happened to be 20 miles from China’s only BSL-4 virology lab, a virus with an unusually slippery never-before-seen genome that’s evading zoological classification, and whose spike-protein region which allows it to enter host cells appears most like a bio-engineered commercial product, that somehow managed to infect its first three and roughly one-third of its initial victims despite them not being connected to this market, and then be so fined-tuned to humans that it’s gone on to create the single greatest public health crisis in Chinese history with approaching 100 million citizens locked-down or quarantined – also causing Mongolia to close its border with its largest trading partner for the first time in modern history.
• Or, Chinese scientists failed to follow correct sanitation protocols possibly while in a rush during their boisterous holiday season, something that had been anticipated since the opening of the BSL-4 lab and has happened at least four times previously, and accidentally released this bio-engineered Wuhan Strain – likely created by scientists researching immunotherapy regimes against bat coronaviruses, who’ve already demonstrated the ability to perform every step necessary to bio-engineer the Wuhan Strain 2019-nCov – into their population, and now the world. As would be expected, this virus appears to have been bio-engineered at the spike-protein genes which was already done at UNC to make an extraordinarily virulent coronavirus. Chinese efforts to stop the full story about what’s going on are because they want the scales to be even since they’re now facing a severe pandemic and depopulation event. No facts point against this conclusion.

And, following tonight's huge jump in reported cases and deaths...

...we thought the admittedly doomsday-ish conclusion from harvardtothebighouse.com seemed worthwhile noting:

"Simply and horribly, this is likely to become another Chernobyl or Fukushima – a catastrophic illustration of mankind’s hubris and intransigence clashing with Nature, as fate again reaps a once unimaginably tragic toll."

As Professor Neil Ferguson warned, "we’re at the eary stages of a global pandemic”

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Let's hope he is wrong.

 

[bw]

Great trouble but the docking country imposed the quarantine and I believe is legally in charge just as when a smaller ship is berthed in a larger one there is the Right of Angary.

When the passengers sue under joint and several liability, the cruise line will end up paying.

 

[jward]

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Did you happen to bookmark that FANTASTIC micro biology basic class that was posted??

It really deserves a safe posting point where people can go back to it many times.


See below. post 11,601

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FOUND IT!!!!

This thread, post 11,601

Boomarked and tagged as VIRI 101.

Too funny, I see that it was a post i had made! I guess I should try to keep up, eh. Anyways, glad it was useful, and marsh has it in the bookmark thread, so... Apocalypse here we come, we're armed and ready for ya!

 

[bw]

Apocalypse here we come, we're armed and ready for ya!

NOT READY! NOT READY!

 

[night driver]

So SOMEONE said "Let's give it to a Two Star and get a damn HANDLE on this crap!!"


Which makes no damn difference to the VIRUS but to the PEOPLE, well, .....

 

[Allotrope]

When the passengers sue under joint and several liability, the cruise line will end up paying.

Yes, it will not be the fact of quarantine but the actions and procedures of the crew leading to infections, mistakes claimed, and other damages.

 

[Jubilee on Earth]

Vincent Lee‏Verified account @Rover829 3m3 minutes ago

Reuters: "The adjustment of the data today proved without doubt that they have had two sets of numbers for confirmed infected all along," he said. "If that were not the case, the government could not have added so many new cases in one day."

I also believe it’s a case of limited tests. They only had so many, which is why their numbers were pretty plateaued there for a few days. I’m guessing as they began to run out, they just said screw it. In fact, the WHO might have even told them to forget the tests and just use CT lung scans. That meant rolling in the suspected cases into the confirmed ones.

Or...... they’ve just been making it up.

 

[night driver]

I also believe it’s a case of limited tests. They only had so many, which is why their numbers were pretty plateaued there for a few days. I’m guessing as they began to run out, they just said screw it. In fact, the WHO might have even told them to forget the tests and just use CT lung scans. That meant rolling in the suspected cases into the confirmed ones.

Or...... they’ve just been making it up.

And for some reason you have issues believing the bolded???

 

[Allotrope]

I also believe it’s a case of limited tests. They only had so many, which is why their numbers were pretty plateaued there for a few days. I’m guessing as they began to run out, they just said screw it. In fact, the WHO might have even told them to forget the tests and just use CT lung scans. That meant rolling in the suspected cases into the confirmed ones.

Or...... they’ve just been making it up.

They realized the gig was up.

When people create or adjust measured data, they almost always have too many or too few of certain digits or an equal distribution. When people change data to comply with specific desires or criteria, it is usually even more obvious. In accounting it is Benford’s Law and in cryptography the same principles apply to letter frequency distribution. People are just not very talented at imitating nature or randomness. The results are only statistical, not certainties, but insurance companies and casinos have made a lot of money using them and a lot of frauds have been found this way.

The Chinese death figures are a small set but sure look artificial to me.

 

[jward]

Tracking coronavirus: Map, data and timeline


The table below shows confirmed cases of coronavirus (2019-nCoV) in China and other countries. To see a distribution map and a timeline, scroll down. There are currently 60,017 confirmed cases worldwide, including 1,355 fatalities.

