Posted on 01/27/2020 9:44:55 AM PST by Zhang Fei
U.S. health officials are currently monitoring 110 people across 26 states for the coronavirus, including the five patients who contracted the deadly infection in China and brought it back to America.
The disease, which has killed at least 81 people in China and sickened more than 2,800 worldwide, isn’t spreading within the community in the U.S. and the risk to the public right now is still considered low, Dr. Nancy Messonnier, the director of the National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases, told reporters on a conference call Monday.
“We understand that many people in the United States are worried about this virus and how it will affect Americans,” Messonnier said. “Every day we learn more, every day we assess to see if our guidance or our response can be improved.”
The number of “patients under investigation” in the U.S. has almost doubled from the 63 the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said were under surveillance on Thursday. The CDC says 32 people have tested negative for the virus.
“While that number is 110, we are certainly prioritizing based on [patients under investigation] that might be at higher risk,” Messonnier said.
The CDC confirmed Sunday a fifth U.S. case of the virus — a patient in Maricopa County, Arizona who recently traveled to Wuhan, China, the epicenter of the disease’s outbreak and where the majority of cases have been reported.
Messonnier said the CDC has screened roughly 2,400 people flying from Wuhan to five major U.S. airports and is considering expanding its screening. The agency increased its travel warning for all of China, asking people traveling to practice “enhanced precautions.”
“This outbreak is unfolding rapidly and we are rapidly looking at how that impacts our posture at the border. We’re certainly considering broadening of that screening,” she said.
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Did he really say that? The Flight number is in the 2nd graf of the NY Post article : "The traveler landed at LA International Airport around 6:46 p.m. Wednesday [1/22] on American Airlines Flight 2546, where they were met by police and firefighters, Fox 5 reports." The CDC nailed him on the spot and took him straight to quarantine, uh, the hospital.
The Canadian doofus flew China Southern from Guangzhou to Toronto on 1/23, was wearing a mask on the flight, drove home, and promptly gave the bug to his wife.
The bulk of deaths in old China above whatever R-factor this thing truly owns is strictly China's...
(a) institutionalized ambivalence towards life ie Confucious say life is cheap;
(b) thus lack of whatever supportive therapies and the specific antibiotics that can corral coronavirus;
(c) a sub-section of populace who wouldn't take (b) if it was given to them and would rather drink bat broth to down ma huang; and,
(d) thusly a weakened host in a transportation hub where malnutrition and cultural hemlock (c) abound.
Press Conference given in Hong Kong by University of Hong Kong (HKU) Professors about their forecast models for the timing of the peak of the epidemic in the population centers of China.
They give information in English, then Cantonese.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PYOSBhkkUMU
From the press conference “Have just received this report, it was prepared by Dr. Wu and his associates, who have not slept in four days.”
If true - sounds like somebody is taking this seriously. Although one might want to wait until it is reviewed by somebody working after a decent night’s sleep!
Interesting stuff in that video with the Hong Kong doctors talking about their modelling and forecasts.
The existing data shows an exponential rate of growth, and the growth rate is increasing as well. The model with and without the quarantine of Wuhan, and the quarantine doesn’t seem to have helped much.
Have already seen cases in the five major cities nearby (Jining(?), Bejing, Shanghai and others).
Estimated to peak in Wuhan in 22 weeks!
Most affected other city will be Jining(?) - I couldn’t understand him - sounded like Seinging to me. Too bad the camera man didn’t show the charts.
Peak in Jining estimated in April/May.
He said that out of those five major cities that will be impacted by the virus, 70% of travel to outside of Asia goes through those cities!
He talks about how it remains to be seen if infected people in those cities can spread the virus to a third party. Rather than just people traveling through Wuhan that get infected in Wuhan, and end up in Bejing. But to me, that would seem to be likely that a person infected in Wuhan can spread it to someone in Bejing.
Anyway - he said that if that happens, then these five cities can expect an epidemic as well.
Then says that they can not predict anything, but it is not a trivial possibility that it could become a global pandemic. He said they were presenting these results so soon after the report because time is of the essence.
China may have to enact draconian measures. Stopping public events in those cities. Shutting down transportation between the cities. (Although their models say the Wuhan quarantine didn’t help much?)
And then if these countermeasures fail and the cities do have epidemics, then to use mitigation tools developed during the SARS and other epidemics. (I paused the video there - I think they are going into question and answer next).
I sure wish that all passengers coming into the USA would be kept contained for two weeks, rather than just checking their temperature!
No the CDC is very careful in making sure that the unwashed masses know nothing
this is data they collect but will not give out except to the dukes and princes that attempt to run the country
they are a corrupt organization.
Extrapolation
Try this hand gesture on her. I read somewhere that this is becoming de rigueur because of concerns about getting infected:
This is apparently different from what you see in chop socky movies:
I'd say try the second hand greeting to see if it gets her to burst out laughing, except you don't necessarily want the viruses coming at you from a belly laugh.
No, the reverse. The spokesperson said the sick person shouldn’t be in crowds for too long.
It’s a twitter report. Take it or leave it. Research it or don’t. Believe it or don’t believe it.
Just an alert as to what is being said.
[Trump screwed up from the get go. He should have slapped a huge tariff on this virus to keep it in China.]
This virus spreads fast. The question is how deadly will it prove to be.
China’s Coronavirus is Much Worse Than You Think
A report from the inside...
QUOTE:
The coronavirus in China is spreading, and largely could have been prevented. A town 7 km from where the virus was discovered in Wuhan had a state run banquet with 100,000 people eating off of the same dishes. This was 2 days after 49 cases were confirmed in Wuhan, China. The Chinese government is trying to save face, and now it is backfiring.
mullet man added a few more horsepower mounting that ford mirror on a chevy...
Mmmmm, bat broth. Where do I sign? ;-)
You made excellent points.
Thanks for the info.
The WHO.
The medical equivalent of doctors wearing blue UN helmets.
CDC needs to be reigned in and protect the citizenry that funds them to exist.
Well, yes, of course. I was writing about something different: the long-term exposure when a person is healthy to minuscule bits of infective material from all kinds of interactions, not just crowds.
It’s well known to be true.
A nun was once isolated for too long as a punishment and when she returned to the abbey main population she immediately became ill and died.
You start early and WALK, steal a car, whatever you have to do!
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