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Anonymous
Yes, that is good news for now and let's hope that it will stay that way. Thank you PP |
Anonymous
Something else to think about — the longest incubation period I’ve heard is 14 days with the Chinese saying it can be transmitted without symptoms and CDC saying no evidence that it can be transmitted by the asymptomatic. In either case the first case in Washington state flew in 1/15 — on a flight with hundreds of others, walked thru SeaTac and took some sort of transport home (didn’t drive himself). So if we get past the middle of this wk which will be 14 days and there aren’t a bunch of confirmed cases in/around Washington state from ppl on that flight, at the airport etc — then that’ll be a good data point re the fact that it isn’t easily spread just by being on the same flight w someone who develops it later. Again fingers crossed. |
Anonymous
That is a very good point PP. Thanks. |
Anonymous
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WaPo:
U.S. to expand screening of passengers from China at 20 airports While China has been more transparent than it was during the 2003 SARS outbreak, U.S. officials are still getting their information through press briefings rather than from direct transfer of scientific data, said Anthony S. Fauci, director of the U.S. National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases. Fauci pointed out that China’s health minister, Ma Xiaowei, said publicly Sunday that the virus could be transmitted by an infected person even before symptoms appear. “We really need to know what is the scientific basis of saying the virus is spread by someone who doesn’t have any symptoms,” Fauci told The Washington Post. “That was a major potential game-changer that gets spoken to us in a press briefing. We should have seen the data.” This could affect how the U.S. screens people traveling from China. “If people can be transmitting and infecting without any symptoms, that has a major impact on how you screen people,” he said. Amid growing alarm about the disease’s fast spread, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is boosting staffing at 20 U.S. airports that have quarantine facilities. Vice President Pence said Monday that those airports receive 90 percent of airline passengers from China. Previously, passengers from Hubei province were screened and tested at five airports if they showed signs of fever or respiratory illness or have been in contact with a sick person, the CDC said. The expanded effort will take effect in coming days. Epidemiologists around the globe raced to understand how the virus spreads, how long it incubates before making a person ill, whether it can be contagious even when the person is asymptomatic, and how lethal it is. They said the public should not assume the worst about this outbreak. This virus does not appear to be as deadly as SARS or MERS, two similar coronaviruses that made the jump from animals to humans earlier this century and that were ultimately contained. The victims so far of the new coronavirus have overwhelmingly been over 60 or already ill from other causes. “We understand people may worry about the new #coronavirus,” CDC Director Robert R. Redfield tweeted Monday. “In today’s connected world, an outbreak anywhere can be a risk everywhere. Risk is dependent on exposure. 2019-nCoV is not spreading in the US at this time. CDC continues to believe the risk to the US public is now low.” https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/as-deadly-coronavirus-spreads-us-to-expand-screening-of-passengers-from-china-at-20-airports/2020/01/27/deb0fb78-412e-11ea-aa6a-083d01b3ed18_story.html https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/as-deadly-coronavirus-spreads-us-to-expand-screening-of-passengers-from-china-at-20-airports/2020/01/27/deb0fb78-412e-11ea-aa6a-083d01b3ed18_story.html |
Anonymous
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Is the screening also going to be expanded to include passengers coming from other countries that are
known cases? |
Anonymous
| Thailand reported 14 cases of infection on Tuesday, up from eight, the most of any country outside of China. |
Anonymous
Yes good point |
Anonymous
Yes hoping so |
Anonymous
Agreed. That would be a sign |
Anonymous
. WHO not recommending evacuations posted a few mins ago. https://www.cnbc.com/amp/2020/01/28/reuters-america-wrapup-5-china-says-who-chief-against-virus-related-evacuations-as-countries-plan-pull-outs.html |
Anonymous
4500 cases reported two hours ago. https://www.msn.com/en-nz/news/world/china-confirms-4500-cases-of-virus-more-than-50-elsewhere/ar-BBZoAPY?li=BBqdg4K |
Anonymous
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22:51, most people don’t get flu shots. My school was awarded free flu shots. Our principal had the shots done during a faculty meeting we had to attend anyway. There was a raffle for $100 Amazon gift card. And we were told that if we got 100% compliance (minus the two faculty members with medical reasons), we’d all get a free lunch the next PD day. We had 30% participation.
So my guess is that you stay at home with your immediate family? |
Anonymous
But if anyone at one of those airports or on a bus that had a patient on it came down with a fever, cough, etc say on 1/22... they probably wouldn't think they had a novel corona virus so why would they go to get tested? If anything they'd be tested for flu A or flu B and it would come back negative, right? The only people being considered for testing for novel coronavirus at the time were people flying in from the Wuhan or nearby areas. Not people in the general public. This wasn't really in the news the way it is now. |
Anonymous
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Hong Kong has drastically cut border crossings and sealed several transit ports.
https://news.rthk.hk/rthk/en/component/k2/1505272-20200128.htm |
Anonymous
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I think we aren’t getting the full scope from the Chinese Communist government. It’s political, folks. |