Last update: 12 February 2020 at 7:48 p.m. ET

MAINLAND CHINA	Cases	Deaths	Notes	Links
Hubei province (including Wuhan)	48,206	1,310	5,647 serious, 1,437 critical	Source
Other regions	11,287	43	963 serious/critical	Source
TOTAL	59,493	1,353	8,047 serious 5,542 recovered 16,067 suspected

REGIONS	Cases	Deaths	Notes	Links
Hong Kong	50	1	4 critical, 2 serious, 1 recovered	Source
Taiwan	18	0	1 recovered	Source
Macau	10	0	1 recovered	Source
TOTAL	78	1	6 serious

INTERNATIONAL	Cases	Deaths	Notes	Links
Japan	203*	0	4 serious, 4 recovered	Source
Singapore	50	0	8 critical, 15 recovered	Source
Thailand	33	0	1 serious, 10 recovered	Source
South Korea	28	0	7 recovered	Source
Malaysia	18	0	3 recovered	Source
Australia	15	0	5 recovered	Source
Germany	16	0		Source
Vietnam	15	0	6 recovered	Sourcle
United States	14	0	3 recovered	Source
France	11	0	1 serious, 2 recovered	Source
United Kingdom	9	0	1 recovered	Source
Canada	7	0	1 recovered	Source
UAE	8	0	1 serious, 1 recovered	Source
Philippines	3	1	2 recovered	Source
India	3	0		Source
Italy	3	0	2 serious	Source
Russia	2	0	2 recovered	Source
Spain	2	0		Source
Nepal	1	0	1 recovered	Source
Cambodia	1	0	1 recovered	Source
Sri Lanka	1	0	1 recovered	Source
Finland	1	0	1 recovered	Source
Sweden	1	0		Source
Belgium	1	0		Source
TOTAL	446	1	17 serious/critical

Notes

• Hubei province, China: The numbers include clinically-diagnosed cases, which means they were not confirmed by laboratory tests.
• Japan: The total includes 4 asymptomatic cases, which are not included in the government’s official count.
• Japan: The total includes 174 people from the “Diamond Princess” cruise ship. They are not included in the government’s official count.
• Japan: A statement from Princess Cruises on February 10 erroneously put the number of new cases on the cruise ship at 65, which would have raised the total to 136. Japan’s Health Ministry confirmed the number of new cases was 65.
• North Korea: Unconfirmed reports about 1, 5, or 7 cases in North Korea cannot be verified. If cases are confirmed by the North Korean government, they will be added to this list.

 

[jward]

part two

Timeline (GMT)
13 February

• 00:25: 1 new case in California, United States. (Source)

12 February

• 23:48: 14,840 new cases, including clinically diagnosed cases, and 242 new deaths in Hubei province, China. (Source)
• 18:53: 1 new case in the United Kingdom. (Source)
• 08:24: 1 new case in Hong Kong. (Source)
• 07:00: 3 new cases in Singapore. (Source)
• 02:53: 1 new case in Japan. It is one of the quarantine officers who was working on board the “Diamond Princess” cruise ship off Yokohama. This case is not included in the total for the ship’s passengers and crew. (Source)
• 02:14: China’s National Health Commission reports 377 new cases and 3 new deaths across the mainland, excluding Hubei province. The deaths were in Henan province, Hunan province, and Chongqing. (Source)

11 February

• 23:55: 39 new cases in Japan. They were found on the “Diamond Princess” cruise ship off Yokohama, raising the ship’s total to 174. (Source)
• 22:17: 1,638 new cases and 94 new deaths in Hubei province, China. (Source)
• 21:01: 1 new case in Thailand. (Source)
• 19:25: 2 new cases in Germany. (Source)
• 16:10: 7 new cases in Hong Kong. (Source)
• 14:59: 2 new cases in Singapore. (Source)
• 06:57: 2 new cases in Japan. (Source)
• 02:37: 1 new case in Vietnam. (Source)
• 01:14: 1 new case in California, United States. (Source)
• 01:00: 1 new case in South Korea. (Source)
• 00:13: China’s National Health Commission reports 370 new cases and 5 new deaths on the mainland. Of the deaths, one each in: Beijing, Tianjin, Heilongjiang province, Anhui province, and Henan province. (Source)

10 February

• 22:10: 2,097 new cases and 103 new deaths in Hubei province, China. (Source)
• 17:56: 1 new case in the United Arab Emirates. (Source)
• 16:00: 4 new cases in Hong Kong. (Source)
• 14:20: 2 new cases in Hong Kong. (Source)
• 12:30: 2 new cases in Singapore. (Source)
• 09:46: 4 new cases in the United Kingdom. (Source)
• 05:13: 65 new cases in Japan. They were found on the “Diamond Princess” cruise ship off Yokohama, raising the ship’s total to 135. (Source)
• 01:01: 1 new case in Malaysia. (Source)

