Wuhan virus (coronavirus) arrives in the USA

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Anonymous wrote:A US military dependent in Korea has tested positive. She doesn't live on base, but she'd visited the Exchange, so they're putting the base on a high alert level.

The widow of a retired soldier who recently visited stores on a southeastern base tested positive for the new coronavirus in the first confirmed case for the Army in South Korea, officials said Monday as the military went on high alert.

Schools on bases across the country also were closed for the rest of the week, according to the Department of Defense Education Activity.

https://www.stripes.com/news/pacific/usfk-dependent-tests-positive-for-coronavirus-putting-military-on-high-alert-in-south-korea-1.620023

I'm surprised they haven't already limited base access to active duty & dependents and necessary personnel. Admitting a South Korean citizen who still has US commissary privileges from her late husband doesn't strike me as a necessary risk we should be taking at this point.

So now is the thought that just being in the same area(in this case and entire base) as one person that simply went to a store and left mean there can be any outbreak? Is there something they're not telling us about transmission?

You do know that coronavirus can linger on solid surfaces for up to nine days, don't you?

Now think about how one uses a shopping cart, handles money, opens a door etc. Plenty of opportunities to infect, even though the main transmission mechanismis through respiratory droplets.

Source? I haven't seen this reported anywhere that wasn't pure speculation.

This is why China was destroying cash.

https://www.livescience.com/how-long-coronavirus-last-surfaces.html

From the article you linked:
"But how long can the new coronavirus linger on surfaces, anyway? The short answer is, we don't know. "

The amount of speculation is still huge at this point. Same with the R0. They have no idea.

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Sorry everyone but you’re probably going to get the Coronavirus according to the Atlantic.
https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2020/02/covid-vaccine/607000/

[Anonymous]

Good, factually-based, overview article from The Atlantic.

"You’re Likely to Get the Coronavirus
It’s likely that many people who contract the virus will have mild symptoms. This is also what makes it a historic challenge to contain."

https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2020/02/covid-vaccine/607000/

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Anonymous wrote:Why aren’t children as affected by COVID19 as adults? Seems like there’s a clue there to a treatment or vaccine. I know when my daughter was in preschool and elementary school, she picked up all kinds of flus and colds that were going around. Before someone beats me up about it, I know COVID19 is not a cold. But could young children have some kind of immunity because they had another endemic coronavirus exposure recently enough that their immune system recognizes what antibodies to use against COVID19? So all those things kids catch may have given them some cross immunity to this? And older people being more removed from that kind of exposure have no immunity? Maybe parents of younger children will fare better since they probably caught whatever bug their kids brought home.
Not as scientist. I just play one online.

I think kids are more blessed.

Fewer kids are smokers.

Then our teens are in trouble with all their vaping.

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Anonymous wrote:Good, factually-based, overview article from The Atlantic.

"You’re Likely to Get the Coronavirus
It’s likely that many people who contract the virus will have mild symptoms. This is also what makes it a historic challenge to contain."

https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2020/02/covid-vaccine/607000/

As a country where many cannot take off work, we are especially susceptible to an outbreak.

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A South Korean official in charge of the response to the virus outbreak in Daegu City now has the virus himself.

He got the virus because he's a member of the cult where most of the Korean cases spread.

The official, who was in charge of the district’s fight against the virus, identified himself as belonging to the cult after he tested positive for the virus, said Daegu City Mayor Kwon Young-jin.
Consequently, 50 other health officials who worked with him have been quarantined at their homes as a precautionary measure.

The news came as a police officer in Daegu diagnosed with the virus subsequently revealed himself to be a member of the cult, too, as did a female teacher at a children’s cram school in Gumi City, near Daegu.

https://www.scmp.com/week-asia/health-environment/article/3052129/coronavirus-infected-health-official-leading-south?utm_term=Autofeed&utm_medium=Social&utm_content=article&utm_source=Twitter#Echobox=1582545898

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Why aren’t children as affected by COVID19 as adults? Seems like there’s a clue there to a treatment or vaccine. I know when my daughter was in preschool and elementary school, she picked up all kinds of flus and colds that were going around. Before someone beats me up about it, I know COVID19 is not a cold. But could young children have some kind of immunity because they had another endemic coronavirus exposure recently enough that their immune system recognizes what antibodies to use against COVID19? So all those things kids catch may have given them some cross immunity to this? And older people being more removed from that kind of exposure have no immunity? Maybe parents of younger children will fare better since they probably caught whatever bug their kids brought home.
Not as scientist. I just play one online.

