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NOW: Liu Zhiming, director of Wuchang hospital in Wuhan, is said to be seriously ill and in life support; reports of his death have now been denied by local media citing family and hospital sources
MAINLAND CHINA | Cases | Deaths | Notes | Links |
Hubei province (includes Wuhan) | 59,989 | 1,789 | 9,117 serious, 1,853 critical | Source |
Guangdong province | 1,322 | 4 | 60 serious, 30 critical | Source |
Henan province | 1,246 | 16 | 35 serious, 33 critical | Source |
Zhejiang province | 1,171 | 0 | 48 serious, 25 critical | Source |
Hunan province | 1,006 | 3 | 57 serious | Source |
Anhui province | 973 | 6 | 12 critical | Source |
Jiangxi province | 930 | 1 | 38 serious | Source |
Jiangsu province | 626 | 0 | 6 serious, 4 critical | Source |
Chongqing | 551 | 5 | 37 serious, 13 critical | Source |
Shandong province | 541 | 2 | 16 serious, 14 critical | Source |
Sichuan province | 495 | 3 | 15 critical | Source |
Heilongjiang province | 457 | 11 | 73 serious | Source |
Beijing | 381 | 4 | 10+ serious | Source |
Shanghai | 331 | 1 | 14 serious, 4 critical | Source |
Tianjin | 125 | 3 | Source | |
Other regions | 2,215 | 15 | Source | |
Undisclosed | 77 | 5 | Source | |
TOTAL | 72,436 | 1,868 | 11,741 serious 12,552 recovered 6,242 suspected |
OTHER PLACES | Cases | Deaths | Notes | Links |
Diamond Princess | 454 | 0 | 19 serious, 17 recovered | Source |
Singapore | 77 | 0 | 4 critical, 24 recovered | Source |
Japan | 66* | 1 | 1 serious | Source |
Hong Kong | 60 | 1 | 5 critical, 2 serious, 1 recovered | Source |
Thailand | 35 | 0 | 2 serious, 15 recovered | Source |
South Korea | 31 | 0 | 12 recovered | Source |
Malaysia | 22 | 0 | 8 recovered | Source |
Taiwan | 22 | 1 | 2 recovered | Source |
Australia | 15 | 0 | 10 recovered | Source |
Germany | 16 | 0 | 3 recovered | Source |
Vietnam | 16 | 0 | 7 recovered | Source |
United States | 15 | 0 | 3 recovered | Source |
France | 12 | 1 | 4 recovered | Source |
Macau | 10 | 0 | 5 recovered | Source |
United Kingdom | 9 | 0 | 8 recovered | Source |
Canada | 8 | 0 | 1 recovered | Source |
UAE | 9 | 0 | 1 serious, 3 recovered | Source |
Philippines | 3 | 1 | 2 recovered | Source |
India | 3 | 0 | 3 recovered | Source |
Italy | 3 | 0 | 2 serious | Source |
Russia | 2 | 0 | 2 recovered | Source |
Spain | 2 | 0 | 2 recovered | Source |
Nepal | 1 | 0 | 1 recovered | Source |
Cambodia | 1 | 0 | 1 recovered | Source |
Sri Lanka | 1 | 0 | 1 recovered | Source |
Finland | 1 | 0 | 1 recovered | Source |
Sweden | 1 | 0 | Source | |
Belgium | 1 | 0 | 1 recovered | Source |
Egypt | 1 | 0 | Source | |
TOTAL | 897 | 5 | 36 serious/critical |
The Catholic Bishop of Hong Kong ordered no more Masses. Times are getting serious.I can see a time coming when all church services are live streamed, with no one in the actual audience.
Bill GertzVerified account @BillGertz 8h8 hours ago
PLA general with bioweapons background takes lead role in Wuhan virus crisis
The current test is generally a back of the throat swab. The virus settles in the lower part of the lungs, so may not show in concentrated amounts in the throat. They have to go further down to get a better sample.Confusingly, fourteen of the folks who were evacuated from the Diamond Princess back to the U.S. today, tested positive for the virus; IIRC thirteen of them were not displaying any symptoms. It's almost like, "I got COVID19, and all I got was this stupid T-shirt."
We keep coming across accounts of non-Chinese patients dealing with this bug pretty easily. What gives? Is WuFlu THAT specific a bug? How is it that we see such a calamity in China and not outside? (Although Japan appears to be in danger) Something just doesn't add up.