9 February

• 23:53: China’s National Health Commission reports 419 new cases and 6 new deaths. Their locations have not yet been disclosed, except for the fatalities: 2 in Anhui province and 1 each in Anhui, Heilongjiang, Jiangxi, Hainan, and Gansu provinces. (Source)
• 22:15: 2,531 new cases and 91 new deaths in Hubei province, China. (Source)
• 19:01: 3 new cases in Singapore. (Source)
• 19:00: 7 new cases in Hong Kong. The other new cases mentioned in the press release were previously reported. (Source)
• 11:56: 3 new cases in Hong Kong. (Source)
• 11:40: 1 new case in the United Kingdom. (Source)
• 09:28: 1 new case in Spain. (Source)
• 08:06: 1 new case in Malaysia. (Source)
• 08:02: 2 new cases in South Korea. (Source)
• 07:45: 9 new cases in Shandong province, China. (Source)
• 07:44: 1 new case om Yunnan province, China. (Source)
• 07:18: 6 new cases in Japan. They were found on the “Diamond Princess” cruise ship off Yokohama, raising the ship’s total to 70. (Source)
• 06:26: 1 new case in Taiwan. (Source)
• 06:19: 1 new case in Vietnam. (Source)
• 05:00: 2 new cases in Tianjin, China. (Source)
• 03:33: 1 new case in Shanghai. (Source)
• 03:25: 11 new cases in Beijing. (Source)
• 03:19: 11 new cases in Fujian province, China. (Source)
• 03:06: 1 new case in Japan. (Source)
• 02:07: 13 new cases in Shaanxi province, China. (Source)
• 02:04: 2 new cases in Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, China. (Source)
• 01:55: 19 new cases in Shandong province, China. (Source)
• 01:26: 25 new cases in Guangdong province, China. The other cases mentioned in the press release were previously reported. (Source)
• 01:25: 4 new cases in Hainan province, China. The other case mentioned in the press release was previously reported. (Source)
• 01:22: 42 new cases in Jiangxi province, China. (Source)
• 01:07: 3 new cases in Xinjiang Region, China. (Source)
• 01:05: 46 new cases and 1 new death in Anhui province, China. The death was previously announced by China’s National Health Commission. (Source)
• 01:02: 1 new case in South Korea. (Source)
• 01:00: 27 new cases in Zhejiang province, China. (Source)
• 00:45: 7 new cases in Guizhou province, China. (Source)
• 00:44: 29 new cases in Jiangsu province, China. (Source)
• 00:36: 35 new cases in Hunan province, China. (Source)
• 00:41: 53 new cases and 2 new deaths in Henan province, China. One previous case was discarded. The deaths were previously reported by China’s National Health Commission. (Source)
• 00:33: 23 new cases in Sichuan province, China. (Source)
• 00:25: 26 new cases and 1 new death in Heilongjiang province, China. One previous case was discarded and 13 asymptomatic cases were deducted from the government’s official count. Those 13, however, are still included in our total. The death was previously reported by China’s National Health Commission. (Source)
• 00:20: 12 new cases and 1 new death in Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, China. The death was previously reported by China’s National Health Commission. (Source)
• 00:18: 9 new cases in Jilin province, China. (Source)
• 00:17: 2 new cases in Yunnan province, China. (Source)
• 00:16: 11 new cases and 1 new death in Hebei province, China. The death was previously reported by China’s National Health Commission. (Source)
• 00:15: China’s National Health Commission reports 441 new cases and 7 new deaths across the mainland. Their locations have not yet been disclosed, except for the fatalities: 2 in Henan province, 1 in Hebei province, 1 in Heilongjiang province, 1 in Anhui province, 1 in Shandong province, and 1 in Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region. (Source)

8 February

• 23:51: 6 new cases in Shanghai. (Source)
• 23:08: 18 new cases in Chongqing, China. (Source)
• 22:10: 2,147 new cases and 81 new deaths in Hubei province, China. (Source)
• 19:56: 12 new cases in Shanxi province, China. One previous case was discarded. (Source)
• 19:40: 7 new cases in Singapore. (Source)
• 14:50: 8 new cases in Gansu province, China. (Source)
• 10:50: 1 new death in Hunan province, China. (Source)
• 10:46: 1 new case in Malaysia. (Source)
• 09:36: 5 new cases in France. (Source)
• 08:05: 20 new cases in Guangdong province, China. (Source)
• 07:53: 2 new cases in Chongqing, China. (Source)
• 07:09: 9 new cases in Shandong province, China. (Source)
• 06:51: 4 new cases in Liaoning province, China. (Source)
• 05:59: 5 new cases in Shanghai. (Source)
• 05:58: 7 new cases in Thailand. (Source)
• 03:28: 1 new case in Taiwan. (Source)
• 03:27: 1 new death in Gansu province, China. This death was previously reported by China’s National Health Commission. (Source)
• 03:26: 3 new cases in Xinjiang Region, China. (Source)
• 03:14: 15 new cases in Fujian province, China. (Source)
• 03:08: 2 new cases in Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, China. (Source)
• 03:07: 18 new cases and 1 new death in Beijing. The death was earlier reported by China’s National Health Commission. (Source)
• 03:01: 7 new cases in Tianjin, China. (Source)
• 02:22: 11 new cases in Shaanxi province, China. (Source)
• 02:10: 2 new cases in Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region, China. (Source)
• 02:03: 9 new cases in Hainan province, China. (Source)
• 02:00: 41 new cases in Guangdong province, China. The other cases mentioned in the press release were previously reported. (Source)
• 01:43: 8 new cases in Guizhou province, China. (Source)
• 01:05: 37 new cases in Jiangxi province, China. (Source)
• 01:03: 42 new cases in Zhejiang province, China. (Source)
• 01:00: 67 new cases and 1 new death in Henan province, China. The fatality was earlier reported by China’s National Health Commission. (Source)
• 00:58: 18 new cases and 2 new deaths in Heilongjiang province, China. The number of new cases reported here is lower than the number mentioned in the press release, because the total did not match with the previous update. The fatalities in this update were earlier reported by China’s National Health Commission. (Source)
• 00:54: 68 new cases in Anhui province, China. (Source)
• 00:53: 31 new cases in Hunan province, China. (Source)
• 00:46: 31 new cases in Jiangsu province, China. (Source)
• 00:45: 19 new cases in Sichuan province, China. (Source)
• 00:33: 21 new cases in Shandong province, China. (Source)
• 00:32: 3 new cases in Japan. They were found on the “Diamond Princess” cruise ship off Yokohama, raising the ship’s total to 64. (Source)
• 00:21: 4 new cases in Jilin province, China. (Source)
• 00:20: 11 new cases in Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, China. (Source)
• 00:19: 24 new cases in Hebei province, China. (Source)
• 00:05: China’s National Health Commission reports 498 new cases of coronavirus and 5 new deaths. Their locations have not yet been disclosed, except for the fatalities: 2 in Heilongjiang province, 1 in Beijing, 1 in Henan province, and 1 in Gansu province. (Source)

