Wuhan virus (coronavirus) arrives in the USA

[Anonymous]

So did they time the conference to match up with the press release? This way it looks like they’re doing something instead of having the news that it’s gone endemic happen with Trump reacting.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:So did they time the conference to match up with the press release? This way it looks like they’re doing something instead of having the news that it’s gone endemic happen with Trump reacting.

Endemic is a good thing. I’m not following what you’re saying here.

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Anonymous wrote:Well here we have it.

Trump knows more than Dr. Fauci????

Lies and more lies.

Now we have Pence who knows zero leading the path. UGH...

Yeah, I don't see even Pence's fans describing him as a real science guy. I just had a vision of what fictional Veep Selena Meyers' response would be, were she to be told that she is heading up the task force responding to the impending pandemic. I feel like the phrase sh*t sandwich would be part of the reaction.

Here is my question for the CDC: (1) Does the published weekly influenza surveillance report include hospitalizations for non-influenza related pneumonia, or only flu-related pneumonia? If only flu-related, where do they report non-flu hospitalizations and who is tracking it? (2) The same dataset lists death for non-flu pneumonias -- does this dataset include any deaths for what could be Covid-related deaths? Ir not, how are those being tracked? (3) The data currently online says it reflects data for week ending 2/15/20 -- does the CDC have more recent data (e.g., 2/22/20 data)?
In other words, if they are closely monitoring hospitalizations for non-influenza related pneumonia, I am much more comfortable with where we are right now.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:So did they time the conference to match up with the press release? This way it looks like they’re doing something instead of having the news that it’s gone endemic happen with Trump reacting.

Endemic is a good thing. I’m not following what you’re saying here.

No, endemic is not a good thing. A disease is endemic when it is chronically transmitted in an environment - like Malaria is endemic to Nigeria or whatever. Covid is most certainly not endemic to the US, and hopefully it won’t be endemic anywhere, even though we are in the middle of an epidemic. Yes, I am a public health wonk.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:So did they time the conference to match up with the press release? This way it looks like they’re doing something instead of having the news that it’s gone endemic happen with Trump reacting.

Endemic is a good thing. I’m not following what you’re saying here.

Endemic is not a good thing. It means it is regularly and commonly circulating among a particular group. For example:
Lice is now endemic among elementary school children in Maryland.
The plague (aka Black Death) was endemic in London from the middle ages through the 16th century.

But I don't think PP is using endemic properly here. Community transmission is different than endemic, I believe. We can have community transmission of measles during a measles outbreak, but that doesn't mean it's endemic (which it was 60 years ago).

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:So did they time the conference to match up with the press release? This way it looks like they’re doing something instead of having the news that it’s gone endemic happen with Trump reacting.

Endemic is a good thing. I’m not following what you’re saying here.

No, endemic is not a good thing. A disease is endemic when it is chronically transmitted in an environment - like Malaria is endemic to Nigeria or whatever. Covid is most certainly not endemic to the US, and hopefully it won’t be endemic anywhere, even though we are in the middle of an epidemic. Yes, I am a public health wonk.

I agree that disease in general isn’t a good thing, but a stable disease is better than a pandemic. Eradication is the bees knees, but we aren’t going to see that right now.

[Anonymous]

Gordon Chang, author of “Coming Collapse of China” said we need to be skeptical of China’s virus numbers.

He’s correct. And his wording was very polite.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:So did they time the conference to match up with the press release? This way it looks like they’re doing something instead of having the news that it’s gone endemic happen with Trump reacting.

Endemic is a good thing. I’m not following what you’re saying here.

Endemic is not a good thing. It means it is regularly and commonly circulating among a particular group. For example:
Lice is now endemic among elementary school children in Maryland.
The plague (aka Black Death) was endemic in London from the middle ages through the 16th century.

But I don't think PP is using endemic properly here. Community transmission is different than endemic, I believe. We can have community transmission of measles during a measles outbreak, but that doesn't mean it's endemic (which it was 60 years ago).

It’s an exaggeration but spreading without any connection to China is bad...

