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Bring Out Your Dead

Post to me or FReep mail to be on/off the Bring Out Your Dead ping list.

The purpose of the “Bring Out Your Dead” ping list (formerly the “Ebola” ping list) is very early warning of emerging pandemics, as such it has a high false positive rate.

So far the false positive rate is 100%.

At some point we may well have a high mortality pandemic, and likely as not the “Bring Out Your Dead” threads will miss the beginning entirely.

*sigh* Such is life, and death...

If a quarantine saves just one child's life, it's worth it.

[Edward Teach]

I think I’ll go for a walk now...

[little jeremiah]

Good to have a live thread for this thing.

[fhayek]

Everyone in Wuhan is pissed off because they are all quarantined together. 11 million people, and nothing to do except wait to contract the disease.

[Ingtar]

The dead thread?

[Redcitizen]

Coronavirus is nothing to sneeze at.

[Ellendra]

Hopefully I’ll have time to read this whole thing tomorrow. But in the mean time I have a question: Does anyone know the duration of this illness?

I know the incubation period is supposed to be around 14 days. But after symptoms start, how long does it take for the patient to either die or recover?

Without that number, it’s hard to calculate an accurate mortality rate. We don’t know how many of the currently infected will survive.