Wuhan virus (coronavirus) arrives in the USA

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Anonymous wrote:Many many of the Chinese students that study at Johns Hopkins in DC had masks on today- which made me think, some of them probably went home over the holidays and just got back. Good for them for wearing masks as a precaution.

Just FYI if it ever got really bad cover your eyes too. Glasses etc.

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Healthy young people die of the flu too...

I'm not understanding the hysteria. It seems like the vast majority of people that come down with it recover fine.

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Cat’s out of the bag. Wuhan residents were taking off, masking their symptoms with fever-reducing drugs, etc. It’s either deadly virulent all over the world or it isn’t

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I was following the thread about the Chinese exchange students who were supposed to go to Longfellow Middle School; it was on the DCUM Virginia schools forum. Maybe I'm just not seeing it among all the threads, but it looks like it has been removed. Possibly it got too toxic since I last looked at it. An earlier thread there about the same topic got axed for being supposedly racist (I didn't see much of that one before it disappeared and was replaced by the second thread that seems also to have disappeared). It's too bad if it was pulled instead of problematic posts being edited out, because it had some links to news coverage that was useful. I'd like to know if any entity (CDC? Who would it be?) is reconsidering having the student group stay in isolation or return home rather than travel around while here.

I think it's not at all clear how the U.S. will handle these types of international outbreaks now or in the future--is there a procedure in place other than "We screen by taking your temperature when you fly in" for a virus with a long incubation period? That seems incredibly inadequate considering how rapidly serious viruses can spread now.

This is no diss on those poor kids, who had anticipated this trip and must be so crushed.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Healthy young people die of the flu too...

I'm not understanding the hysteria. It seems like the vast majority of people that come down with it recover fine.

We don’t have the data to make that assessment.

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Anonymous wrote:I was following the thread about the Chinese exchange students who were supposed to go to Longfellow Middle School; it was on the DCUM Virginia schools forum. Maybe I'm just not seeing it among all the threads, but it looks like it has been removed. Possibly it got too toxic since I last looked at it. An earlier thread there about the same topic got axed for being supposedly racist (I didn't see much of that one before it disappeared and was replaced by the second thread that seems also to have disappeared). It's too bad if it was pulled instead of problematic posts being edited out, because it had some links to news coverage that was useful. I'd like to know if any entity (CDC? Who would it be?) is reconsidering having the student group stay in isolation or return home rather than travel around while here.

I think it's not at all clear how the U.S. will handle these types of international outbreaks now or in the future--is there a procedure in place other than "We screen by taking your temperature when you fly in" for a virus with a long incubation period? That seems incredibly inadequate considering how rapidly serious viruses can spread now.

This is no diss on those poor kids, who had anticipated this trip and must be so crushed.

Any attempts to crush this story because of racism is just blind. I can see deleting racist posts, but leave the links to valid news sources reporting on this. I’m sure there are other sites that will not edit so heavily.

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Anonymous wrote:I was following the thread about the Chinese exchange students who were supposed to go to Longfellow Middle School; it was on the DCUM Virginia schools forum. Maybe I'm just not seeing it among all the threads, but it looks like it has been removed. Possibly it got too toxic since I last looked at it. An earlier thread there about the same topic got axed for being supposedly racist (I didn't see much of that one before it disappeared and was replaced by the second thread that seems also to have disappeared). It's too bad if it was pulled instead of problematic posts being edited out, because it had some links to news coverage that was useful. I'd like to know if any entity (CDC? Who would it be?) is reconsidering having the student group stay in isolation or return home rather than travel around while here.

I think it's not at all clear how the U.S. will handle these types of international outbreaks now or in the future--is there a procedure in place other than "We screen by taking your temperature when you fly in" for a virus with a long incubation period? That seems incredibly inadequate considering how rapidly serious viruses can spread now.

This is no diss on those poor kids, who had anticipated this trip and must be so crushed.

Yes the kids on both sides should be priority and canceling the trip may have setup for a better experience later. Can’t imagine how ppl will treat them as they eat at restaurants and go to the sights. While the parents at Longfellow may have been against the visit, the parents from that region in China probably were relieved to get their kids out.

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Anonymous wrote: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.

The incubation period could be as long as 14 days, based on other coronaviruses. https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/about/symptoms.html

That's a long time, which is making it harder to trace the source of infections and contacts an infected person has.

