China Quarantines Millions After Thousands Exposed To Mutating Virus That Has Killed Many

[Teh One Who Knocks]

By Ryan Saavedra - The Daily Wire




The coronavirus epidemic hit new highs on Monday after communist China said that an additional 108 people died from the virus over the previous 24 hours, bringing the death total to 1,016.

Communist China also claimed that 2,467 more people were infected with the virus over the previous 24 hours, bringing the total number of people infected to 42,638.

Newsweek reported last week that “a study published in the medical journal The Lancet estimated that the number of coronavirus infections could be more than four times higher than the number given by Chinese authorities.”

“It said its ‘baseline scenario’ put the figure in the city of Wuhan at 75,815 as of January 25,” Newsweek continued. “The Lancet report also projected the “epidemics are already growing exponentially in multiple major cities of China with a lag time behind the Wuhan outbreak of about 1–2 weeks.”

The New York Times reported last week that Chinese residents said that the epidemic was significantly worse than what China’s communist government claimed.

“The situation that we’ve seen is much worse than what has been officially reported,” Long Jian, 32, told The New York Times. “Those who can get diagnosed and treated are the lucky ones. In our neighborhood, many who weren’t able to get diagnosed ended up dying at home.”

Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, who goes by his first name, is the director-general of the World Health Organization and warned on Monday that the numbers currently being reported may not accurately reflect how bad the situation is.

“As I told media yesterday, #2019nCoV spread outside #China appears to be slow now, but could accelerate. Containment remains our objective, but all countries must use the window of opportunity created by the containment strategy to prepare for the virus’s possible arrival,” Tedros said. “There’ve been some concerning instances of onward #2019nCoV spread from people with no travel history to 🇨🇳. The detection of a small number of cases may indicate more widespread transmission in other countries; in short, we may only be seeing the tip of the iceberg.”

The biggest impact from the coronavirus could be felt in the global economy since China has become the world’s second most powerful economy and the outbreak has halted production in the communist nation.

“More than two weeks after China locked down a major city to stop a dangerous viral outbreak, one of the world’s largest economies remains largely idle,” The Times reported. “Much of the country was supposed to have reopened by now, but its empty streets, quiet factories and legions of inactive workers suggest that weeks or months could pass before this vital motor of global growth is humming again.”

“The global economy could suffer the longer China stays in low gear,” The Times added. “It has been hampered by both the outbreak and its own containment efforts, a process that has cut off workers from their jobs and factories from their raw materials. The result is a slowdown that is already slashing traffic along the world’s shipping lines and leading to forecasts of a sharp fall in production of everything from cars to smartphones.”

Jörg Wuttke, the president of the European Chamber of Commerce in China, said, “It’s like Europe in medieval times.”

[Teh One Who Knocks]

[DemonGeminiX]

Alright, that's it. Fuck China. Let them deal with it on their own. No more help. No more offers. Let them burn.

[Teh One Who Knocks]

By David Aaro | Fox News




Georgia health officials announced on Tuesday that roughly 200 residents were self-monitoring for the coronavirus after recently returning from China.

None of the residents have shown symptoms of the virus or visited Hubei province -- the epicenter of the outbreak.

Health officials reportedly didn't use the word quarantine, instead, phrasing it that people are being isolated in their homes for 14 days, which is considered the virus's incubation period, according to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. A new paper by Chinese scientists says the period could be as long as 24 days.

Officials have reportedly been calling each traveler, letting them know of the potential symptoms of the virus and the importance of staying at home during the timeframe. Residents under quarantine were given an online tool that notifies them when their isolation time is up, according to the AJC.

There are no reported coronavirus infections in Georgia as of Wednesday and commercial flights have been suspended between Atlanta and China.

Local experts say Georgia’s processes to handle emerging diseases are better than ever, the paper reported.

There are 13 confirmed cases of the coronavirus in six states throughout the U.S.

About 393 people in 24 countries around the globe have been infected with the virus since it was first reported back in December and 99 percent of cases still remain in China. China reported 97 more deaths on Wednesday, increasing the total to 1,113 in mainland China as the country remains closed off from the rest of the world and some 60 million people remain under virtual quarantine.

The new infection cases declined for a second straight day with 2,015 reported in the last 24 hours.

The United States Postal Service (USPS) said on Tuesday it was "experiencing significant difficulties" on sending letters and express mail to China after airlines suspended flights to the country. They said they can no longer accept items to China "until sufficient transport capacity becomes available."

The World Health Organization (WHO) has officially named the disease caused by the virus as COVID-19 to show the disease comes from a new coronavirus discovered in 2019 and to avoid geographic or animal designation.

The Associated Press contributed to the report

[DemonGeminiX]

14 confirmed cases in the United States.

[Godfather]

This quarantined cruise ship just keeps having more confirmed cases. I honestly can't imagine the hell of being on that fucking thing - imagine if you saved a few bucks and went for an interior room with no window too? Fuck that.

I guess it's not viable, these quarantine folks are certainly smarter than me, but if the cases just keep growing why don't they create separate quarantines?! If I was healthy on that cesspool of a ship, I'd be flipping out.

[Teh One Who Knocks]

By Amanda Woods - New York Post




The coronavirus epidemic could grip about two-thirds of the world’s population if the deadly bug is not controlled, a top public health official said — as another expert predicted that cases in China could peak this month and fade away by April.

Professor Gabriel Leung, chair of public health medicine at Hong Kong University, told the Guardian he was examining the implications of the World Health Organization’s Monday warning that cases of coronavirus spreading outside China are the “tip of the iceberg.”

Most experts believe that each person infected can go on to transmit coronavirus to about 2.5 other people — creating an “attack rate” of 60 to 80 percent, Leung told the paper.