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Tracking coronavirus: Map, data and timeline

The table below shows cases of coronavirus (officially known as SARS-CoV-2, COVID-19, or 2019-nCoV) around the world. Each figure is verified by our team through local health departments or local media. A distribution map and a timeline with a list of recent updates can be found below the table...

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I'm hoping this is nothing, but I don't like reading about someone coming home from China on Sunday...and being a county away. This is in Mahoning County in Ohio...

Cornersburg woman in quarantine after trip to China

Barbara Calder was visiting her son in Hangzhou, China when the city got placed on lockdown. She was told to stay in her son's apartment for two weeks.

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Cornersburg woman in quarantine after trip to China
Barbara Calder was visiting her son in Hangzhou, China when the city got placed on lockdown. She was told to stay in her son's apartment for two weeks.
Wednesday, February 12th 2020, 12:13 AM EST by Derek Steyer
Updated:
Wednesday, February 12th 2020, 10:32 AM EST


A Valley woman has been quarantined in her house for the next 14 days after getting home from China on Sunday.

Barbara Calder, who lives in Cornersburg, was visiting her son, who works and lives in Hangzhou, which is about 700 miles from the city of Wuhan. Wuhan is considered ground zero for the Coronavirus.

She’s been to China six times in the last three years and has done a lot of sightseeing, but what she’ll remember most over the last couple of weeks is what she didn’t see.

“It was just very eerie how a town that was so, like I said there are ten million people in that town and if you look at that picture, that’s 6 p.m. that’s like when people should be getting home from work, and there is no one out,” Calder said.

One day after she arrived, Hangzhou was placed on lockdown.

“We were really tired, so I went to sleep, and the next morning you wake up, and there were barricades,” Calder said.

Calder was told to stay in her son’s apartment.


“We were told by the apartment where he lives, the security, that only one person per family was allowed out to get supplies every other day,” Calder said.

At the time, that province had the second-leading number of Coronavirus infections.

“Everywhere you went, you stood in line to go to the store, and he had his temperature taken, and then throughout the store, there were people walking around taking peoples temperatures, you know the little gun that they shoot at your head to take a temperature, and if you were hot, you would be escorted out and thank goodness he wasn’t hot,” Calder said.

Calder said a lot of people where her son lives eat out or get food delivery. The only food getting delivered though during this time was McDonald’s, KFC, Pizza Hut and Dominoes.

“He was not allowed out, and the delivery driver was no longer allowed in,” said Calder. “Usually, the delivery driver comes up to your apartment, you know.”

Calder said at first she wasn’t too worried.


“First, I thought, oh come on, this is going to stop after a day or two, and then I realized this wasn’t gonna stop.”

She decided to cut her nearly month-long trip short because air travel was shutting down.

“Once I got there, air travel stopped, I mean except for business, you had to prove you needed to travel, you know, so it went to immediately like disaster mode,” Calder said. “My flights were changed six times due to countries not taking any passengers from China. Countries just dropped like flies.”

Calder was able to catch a flight to Seoul, South Korea, and then to San Francisco, Washington D.C., and finally Pittsburgh.

She is not sick but is being quarantined out of precaution and protocol. Calder says they had no interaction with people other than security and building personnel.

She says one myth she would like to clear up is food shortages. She said grocery stores around her son all had plenty of food.

 

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Keith Zhai‏ @QiZHAI 10m10 minutes ago

BREAKING: CHINA ANNOUNCED TO REMOVE DIRECTOR OF THE HONG KONG AND MACAU OFFICE ZHANG XIAOMING. Massive changes in China today.

 

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guess we've all seen that case number 14 is officially added to the United States talley now...

