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Is it an inevitability a vaccine will be created? If not, how will it ever get sorted? This could keep China shut down for years, or until people just develop immunity to it? What will happen?
International Coronavirus, v4: South Korea in Red Alert as number of infected quadrupled in 4 days
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You do you then, I honestly don’t want you to get sick but more importantly spread it. Let’s face it this shit isn’t walking around on it’s own and travellers are the thing this shit is hitching a ride around the globe on. Will you get it the odds are extremely slim to almost none but if you did the chance you will spread it to at least one person is 100 percent. If those are odds you can live with then I guess we have nothing else to say.
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Those 12 "unknown" ones are alarming.
Stay out of hospitals and churches, I suppose.
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Don't bother
Ignorant and selfish people will prioritize their leisure until it affects themselves. Then they will come crying for ventilators and antivirals taking up resources from the sick and elderly who are the ones who suffer the most (together with the health care worker heroes).
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Well... not like I can do much to be fair.
A few weeks ago I had a little fever. First thing I did was to stay in my house, cancel all social activities and call a doctor to come here. It was just a flu. Could not see what I would have done differently.
Most likely all of us will make it until the vaccine is found and this dies. I think those are the news we should be looking into IMO so I will leave on here:
https://www.sciencenews.org/article/new-coronavirus-vaccine-development-process-accelerating
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No offence but I know he’s a lot less likely to spread this than a person such as yourself.
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Disagree. My country has zero reported cases and everything that happens in hospitals gets leaked instantly. So I'm pretty confident I will not be getting it and spreading it in the next couple of months.
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Can you say the same for all the passengers in the planes you’ll be in? That’s what an airplane really is a United Nations of potentially sick people when a pandemic has been in a few countries. Look I’m not trying to sound hyperbolic I’m just a realist that doesn’t throw caution to the wind for a unnecessary reason such as a holiday.
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Damn, Patient 31's place in Korean history is now as secured as New York's Typhoid Mary.
Actually, she already far exceeded Typhoid Mary in both transmission rates and economic damages I think.
The infested city of Daegu is now declared a "special management zone" with everyone asked not to leave their houses, which I guess is one step below an enforced quarantined zone like Wuhan.
PS: I hope the Western media be mindful to refer to Shincheonji as a Cult that they are.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/ncna1140201
Actually, she already far exceeded Typhoid Mary in both transmission rates and economic damages I think.
The infested city of Daegu is now declared a "special management zone" with everyone asked not to leave their houses, which I guess is one step below an enforced quarantined zone like Wuhan.
PS: I hope the Western media be mindful to refer to Shincheonji as a Cult that they are.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/ncna1140201
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I'm not expecting to find much foreigns tourist tbf. Most people will be local and it's not even peak season.
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Japan Gov't is advising businesses to get their employees to work from home for the time being.
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"The health ministry said Friday it will encourage more companies to promote telework and staggered working hours as part of efforts to prevent further spread of the new coronavirus in Japan.
The ministry will make the request through the Japan Business Federation and other lobbies. It will also ask firms to enable employees with fever or other symptoms to take off work at ease.
"We need the understanding of companies to keep the virus from spreading," Health, Labor and Welfare Minister Katsunobu Kato said at a press conference.
The total number of infections confirmed in Japan topped 730 on Friday with more new cases, including two brothers attending a primary school, reported in Hokkaido, and a preschool boy in Saitama Prefecture."
https://japantoday.com/category/nat...ompanies-to-promote-telework-as-virus-spreads
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"The health ministry said Friday it will encourage more companies to promote telework and staggered working hours as part of efforts to prevent further spread of the new coronavirus in Japan.
The ministry will make the request through the Japan Business Federation and other lobbies. It will also ask firms to enable employees with fever or other symptoms to take off work at ease.
"We need the understanding of companies to keep the virus from spreading," Health, Labor and Welfare Minister Katsunobu Kato said at a press conference.
The total number of infections confirmed in Japan topped 730 on Friday with more new cases, including two brothers attending a primary school, reported in Hokkaido, and a preschool boy in Saitama Prefecture."
https://japantoday.com/category/nat...ompanies-to-promote-telework-as-virus-spreads
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Good move. Singapore has dealt with this extraordinarily well, they should look for inspiration there.
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Straight from the Chinese horse's mouth: negative test does not mean no infection. There are likely many false negatives. Potentially the reason why we see ostensible "reinfections" and people who transmit the disease after "recovering".
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This is common knowledge for some of you, but might be useful for newcomers:
- Only 3 U.S states are capable of conducting Coronavirus tests locally: California, Illinois, and Nebraska.
- The rest of the other 47 states send their collected test samples to the CDC, who conduct the actual test and send back the result.
- Beside providing test kits to all 50 states, the CDC is also sending them to over 30 other countries who aren't capable of doing so themselves (or simply overwhelmed and couldn't make enough).
Right now we are still doing fine, but it's reassuring to know the government is making preparation to have the medical supplies ready for the worst-case scenario of the virus taking a foothold and hit us the way it hits Japan and Korea.
CDC is preparing for the 'likely' spread of coronavirus in the US, officials say
Dr. Nancy Messonnier, director of the CDC's National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases, told reporters Friday that U.S. health officials are preparing for the coronavirus to become a pandemic.
“We’re not seeing community spread here in the United States, yet, but it’s very possible, even likely, that it may eventually happen,” she said. “Our goal continues to be slowing the introduction of the virus into the U.S. This buys us more time to prepare communities for more cases and possibly sustained spread.”
She said the CDC is working with state and local health departments “to ready our public health workforce to respond to local cases.” These measures include collaboration with supply chain partners, hospitals, pharmacies and manufacturers to determine what medical supplies are needed.
She said the “day may come” here where we have to shut down schools and businesses like China has done.
https://amp.usatoday.com/amp/4829278002
- Only 3 U.S states are capable of conducting Coronavirus tests locally: California, Illinois, and Nebraska.
- The rest of the other 47 states send their collected test samples to the CDC, who conduct the actual test and send back the result.
- Beside providing test kits to all 50 states, the CDC is also sending them to over 30 other countries who aren't capable of doing so themselves (or simply overwhelmed and couldn't make enough).
Right now we are still doing fine, but it's reassuring to know the government is making preparation to have the medical supplies ready for the worst-case scenario of the virus taking a foothold and hit us the way it hits Japan and Korea.
CDC is preparing for the 'likely' spread of coronavirus in the US, officials say
Dr. Nancy Messonnier, director of the CDC's National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases, told reporters Friday that U.S. health officials are preparing for the coronavirus to become a pandemic.
“We’re not seeing community spread here in the United States, yet, but it’s very possible, even likely, that it may eventually happen,” she said. “Our goal continues to be slowing the introduction of the virus into the U.S. This buys us more time to prepare communities for more cases and possibly sustained spread.”
She said the CDC is working with state and local health departments “to ready our public health workforce to respond to local cases.” These measures include collaboration with supply chain partners, hospitals, pharmacies and manufacturers to determine what medical supplies are needed.
She said the “day may come” here where we have to shut down schools and businesses like China has done.
https://amp.usatoday.com/amp/4829278002
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