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:
Gordon Chang, author of “Coming Collapse of China” said we need to be skeptical of China’s virus numbers.

He’s correct. And his wording was very polite.

Please stop watching Fox News and read facts. This doctor just got back from China. https://www.statnews.com/2020/02/25/new-data-from-china-buttress-fears-about-high-coronavirus-fatality-rate-who-expert-says/

Aylward pointed to an analysis from Guangdong province suggesting that, at least there, most of the infections were coming to the attention of health authorities.

When the virus started to spread in Guangdong — the province where the 2002-2003 SARS outbreak began — worried people flooded fever clinics to be tested. Of 320,000 tests performed, just under 0.5% were positive for the virus at the peak of transmission there, he said — which suggests that only 1 case out of 200 was being missed.

Transmission of the virus has subsided in Guangdong, and the number of positive tests at the fever clinics has declined; now only about 1 in 5,000 people tested at the fever clinics is positive for the virus, he said.

Aylward said that across China, about 80% of cases are mild, about 14% are severe, and about 6% become critically ill. The case fatality rate — the percentage of known infected people who die — is between 2% and 4% in Hubei province, and 0.7% in other parts of China, he said.

The lower rate outside of Hubei is likely due to the draconian social distancing measures China has put in place to try to slow spread of the virus. Other parts of China have not had the huge explosion of cases seen in Hubei, Aylward said.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:WaPo Breaking News: First U.S coronavirus case of unknown origin confirmed in Northern California, a sign the virus may be spreading in a local area

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has been informed of the first case of the coronavirus in a person who did not recently return from a foreign country or have contact with a confirmed case, according to a person briefed on the case. Officials have begun tracing the contacts of the resident to find out how the person may have been infected and who else might have been exposed..

Run check on all gps records that came in close contact with his phone and you are done in five minutes. Send text to all phones of contact to stay put!

[Anonymous]

Question: Should we have to hear from WAPO the state of the new case and the fact that he/she had no China contacts and no recent travel?

Shouldn't this sort of announcement come from a federal authority on a regularized basis (let's stop already with the three times a week "updates") through a standardized reporting format? Kind of like what Ministries of Health in other countries are doing?

State announcements would be okay too, but each state doing its own thing could lead to public confusion.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Question: Should we have to hear from WAPO the state of the new case and the fact that he/she had no China contacts and no recent travel?

Shouldn't this sort of announcement come from a federal authority on a regularized basis (let's stop already with the three times a week "updates") through a standardized reporting format? Kind of like what Ministries of Health in other countries are doing?

State announcements would be okay too, but each state doing its own thing could lead to public confusion.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:WaPo Breaking News: First U.S coronavirus case of unknown origin confirmed in Northern California, a sign the virus may be spreading in a local area

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has been informed of the first case of the coronavirus in a person who did not recently return from a foreign country or have contact with a confirmed case, according to a person briefed on the case. Officials have begun tracing the contacts of the resident to find out how the person may have been infected and who else might have been exposed..

Run check on all gps records that came in close contact with his phone and you are done in five minutes. Send text to all phones of contact to stay put!

You can bet that it's going to turn out that the person has recently visited their local Super Walmart, as well as, Costco so the number of people they've been in contact with is huge.

Just in the past few days I know that I've been to Walmart, Target, a shoe store, the grocery store, a restaurant....it's not like a person only comes into contact with a set number of coworkers and family members.

[Anonymous]

Why NOBODY ever looks at recovered cases but they talk so much about deaths and total infected?

Remember when a month ago there was ZERO recovered?....

Coronavirus Cases:
82,166
Deaths:
2,800
Recovered:
32,812

https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/

China is experimenting with malaria drugs, HIV meds and are successfully using old and tried method approve by WHO
Of giving blood plasma of recovered people to sick people who recover fast.

So the recovered cases go up.

[Anonymous]

More information on the new case with unknown contact source.

The case is from Solano Country in northern California and is being treated in Sacramento.

https://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/california/new-case-of-novel-coronavirus-in-northern-california-cdc/2242792/