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Interesting, SARS infected 8000 over the course of a year. And this new virus just hit 400+ known people this week; doubling over the weekend. The next 10 days will be very telling.
Pneumonia is an inflammatory condition of the lung affecting primarily the small air sacs known as alveoli.
Viruses, bacteria, toxins and irritants can cause pneumonia but they cannot be "like" pneumonia
... All I know is that Last Year there were over 50,000 Dead here in the US from Influenza Virus ..... And nobody talks about it ....
Nothing. It’s a big lie scare tactic
Sheep you are to them
I here at the library . . . Cough! Cough! . . . As soon as I print out this article, I’m leaving . . . Cough! Damn cold!
This may or may not be the opening salvo in the next pandemic.
Too soon to know, but definitely not too soon to pay attention.
As for all those “wake me when...” type posters, ignorance is bliss. It would be cruel to wake them up.
FreeRepublic has been an excellent source of info on things like this in the past. Hopefully it will this time also.
I live in Snohomish county, Washington. The 1st confirmed patient in the U.S. is in the largest hospital in our county.
The patient is a male U.S. citizen. Three days after returning from a trip to China, he went to an urgent care facility here and was sent home.
Fortunately, the doctors at the urgent care facility did the tests necessary to confirm this new virus and had him transported to the hospital as soon as they knew the next day. He is being kept in isolation at that hospital.
He is doing well right now. Initial reports said he was very ill. Reports last night said he was in stable condition. Reports in the paper this morning say he does not seem that sick.
Personally, I think all reports on his condition are media speculation. I doubt the people who really know are talking.
One of the current unknowns is how contagious this is, and when a person becomes contagious. It is nearly certain he was contagious while at the urgent care facility and at his home. HOW contagious is not something anyone currently knows.
So... Contact tracing is going to be difficult.
Side Note: My wife was at a local urgent care facility the same day he was. She has an impaired immune system due to cancer and the treatments for it (she is doing very well). We do not think it was the same urgent care facility, but the news media is not saying which one it was.