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NEW: California reports another case of coronavirus in person evacuated from China, 14th case in the U.S. https://bnonews.com/index.php/2020

 

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CDC Confirms 14th Case of 2019 Novel Coronavirus


Media Statement
For Immediate Release: Wednesday, February 12, 2020
Contact: Media Relations
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CDC today confirmed another infection with 2019 novel coronavirus (COVID-19) in the United States in California. The patient is among a group of people under a federal quarantine order because of their recent return to the U.S. on a State Department-chartered flight that arrived on February 7, 2020.
All people who have been in Hubei Province in the past 14 days are considered at high risk of having been exposed to COVID-19 and subject to a temporary 14-day quarantine. This is the second person at this base who has tested positive for COVID-19. The first and second patients arrived on different planes and were housed in separate facilities; there are no epidemiologic links between them.
According to CDC on-site team lead Dr. Chris Braden, “At this time there is no indication of person-to-person spread of this virus at the quarantine facility, but CDC will carry out a thorough contact investigation as part of its current response strategy to detect and contain any cases of infection with this virus.”
This brings the total of number of COVID-19 cases in the United States to 14. There are likely to be additional cases in the coming days and weeks, including among other people recently returned from Wuhan. While 195 people were discharged from quarantine yesterday, more than 600 people who returned on chartered flights from Wuhan remain under federal quarantine.

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Note the length of the line to buy surgical masks. Claims to be China on the address below. Not sure of the date or city.

View: https://giphy.com/gifs/china-coronavirus-surgical-masks-LkwctvqWi9Xp6ppT1v?utm_source=iframe&utm_medium=embed&utm_campaign=Embeds&utm_term=http%3A%2F%2Fallnewspipeline.com%2FPrepare_For_No_Pharma_Coronavirus_Charts.php

 

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Global Times‏Verified account @globaltimesnews 1m1 minute ago

Most #Chinese #RareEarth companies couldn’t reopen due to labor and medical equipment shortages amid novel #coronavirus pneumonia.

If this continues it will become a large national security issue. Rare Earths are critical in a great deal of high tech, consumer and military and China is the main supplier. I do not think we produce any currently (or very little) but there are deposits here.

 

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BNO Newsroom‏Verified account @BNODesk 7m7 minutes ago


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Xia Baolong, a close aide to President Xi Jinping, will take over as director of the Hong Kong and Macau Affairs Office

 

[Shadow]

i see this is still causing panic...recall yesterday we were reminded how viruses replicate, what it means about their strength when not detected etc...these people whos titers, iirc the word, are not high enough to test positive can indeed infect you, but...
they are carrying a light load themselves, and are not having the symptoms triggered such as sneezing, coughing and mucus production that carries the infectious agents to others to the same degree...

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There are a number of cases in which people with coronavirus initially test negative. In Tianjin, health officials say a woman developed symptoms on January 25. Her tests on Feb. 5, 8, and 10 came back as negative. The test on Feb. 12 was positive for coronavirus

Jan 25 to Feb 12 is about 17 days from onset of symptoms. How long was she shading virus before symptoms?

Shadow

 

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Tracking coronavirus: Map, data and timeline


The table below shows confirmed cases of coronavirus (2019-nCoV) in China and other countries. To see a distribution map and a timeline, scroll down. There are currently 60,017 confirmed cases worldwide, including 1,355 fatalities.

Last update: 12 February 2020 at 7:48 p.m. ET

MAINLAND CHINA	Cases	Deaths	Notes	Links
Hubei province (including Wuhan)	48,206	1,310	5,647 serious, 1,437 critical	Source
Other regions	11,287	43	963 serious/critical	Source
TOTAL	59,493	1,353	8,047 serious 5,542 recovered 16,067 suspected

REGIONS	Cases	Deaths	Notes	Links
Hong Kong	50	1	4 critical, 2 serious, 1 recovered	Source
Taiwan	18	0	1 recovered	Source
Macau	10	0	1 recovered	Source
TOTAL	78	1	6 serious

INTERNATIONAL	Cases	Deaths	Notes	Links
Japan	203*	0	4 serious, 4 recovered	Source
Singapore	50	0	8 critical, 15 recovered	Source
Thailand	33	0	1 serious, 10 recovered	Source
South Korea	28	0	7 recovered	Source
Malaysia	18	0	3 recovered	Source
Australia	15	0	5 recovered	Source
Germany	16	0		Source
Vietnam	15	0	6 recovered	Sourcle
United States	14	0	3 recovered	Source
France	11	0	1 serious, 2 recovered	Source
United Kingdom	9	0	1 recovered	Source
Canada	7	0	1 recovered	Source
UAE	8	0	1 serious, 1 recovered	Source
Philippines	3	1	2 recovered	Source
India	3	0		Source
Italy	3	0	2 serious	Source
Russia	2	0	2 recovered	Source
Spain	2	0		Source
Nepal	1	0	1 recovered	Source
Cambodia	1	0	1 recovered	Source
Sri Lanka	1	0	1 recovered	Source
Finland	1	0	1 recovered	Source
Sweden	1	0		Source
Belgium	1	0		Source
TOTAL	446	1	17 serious/critical

Notes

• Hubei province, China: The numbers include clinically-diagnosed cases, which means they were not confirmed by laboratory tests.
• Japan: The total includes 4 asymptomatic cases, which are not included in the government’s official count.
• Japan: The total includes 174 people from the “Diamond Princess” cruise ship. They are not included in the government’s official count.
• Japan: A statement from Princess Cruises on February 10 erroneously put the number of new cases on the cruise ship at 65, which would have raised the total to 136. Japan’s Health Ministry confirmed the number of new cases was 65.
• North Korea: Unconfirmed reports about 1, 5, or 7 cases in North Korea cannot be verified. If cases are confirmed by the North Korean government, they will be added to this list.

Interesting.

