Officials keep saying they are not worried but now the US has 110 people in 26 states they are monitoring who have been screened at 5 airports for coronavirus. Just yesterday someone in Hartford was a confirmed case. They are confirmed cases in Wasington state [Seattle], Phoenix, Chicago, Texas.
In Wuhan in China they are putting together a prefab hospital with 1,000 beds opens in one week by Feb 3. They are also building three more because of what is going on there.
They have no drugs for it.
On top of that the flu this year is type B. The vaccines are only 58% effective. People are dieing from it in a couple of days. One 8 yr. Old in Atlanta had his kidneys shut down by day 2 after symptoms appeared.
We cannot afford a pandemic here on top of the flu. Trump must stop admitting anyone coming from China until the danger passes. Why isn't he doing it?
Edit: Thread title changed out of respect for Xi Jinping, the Chinese President, who does not want panic and for the exemplary job he is doing in epidemic management.
[Edited on 3/22/2020 by gina]
These are things from the Apocalyptic times we are living in.
There are swarms of locusts in Africa. Etc.
Five million people left Wuhan before the quarantine.
They left China and went other places. [Business Insider reports]. How many are carriers of the virus which can take up to two weeks to show symptoms.
13 countries have infected people.
2700 infected in China, 81 dead.
Others mentioned the 2011 movie Contagion, and say this is what it is like.
[Edited on 1/27/2020 by gina]
Tomorrow, Tuesday
Charter flight FROM Wuhan, Boeing 737,
230 people coming to San Francisco. The US has 1,000 people it wants to evacuate from the US consulate and bring back here.
There are already people infected in Los Angeles.
[DAILYMAIL.CO.UK].
[Edited on 1/27/2020 by gina]
China has 4515 cases nationwide, of those 1300 new cases. 106 deaths.
The first 1,000 bed prefab hospital opens today.
The second one in Lienshenshen with 1300 to 1500 beds opens Feb 5th.
A 121 member medical team from their National Health Commission left Beijing to go to Wuhan among them is nurse Hu Jing.
[From Tianshannet news].
Tongi Medical Lab is working 24 hrs. A day for the 6 hour blood test to confirm the virus using Reverse Transcriptase Polymerase Chain Reaction [RT-PCR]. They can test 200 samples per day.
[Edited on 1/29/2020 by gina]
7711 infected in China,
81,000 being monitored.
3 US drug companies want to work on a vaccine.
Those evacuated from Wuhan that came back to US were taken to military facility in California to be held for 14 days.
The virus replicates every six days.
Viruses, insect population spikes, have been happening for all of history.
Kind of similar to the heating and cooling cycles the Earth goes through?
Symptoms are generally mild on this one.
3 out of 10 who get it die. Mild symptoms? Their lungs do not function, they need to be ventilated to live.
https://www.bbc.com/news/health-51214864
At least 10% die
As of 25 January, of the 99 patients:
57 were still in hospital
31 had been discharged
11 had died
Lung assault
All of the 99 patients taken to the hospital had pneumonia - their lungs were inflamed and the tiny sacs where oxygen moves from the air to the blood were filling with water.
Other symptoms were:
82 had fever
81 had a cough
31 had shortness of breath
11 had muscle ache
nine had confusion
eight had a headache
five had a sore throat
[Edited on 1/30/2020 by gina]
The UN declared a "global emergency"
Some sources for news:
http://en.people.cn/index.html
http://global.chinadaily.com.cn/
The first patient was cured.
http://www.xinhuanet.com/english/2020-01/30/c_138743906.htm
Confirmed Cases By Country
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2020/01/countries-confirmed-cases-coronavirus-200125070959786.html
Vaccines NOT READY in time for the Olympics in Tokyo.
Vaccines likely will not be ready in time for Tokyo 2020: Professor
Vaccines against the coronavirus probably will not be ready by the start of the Tokyo Summer Olympics, a professor who looked at health risks ahead of the Games said, adding that he hopes there was enough time to build defences.
Koji Wada, a professor of public health at the International University of Health and Welfare in Tokyo, co-authored a paper in 2018 that looked at health risks from the influx of visitors to the 2020 Games in July.
"We may have more information about the risk of infection and the risk of severity of getting the virus, so we can [be] prepared," Wada told Reuters news agency. "So we can have some precautions for infection control ... but I hope we can conduct the Tokyo Olympics as scheduled."
This British man was a tourist. He got very sick in Phuket. He called his Mother and said he felt like he was going to die in the hospital. The Mother was vacationing in Spain and called the insurance company to get him transferred to Bangkok.
In his case the ventilator they put him on was reportedly too small for his lungs, causing fluid to build and abcesses. When he got to Bangkok, they reportedly put him on the correct ventilator size. Now they say he did not have the corona virus but has the flu. He is in the ICU.
