Current Affairs Coronavirus Thread - Serious stuff !!!

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My daughter turned up at my house earlier, she had a doctors appointment and was waiting ages when the staff came out and asked everyone to leave as they had a patient with suspected corona virus and had to disinfect the premises!! Scary. Dovecote area.

On Pilch Lane that isn't it?
 
Would be nice if US had working testing kits to determine if/where there is community spread...
Health officials are warning that the spread of coronavirus in the United States appears inevitable.

The comments were made in separate briefings to lawmakers and reporters on Tuesday, marking an escalation in tone and urgency.“Ultimately we expect we will see community spread in the United States,” Nancy Messonnier, a top official at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, told reporters.

“It’s not a question of if this will happen but when this will happen and how many people in this country will have severe illnesses.”
 
The wife ordered masks for me when it first broke out because I travel for work

I smiled to myself and thought what a waste of money, I’m not laughing now.


Same as that, people were all chuckling about it, not so much now. It’s always better to have them than not. Sure they will be useful anyway at some point, I do a bit of urban exploring and some places are covered in mould so be handy then.
 
Tbh in the early stages, the suggestion from those managing the response in the UK was that China's ability to be more draconian, was beneficial to preventing spread.

Authoritarian rule is a double-edged sword - you get more flexibility in response to crisis, but the flow of information upward and the implementation of orders get compromised by survival/promotion incentives throughout the food chain.

Iran‘s outbreak, and how they are handling it, is concerning.


Good example, this. Rulership doesn't want the Feb. 21 elections to go south, so they keep a lid on it for days and then it's too late. That added flexibility came back to bite them HARD.
 
Still very different fatality rates between Italy and S Korea
Italy has confirmed 322 cases of the virus, the Italian civil protection agency said Tuesday. That's the highest number of coronavirus infections outside Asia.
The cases are heavily concentrated in the region of Lombardy where 212 infections have been confirmed. The authorities said Tuesday evening that 11 people have so far died from the virus in the country.

893 confirmed cases 8 deceased.
 
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