I have also come across many accounts of people who talk about getting pretty sick in November/December/January, going to the doc to be tested for Influenza, and getting negative test results (sometimes multiple NEG results). Then they go home and fight it off, although sometimes it takes a few weeks...
My wife runs a LARGE children's ministry, so she has a really good finger on the pulse of our town. She mentioned at the end of December and through a bunch of January, that it seemed like EVERYONE was sick. It wasn't Influenza. We had some families that didn't come to church for a month. I picked it up in the last week of December, and it made me cough the hardest I have ever coughed - I actually burst some capillaries in my face a couple of times... Did "we" already get hit with WuFlu? As virulent as it is, I can't see how it wouldn't have spread far and wide while air travel from China was still unimpeded during Nov/Dec/Jan.
Crazy.
Maybe. There are two ways to look at this information:I'll take discourse management, containment, and sweep it under the rug for a thousand, Alex.
This right here is a big dot.
except.....if the political/military response comes in the process. We can and should prepare wisely for the virus, but one should also realize a military response (nukes) could come as iceing on the cake.
AUGUST??????
That's been my belief as well. That it's already here and circulating and most of the people getting it are getting mild or asymptomatic cases. But don't let that let your guard down. It can come back and you can get it again, and the 2nd time you get it is when it's more virulent. And it's still mutating out in the wild too so you can get another version of it. But my personal, non-medical, belief is that it's already been around here for at least a month if not two. No way we'd be insulated from it with all the international travel going on.
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Sorry, haven't slept much 5he last few days.
JANUARY, not August. My bad!
except.....if the political/military response comes in the process. We can and should prepare wisely for the virus, but one should also realize a military response (nukes) could come as iceing on the cake.
They can and they do... Same way our intelligence agencies do it here.
They don't monitor every single person, they have computer scans for trigger words... Enough of the right verbiage in a conversation will merit a real person looking into what you are talking about and to whom you are sharing the info.
Hopefully, you'll correct that situation soon. I've been hearing that the appropriate amount of sleep is one of the best ways of bolstering your immune system.
And frankly, we need ya here!
All they do is text/chat. No way possible they can monitor millions and millions of daily convo's in this kind of situation.
Absolutely agree! I'm using my limited energies (I spent 5 hours inventorying the med and hone health supplies- two legged and four- and just about had to crawl to bed (which would have been interesting with Maggie the Border Collie puppy trying to herd me- or lead me by my ear, as is her habit with the older dogs!). It reminded me why I have to get that MRI Friday evening (last appt of the day... not sure whether that's good or bad, but at least the waiting room should be empty). And I'm terrified they'll put surgery off until this virus makes it impossible. But the alternative coukd be worse.Some longtime prepping friends, that we'd bounced crisis/disaster scenarios off each other over the years,
have been sending me rather lengthy theories or videos of the possible, worst-case nefarious, origins of this
CoronaVirus. They want to debate the merits of them, but to all I'm pretty much responding the same for now...
I read it cause you’d asked, otherwise I wouldn’t have. I think it likely BS,
but I’ve been purposely avoiding reading/studying/debating theories of the
origin of this CoronaVirus, at this time. It’s low on my priorities of where to
expend my limited time & energy, right now.
I look at this current virus crisis like a forest fire raging towards my family.
I’m busy getting out of the way of it, and prepping to hunker down if I can’t.
Later, if we survived it, when I have more time, I’ll be more inclined to study
different theories of origin, whether it was natural occurrence (lightning strike)
or man-made, and whether then on purpose unleashed (fire bug) or accident.
Make sense?
Panic Early, Beat the Rush!
- Shane
Ummm... No. You assumption is incorrect.We are talking about Asians here. All they do is text/chat. No way possible they can monitor millions and millions of daily convo's in this kind of situation.
Just finished the movie last night.It really concerns me when I see the raw emotion these poor Chinese people emote - that they have the bomb.
Vegas anyone?
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AI algorithms can handle millions in their sleep. Barely an inconvenience.
Nothing will keep me from church. The Lord will protect me in His house.
michiyo ishida @MichiyoCNA 37m37 minutes ago
Kyodo News Agency had close contact with#COVID19 infected taxi driver. 10 staff of the agency are under house quarantine--confirmed by Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga. They have shown no symptoms
Handling messages is one thing. Doing something about it is another. Then there's the majority of messages that do not activate certain verbiages being looked for.
And hopefully, He will likewise protect everyone else in the church from you.
What if the virus is never cured. The patient seems to recover but is still infected only to break out again and again
I do believe an ass hole has spoken.And hopefully, He will likewise protect everyone else in the church from you.