Only 1 death outside China.

What are the chances we are being bullspitted and using the fear to grab more control?

That is what Jon Rappaport has been saying from the beginning.
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View: https://youtu.be/0e64sPHWnsY

 

[Shadow]

Part 4 Wuhan coronavirus: Japan's Demon Of BioWar Kawaoka Inserted HIV Force Multipliers Inside The Wuhan Virus

Creation of Wuhan CoV as a war crime

By grafting HIV proteins into a flu virus, renegade researcher Yoshihiro Kawaoka not only increased a dormant virus’s ability to replicate but, in the process of repeating this technique in his subsequent virus research, has unleashed ruthlessly aggressive hybrids with massive killing power as seen in the unstoppable slaughter of innocents in Wuhan. The exponential expansion of the death toll in China, soon to be repeated in other countries, proves that a persistent laxity of ethical standards in the major powers, and abysmal performance of the WHO, has enabled a maniacal campaign of extermination by the heirs of Unit 731 to realize their mission of genocide. The lawless pharmaceuticals, insane vaccinators and rogue microbiologists must be stopped in their tracks or humanity will face its final solution.

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Read about various online website reviews and news updates. Know about the legitimacy of online websites through our unbiased reviews. Get genuine information..

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Now there is an extremely serious accusation against Japan!

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BREAKING: Sơn Lôi, a village in northern Vietnam, has been put on lockdown to prevent the spread of coronavirus
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While small compared to lockdowns in China, this is the first one in another country. The lockdown will last for 20 days.

 

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Caution on Kidney Dysfunctions of 2019-nCoV Patients
Anti-2019-nCoV Volunteers, Zhen Li, Ming Wu, Jie Guo, Jiwei Yao, Xiang Liao, Siji Song, Min Han, Jiali Li, Guangjie Duan, Yuanxiu Zhou, Xiaojun Wu, Zhansong Zhou, Taojiao Wang, Ming Hu, Xianxiang Chen, Yu Fu, Chong Lei, Hailong Dong, Yi Zhou, Hongbo Jia, Xiaowei Chen, Junan Yan

doi: Caution on Kidney Dysfunctions of 2019-nCoV Patients
This article is a preprint and has not been peer-reviewed [what does this mean?]. It reports new medical research that has yet to be evaluated and so should not be used to guide clinical practice.

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Until 24:00 of February 7th 2020, 31774 laboratory-confirmed cases of novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV) infection have been reported, including 6101 severe cases in critical conditions and 722 deaths. The critical and urgent need at this moment is to find an effective treatment strategy with available means to prevent these thousands of severe inpatients from worsening and dying. It has been recently known that the 2019-nCoV shares a common cellular mechanism with the severe acute respiratory syndrome-associated coronavirus (SARS-CoV)

Thus, we surveyed a previous retrospective case study on SARS which showed that acute renal impairment was uncommon in SARS but carried a formidably high mortality (91.7%, 33 of 36 cases). Here we report an ongoing case study on kidney functions in 59 patients infected by 2019-nCoV (including 28 diagnosed as severe cases and 3 deaths). 63% (32/51) of the patients exhibited proteinuria, indicative of renal impairment. 19% (11/59) and 27% (16/59) of the patients had an elevated level of plasma creatinine and urea nitrogen respectively. The computerized tomography (CT) scan showed radiographic abnormalities of the kidneys in 100% (27/27) of the patients.

Together, these multiple lines of evidence point to the idea that renal impairment is common in 2019-nCov patients, which may be one of the major causes of the illness by the virus infection and also may contribute to multi-organ failure and death eventually. Therefore, we strongly suggest exercising a high degree of caution in monitoring the kidney functions of 2019-nCoV patients and, very importantly, that applying potential interventions including continuous renal replacement therapies (CRRT) for protecting kidney functions as early as possible, particular for those with plasma creatinine rising, is key to preventing fatality.

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This study was supported by grants from the "1000-Talents Program for Young Scholars" of China (X. Chen) and the "100-Talents Program for Elite Engineers" of the CAS (H. Jia).
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Caution on Kidney Dysfunctions of 2019-nCoV Patients

Until 24:00 of February 7th 2020, 31774 laboratory-confirmed cases of novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV) infection have been reported, including 6101 severe cases in critical conditions and 722 deaths. The critical and urgent need at this moment is to find an effective treatment strategy with...

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Eric Feigl-Ding‏ @DrEricDing 6m6 minutes ago

Eric Feigl-Ding Retweeted STAT

Let’s pause the sensationalism for a moment. This is a good balanced article by @HelenBranswell on containment in the US. It doesn’t haven’t to be a runaway epidemic in the US. We just need to slow down the progression until main countermeasures ready (vaccine in 1 yr). #COVID19

 

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Emory, collaborators testing antiviral drug as potential treatment for coronaviruses | Emory University | Atlanta GA

Drug Innovation Ventures at Emory is developing an antiviral compound, discovered here, that could potentially treat the new coronavirus currently spreading around the globe.

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Emory, collaborators testing antiviral drug as potential treatment for coronaviruses
Feb. 3, 2020
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Electron microscope image of SARS virus in a tissue culture isolate, courtesy of CDC Public Health Image Library.

The drug EIDD-1931 was effective against SARS and MERS viruses in the laboratory, and a modified version (EIDD-2801) could potentially be valuable against 2019-nCoV.

