China Corona Virus Outbreak

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First wave was China.

Coronavirus: China, Japan, South Korea supply chains under threat from ‘second wave’ of disruptions | South China Morning Post

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Yun 3 repatriated na Pinoy meron na symptoms of Wuhan China virus.


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[tsupermario]

Why is Iran'''s reported mortality rate for coronavirus higher than in other countries?

A top official in Iran, Masoumeh Ebtekar, the highest ranking woman in Iran’s government and a vice president for women and family affairs, has tested positive for the corona virus, state media reported, the latest senior official to contract the COVID-19 illness. Ebtekar, the English-speaking spokesperson for the group of Iranian students who seized hostages at the U.S. embassy in Tehran in 1979, was captured in a photo attending a meeting with Iranian President Hassan Rouhani on Wednesday.

Two members of Iran’s parliament have contracted the virus as well as the deputy health minister, who was seen wiping his brow and looking feverish at a press conference a day before he announced he had tested positive.

While the government has imposed some restrictions on holy sites and called off some Friday prayer services, President Rouhani has said there are no plans to quarantine entire cities hit by the virus.

State media said Tuesday that a member of Parliament, Mamoud Sadeghi, and the country's deputy health minister, Iraj Harirchi, who lead a task force battling the virus, had tested positive. The news came a day after Harirchi appeared at a news conference looking feverish, reaching for tissues to wipe his brow. He wore no mask as the ministry spokesman standing next to him expressed confidence about the government's response to the crisis.

even iran’s gov’t officials are already infected [emoji51]

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Why is Iran'''s reported mortality rate for coronavirus higher than in other countries?





even iran’s gov’t officials are already infected [emoji51]

because their healthcare system is probably in bad shape after years of sanctions

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Pope Francis cancels visit with Rome priests over ‘slight’ illness amid Italy coronavirus outbreak | South China Morning Post

There was no word from the Vatican about the nature of his illness, but the pope was seen coughing and blowing his nose during the Ash Wednesday Mass.

The Argentine pope has generally enjoyed good health. He lost part of one lung as a young man because of a respiratory illness, and suffers from sciatica, which makes walking difficult.

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Several countries reporting double digits increases in new cases




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DOW crashes again... Officially in correction territory.

Dow falls 1,191 points -- the most in history - CNN

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[Gumusut_Amige]

this is scary...

In scramble to stop virus, testing raises tough questions | Inquirer News

NEW YORK — Health officials confronted tough questions and doubts Thursday about testing to intercept the fast-spreading virus, with scrutiny focused on a four-day delay in screening an infected California woman despite her doctors’ early calls to do so.


South Korean army soldiers wearing protective suits spray disinfectant to prevent the spread of the COVID-19 virus on a street in Daegu, South Korea, Thursday, Feb. 27, 2020. As the worst-hit areas of Asia continued to struggle with a viral epidemic, with hundreds more cases reported Thursday in South Korea and China, worries about infection and containment spread across the globe. (Lee Moo-ryul/Newsis via AP)

The questions are global: not just who, when and how to test for the illness, but how to make sure that working test kits get out to the labs that need them. All those issues apparently came in to play in the treatment of the woman in northern California, a case officials say may be the first community-spread instance of the disease in the U.S.


“This was a clear gap in our preparedness, and the virus went right through the gap,” said Dr. Ali Khan, dean of the University of Nebraska College of Public Health.

In the wake of the latest California case, U.S. health officials on Thursday expanded their criteria for who should get tested, and took steps to increase testing.

The debate over testing has taken on added urgency as the number of cases worldwide climbed past 82,000, including 2,800 reported deaths.

The rapid spread pushed officials in Saudi Arabia to cut travel to Islam’s holiest sites, triggered tougher penalties in South Korea for people who break quarantines and ratcheted up pressure on investors as U.S. stock markets extended their week-long plunge. The Dow Jones Industrial Average sank nearly 1,200 points Thursday, it’s worst one-day drop since 2011.

With the illness rippling across 47 nations in every continent but Antarctica, public health officials emphasized the need for rapid intervention.

“Aggressive early measures can prevent transmission before the virus gets a foothold,” World Health Organization chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said.

He cited a study in China of more than 320,000 test samples that enabled health officials to zero in on the 0.14 percent that screened positive for COVID-19, the disease caused by the virus.

But catching the disease early will require countries to invest in rapid diagnostics, said Dr. Gagandeep Kang, a microbiologist who heads the Translational Health Science And Technology Institute in India.

Test kits used by the World Health Organization cost less than $5 each, said Michael Ryan, the group’s emergencies programs director. But that figure does not include the expense of medical staff and validation screening, and making such investments effective goes well beyond the expense involved.


“As we can see from the new sparks on Italy, Iran, Korea, is that early identification of cases is crucial. There, the first persons with infection were missed,” said Marion Koopmans of the Erasmus Medical Center in the Netherlands.

Doctors at the University of California Davis Medical Center were mindful of the need for early identification when the hospital admitted a female patient on a ventilator and showing symptoms of a viral infection on Feb. 19.

They asked federal officials to test her for the new coronavirus, but were told she did not fit federal testing criteria, according to an email hospital officials sent to their employees.

The test was not done until four days later, on Feb. 23, and the results did not come back until Wednesday, a full week after she was admitted.

Part of the problem is that the number of people being tested in the U.S. has been limited to those who, in addition to showing symptoms, have a history of travel to countries affected by the disease or contact with those who have done so, said Lauren Sauer, director of operations at Johns Hopkins University’s Office of Critical Event Preparedness and Response.

“In the U.S., people are sticking pretty closely to that definition,” Sauer said. But the increasing cases on other continents “are demonstrating we need to do a better job than just where the outbreak originated.”