“The drains in Phuket into his lungs were too small and did not drain fluid hence the infection.”
Mr Shorley added his son was still very ill after undergoing a five-hour operation at Bumrungrad Hospital to remove abscesses and puss from his lungs.
He said Ashley, who is being treated with antibiotics and other drugs, would not be allowed to travel home until the grade A influenza virus had gone.
He currently has a hole in his lung and needs oxygen to breathe.
Mr Shorley said: “His lungs were covered with a thick plasma, his outer sack filled with poison puss so his lungs could not expand hence he had urgent seaplane transfer to Bangkok.
“He may undergo an operation when his fever from pneumonia drops to the correct level.”
[Edited on 1/30/2020 by gina]
Well gina did say one thing I agree with on this latest "sign of the apocalypse" :
Phuk et
Well gina did say one thing I agree with on this latest "sign of the apocalypse" :
Phuk et
Easy for you to say!
Vaccines NOT READY in time for the Olympics in Tokyo.
Vaccines likely will not be ready in time for Tokyo 2020: Professor
Vaccines against the coronavirus probably will not be ready by the start of the Tokyo Summer Olympics, a professor who looked at health risks ahead of the Games said, adding that he hopes there was enough time to build defences.
Yes, “two World Cup ski races that were cancelled in China b/c of the ongoing virus outbreak have been moved to Austria. The downhill & Super G were originally scheduled next month at Yanqing, site of the 2022 Beijing Olympics”
Yep it’s got people scared alright - gotta catch up on the links, esp that one Brer about the overpanic alarmist reaction being worse than any disease - chilling is the best medicine for them
We’re building de fences on the border, now time for virus defences ......my Corona didn’t have a lemon slice, that’s why I got a virus;)
Has coronavirus been passed down from malaria>yellow fever>TB>West Nile>Ebola & On - contagious viruses are nothing new really - stay well 😮 😛
[Edited on 1/31/2020 by Stephen]
1-30-20 Friday
10,000 infected.
213 dead in China.
Some have said the death toll is higher. Everyone who is sick was not tested for the coronavirus. Those who were not tested and died are not recorded or reported in the official death toll numbers. Their death certificates list the cause of death as pneumonia. There are so many fatalities bodies are going from the hospital to the funeral homes and are being cremated. The second hospital in Lienshenshen opens 2-3, and the third hospital opens 2-5. The medical journal the Lancet says there may be 75,000 cases.
Remdesivir, an anti retroviral drug has been provided to China by Gilead pharmaceuticals. The drug treats Ebola, MERS, and Acute Respiratory Syndrome. Reported by Reuters.
https://www.medkoo.com/products/12094
Description: Remdesivir, also known as GS-5734, is an antiviral drug, and a novel nucleotide analog prodrug. Remdesivir inhibits murine hepatitis virus (MHV) with an EC50 of 30 nM, and blocks SARS-CoV and MERS-CoV in HAE cells with EC50s of both 74 nM in HAE cells after treatment for 24 h. GS-5734 inhibits both epidemic and zoonotic coronaviruses. It was developed by Gilead Sciences as a treatment for filovirus infections such as Ebola virus disease and Marburg virus. Remdesivir share the same core structure with that of GS-441524. Remdesivir may consider as a prodrug of GS-441524.
Remdesivir has been found to show reasonable antiviral activity against more distantly related viruses such as respiratory syncytial virus, Junin virus, Lassa fever virus, and MERS-coronavirus. GS-5734 was rapidly pushed through clinical trials due to the 2013–2016 West African Ebola virus epidemic crisis, eventually being used in at least one human patient despite its early development stage at the time. Preliminary results have been promising, and further clinical trials are planned.
Appearance:Solid powder
Purity:>98% (or refer to the Certificate of Analysis)
Shipping Condition:Shipped under ambient temperature as non-hazardous chemical. This product is stable enough for a few weeks during ordinary shipping and time spent in Customs.
Storage Condition: Dry, dark and at 0 - 4 C for short term (days to weeks) or -20 C for long term (months to years).
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Drug Formulation:This drug may be formulated in DMSO
Stock Solution Storage:0 - 4 C for short term (days to weeks), or -20 C for long term (months).
Harmonized System Code:2934.99.90.01
https://www.who.int/ebola/drc-2018/technical-issues-to-consider-for-ebola-pep.pdf?ua=1
High Risk Exposure Events
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The first I heard about was a team at Imperial College London led by Professor Neil Ferguson. As of writing, they’ve published three reports, the first on the 17th January and the most recent on the 25th January.
They’ve been working back from the number of cases being seen outside of China and the probability a case would appear based on the number of people who were leaving from Wuhan International Airport. Given this is a new outbreak with a virus not ever seen before, they had to make some guestimates as to how infectious it is and the incubation period.