An antiviral compound discovered at Emory University could potentially be used to treat the new coronavirus associated with the outbreak in China and spreading around the globe. Drug Innovation Ventures at Emory (DRIVE), a non-profit LLC wholly owned by Emory, is developing the compound, designated EIDD-2801.

In testing with collaborators at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Vanderbilt University Medical Center, the active form of EIDD-2801, which is called EIDD-1931, has shown efficacy against the related coronaviruses SARS (Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome)- and MERS-CoV (Middle East Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus). Some of the data was recently published in Journal of Virology.

EIDD-2801 is an oral ribonucleoside analog that inhibits the replication of multiple RNA viruses, including respiratory syncytial virus, influenza, chikungunya, Ebola, Venezuelan equine encephalitis virus, and Eastern equine encephalitis viruses.

“We have been planning to enter human clinical tests of EIDD-2801 for the treatment of influenza, and recognized that it has potential activity against the current novel coronavirus,” says George Painter, PhD, director of the Emory Institute for Drug Development (EIDD) and CEO of DRIVE. “Based on the drug’s broad-spectrum activity against viruses including influenza, Ebola and SARS-CoV/MERS-CoV, we believe it will be an excellent candidate.”

“Our studies in the Journal of Virology show potent activity of the EIDD-2801 parent compound against multiple coronaviruses including SARS and MERS,” says Mark Denison, MD, the Stahlman Professor of Pediatrics and director of pediatric infectious diseases at Vanderbilt University School of Medicine. “It also has a strong genetic barrier to development of viral resistance, and its oral bioavailability makes it a candidate for use during an outbreak.”

“Generally speaking, seasonal flu is still a much more common threat than this coronavirus, however, novel emerging coronaviruses represent a considerable threat to global health as evidenced by the new 2019-nCoV,” said Ralph Baric, PhD, an epidemiology professor at the University of North Carolina’s Gillings School of Global Public Health. “But the reason the new coronavirus is so concerning is that it’s much more likely to be deadly than the flu – fatal for about one in 25 people versus one in 1,000 for the flu.”

The development of EIDD-2801 has been funded in whole or in part with Federal funds from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), under contract numbers HHSN272201500008C and 75N93019C00058, and from the Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA), under contract numbers HDTRA1-13-C-0072 and HDTRA1-15-C-0075, for the treatment of Influenza, coronavirus, chikungunya, and Venezuelan equine encephalitis virus.

About DRIVE: DRIVE is a non-profit LLC wholly owned by Emory started as an innovative approach to drug development. Operating like an early stage biotechnology company, DRIVE applies focus and industry development expertise to efficiently translate discoveries to address viruses of global concern. Learn more at: Drive

About Defense Threat Reduction Agency: The Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA) was formally established on October 1, 1998. DTRA enables the Department of Defense, the United States Government and International partners to counter and deter weapons of mass destruction and improvised threat networks. As a Combat Support Agency and a Defense Agency, DTRA's mission is to counter the threats posed by the full spectrum of weapons of mass destruction (WMD), including chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear, and high-yield explosives; counter the threats posed by the growing, evolving categories of improvised threats, including improvised explosive devices, car bombs and weaponized consumer drones, as well as the tactics, technologies and networks that put them on the battlefield; and ensure the U.S. military maintains a safe, secure, effective and credible nuclear weapons deterrent.

 

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Coronavirus data from outside the outbreak epicenter is just as valuable as from the inside

Scientists get more details from patients who aren’t in a hot zone

By Nicole Wetsman Feb 12, 2020, 9:23am EST


The active impact of the new coronavirus is very different in China, where tens of thousands of people are sick, than it is in the rest of the world, which only has a few dozen scattered cases. But data from both environments is helping scientists as they work to understand the virus and the illness it causes.
“With a large number of cases you get a better sense of how the virus behaves on average in a community,” says Caitlin Rivers, senior associate at the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security. “In a place with fewer cases, you can spend more time investigating each case.”

In the past week, researchers have published reports on large groups of coronavirus patients in China. One described the way the illness affected 138 patients at Zhongnan Hospital of Wuhan University, finding that around a quarter had to be cared for in the intensive care unit and that some patients had atypical symptoms like diarrhea and nausea. The study, published in the Journal of the American Medical Association, found that hospitalized patients passed the virus to 40 health care workers. Another team analyzed 1,099 patients from over 500 hospitals in China. In that set, fever and cough were the most common symptoms, and around 15 percent developed severe pneumonia. The data, which was published as a preprint, hasn’t yet been peer-reviewed or published in a journal.
Those studies and others like them give researchers a bigger picture of the outbreak. “It tells us a lot about what happens when you have a lot of overwhelmed hospitals,” says Angela Rasmussen, a research scientist at the Center for Infection and Immunity at the Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health. That helps public health officials in countries like the US prepare for what they might see if the virus continues to spread outside China.

Like any data from inside an active epidemic, though, the information comes with some caveats: usually, only the most severe cases of an illness come to the attention of public health authorities and are hospitalized during an active crisis. So the cases that are included in these reports may be more extreme examples of illness.
Doctors in China are also focused on treating patients and stopping the spread of disease, and they’re not collecting exhaustive data on individual cases. In places with only a few cases, like the US, researchers have the time to do more specific clinical evaluations of each patient.
“When you look at big groups, sometimes you can miss some of the subtleties that you could investigate in one person,” Rasmussen says. “In a crisis situation, there’s often not that kind of data collected because the priority is taking care of people who are really sick.” Each person’s body responds to a virus differently, she says, and having details on individuals can help highlight the various ways a person could react to an infection.