On Thursday, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention updated its testing criteria on its website — a move that had been in the works for days, according to a federal official familiar with the change.

The CDC will continue to advise testing people who have traveled to certain outbreak areas and have fever and certain other symptoms. But now testing is also appropriate if such symptoms exist and flu and other respiratory illnesses have been ruled out and no source of exposure has been identified.

As part of that, CDC has expanded the list of countries that are red flags for testing to include not only China but Iran, Italy, South Korea and Japan.

Last month, the CDC said it had developed a test kit that could be sent to state and big city public health labs, so they could broaden testing to more people. Early this month, the agency got authorization to begin distribution of the kit to government public health labs in the 50 states and some cities and counties.

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And you think China is aloof...

Whistleblower: US workers treated coronavirus without gear, training - Business Insider

First US Community infection came from this incident.

According to The Times, the workers went to Travis Air Force Base and March Air Reserve Base and were ordered to go into quarantined areas without proper training in how to handle infectious diseases and inadequate protective gear. The whistleblower said the officials were not trained in how to follow safety protocols until five days later, according to The Times.

The Times said the first case of a US patient becoming infected with coronavirus through "community spread" took place near Travis Air Force Base earlier this week.

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Coronavirus: California monitoring more than 8,000 people as number of cases soar | The Independent

[vinrem]

The world will never be the same again after this.

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[heavenlee]

And you think China is aloof...

Whistleblower: US workers treated coronavirus without gear, training - Business Insider

First US Community infection came from this incident.

Agree, sir, both (US & Chinese) governments can be careless. But can you spot a difference -- if that were to happen in China? I'll tell you then. If that happened in China, that whistleblower would've been "silenced" already. Her story wouldn't have made it to the 7 o clock news or any mainstream news outlet. No court would even admit her case, if that happened in China. Either that, or she would have just remained silent in the first place and no one will be the wiser -- as she knows what the "consequences" would be if she blew the whistle against her superiors.

And that, sir, is a very very big difference between the two governments. That lack of transparency in China caused this situation to explode and get out of hand in the first place. CCP is the culprit, but no one can bring them to justice.

[heavenlee]

this is scary...

In scramble to stop virus, testing raises tough questions | Inquirer News

This question just popped up in my head -- how much does it cost to have this coronavirus tested? How much in pesos? Anybody know? Follow up question -- how soon can the results be known?

[Ry_Tower]

This question just popped up in my head -- how much does it cost to have this coronavirus tested? How much in pesos? Anybody know? Follow up question -- how soon can the results be known?

That is indeed an economic question that should worry countries that are not well-off.

Even if you have the money, there seems to be a gap indeed in the effectivity of the testing kits. Mukhang hindi kaya 100% detection esp. for those who just recently got infected.

To answer your question sa Australia pa daw tayo nagpadala nung tests before eh. Mga 4 days ata yun bago lumabas result once napadala. But now 2days upon receiving the sample malalaman na daw. We have the primer kits na.

DOH gets confirmatory test kits for 219-nCov | Philippine News Agency

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[Gumusut_Amige]

This question just popped up in my head -- how much does it cost to have this coronavirus tested? How much in pesos? Anybody know? Follow up question -- how soon can the results be known?

from the same article...

Test kits used by the World Health Organization cost less than $5 each, said Michael Ryan, the group’s emergencies programs director. But that figure does not include the expense of medical staff and validation screening, and making such investments effective goes well beyond the expense involved.


“As we can see from the new sparks on Italy, Iran, Korea, is that early identification of cases is crucial. There, the first persons with infection were missed,” said Marion Koopmans of the Erasmus Medical Center in the Netherlands.

Doctors at the University of California Davis Medical Center were mindful of the need for early identification when the hospital admitted a female patient on a ventilator and showing symptoms of a viral infection on Feb. 19.

They asked federal officials to test her for the new coronavirus, but were told she did not fit federal testing criteria, according to an email hospital officials sent to their employees.

The test was not done until four days later, on Feb. 23, and the results did not come back until Wednesday, a full week after she was admitted.

[heavenlee]

That is indeed an economic question that should worry countries that are not well-off.

Even if you have the money, there seems to be a gap indeed in the effectivity of the testing kits. Mukhang hindi kaya 100% detection esp. for those who just recently got infected.

To answer your question sa Australia pa daw tayo nagpadala nung tests before eh. Mga 4 days ata yun bago lumabas result once napadala. But now 2days upon receiving the sample malalaman na daw. We have the primer kits na.

DOH gets confirmatory test kits for 2�19-nCov | Philippine News Agency

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Thank you sir. So someone who wants to get tested will go where? To his/her doctor? Doctor then endorses to RITM? Who foots the bill, and how much will the bill be?

Do we have all these protocols in place already on what to do if/when someone feels sick and suspects coronavirus? I sure hope so, for all our sakes.

[heavenlee]

from the same article...

Oh ok, sorry I missed that sir. 5$ in pesos around 250 pesos. But that's just the kit? There's ++ expense, right? I hope not very expensive in total. Phil Government should have a FAQ on its relevant websites.

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At the end of the day this Virus that's on the brink of destroying world economy started from China and CCP covered it up until they can't anymore.

China and CCP is to blame add WHO to the mix for playing politics.


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[heavenlee]

Trump's smiling ear to ear -- US #1 most prepared to deal with pandemic -- let's see. I wonder where the Phils. stand.

These are the countries best prepared for health emergencies | World Economic Forum

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A group of #Israeli researchers at the #Galilee Research Institute (MIGAL) are close to developing a #coronavirus #vaccine that could be ready in three weeks and available within 90 days, according to Israeli Minister of Science and Technology Ofir Akunis. -Amir

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