AI algorithms can listen in on millions of conversations simultaneously, understand what is being said and whether interesting words are being used, and characterize the parties to the conversation as being harmless, angry, threatening, or whatever. Conversations that meet various filtering criteria can be sorted in order of urgency and relevance, and brought to the attention of human operators for further evaluation, even while the conversation is ongoing. This is child's play in the current computing world.
One thing that concerns me is mutation or gene swapping with some other corona-virus causing COVID-19 to transform to a more lethal form. Lethality does not matter to a virus unless it affects transmissibility. The most transmissible strain usually achieves predominance unless it kills very quickly. If COVID-19 kept the long incubation period but in later stage caused much stronger coughing and more viral load in aerosols, it could increase the R0 even with greater lethality. With the increasing number of infections, there is an increasing chance of mutation, and a change from 3% CFR to a much higher number is possible. Smallpox and the Plague were quite lethal but the contagion spread well. With the interconnectedness of the world today, I think lethality of a virus is less of a factor in its spread than in times past.
This works the other way as well. It could mutate to a nearly harmless form with a high R0 that would confer immunity to the current version as cowpox did for smallpox. I would guess though that milder symptoms would be less contagious and would allow the immune system to remove it more quickly, and that a lower R0 would result. One guess is that increased symptoms and lethality, which often go together, are the most favored course up to the point that lethality decreases transmission. Offsetting this, the common cold is a corona-virus with high R0 and does not seem to be getting more lethal over time. Perhaps a high R0 in COVID-19 is a good thing leaving little room for competition. The world really has not had many recent major pandemics as a guide to guess from and vaccines have helped prevent multi-year events.
(This from about a week ago...lest we forget...good nuggets in here...)
Crisis in China Over Coronavirus: People Dragged From Homes, City Streets Sprayed, Bodies Being Cremated ’24/7′
By Heather Clark on February 11, 2020
WUHAN — Videos out of China have been described as “apocalyptic” as they show workers in Wuhan fighting the coronavirus by spraying city streets with disinfectant and authorities seizing for quarantine those who are suspected to have been exposed or infected. Reports also state that the government has required cremation of those who died from the virus so as to avoid spread, and funeral home employees are growing tired from the workload.
According to reports, the current death toll is over 1,000 with more than 42,000 cases being confirmed. The World Health Organization (WHO) held an event in Geneva on Tuesday to discuss the outbreak with some of the world’s top scientists.
ORIGIN AND SANITATION
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Joe Drake of the U.S.-based company Decon Seven, told Business Insider that he is familiar with the Wuhan wet market where the virus is stated to have first afflicted a human — and that it was not a sanitary situation.
“You have live fish, you have dead fish, you have other animals in there,” he explained. “There’s no hygiene standards. They just rinse things down with a garden hose. That doesn’t do anything. You’re just basically creating a bacteria soup.”
Following animal-to-human transmission, the virus, also known as 2019-nCoV, began to spread throughout January and February — turning into what some are now considering labeling a pandemic.
“Because the coronavirus is chiefly transmitted through respiratory droplets, which get passed around in an infected person’s spit and mucus, China has placed around 56 million people under quarantine, hoping that keeping people home, and having them wear masks when they go outside, will help prevent more virus spread,” Business Insider outlines.
“But in cities and towns across Asia, sanitation workers are also redoubling efforts to spray down entire towns, sending trucks filled with low concentration bleach-and-water solutions into the streets, and dispatching hazmat-suited workers into train stations and malls to wipe every nook and cranny.”
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Those who live in China have provided a glimpse into the current situation in the country, as a number of videos have been posted online, such as one showing sanitation workers in hazmat suits running through the streets with a billowing disinfectant. The video was also shared by People’s Daily, which created a compilation of clips showing various sterilization cannons and trucks in action in Wuhan.
SEIZURES OF THE POTENTIALLY INFECTED
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Another video shows at least two people entering some sort of box on the back of a truck while workers in hazmat suits shut the tailgate and then get into the vehicle to drive them away. Screams can be heard, whether coming from the box or those on the street.
A video also shows suited workers manhandling people in what appears to be an apartment building in Suzhou, including one man who resisted and was carried out of the residence and to the elevator by three men.
One video posted by 5 News Australia shows a family being forcefully being escorted to an ambulance, as they had reportedly been diagnosed with the coronavirus and were deemed a public health threat.
