[Vermont Lt]

I guess this is as good as time as any to start the new thread.

I got excluded from entering the Infusion Center with my wife. Well, not just me...everyone.

I feel like I dropped her off at a day camp she did not want to attend....

So..lets get on with today's chat.

[Vermont Lt]

Stay calm and Virus on...

[BenLurkin]

“Day Camp” Excellent

I’ll remember that if I ever need another six months of chemo!

[janetjanet998]

From the Netherlands

Professor of epidemiology of healthcare-related infections.
jan kluytmans
@jankluytmans
On March 1 the first#covid patient was admitted to our hospital, 10 days later there are 12 confirmed patients and 5 in ICU. Besides the severe ARDS cases there also some with atypical presentaions Never seen anything that comes close to this and we are only just begun.

Professor of epidemiology of healthcare-related infections.

[Diogenesis]

Remember why we are we are:

Instead of dealing with this, PELOSI
and the seditionists were attacking the ELECTED PRESIDENT.

[Raebie]

bkmk

[MasonGal]

Thanks, as always, for this and all the other previous threads!

[DannyTN]

Vanderbilt Medical Center and St. Jude’s have stopped hospital visitation.

I suspect that will be commonplace shortly.

[CharleysPride]

Good morning, hope all are well and glad to see everyone.

[SaxxonWoods]

Where I live my wife and I have noticed a distinct change in attitudes.

People have gone from worried observation to joking about it. Wife says people are better about cleaning the machines at her gym though, as they make jokes.

I went to two nightclubs last night, talked to a lot of people. CV wasn’t mentioned once.

[entropy12]

In Italy the current death rate is running at 6.6%.
But Italy has a higher proportion of older people.

[RightGeek]

Instapundit update - Morning 3/11 - https://pjmedia.com/instapundit/361011/

CORONAVIRUS UPDATE: CDC: Older Americans should consider stocking up on food and medications and avoid venturing out as coronavirus spreads.

As U.S. coronavirus cases top 1,000, mixed signs of recovery in China, South Korea.

3 TSA agents at San Jose airport test positive for coronavirus.

New York City now has 46 cases of the coronavirus, Mayor de Blasio says.

Alex Azar on Federal Coronavirus Response.

Province at center of China’s outbreak lets some companies reopen.

Coronavirus hits ill and disabled people hardest, so why is society writing us off?

Politicizing Coronavirus Will Cost Dems the House.

Whether You’re Tested for Coronavirus Depends on Where You Live: While testing-equipment providers work to increase supplies, availability is uneven and some labs are limiting exams to the most severe cases.

Uber may suspend accounts of drivers and riders who get coronavirus.

Police respond to massive crowd near University of Dayton after classes canceled due to coronavirus. Not the public-health response we’re looking for.

2 Natick High School Students Test Positive For Coronavirus.

Most people will get the coronavirus, aim is to slow its spread, Merkel says.

Coronavirus conference canceled in New York because of coronavirus.

5 things small business owners can do right now to respond to coronavirus fears.

UofSC to extend spring break amidst Coronavirus outbreak.

Poland shuts all schools, museums, cinemas for two weeks due to coronavirus.

Coronavirus Grocery List: What to Buy in Prep for a Self Quarantine.

Protect yourself from coronavirus by following few preventive measures.

Uber may suspend accounts of drivers and riders who get coronavirus.

[Dave Wright]

Robert O'Brian is the President's national security adviser and had these comments for the Heritage Foundation meeting today.

National security adviser Robert O’Brien claimed Wednesday that an initial cover-up of the coronavirus in China “cost the world community two months” and exacerbated the global outbreak

[janetjanet998]

238 new cases in Qatar (total cases jumps from 24 to 262)

[kaehurowing]

My wife recovering from operation in hospital, they have partly locked it down in terms of restricting visitors to lessen possibility someone will spread the virus there. Only spouses and children of patients allowed in. You have to sign in, fill out forms and answer questions before you are admitted to hospital to visit anyone.

We were warned yesterday at work we may have to begin working from home.

[MplsSteve]

BUMP for later reading and possible commenting...

[Bon mots]

I've posted this elsewhere, but I don't think in a daily Corona thread, so here goes...

Well, look at this:

An article published in Nature Medicine in 2015 with a co-author from Wuhan institute.
If you read the abstract it says they have assembled a virus in the lab that can transmit from bats to humans.

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Remember that time when a virus escaped from a Chinese lab...

The 1977 H1N1 human influenza pandemic
Due to lab mishandling, a strain of the H1N1 influenza managed to escape from a Chinese facility that was likely trying to create a vaccine for the disease. The virus spread globally and had an infection rate of 20% to 70% among those exposed. Luckily, the strain of the virus caused only mild disease and few fatalities.

Various SARS outbreaks
Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) was a global epidemic in 2003 that caused 8,000 infections and 774 deaths across 29 countries.
Since the original epidemic, there have been six escapes of the virus from laboratories — four in Beijing, and an additional one each in Singapore and Taiwan.

In all cases, the virus escaped due to negligence and human error. Fortunately, none of those escapes led to a renewed outbreak.

Outside China too!

The 2007 Foot and Mouth (FMD) outbreak in the UK
FMD is a highly transmissible disease that infects cloven-hoofed animals. Outbreaks of the disease can cause billions of dollars in economic damage as millions of animals may need to be culled to limit the disease's spread. In 2007, 278 animals in the UK became infected with FMD after the virus escaped from a biosafety lab four kilometers away. The outbreak required 1,578 animals to be culled and cost an estimated 200 million pounds.

Smallpox outbreaks in Great Britain
From 1963 to 1978, there were three smallpox escapes from two different laboratories. All three were due to poor standards and bad practices within the labs. Three cases and at least 80 deaths were linked to the outbreaks.

The 1995 Venezuelan equine encephalitis (VEE) outbreak
In 1995, 10,000 people in Venezuela and 75,000 people in Colombia fell ill with a VEE strain that had escaped from a lab. The outbreak caused upwards of 311 deaths and 3,000 cases of neurological complications.

Then there's Russia...

2000 - Russia
Smallpox infected 8 young children in Vladivostock who had played with discarded ampoules of smallpox vaccine has now been confirmed by the Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation. Smallpox Russia

Just last year a lab explosion tore through a Russian bioweapons lab that stores Smallpox, Ebola and other nasty things.

1970 The Aral smallpox incident was a July 30, 1971 outbreak of the viral disease which occurred as a result of a field test at a Soviet biological weapons facility on an island in the Aral Sea. The incident sickened ten people, of whom three died, and came to widespread public notice only in 2002.

[dfwgator]

WHO is now calling it a “pandemic”.

[dfwgator]

Poland shuts all schools, museums, cinemas for two weeks due to coronavirus

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-poland-education/poland-shuts-all-schools-museums-cinemas-for-two-weeks-due-to-coronavirus-idUSKBN20Y1K4

[Em and Brets Mum]

Thank you for Thread 14!

[DallasBiff]

I cancelled my trip to Morocco which would be in 2 weeks and I bought the travel insurance and got a full refund minus the insurance cost.

Even though Morocco has less than 10 cases, I don’t want to be stuck in a third world country and the panic that could ensue.