I’d been meaning to alter my Amazon “subscribe and save” frequency for ordering them as they were piling up in the cupboard but never got around to it - at last procrastination pays off!
Anecdotally hearing all local Costcos have been swamped today.
Current Affairs Coronavirus Thread - Serious stuff !!!
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I’d been meaning to alter my Amazon “subscribe and save” frequency for ordering them as they were piling up in the cupboard but never got around to it - at last procrastination pays off!
Anecdotally hearing all local Costcos have been swamped today.
Heavy strain on healthcare services in SKorea’s hardest hit area, hope their rate of infections goes down (or at least the quarantines pauses it a bit) so they catch a break.
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Absolutely disgusting. Because of them and their weird habits of wild meat consumption, millions will perish. Add to that all the initial cover ups.
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China officials knew of coronavirus in December, ordered cover-up, report says
February 29, 2020 | 3:45pm
People wearing face masks in Beijing, China today.
Chinese scientists knew about the coronavirus and its deadly effects as early as December — but were ordered by government officials to suppress the evidence, according to a report.
In late December, several genomics companies tested samples from sick patients in Wuhan — the center of the coronavirus outbreak — and noticed alarming similarities between their illnesses and the 2002 SARS virus, the Sunday Times of London reported, citing Chinese business news site Caixin Global.
The researchers alerted Beijing of their findings — and on Jan. 3, received a gag order from China’s National Health Commission, with instructions to destroy the samples.
Rather than hunkering down to contain the virus, Wuhan officials went ahead with their annual potluck dinner for 40,000 families.
The alleged cover-up continued when representatives from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention visited Wuhan Jan. 8, where officials intentionally withheld information that hospital workers had been infected by patients — a telltale sign of contagion.
News of the virus’ highly contagious nature didn’t surface publicly until Jan. 20. Wuhan was locked down and a mass quarantine ordered three days later.
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Not with your baby coming along, no.
Should make all known anti-vaxxers stand at the back of the queue...
'Sorry mate, all gone, but hey, you don't believe in this sort of thing anyway do you?'
Still waiting to get over swine flu m8.
All todays' village carnivals have been cancelled on Rhodes.No floats or parades.They have still kept the DJ on,playing in my village square which is still packed by all accounts WTAF.
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No one knows as it is guesses within guesses - how transmissable is the virus, how many people are asymptomatic etc, but the weight of opinion is that the worst is yet to come - global pandemic in the post.
When will the coronavirus outbreak peak?
Officials want to know but predictions vary wildly, from now to after hundreds of millions of people are infected.
www.nature.com
Experts are talking about a rough 1% lethality rate, prob lower (which is key to its spread - if it was more deadly it wouldn't be able to infect so many people). So long term it might not be such a big deal esp once vaccines become available. The immediate problem is that there is no immunity, so if we can't slow it down with containment it will hit a lot of the people at the same time which will crater the NHS, our economy etc.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/01/world/coronavirus-news.html?referringSource=articleShare
The virus may have been in Washington State for weeks.
As Washington State declared a state of emergency over the new coronavirus, researchers who studied two cases in the state say that the virus may have been spreading there for weeks, suggesting the possibility that up to 1,500 people in the state may have been infected.
The state became the site of the country’s first coronavirus death on Saturday, at a time when President Trump issued new foreign travel warnings and restrictions in an effort to stop the spread of the virus, while also urging calm among members of the public.
The number of confirmed cases worldwide had reached nearly 87,000 as of Sunday, with more than 7,000 cases outside mainland China, where the outbreak began late last year. The virus has now been detected in at least 60 countries.
With 71 cases confirmed in the United States, the Food and Drug Administration announced this weekend that testing for the coronavirus would be greatly expanded in the country, a move that is expected to improve the pace of detecting infections and help identify patterns of suspected or confirmed cases.
The virus may have been in Washington State for weeks.
As Washington State declared a state of emergency over the new coronavirus, researchers who studied two cases in the state say that the virus may have been spreading there for weeks, suggesting the possibility that up to 1,500 people in the state may have been infected.
The state became the site of the country’s first coronavirus death on Saturday, at a time when President Trump issued new foreign travel warnings and restrictions in an effort to stop the spread of the virus, while also urging calm among members of the public.
The number of confirmed cases worldwide had reached nearly 87,000 as of Sunday, with more than 7,000 cases outside mainland China, where the outbreak began late last year. The virus has now been detected in at least 60 countries.
With 71 cases confirmed in the United States, the Food and Drug Administration announced this weekend that testing for the coronavirus would be greatly expanded in the country, a move that is expected to improve the pace of detecting infections and help identify patterns of suspected or confirmed cases.
Guy in foreground thought bubble “Toilet paper, cleaning supplies, food - naah, if I’m going to be quarantined what I really need is a huge tv”!
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