Individual case studies have their own limitations — no scientist would say that they have conclusive evidence from only one data point — but granular detail on single cases helps them understand how infections unfold. A recent case report on a US patient in Washington state, for example, included a day-by-day description of his symptoms and temperature. It also included all of his lab results, like his white blood cell and potassium counts. Another report, published this week, also tracked a Nepalese patient’s temperature over time and included images of his lungs.

With only a few patients to treat, public health officials in countries without large outbreaks can also focus on tracking down everyone a sick patient came into contact with. “In theory, you’d be able to find all the new infections,” Rivers says. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is keeping close track of the close contacts of all the US cases, for example, and recording any new symptoms and testing them for the virus if necessary. That helps it understand how the virus is passed from person to person and how many additional people sick patients go on to infect.
These anecdotal case reports and large group epidemiological studies are precious to researchers as they scramble to learn how dangerous the new coronavirus is, Rasmussen says. “All the different studies are important.”


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Coronavirus data from outside the outbreak epicenter is just as valuable as from the inside

Data from China tells scientists how the virus behaves in overwhelmed hospitals.

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A South Korean hospital announced on Thursday that an HIV combination drug of lopinavir plus ritonavir showed effectiveness in treating a coronavirus patient.

 

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I'm hoping this is nothing, but I don't like reading about someone coming home from China on Sunday...and being a county away. This is in Mahoning County in Ohio...

Cornersburg woman in quarantine after trip to China

Barbara Calder was visiting her son in Hangzhou, China when the city got placed on lockdown. She was told to stay in her son's apartment for two weeks.

www.wfmj.com

Cornersburg woman in quarantine after trip to China
Barbara Calder was visiting her son in Hangzhou, China when the city got placed on lockdown. She was told to stay in her son's apartment for two weeks.
Wednesday, February 12th 2020, 12:13 AM EST by Derek Steyer
Updated:
Wednesday, February 12th 2020, 10:32 AM EST


A Valley woman has been quarantined in her house for the next 14 days after getting home from China on Sunday.

Barbara Calder, who lives in Cornersburg, was visiting her son, who works and lives in Hangzhou, which is about 700 miles from the city of Wuhan. Wuhan is considered ground zero for the Coronavirus.

She’s been to China six times in the last three years and has done a lot of sightseeing, but what she’ll remember most over the last couple of weeks is what she didn’t see.

“It was just very eerie how a town that was so, like I said there are ten million people in that town and if you look at that picture, that’s 6 p.m. that’s like when people should be getting home from work, and there is no one out,” Calder said.

One day after she arrived, Hangzhou was placed on lockdown.

“We were really tired, so I went to sleep, and the next morning you wake up, and there were barricades,” Calder said.

Calder was told to stay in her son’s apartment.


“We were told by the apartment where he lives, the security, that only one person per family was allowed out to get supplies every other day,” Calder said.

At the time, that province had the second-leading number of Coronavirus infections.

“Everywhere you went, you stood in line to go to the store, and he had his temperature taken, and then throughout the store, there were people walking around taking peoples temperatures, you know the little gun that they shoot at your head to take a temperature, and if you were hot, you would be escorted out and thank goodness he wasn’t hot,” Calder said.

Calder said a lot of people where her son lives eat out or get food delivery. The only food getting delivered though during this time was McDonald’s, KFC, Pizza Hut and Dominoes.

“He was not allowed out, and the delivery driver was no longer allowed in,” said Calder. “Usually, the delivery driver comes up to your apartment, you know.”

Calder said at first she wasn’t too worried.


“First, I thought, oh come on, this is going to stop after a day or two, and then I realized this wasn’t gonna stop.”

She decided to cut her nearly month-long trip short because air travel was shutting down.

“Once I got there, air travel stopped, I mean except for business, you had to prove you needed to travel, you know, so it went to immediately like disaster mode,” Calder said. “My flights were changed six times due to countries not taking any passengers from China. Countries just dropped like flies.”

Calder was able to catch a flight to Seoul, South Korea, and then to San Francisco, Washington D.C., and finally Pittsburgh.

She is not sick but is being quarantined out of precaution and protocol. Calder says they had no interaction with people other than security and building personnel.

She says one myth she would like to clear up is food shortages. She said grocery stores around her son all had plenty of food.

"Calder was able to catch a flight to Seoul, South Korea, and then to San Francisco, Washington D.C., and finally Pittsburgh.

Well isn't that special...I really hope she wasn't / isn't incubating. How many other people did something similar to get out of China? Let's not fly direct and limit contact...spread the love around. Ugh. So many connectors, so little time.

So I spent my evening watching videos on growing potatoes. One of the things my alphabet friend mentioned was working on a project tracking food supplies (basically). Hard to know if his comments on famine were a hint...not. Maybe it's just approaching Spring and I'm getting itchy to plant stuff. I always wonder though, having had 3 kids, what it means when I seem to go into nesting mode. It usually means big changes in my life. We shall see....