I think kids are more blessed.

Fewer kids are smokers.

If it becomes widespread here, I wonder if we'll see a difference among young people who vape and those who don't.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Why aren’t children as affected by COVID19 as adults? Seems like there’s a clue there to a treatment or vaccine. I know when my daughter was in preschool and elementary school, she picked up all kinds of flus and colds that were going around. Before someone beats me up about it, I know COVID19 is not a cold. But could young children have some kind of immunity because they had another endemic coronavirus exposure recently enough that their immune system recognizes what antibodies to use against COVID19? So all those things kids catch may have given them some cross immunity to this? And older people being more removed from that kind of exposure have no immunity? Maybe parents of younger children will fare better since they probably caught whatever bug their kids brought home.
Not as scientist. I just play one online.

I think kids are more blessed.

Fewer kids are smokers.

Then our teens are in trouble with all their vaping.

Certainly seems like a possibility.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Sorry everyone but you’re probably going to get the Coronavirus according to the Atlantic.
https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2020/02/covid-vaccine/607000/

Yup. Most people will get it. BUT that’s not a reason to panic.

Good read.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Italy has its fifth death.

Yikes, that seems like a lot in a short period of time.

So sorry to hear. This is all too crazy starting in one city and spreading so fast outside of that country

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Why aren’t children as affected by COVID19 as adults? Seems like there’s a clue there to a treatment or vaccine. I know when my daughter was in preschool and elementary school, she picked up all kinds of flus and colds that were going around. Before someone beats me up about it, I know COVID19 is not a cold. But could young children have some kind of immunity because they had another endemic coronavirus exposure recently enough that their immune system recognizes what antibodies to use against COVID19? So all those things kids catch may have given them some cross immunity to this? And older people being more removed from that kind of exposure have no immunity? Maybe parents of younger children will fare better since they probably caught whatever bug their kids brought home.
Not as scientist. I just play one online.

I think kids are more blessed.

Fewer kids are smokers.

Someone seems to think if you don’t smoke the virus doesn’t make a big impact.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Sorry everyone but you’re probably going to get the Coronavirus according to the Atlantic.
https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2020/02/covid-vaccine/607000/

Yup. Most people will get it. BUT that’s not a reason to panic.

Good read.

Bc of one area everyone will get this? And then there are those who only care about the economics. Ppl are ill or worst.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Why aren’t children as affected by COVID19 as adults? Seems like there’s a clue there to a treatment or vaccine. I know when my daughter was in preschool and elementary school, she picked up all kinds of flus and colds that were going around. Before someone beats me up about it, I know COVID19 is not a cold. But could young children have some kind of immunity because they had another endemic coronavirus exposure recently enough that their immune system recognizes what antibodies to use against COVID19? So all those things kids catch may have given them some cross immunity to this? And older people being more removed from that kind of exposure have no immunity? Maybe parents of younger children will fare better since they probably caught whatever bug their kids brought home.
Not as scientist. I just play one online.

I think kids are more blessed.

Fewer kids are smokers.

Someone seems to think if you don’t smoke the virus doesn’t make a big impact.

About forty and then fifty pages ago I suggested that perhaps cigarette smoke and pollution are complicating people’s cases and I think others have suggested the same. But none of us know.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Why aren’t children as affected by COVID19 as adults? Seems like there’s a clue there to a treatment or vaccine. I know when my daughter was in preschool and elementary school, she picked up all kinds of flus and colds that were going around. Before someone beats me up about it, I know COVID19 is not a cold. But could young children have some kind of immunity because they had another endemic coronavirus exposure recently enough that their immune system recognizes what antibodies to use against COVID19? So all those things kids catch may have given them some cross immunity to this? And older people being more removed from that kind of exposure have no immunity? Maybe parents of younger children will fare better since they probably caught whatever bug their kids brought home.
Not as scientist. I just play one online.

I think kids are more blessed.

Fewer kids are smokers.

Someone seems to think if you don’t smoke the virus doesn’t make a big impact.

About forty and then fifty pages ago I suggested that perhaps cigarette smoke and pollution are complicating people’s cases and I think others have suggested the same. But none of us know.

Yes. Once we have better data (not anytime soon) we will know risk factors.

[Anonymous]

18 NEW cases in the US.