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    Lightbulb Global Corona-virus Pandemic?

    Virus is mutating: should all flights from China be halted?

    Quote Originally Posted by “Lizzie ParryTariq Tahir”
    Over 600 corona-virus cases are confirmed, mostly in China, but now spreading to the US, Hong Kong, Japan, South Korea, Thailand, Taiwan and an unconfirmed case in Mexico.

    British medical experts say up to 10,000 people could already be infected.

    Professor Neil Ferguson said the new airborne corona-virus strain is “as deadly as the 1918 Spanish flu epidemic” that wiped out 50 million people globally.

    There is no vaccine for corona-virus and it is incredibly contagious, being spread through contact with anything the virus is on, to include breath, coughs or sneezes.
    Full story:
    https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/107845...l-wuhan-china/
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    The virus will probably be eventually stopped, like SARS was stopped in Africa (only 8k-10k people died). However, if the Corona virus is not stopped, then Sarasota County would be hit particularly hard because it is a retirement community and the elderly are particularly susceptible to the flu. Sarasota County could be turned into a mass graveyard. In fact Florida, the land of elderly snowbirds, would be hit the hardest.

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    Lightbulb 22 States on Alert: CDC monitoring 63 possible infections

    Quote Originally Posted by ”Berkeley Lovelace Jr.”
    U.S. health officials are monitoring 63 possible coronavirus infections that stretch across 22 states, including…
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    Lightbulb China unable to contain corona-virus virus?

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    Chinese President Xi Jinping warned that the spread of the new coronavirus virus is accelerating. It has killed 56 people in China and infected 2,000.

    The United States is evacuating American staff on a special flight and the State Department said that private American citizens who are most at risk will be able to board the flight out of China to San Francisco.

    U.K. researchers are warning of a possibility that China will not be able to contain the virus because….
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    Lightbulb New coronavirus can cause infections with no symptoms

    U.S. warns it can't evacuate ALL Americans from coronavirus city in China

    Robot treats coronavirus patient in
    bio-containment room in Seattle, Washington:



    Quote Originally Posted by “Alfred Charles”
    In Seattle, the first U.S. patient with the coronavirus is in isolation and officials are using a robot in a bio-containment room to care for him. Security guards are preventing unauthorized access. CDC officials have activated the national emergency center because they expect to find more cases in the U.S.

    Full story: https://komonews.com/news/local/afte...fe-has-changed
    Quote Originally Posted by “Lorraine King”
    Coronavirus victim writhes and shakes uncontrollably on hospital gurney in China.

    WARNING - DISTRESSING VIDEO:
    https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-...hakes-21362578
    Quote Originally Posted by “Sharon Begley”
    People who are not showing symptoms can be carrying the coronavirus.

    Full story: https://www.statnews.com/2020/01/24/...ancet-studies/
    Quote Originally Posted by “Ariel Zilber”
    Another US case of coronavirus is confirmed in California and Canada confirmed its first case.

    Full story: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...ue-flight.html
    CDC National Emergency Center:
    https://www.cdc.gov/cpr/eoc.htm




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    Post What CDC is NOT saying

    This virus is believed to have a “reproduction rate” of 4, which means each existing case creates 4 new cases. If each of those “secondaries” creates 4 of its own new cases, then the currently identified U.S. cases could reflect as many as 80 people infected. Is that what the CDC means when they say they have 100 people “under investigation”?

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    Lightbulb How fast is coronavirus spreading?

    Quote Originally Posted by “Helen Cunningham, PhD”
    Each person who has the virus gives it to a certain number of others. The more infectious the disease, the higher the “reproduction rate.” The Wuhan coronavirus is believed to have a reproduction rate of around 4. That means there are 4 new cases for every existing case. The result is “exponential.”

    In plain English, it is accelerating like a sports car with a lead-foot driver.
    Spreading Chart:
    https://i0.wp.com/michaelsavage.com/...68%2C426&ssl=1

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    Quote Originally Posted by Unregistered View Post
    The virus will probably be eventually stopped, like SARS was stopped in Africa (only 8k-10k people died). However, if the Corona virus is not stopped, then Sarasota County would be hit particularly hard because it is a retirement community and the elderly are particularly susceptible to the flu. Sarasota County could be turned into a mass graveyard. In fact Florida, the land of elderly snowbirds, would be hit the hardest.
    This new coronavirus affects the young more than the old... so it's very very different than other flu viruses. Flu viruses usually affect old people more, but this new virus affects young people more... Scientists are theorizing that the young are more susceptible to the virus because they have stronger immune systems... and when they catch the virus, their strong immune system attacks it, causing their lungs to quickly fill up with fluid, so then they drown in their own fluid.

    We take it for granted that technology will be able to stop this virus before it becomes a pandemic in the United States... and we probably will be able to successfully manage this virus... but if for some odd reason it did turn into a pandemic, then first responders would be the first people to contract the virus (street cops & paramedics & hospital workers, etc)... places where large groups of people traditional gather would suddenly become empty for fear of catching the virus (grocery stores, malls, crowded tourist beaches, crowded restaurants, etc)...

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    Post 86 people dying every DAY in China

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    If it turns turn into a pandemic in the United States, then first responders will be the first people to contract the virus:
    - street cops responding to calls-for-service
    - paramedics responding to the ill
    - hospital workers & clinicians in contact with the ill
    - etc

    Places where large groups of people traditionally gather would become ghost towns for fear of catching the virus:
    - UTC mall
    - grocery stores
    - crowded restaurants
    - crowded tourist beaches
    - etc
    In China, 86 people die of virus every DAY and the numbers are continuing to grow:

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...ers-homes.html

    If it becomes a pandemic in the United States, then sheriffs, chiefs and city/county commissioners will have to start thinking about commandeering large buildings to quarantine the infected:
    • Robards arena
    • Schools can be turned into quarantined facilities because they are already encircled by prison-like fences

    Hopefully it will not spread in the United States like it has in China, but if it does spread, then these are the things that administrators need to start thinking about.

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    Lightbulb “Super spreaders” make coronavirus hard to contain

    Quote Originally Posted by “Jackie Salo”
    “Super spreaders” are a phenomenon that occurs only with some infectious diseases, where patients transmit the illness to a disproportionately higher number of people.

    Some coronavirus carriers might infect one or two people, while a “super spreader” passes the illness to dozens because they “excrete more virus than others.”

    Coronavirus “super spreaders” make the outbreak tough to contain as it continues its spread around the globe.
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    https://nypost.com/2020/02/10/super-...er-to-contain/
    Journalism can never be silent: that is its greatest virtue and its greatest fault. It must speak, and speak immediately, while the echoes of wonder, the claims of triumph and the signs of horror are still in the air.

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