[Check Grant Jacobs’ explainer of how infectivity is measured, aka R0, and this fantastic graphic that has the R0’s of lots of different infectious microbes.]
Ferguson and colleagues’ estimates ranged from 190 – 5,341 cases by the 12th January in their first report, to between 1,000 – 9,700 by the 18th January in their second report. Prof Ferguson was then quoted in the Guardian last week as saying his best guest was there were 100,000 people infected with the virus.
A few days ago a paper appeared in the Lancet that describes pretty much the same analysis. Professor Joseph Wu and colleagues estimate that between 37,304 and 130,330 people have been infected in Wuhan as of 25th January.
https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(20)30260-9/fulltext#seccestitle80
[Edited on 2/2/2020 by gina]
Scientists in Hong Kong wrote in the Lancet medical journal they think 75 000 people in China are infected and each of those people would statistically come in contact with 2.6 other people potentially infecting them. There are 400 cases exported from Wuhan to Chonqing, 422 miles away, Beijing got 113 cases, Shanghai 98 cases. This is the time of New Years celebrations over there for 40 days you have a lot of people in the air and on the trains travelling. Originally it was two weeks before people got sick.
Reported in Yahoo/uk/style section
Xinhuanet.com/english
Has reported a quick screening test gives results in 30 minutes for nucleic acid reagent test kits. They were approved by China's NMPA to test for the corona virus. [2019-nCov].
Very good news.
[Edited on 1/31/2020 by gina]
Many wonder how are the people in Wuhan handling this, being on lockdown in their homes? The BBC and Guardian from the UK reported people having a great solidarity with each other. They come out on their balconies and chant Wuhan-jiyou which means Wuhan stay strong.
They also sing and their neighbors join them in the evening. They are on lockdown during what should be their New Year's festivities. They are not down or despairing. They order food it gets delivered. They play ping pong and games in their apartments.
Their government built hospitals to help them. They want them to get well and get home. Amidst a serious problem they took the actions needed to care for their people.
We should try to be supportive of these people, because this could have happened anywhere.
Business Wire has reported 1-23-20 that Moderna Inc. Has received a funding award to develop a vaccine for the corona virus.
https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20200123005458/en/
CAMBRIDGE, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Moderna, Inc., (Nasdaq: MRNA) a clinical stage biotechnology company pioneering messenger RNA (mRNA) therapeutics and vaccines to create a new generation of transformative medicines for patients, and the Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations (CEPI), today announced a new collaboration to develop an mRNA vaccine against the novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV).
Moderna has strategic alliances with these pharmaceutical companies to work with them on vaccine development.
AstraZeneca,
Merck Inc,
Defense Advanced Research Projects (DARPA)
US Department of Defense and Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority (BADA)
Under the terms of the agreement, Moderna will manufacture an mRNA vaccine against 2019-nCoV, which will be funded by CEPI. The Vaccine Research Center (VRC) of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), part of NIH, collaborated with Moderna to design the vaccine. NIAID will conduct IND-enabling studies and a Phase 1 clinical study in the U.S.
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/moderna-announces-funding-award-cepi-141500779.html
[Edited on 2/2/2020 by gina]
Nucleic acid reagent test kits for [2019-nCov] Corona virus approved by China NMPA. Generates results in 30 minutes.
So they can determine if someone has the virus quicker to start treatment.
The Shanghai Institute of Materia Medical and Wuhan Virus Institute of the Chinese Academy of Sciences jointly found that "Shuanghuanglian oral liquid" can inhibit new corona virus proliferation on a case led by Academician Jiang Hualing, who participated in SARS research.
The liquid contains honeysuckle, scutellarica baicalensis, and forsythia which detoxifies the body providing broad spectrum antiviral and bacteriostatic properties. In 2003 Zup Jianping's team from the Shanghai INstitute confirmed it had anti SARS corona virus effect. Also effective against flu strains:
H7N9, H1N1, H5N1, MERS.
REMARKS: Use natural substances first. Thumbs up for the Chinese scientists.
Cocktail of Flu, HIV drugs appears to helps to fight Corona virus: Thai Doctors.
By Panu Wongcha-um
BANGKOK (Reuters) - Thai doctors have seen success in treating severe cases of the new coronavirus with combination of medications for flu and HIV, with initial results showing vast improvement 48 hours after applying the treatment, they said on Sunday.
The drug treatment includes a mixture of anti-HIV drugs lopinavir and ritonavir, in combination with flu drug oseltamivir in large doses.
"This is not the cure, but the patient's condition has vastly improved. From testing positive for 10 days under our care, after applying this combination of medicine the test result became negative within 48 hours," Dr. Kriangska Atipornwanich, a lung specialist at Rajavithi, told reporters.
