Wuhan virus (coronavirus) arrives in the USA

[Anonymous]

My kids love the game Plague, Inc. I told them they can watch it play out for real now.

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Are you going to have your kid avoid all Asians for the rest of his life?

Of course not, but finding out they just got back from a possible hotspot is concerning. So you can give it a rest.

OP , if all the kids on the bus go to the same school as your kid then they are exposed anyway. School is like a cruise ship on land. If one kid had it and they share hallways and bathrooms and classrooms... bus or no bus no difference.

True, that’s what I was thinking. I would feel so much better if I knew if they self quarantined before coming back to school. Maybe they did since they were gone for so long, but I’ll never know. I had a weird respiratory bug in December and feel like who knows if I’d survive Coronavirus.

First flu or cold with little sore throat, some headache and long lasting medium grade fever, sweats, chills, weakness for a long time, post nasal drip that felt yucky.. green mucus.. and then all of the sudden the lungs felt like on fire with shallow breath and you felt like there was not enough of oxygen in the room unless the A C fan was on..you had to sleep elevated and the nights were horrible, trip to a bathroom felt like
big effort, and then it took forever before you start feeling better, and even when you felt it was over it took few weeks to grow back strenght
and it felt so weird tiring so easily and immune system was down...
Yeah something like this was around..

[Anonymous]

The death rate from Italy is around 2.7%, remarkably similar to the Chinese rate, lending some credibility to their data in my opinion (and I'm fairly skeptical about any numbers coming out of China on any topic).

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Anonymous wrote:Does anyone know of any place that still has masks in stock? I've tried so many places and they are sold out everywhere.

I think I am SOL

I bought some of these recently :
https://www.lowes.com/pd/3M-4-Pack-Disposable-Sanding-Safety-Mask/50305791?cm_mmc=shp-_-c-_-prd-_-pnt-_-google-_-lia-_--_-thinnersandsolvents-_-50305791-_-0&store_code=223&placeholder=null&gclid=EAIaIQobChMIlvbt-57r5wIViJyzCh3NoQ7fEAQYASABEgIn7_D_BwE&gclsrc=aw.ds

I bought them because I have to wear them for some outdoor things during allergy season, and couldn’t find any locally.

From nearly a month ago: 3M ramping up mask production to 24/7 to meet demand.

https://www.cnbc.com/2020/01/28/3m-ramps-up-production-of-masks-to-meet-coronavirus-demand.html

There were probably thinking of export plus some allowance for preppers here stocking up, creating a shortage.

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Anonymous wrote:The death rate from Italy is around 2.7%, remarkably similar to the Chinese rate, lending some credibility to their data in my opinion (and I'm fairly skeptical about any numbers coming out of China on any topic).

In research, you can draw wrong conclusion from incomplete data. You are comparing four days of Italian cases to two month Chinese. If Italy dropped 230 cases in four days, then more will come fast. And if deaths will not follow then mortality rate will drop.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The death rate from Italy is around 2.7%, remarkably similar to the Chinese rate, lending some credibility to their data in my opinion (and I'm fairly skeptical about any numbers coming out of China on any topic).

Iranian death rate is 20%....

However, cases are likely severely undercounted.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:The death rate from Italy is around 2.7%, remarkably similar to the Chinese rate, lending some credibility to their data in my opinion (and I'm fairly skeptical about any numbers coming out of China on any topic).

In research, you can draw wrong conclusion from incomplete data. You are comparing four days of Italian cases to two month Chinese. If Italy dropped 230 cases in four days, then more will come fast. And if deaths will not follow then mortality rate will drop.

Yes, it’s too early and there are too many missing data points to accurately calculate it.

[Anonymous]

Spain has its third case, an Italian doctor vacationing in the Canary Islands.

https://www.antena3.com/noticias/sociedad/italiano-positivo-coronavirus-tenerife-tercer-caso-espana_202

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The death rate from Italy is around 2.7%, remarkably similar to the Chinese rate, lending some credibility to their data in my opinion (and I'm fairly skeptical about any numbers coming out of China on any topic).

Iranian death rate is 20%....

However, cases are likely severely undercounted.

Precisely this.

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Anonymous wrote:I think we are 6 months out but it’s going to be bad when it gets here in the US.

I thought it would happen much sooner, like in the next few weeks? Six months would at least give more time for preparation.

This is terrifying.

I doubt we are 6 months away. More like 3 at best.

I meant in 3 months will be a problem. In 6 months s nightmare.

[Anonymous]

Six new cases in San Antonio, 5 from the Diamond Princes, 1 from among Wuhan evacuees.
https://www.cnn.com/asia/live-news/coronavirus-outbreak-02-24-20-hnk-intl/index.html

[Anonymous]

Im scared the US is not saying anything. I guess Trump thinks the stock market is “looking good”? What does that mean in the face of a huge sell-off? Are we going to start testing or keep sticking our heads in the sand and saying we are not affected?

Should I start driving to work rather than Metro?

[Anonymous]

Breakdown of Italy's 229 cases:

Hospitalized, not in ICU: 101

Hospitalized, in ICU: 27

Home isolation: 94

Dead: 7

Hospitalization is running 45%, which seems high, as does the ICU percentage.

Nearly 12% are in the ICU. Perhaps more tellingly as we do not know the true number of cases, over 20% of those who are hospitalized are in the ICU.

https://www.cnn.com/asia/live-news/coronavirus-outbreak-02-24-20-hnk-intl/index.html

[Anonymous]

I think it’s important to remind ourselves that a lot of these community spreads have been linked to events and gatherings, not spread from random surfaces. Not saying it’s impossible but clearly it’s more contagious person to person than it is surface to person.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I think it’s important to remind ourselves that a lot of these community spreads have been linked to events and gatherings, not spread from random surfaces. Not saying it’s impossible but clearly it’s more contagious person to person than it is surface to person.

Agree, main means of transmission is respiratory droplets.

Still, China was burning paper money.