Be careful with the media posted on twitter. That said, this was posted by a journalist who got it off Weibo of inside a hospital in Wuhan

Huge public hygiene crisis seems to have erupted in #Wuhan. This video clip was once posted on Weibo but now deleted. The lady in the clip says dead bodies were left at hospital aisles untreated whereas doctors are taking care of other patients alongside them. #WuhanPneumonia

https://twitter.com/ezracheungtoto/status/1220641000063848448?s=20

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Anonymous wrote:I was following the thread about the Chinese exchange students who were supposed to go to Longfellow Middle School; it was on the DCUM Virginia schools forum. Maybe I'm just not seeing it among all the threads, but it looks like it has been removed. Possibly it got too toxic since I last looked at it. An earlier thread there about the same topic got axed for being supposedly racist (I didn't see much of that one before it disappeared and was replaced by the second thread that seems also to have disappeared). It's too bad if it was pulled instead of problematic posts being edited out, because it had some links to news coverage that was useful. I'd like to know if any entity (CDC? Who would it be?) is reconsidering having the student group stay in isolation or return home rather than travel around while here.

I think it's not at all clear how the U.S. will handle these types of international outbreaks now or in the future--is there a procedure in place other than "We screen by taking your temperature when you fly in" for a virus with a long incubation period? That seems incredibly inadequate considering how rapidly serious viruses can spread now.

This is no diss on those poor kids, who had anticipated this trip and must be so crushed.

Yes the kids on both sides should be priority and canceling the trip may have setup for a better experience later. Can’t imagine how ppl will treat them as they eat at restaurants and go to the sights. While the parents at Longfellow may have been against the visit, the parents from that region in China probably were relieved to get their kids out.

I'm wondering if anyone other than their chaperones who traveled here with them from China is monitoring the students. If they're in a hotel in DC or VA or MD, are the state health departments of those localities in touch with the group and keeping track of where they are going in case there is a later need for tracing where they've been? Is everyone just trusting that if one of them shows symptoms, an adult chaperone is going to report that immediately and seek medical help that could result in the whole group possibly being quarantined?

When there are outbreaks of any kind, health authorities have to work very hard to trace everywhere the infected people have stayed, traveled, shopped, eaten out, etc. It's difficult and daunting and comes after the fact, and after the spread of disease is already under way. Yet I have read nothing about anyone who is working with the student group to monitor them while they're here so the CDC and state health departments can know how and where they are. I have to assume that someone is tracking these poor kids and not just relying on chaperones. But assumptions are not enough.

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Anonymous wrote:Student at Texas A & M is suspected to have it. Did travel to Wuhan. Appears to be a mild case.

There's no mild case, you either have it or don't. Same thing as saying somebody is mildly pregnant.

Some people died and some did not, even though they all had it. Obviously there is such a thing as a mild case.

A "mild" case by your definition can still spread. This virus is known not only for its deadliness but also that it spreads and can lead to deaths of others.

A mild case by everyone's definition can still spread. You seem to be confusing calling a case mild with "mildly contracted" or "mildly communicable" -- all of which is just a weird and incorrect reading of PP's post. "Appears to be a mild case" doesn't mean he half-contracted coronavirus or no one can catch it from him. It means it appears to be a mild case.

Np. I think your the only one reading her comment that way. Mild case means mild case. I got a mild case of the flu. It was the flu. It was mild.

No, the first person to respond, who said there's no such thing as a mild case, doesn't appear to know what it means. I do. Which is what you said, and what I said, about 8 times.

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Tennessee Tech student under isolation and being tested. It’s making its way East.

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Anonymous wrote:Tennessee Tech student under isolation and being tested. It’s making its way East.

https://newschannel9.com/news/local/tennessee-tech-student-undergoing-testing-for-possible-infection-with-coronavirus

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Anonymous wrote:Tennessee Tech student under isolation and being tested. It’s making its way East.

https://newschannel9.com/news/local/tennessee-tech-student-undergoing-testing-for-possible-infection-with-coronavirus

I think what bothers people is this prophetic doom some PP’s create, using short clipped sentences: “It’s making its way east”. etc.
My sense is some people enjoy tracking contagions and discussing the spread with others. Like a hobby. Which is fine. But there are far more deadly viruses and diseases that people have.

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CDC confirmed a woman in Chicago is positive. It’s only a matter of time before it’s in the DMV.

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63 people from 22 states are under observation. It’s probably already here. Wash your hands people. https://www.cnn.com/2020/01/24/health/wuhan-coronavirus-chicago-cdc/index.html