Wuhan virus (coronavirus) arrives in the USA

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Anonymous wrote:The thinking is that they are not contagious.
They couldn't go to school (or their host families) because of an uprising by the host families.

I guess I don’t understand why rhe US would take a risk that they are contagious, here in DC. Is it extreme? Who knows — but I would counter that their entire country shut down national activities, quarantined cities, and have a quick global warning of a health crisis. We couldn’t allow special CDC approved incubation stations? We don’t have procedures for travelers that protect public health safety? I don’t know how this stuff works, so maybe these are stupid questions. If these students coming from the province are contagious, sending them to the monuments, museums, subways is going to exponentially increase the risks for not just our metro area, but many other states since this is a pretty popular travel hub and tourist city.

What you should be asking is why a bunch of government education wonks are making public health decisions.

I'm glad you aren't.

Let me give you an example. My SIL is a retired nurse at a public school in NY. This was when they were using actual RNs. One day, on the way to school, one of the buses had a bat flying around. They opened the back door and let it out. My SIL gets to school, hears about it and asks the principal about it, who tells her "well, the kids say no one came in contact with the bat". My SIL looked at her and said "I would like to talk to every child on the bus individually". When she was done, turned out 8 kids had personal physical contact with the bat. They admitted they lied because they were afraid they were going to get in trouble. They told my SIL because she explained the health risk. Those kids were then properly treated for possible rabies exposure. Moral of this story? Teachers and administrators should not be making health decisions of any kind without consulting actual health professionals.

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Anonymous wrote:Why should it be illegal to eat bats? We eat chicken everyday in the US. Seems rather ethnocentric to say bats are off limits just because it's not our cuisine. I hate all Chinese food, but I can recognize that just because something doesn't appeal to me doesnt make it wrong to eat.

I'm Chinese and here's my input. The types of foods that are being associated with this virus are bats, rodents, raccoons, and snake. With the exception of snake, all these animals are not considered "typical" Chinese cuisine and most Chinese locals would consider them "exotic" as you would think eating a squirrel here in America. The problem is many had thought the government learned its lesson with SARS by needing to broadcast the message that eating these non-traditional exotic animals carry risk of animal-borne viruses. The government has obviously not learned that lesson.

On a side note, you have a pretty close-minded pallet to say you hate "all Chinese food." Chinese food has many region-specific cuisine and it's really not limited to your typical shrimp lo mien and fried rice, which most likely are the one dishes you know.

I'm not Chinese but if a poster starts with I hate "all Chinese food" you can pretty much dismiss the rest of the comment. Have they seen China on a map? It's a big country; how could they have tried all Chinese food? Or, have they not tried it and say they don't like it because... foreign.

Not trying to stick up for this guy, but “Chinese food” in America is different than Chinese food in China. I’m very well traveled and I hate American Chinese food. I can’t stand the typical dishes. In DC we can get better Chinese food, but to most Americans with only one Chinese restaurant, Chinese food is orange chicken, General tso, etc. Nearly every Chinese restaurant in the US has the same dishes too.

“Very well traveled” duly noted

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China is building a new hospital in Wuhan to transfer all the coronavirus patients to. https://twitter.com/sotiridi/status/1220469185542807552?s=20

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I think they should be far less concerned by measles and chicken pox and far more concerned by stuff like this.

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Anonymous wrote:Yeah, relying on Chinese government reporting is a joke.

Lol totally agree. It’s much worse. No point panicking though.

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Has anyone looked at Wuhan on their Twitter feed? Beyond scary even if you factor in bots and alarmists! Lots of videos of hospitals and dead bodies etc.

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Anonymous wrote:I think they should be far less concerned by measles and chicken pox and far more concerned by stuff like this.

From what we know of measles it is probably more contagious (one of the most contagious viruses in the world) and almost certainly more deadly, especially to children. We don’t yet know how deadly this virus is, but the likelihood is that it is similar to influenza, which most folks don’t believe is worth getting vaccinated against. I am a public health practitioner and work for a school of public health, if that matters.

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5 day incubation period. In the five days before they closed off Wuhan over half a million people went through the city. It is likely to be all over China already, and probably the world.

We have to hope its virulence is low and declining, because containing it may no longer be an option.

