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Wuhan virus (coronavirus) arrives in the USA
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Anonymous
Good article. Thanks for posting. |
Anonymous
Don't need to be an epidemiologist to collect reports from the ground around the world and compile it into a 30 min video. Think he's a lot more informative than we hear via MSM. |
Anonymous
Thar That is some seriously pseudoscience BS. Here is areal science for you.MANY RESEARCH PAPERS WRITTEN ON THE TOPIC. Here.. one of THE MANY papers written on the topic of survival of different coronaviruses outside the host, what strongly affects spreading, hence, epidemic as a whole. Environmental survival and microbicide inactivation of coronaviruses The effect of relative humidity (RH) and air temperature has been studied on the airborne survival of experimentally aerosolized human coronavirus 229E [22]. As is true for enveloped viruses in general, 229E survived better at 30-50% RH than at 80% RH when the air temperature was about 20°C. Under these conditions, the half-lives of the virus at 30%, 50% and 80% RH were 27, 67 and 3 hours, respectively. Lowering the air temperature to 6°C increased the half-lives of the virus at 30% and 50% RH to 34 and 103 hours, respectively. But the lower air temperature produced the most dra- matic effect on virus survival at 80% RH and changed its half-life from 3 to over 86 hours. And that is science in the purest of the forms. http://eknygos.lsmuni.lt/springer/106/201-212.pdf |
Anonymous
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Not a scientist, but my understanding of the weather factor is this:
Many viruses cannot survive on hard surfaces for as long when the temperature is higher. Weeks ago I saw some inital research on covid19 indicating that it would live longer on a hard surface in cold temps versus warm temps. But the ambient temp doesnt make much difference for person to person transmission. So warmer weather should help a bit, depending on how big a factor transmission from things like door handles, touch screens, etc. is. |
Anonymous
Sounds about right. It’s about time. Buying time for humankind. |
Anonymous
Useless article. |
Anonymous
IF that is fantastic. We need to bring in their experts. We’re lost. |
Anonymous
| Does anyone know if disinfectants like Lysol and Bleach kill the coronavirus? |
Anonymous
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ER MD calls our CDC at the 0:55 min mark...
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Anonymous
There are suggestions, but no definite answers yet. |
Anonymous
Isn’t that only for the northern hemisphere though? And with our interconnectedness, won’t people from South America, etc, be flying to the US and spreading it around? |
Anonymous
Clarification: terrible about the deaths. Good on the lower numbers. |
Anonymous
The coronavirus MERS is not seasonal and swept Saudi Arabia. The fact is we don't know if novel coronavirus will exhibit seasonal behavior or not because, well, it's novel. We can, of course, hope. |
Anonymous
Can't really be known in the middle of the epidemic, when the #s are fluid. China's is more mature, so maybe closer to a real number, but so many factors will play into each country's outcomes. |
Anonymous
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First cases in Massachusetts and Georgia, both related to travel to Italy.
MA has one case; in GA it's a couple who toured Milan. |