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Hong Kong to evacuate residential building where two patients with virus live
businessinsider.com ^ | Feb 9, 2020 | Reuters

Posted on 02/10/2020 1:39:15 PM PST by 11th_VA

HONG KONG (Reuters) - Hong Kong is evacuating people from a residential building in the New Territories district of Tsing Yi, where two people confirmed with coronavirus live though on different floors, authorities said early on Tuesday.

The director of the Centre for Health Protection, Dr Wong Ka-hing, said the government was investigating the suspected environmental transmission of two cases in the building.

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KEYWORDS: coronavirus; hongkong
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environmental transmission

Could be the new norm ...

1 posted on 02/10/2020 1:39:15 PM PST by 11th_VA
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Princess cruise ship forced to turn around after over 300 sickened with norovirus

Environmental Transmission ????

2 posted on 02/10/2020 1:42:20 PM PST by 11th_VA
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Egads! The buildings where people live in Hong Kong are gigantic! 1000s of apartments.


3 posted on 02/10/2020 1:44:38 PM PST by luv2ski
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evacuating people from a residential building in the New Territories district of Tsing Yi, where two people confirmed with coronavirus live though on different floors

While moving them through the rest of the petri dish.

This is going to get out of control before long.
Houston, I have a bad feeling about this...


4 posted on 02/10/2020 1:44:40 PM PST by tet68 ( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
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Metrics
5 posted on 02/10/2020 1:46:01 PM PST by 11th_VA
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Nice building you have there. It would be a shame if something happened to it.


6 posted on 02/10/2020 1:46:03 PM PST by Ingtar (Bedbugs, thy name is Democrat.)
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Infected sewage fumes vented through leaky exhaust pipe

Yes if you can smell it you are infected by it


7 posted on 02/10/2020 1:47:59 PM PST by silverleaf (Remember kids: You can vote your way into communism, but you have to shoot your way out!)
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From another source:

A 62-year-old woman who resided in Cheung Hong Estate Hong Mei House in Tsing Yi was diagnosed with the novel virus on Monday – making her the 42nd confirmed case in Hong Kong, according to the Department of Health. She lived 10 storeys below the 12th confirmed case, a 75-year-old man who lived in an apartment of the same number.

8 posted on 02/10/2020 1:53:19 PM PST by 11th_VA
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Any business you don’t like? Just spread the rumor they have the coronavirus!


9 posted on 02/10/2020 1:58:30 PM PST by SgtHooper (If you remember the 60's, YOU WEREN'T THERE!)
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To: 11th_VA

If the virus can pass through apartment ventilation, China it will kill millions. This would be the worst possible news for China.


10 posted on 02/10/2020 2:01:46 PM PST by Vince Ferrer
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posted by another Freeper a few days back, handle escapes me:

Shanghai government confirm coronavirus is aerosolized (different than droplets or airborne) Shanghai officials reveal novel coronavirus transmission modes Confirmed transmission routes of the novel coronavirus include direct transmission, contact transmission and ***aerosol transmission*** a Shanghai official said on Saturday.

https://chinadaily.com.cn/a/202002/08/WS5e3e7d97a310128217275fc3.html

This confirms what a CDC official told the daughter of an American couple on the quarantined Japanese cruise ship.

This also confirms other news reports:

Catching it within 15 seconds near an infected person
The incredibly fast spread on cruise ships
One infected person in a building, they lock the whole building down
Man catching it from infected person one apartment below
Large scale disinfection trucks, now N. Korea doing the same
The high level hazmat suit the people bringing the American expatriates home
The article about the virus being “deep lung” which is why it gets missed in tests of the upper respiratory tracts

The difference between airborne and aerosolized:

Airborne Droplet:
Droplets (greater than 5 um)
Remain only shortly in air (less than 17 min) [116].
Dispersed over short distances (less than 1 m).
Short range transmission.
Direct inoculation of naïve person through coughing/sneezing/breathing of infected person. Deposition mainly on mucous membranes and upper respiratory tract.

Aerosol:
Aerosols, droplet nuclei (less than 5 um),
Remain in air for an almost infinite amount of time. Dispersed over long distances (greater than 1 m).

11 posted on 02/10/2020 2:06:30 PM PST by proust (Justice delayed is injustice.)
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Seems to me, like they need to figure out how to make buildings that don’t cycle the same air everywhere.

Or at least have filters and sanitizers built with disease prevention in mind.

You could put UV lights in the air ducts of buildings and cruise ships and kill most bacteria, fungi and viruses. That’s a cheap common sense approach.

I once even installed a UV light in the duct work of a house I lived in.


12 posted on 02/10/2020 2:08:17 PM PST by DannyTN
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I think the PRC tried to unleash the coronavirus in retaliation for the situation Hong Kong


13 posted on 02/10/2020 2:11:59 PM PST by LeoWindhorse
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Cases down! lol.


14 posted on 02/10/2020 2:15:50 PM PST by proust (Justice delayed is injustice.)
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To: silverleaf

“Yes if you can smell it you are infected by it”

Meaning if an infected person farts and you smell it you’re toast.


15 posted on 02/10/2020 2:22:09 PM PST by Rebelbase (Time for Trump to go Machiavelli on the democrats and never Trump republicans.)
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*cut and paste silent but deadly joke here*


16 posted on 02/10/2020 2:23:07 PM PST by proust (Justice delayed is injustice.)
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This is a partial evacuation. Only residents living in room numbered 7 on different floors are required to be quarantined.

https://www.hongkongfp.com/2020/02/11/hong-kong-authorities-evacuate-tsing-yi-estate-flats-second-resident-diagnosed-coronavirus/

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Yuen rejected suggestions that the two confirmed cases bore similarities to the Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) community outbreak at Amoy Gardens housing estate in 2003, where more than 300 people were infected due to a suspected fault in the piping system. He said that the U-shaped water-traps at Hong Mei House were functional.

The Housing Department will inspect each flat overnight to check all exhaust vents.

Only residents living in rooms numbered seven of Hong Mei House will be evacuated. Wong said those who display symptoms will be sent to the hospital while those who do not will be transferred to quarantine centres for a few days.

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The U-shaped water-traps at Hong Mei House:

You can find more photos HERE

17 posted on 02/10/2020 2:33:41 PM PST by HK_Kai_Chung
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To: Rebelbase

Yep..you are inhaling micro particles of shiiite...


18 posted on 02/10/2020 2:47:23 PM PST by silverleaf (Remember kids: You can vote your way into communism, but you have to shoot your way out!)
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To: 11th_VA; neverdem; ProtectOurFreedom; Mother Abigail; EBH; vetvetdoug; Smokin' Joe; Global2010; ...
Evacuate to where?
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.

19 posted on 02/10/2020 3:09:10 PM PST by null and void (The democrats just can't get over the fact that they lost an election they themselves rigged!)
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I can feel it coming in the air tonight.


20 posted on 02/10/2020 3:32:26 PM PST by philetus (Keep doing what you always do and you'll eventually get what you deserve)
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