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Healthy young man dies of virus:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/healthy-young-man-dies-of-coronavirus-in-china-new-cases-in-japan-and-south-korea/2020/01/24/0cd41926-3e79-11ea-971f-4ce4f94494b4_story.html

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Anonymous wrote:So the school officials cancelled the exchange of the Chinese students but decided they will travel to Fairfax County to a local hotel.

We have the school officials making these decisions. Let that sink in for a bit.

And will tour local cultural and tourist sites!?? WTF?? So they'll be wandering on metro -- we don't want that students in that school and their families to be affected, but the millions of people commuting by metro daily -- sure . . . .

You can't lock everyone up who's been through that area, nor can you find everyone who's been through that area. What do you propose?

Keep them in the hotel with video games until they are scheduled to depart in a week and a half? If it's not safe enough for them to be at the school or to live with the host families, then why exactly is it safe for them to be out in the community, on metro, in restaurants etc? This screams of -- NOT IN OUR SCHOOL -- we don't want to put OUR kids at risk, but sure we don't care if they're inflicted on others. Uh -- you were the ones who invited them + didn't cancel the invite when this thing got going . . . .

Yeah, I thought a poster was kidding when they said the students were going not going to school but were going to tour DC. UNBELIEVABLE.

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Anonymous wrote:Who the hell eats a bat? I mean, WTF do you expect?

https://www.ladbible.com/news/news-scientists-say-bats-could-be-linked-to-coronavirus-20200123

Bat Soup could be linked to Coronavirus.

I don’t know but I read at the particular animal market in question, there was a stand selling bats, snakes (the type in question as possibly being infected), live wolf puppies and koalas!

^^It should be illegal to eat these types of animals. Sickening that it's not.

Which types should be illegal? How do you differentiate between which types of animals are illegal and which types not?

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Anonymous wrote:CNBC is reporting a traveler from China has tested positive for the new Wuhan coronavirus that has killed 6 so far an infected nearly 300.

https://www.cnbc.com/2020/01/21/cdc-to-announce-first-us-case-of-china-coronavirus-that-has-killed-6-cnn-reports.html

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Exchange students in Fairfax VA. https://www.lifezette.com/2020/01/chinese-virus-may-have-been-exposed-to-21-students-in-virginia/

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Anonymous wrote:So the school officials cancelled the exchange of the Chinese students but decided they will travel to Fairfax County to a local hotel.

We have the school officials making these decisions. Let that sink in for a bit.

And will tour local cultural and tourist sites!?? WTF?? So they'll be wandering on metro -- we don't want that students in that school and their families to be affected, but the millions of people commuting by metro daily -- sure . . . .

You can't lock everyone up who's been through that area, nor can you find everyone who's been through that area. What do you propose?

Keep them in the hotel with video games until they are scheduled to depart in a week and a half? If it's not safe enough for them to be at the school or to live with the host families, then why exactly is it safe for them to be out in the community, on metro, in restaurants etc? This screams of -- NOT IN OUR SCHOOL -- we don't want to put OUR kids at risk, but sure we don't care if they're inflicted on others. Uh -- you were the ones who invited them + didn't cancel the invite when this thing got going . . . .

Yeah, I thought a poster was kidding when they said the students were going not going to school but were going to tour DC. UNBELIEVABLE.

Anyone planning on going to the Kennedy center for the new year program? https://www.kennedy-center.org/whats-on/explore-by-genre/international/REACH-winter-lanterns/

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Anonymous wrote:CNBC is reporting a traveler from China has tested positive for the new Wuhan coronavirus that has killed 6 so far an infected nearly 300.

https://www.cnbc.com/2020/01/21/cdc-to-announce-first-us-case-of-china-coronavirus-that-has-killed-6-cnn-reports.html

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Anonymous wrote:CNBC is reporting a traveler from China has tested positive for the new Wuhan coronavirus that has killed 6 so far an infected nearly 300.

https://www.cnbc.com/2020/01/21/cdc-to-announce-first-us-case-of-china-coronavirus-that-has-killed-6-cnn-reports.html

Latest news on cnn. https://www.cnn.com/asia/live-news/coronavirus-outbreak-hnk-intl-01-24-20/index.html