poeticoddity posted:

"On Sunday, Zhou Xianwang, the Mayor of Wuhan, said that 5 million people had left the city before travel restrictions were imposed ahead of the Chinese New Year. He said he expected at least 1,000 of some 3,000 suspected cases to be diagnosed with the highly-contagious virus."

spacetoaster posted:

Article from 2017.


https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/china-ground-zero-future-pandemic-180965213/

VikingSkull posted:

so it looks like it's tracking to be less deadly than SARS, but much, much more infectious

which means it'll probably kill more people than SARS in the long run

fun

hallelujah posted:

good news everyone, i died from the coronavirus and it wasn't that bad

VikingSkull posted:

Laterite posted:

I have a native Chinese coworker (now a naturalized us citizen) who genuinely believes this virus was engineered by the Chinese government to specifically generically target the elderly Chinese population to reduce their drain on public benefits lmao

A Grand Egg posted:

I work with 90 people who havent caught it once but Ive caught it 90 times and Im now the CEO

Suck it losers.

Known Lecher posted:

The travel tips in some of the Level 4 country advisories are A+ reading.

The first one in the North Korea one is "make sure you have drafted a will".

One of the ones in the Central African Republic one is "designate a family member in advance to be a contact person for the media, NGOs and members of Congress in the event you are taken hostage". Also "leave a DNA sample with your doctor in case it's, um, needed later on."

just another posted:

So according to https://gisanddata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/opsdashboard/index.html#/bda7594740fd40299423467b48e9ecf6
And all talk of China's likelihood of publishing false stats aside --

They've added around 1500-2000 per day for the last five days

25: 2.7k
26: 4.4k (+1.7)
27: 6k (+1.6)
28: 7.7k (+1.7)
29: 9.7k (+2)
30: 11.2k (+1.5)

What's the likelihood that those numbers represent the limit of their ability to diagnose new cases per day, and not the actual rate of new infections?

MarcusSA posted:

2,000 in a day is kinda a lot.

Also there is no way people aren’t just dying at home and not getting counted.

slap me and kiss me posted:

One of the big vectors of transmission is fomite, which is everywhere when someone's hacking up their lungs. Tossing a body into a bag and burning it all up makes sure there's no risk that your funeral home and mourners don't get infected.

ma i married a tuna posted:

So after several days of large, but roughly linear increases I'm wondering whether that means something in terms of containment. I remember in 2014 Ebola something similar happened - when people were initially were very concerned about exponential increase, and attributed the increase to limitations of measurement rather than an actual picture. I would guess that testing capacity increase in Wuhan is a big priority, so if we're not seeing bigger numbers day by day it is possible the containment has some effect.

Or, you know, all the testing kits are clutched in dying fingers and doomsday is near.

Outrail posted:

What are the odds Chinese officials took a long hard look at their population structure, pollution levels, water availability and food production forecasts and decided to let it run its course? Or did they just bungle and underreport numbers because that's just the way things are done?

Philonius posted:

Yeah. If it's currently infecting 50k per day and doubling every 5 days, that's a cumulative 20 million infections in the next month.

MaxxBot posted:

https://twitter.com/BNODesk/status/1226735685228531712

Shaocaholica posted:

Will this Breaking Bad costume work as a real bio suit??? Comes with a mask and everything.



https://www.amazon.com/Rasta-Impost...ps%2C220&sr=8-5

Shaocaholica posted:

Just interact with everyone on board using only BB quotes.

Chrs posted:

https://www.cnbc.com/2020/02/10/coronavirus-latest-updates.html

HugeGrossBurrito posted:

the Canadians were working on some kind of man pangolin hybrid and then tried to dispose of the evidence

Chrs posted:

Got bored and stopped following the news on this. We dead yet?

There Bias Two posted:

Are things slowing down so much that we've switched to market chat?

Just Chamber posted:

I have (i think) the regular flu atm, slowly getting better after feeling at my worse (which was mostly feeling pretty weak with a really sore throat and slight chill, mostly just feel weak now with a minor cough and blocked nose). I suppose if you have mild symptoms there's no real way to tell the difference between a mild case of Covid and a mild flu?

Fairly sure it's just the flu and fingers crossed that's the case but i'm keeping myself to myself for the time being. I was visiting the local hospital the last 3 weeks to see my mum who was there but as i'm in the UK and there's been no reports of anyone getting it near me (or at that hospital) I think i'm safe.

wilderthanmild posted:

The only way to prevent the disease is abstinence.

VikingSkull posted:

no one in the US is doing that

Bardeh posted:

Soooo the numbers of deaths as compared to confirmed cases in the US would seem to mean that there are a TON of undiagnosed cases out there...

The Glumslinger posted:

They just brought it back cause Vince McMahon wanted to do the NFL but respecting the flag

(Also because spring football is a reasonable investment if you can get decent tv deals)