"This is not the cure, but the patient's condition has vastly improved. From testing positive for 10 days under our care, after applying this combination of medicine the test result became negative within 48 hours," Dr. Kriangska Atipornwanich, a lung specialist at Rajavithi, told reporters.
"The outlook is good but we still have to do more study to determine that this can be a standard treatment."
Chinese health officials have already been administering the HIV and flu drugs to fight the coronavirus. The use of the three together in a cocktail seemed to improve the treatment, the Thai doctors said.
Another doctor said that a similar approach in two other patients resulted in one displaying some allergic reaction but the other showed improvement.
"We have been following international practices, but the doctor increased the dosage of one of the drugs," said Somsak Akkslim, director-general of the Medical Services Department, referring to the flu medicine Oseltamivir.
Thailand has recorded 19 cases of coronavirus. Of the Thai patients, eight have recovered and gone home while 11 are still under treatment in hospitals.
Somsak said the health ministry will meet on Monday to discuss the successful treatment in the case of the 70-year-old but said it is still too soon to say that this approach can be applied to all cases.
"Initially we will apply this approach only to severe cases," he said.
COMMENTS: One flu drug, and two HIV drugs helped 8 out of 19 patients get well, and test negative so they were able to go home. 11 More patients are still at the hospital receiving the drug cocktail. Pray for them.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/cocktail-flu-hiv-drugs-appears-124753996.html
MORE OUTBREAKS of OTHER FLUS:
Phillipines:
https://news.yahoo.com/philippines-detects-first-african-swine-062807828.html
https://nypost.com/2020/02/02/china-reports-bird-flu-outbreak-near-epicenter-of-coronavirus/
Bird Flu H5N1,The bird flu outbreak was reported Saturday in Hunan, which borders the province of Hubei where the coronavirus broke out last month. “The outbreak occurred in a farm in the Shuangqing district of Shaoyang city,” officials said. “The farm has 7,850 chickens, and 4,500 of the chickens have died from the contagion.”
Hong Kong Medical Workers Strike as outbreak worsens
They voted to strike.
https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/10967866/coronavirus-europe-france-paris-death-brits/
[Edited on 2/15/2020 by gina]
https://www.cnn.com/2020/02/01/asia/coronavirus-wuhan-discrimination-intl-hnk/index.html
Wuhan officials estimate about 5 million people had left the city for the annual Lunar New Year holiday before authorities canceled all outbound flights, trains and buses in an unprecedented lockdown on January 23.
Many of them are migrant workers or university students returning to their hometowns for new year family reunions. Others are holidaymakers taking advantage of the long annual break.
China only declared that the coronavirus could be transmitted from person to person on January 20, following a sudden jump in confirmed cases. Until then, authorities had said the outbreak was "preventable and controllable."
Remarks: 5 MILLION people left Wuhan BEFORE authorities cancelled all outbound flights etc. Where are those people now. How many were infected and how many did they infect? The world has not seen the height of this yet. Even the researchers have said one infected person statistically can infect 2.6 others, or 3 or 5 others. You have 5 MILLION people who went out of the city, how many of them are carriers transmitting the disease?
AND WHY HASN'T HE US CLOSED IT'S BORDERS TO PEOPLE COMING FROM CHINA? Why are they still coming thru the airports, travelling in BIG cities (NYC has 11 million people) infecting people anywhere. Yet the government still says don't worry.
Eric Toner, M.D. of John's Hopkins Center for Health Science took part in a simulation with the World Economic Forum and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and concluded that "under the right circumstances" the corona virus could kill 65 Million people in 18 months.
http://www.centerforhealthsecurity.org/event201/191017-press-release.html
The Spanish flu killed 20 to 60 million in 1918.
He thinks the Chinese efforts to contain the disease are "unlikely to be effective".
Market Watch
He is not alone in his assessment of the possible death toll.
Yesterday a top Hong Kong medical official predicted the coronavirus could infect more than 60 per cent of the global population if containment methods fail.
Professor Gabriel Leung, chair of public health medicine in the city, said on Tuesday even if the coronavirus kills just 1 per cent of sufferers, it could still wipe out as many as 45 million people.
In the UK that translates to 400,000 people could die from it.
https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/10967866/coronavirus-europe-france-paris-death-brits/
https://www.standard.co.uk/news/health/coronavirus-britain-uk-deaths-a4362866.html
[Edited on 2/15/2020 by gina]
Tuesday 2-4
CNN reported 20,000 confirmed cases in China.
China is going above and beyond in their response. Even making negative pressure ambulances, and they converted some exhibition centers into makeshift locations for sick people. Their response has been phenomenal but this is a very virulent virus. It has also been noted when a patient gets well, and people have, they can be re-infected their antibodies will not be enough to prevent that.
More later.
