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Wuhan virus (coronavirus) arrives in the USA
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Anonymous
IMO this virus is far more serious to our communities than SARS was. It sounds like it spreads far more easily than SARS did so very tough to contain. It’s already widely spread. Probably not as severe an individual illness but still severe in at least 10 percent of those who get it. That’s enough to overload even functioning health care systems if everyone is infected in the same 8 week timeframe. |
Anonymous
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Two separate studies published in Lancet have found a mortality rate of 15% and 10%.
The mortality rate for SARS was 11%, and this virus has a higher number of officially confirmed than SARS did. |
Anonymous
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New cases so far today outside of China:
Australia--2 Singapore--3 Finland--1 (first case) |
Anonymous
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Has there been any update to the whether the possible case in NoVa has gotten it's results back yet? The Va health dep't site won't update again until tomorrow.
it's been several days so I imagine the testing must be complete by now. |
Anonymous
Nothing on their Twitter account, so presumably no results to announce yet. |
Anonymous
Ecuador has reported a suspected case, the first in South America. |
Anonymous
| And I think I sought on the news that Germany has reported their first case |
Anonymous
Are the students and teachers going to be doing health procedures on the sick kids? |
Anonymous
Germany actually has four. All were infected by a work colleague who had traveled to Germany from China. She apparently did not show symptoms until after she left Germany. This particular incident has some worried--the fact that she infected four colleagues during a short time frame and that she apparently did so while symptomless. |
Anonymous
Nope. Email is out and they said.....wash your hands. |
Anonymous
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Anonymous
So no actual facts. Just you think it's "more serious". OK......... |
Anonymous
This map kind of explains why Africa is not yet affected. |
Anonymous
OMG - AIRPLANES!! 
Wash your hands, people. No need to panic. |
Anonymous
Also more less coincides with the case numbers.. the heavier the air traffic pattern for the area the more cases. |