“Wuhan officials are now carrying out door-to-door health checks to identify potential carriers who would need to be isolated,” reports the Daily Mail. “[Vice Premier Sun Chunlan] demanded four types of people in Wuhan be put into mandatory isolation in quarantine stations: confirmed cases, suspected cases, people who have close contact with the former two, and those who have fever.”
One emotional video shows nurse Liu Haiyan telling her daughter — who has to stand at a distance and masked — to “be good” and that she will return home once the battle against the virus is won.
“Mom, I miss you a lot,” the girl says through tears.
“Mom is fighting monsters,” the mother replies. “I’ll be back home once the virus is beaten.”
She gives her daughter an air hug from afar, which the girl returns, and leaves some food for her mother.
CREMATORIUMS ‘WORKING 24/7’
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According to a report from The Epoch Times, funeral home workers are also struggling to keep up with the number of bodies to be cremated. It pointed to a video posted to YouTube that shows bodies on gurneys lined up for cremation, as well as another video showing several bagged deceased individuals lying on the floor or in chairs in a hospital.
“While cremation is a common burial practice in China, in a notice issued on Feb. 1, China’s National Health Commission said that people who have died from the virus can’t be buried and their bodies should be cremated immediately,” the outlet explains.
“Since Jan. 28, 90 percent of our employees are working 24/7. … We couldn’t go back home,” a man from one of Wuhan’s three main funeral homes, identified as Mr. Yun, stated. “We can’t stop because we can’t leave the bodies outside for a long time. … We really need more manpower.”
He said that the funeral home is transporting at least 100 bodies a day.
“For us who transfer the bodies, we don’t eat or drink for a long time in order to preserve the protective suit, because we need to take off the protective suit whenever we eat, drink, or go to the bathroom,” Yun advised. “The protective suit can’t be worn again after being used.”
“All male staff at our funeral home are picking up and moving bodies now, and female staff are answering the phones, disinfecting the funeral home, and so on,” a worker at a Wuchang funeral home similarly told Guyu Lab. “We work 24 hours. … We are very tired.”
“We are on the verge of collapsing. We really need help.”
CHRISTIANS OFFER THE PEACE OF CHRIST
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Amid the crisis, Christians have been seeking to offer the peace of Christ to those who live in fear. As previously reported, one pastor in China penned a letter encouraging and exhorting the Body of Christ in the midst of disease and death.
“Christ has already given us His peace, but His peace is not to remove us from disaster and death, but rather to have peace in the midst of disaster and death, because Christ has already overcome these things (John 14:27, 16:33),” he wrote. “Otherwise we have not believed in the gospel of peace (Ephesians 6:15), and, with the world, would be terrified of pestilence, and lose hope in the face of death.”
He said that even if a believer dies in the midst of tribulation, it is still not a defeat.
“Spoken for today, Wuhan’s pestilence cannot separate us from the love of Christ; this love is in our Lord Jesus Christ. These words are so comforting for us, we have already become one body with Christ,” he wrote. “… Therefore, Christ is with us as we face the pestilence in this city; the pestilence cannot harm us. If we die in the pestilence, it is an opportunity to witness to Christ, and even more to enter into his glory.”
The pastor said that the current challenge with the coronavirus reminds him of Abraham facing Sodom and Jonah facing Ninevah, as they Abraham interceded and Jonah preached repentance to the saving of men’s souls.
“[M]ay we like Lot be grieved over all those in this city (1 Peter 2:7), and like Abraham who earnestly prayed for Sodom (Genesis 18:23-33),” he urged. “You see, Jonah with difficulty proclaimed the gospel to Nineveh, and Nineveh repented and was saved. We are this city’s Abraham and Jonah. We must pray for God’s mercy upon this city, and bring peace upon this city through our prayers and testimony.”
“I believe this is the command of God calling those of us living in Wuhan,” he continued. “We are to seek peace for this city, seek peace for those who are afflicted with this illness, seek peace for the medical personnel struggling on the front lines, seek peace for every government official at every level, seek peace for all the people of Wuhan!”
One video posted online presents the shouts of Wuhan residents as they chant out of their apartment windows, “Wuhan, stay strong!”
Crisis in China Over Coronavirus: People Dragged From Homes, City Streets Sprayed, Bodies Being Cremated ’24/7′
WUHAN -- Videos out of China have been described as "apocalyptic" as they show workers in Wuhan fighting the coronavirus by spraying city streets with disinfectant and authorities seizing for quarantine those who are suspected to have been exposed or infected. Reports also state that the...christiannews.net
I do believe an ass hole has spoken.