“Sixty percent of the world’s population is an awfully big number,” he said.

Even with a general fatality rate as low as 1 percent — a possibility once milder cases are taken into account — there could still be a massive global death toll, he added.

Meanwhile, experts are attempting to map out the likely course of the illness, Leung told the Guardian.

“Is 60 to 80 percent of the world’s population going to get infected?” he said. “Maybe not. Maybe this will come in waves. Maybe the virus is going to attenuate its lethality because it certainly doesn’t help it if it kills everybody in its path, because it will get killed as well.”

Health officials are also attempting to determine whether restrictions put in place in Wuhan — the epicenter of the outbreak — as well as other cities, have made a positive impact.

“Have these massive public health interventions, social distancing, and mobility restrictions worked in China?” Leung asked. “If so, how can we roll them out, or is it not possible?”

Meanwhile, Zhong Nashan, 83, China’s foremost medical adviser on the outbreak, told Reuters that the numbers of new cases are dipping in some parts of the country. The epidemic may peak this month and then plateau, he said.

“I hope this outbreak or this event may be over in something like April,” said Zhong, an epidemiologist best known for his role in combating a surge of severe acute respiratory syndrome cases in 2003.

But World Health Organization chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus warned that the epidemic is far from over.

“With 99 percent of cases in China, this remains very much an emergency for that country, but one that holds a very grave threat for the rest of the world,” Tedros told researchers gathered in Geneva on Tuesday.

A total of 1,017 people have died of coronavirus in China, where a total of 42,708 cases have been reported, the World Health Organization said Tuesday.

Only 319 cases have been confirmed in 24 other countries and territories outside mainland China, the WHO and Chinese health officials said. One person has died in Hong Kong and another in the Philippines.

[Teh One Who Knocks]

By Ben Feuerherd - New York Post




Nearly 15,000 cases of the deadly coronavirus were reported in one Chinese province on Thursday — a jump officials in the country said was linked to how they’re diagnosing new cases, a report said.

The 14,840 new cases in the Hubei Province were recorded because officials stopped using kits to diagnose patients and instead began counting patients who have been screened and identified by doctors, The New York Times reported.

In addition to the new cases, 242 new deaths were also reported in the province on Thursday local time, according to the report.

In the United States on Wednesday, the CDC confirmed a 14th person — who is now under quarantine in California — has been infected by the virus.

The patient, who was not identified, was among a group of people who returned from China on a State Department chartered flight, the agency said.

“At this time there is no indication of person-to-person spread of this virus at the quarantine facility, but CDC will carry out a thorough contact investigation as part of its current response strategy to detect and contain any cases of infection with this virus,” the agency said in a statement.

[Teh One Who Knocks]

A post shared by on Jan 01, 2017 at 12:00pm PDT

[PorkChopSandwiches]

You know China is lying about the numbers

[Teh One Who Knocks]

By David Aaro | Fox News




The number of coronavirus cases diagnosed in China continued to surge Friday after the country reported 5,000 more people diagnosed with the virus while the government reportedly enforced "wartime" measures in additional cities in Hubei province.

The National Health Commission announced 121 more people had died from the virus. The report comes after 14,840 new cases were reported a day earlier thanks to a new approach to testing. The Washington Post reported that the "wartime" approach means citizens in some areas are barred from leaving their homes.

Roughly 60 percent of Friday's cases were determined by the new method, which takes into account a physician's diagnosis before the infected are confirmed in a lab test.

Despite an increase in cases in Hubei province, the World Health Organization (WHO) says they are not rising dramatically outside of China.

"This does not represent a significant change in the trajectory of the outbreak," said Dr. Mike Ryan, the executive director of WHO's health emergency programme.

Paul Hunter, a professor of health protection at the University of East Anglia in the United Kingdom suspects the trend is still downwards.

“It almost certainly does not mean that there has been a resurgence of the epidemic overnight," Hunter said.

China has suffered the most thus far from the virus with 99 percent of the cases. The U.S. has 15 patients including, eight in California, one in Texas, one in Wisconsin, one in Arizona, one in Washington state, one in Massachusetts and two in Illinois. No deaths have been reported in the U.S.

A new case was discovered in Texas from an evacuee who arrived in a State Department chartered flight from Wuhan, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) on Thursday.

CDC officials added there will “likely be additional cases in the coming days and weeks, including among other people recently returned from Wuhan.”

The U.S. had announced that Americans who traveled to China within the last 14 days would be sent to designated airports for enhanced screenings. Foreign nationals who recently went to China would be denied entry in the U.S., except for the immediate family of American citizens and permanent residents.

China's Foreign Ministry had said the U.S. hasn't given the country any substantive help in its fight against the coronavirus outbreak. They added the U.S. was contributing to the international panic surrounding the illness, according to a report by Reuters.

The WHO declared the outbreak a global emergency as it spreads to countries outside of China and the number of infected patients continues to grow.

Countries around the globe have increased travel restrictions to the infected mainland China and Hubei province — with the U.S. State Department increasing its advisory to level 4: "Do Not Travel."

The CDC has advised travelers to avoid all nonessential travel to the country.

Coronavirus has now killed almost twice the amount of people in China than were sickened during the SARS outbreak in the early 2000s. The SARS outbreak had killed 349 people in mainland China back in 2002 and 2003 -- with 744 deaths and 8,096 infections globally, according to the CDC.

Here are the latest figures.

How many have been infected or have died?

The virus has claimed the lives of 1,383 people and infected 64,366 around the globe. Only three people have died outside of China.

Japan announced its first coronavirus death on Thursday. The 80-year-old woman had been in the hospital near Toyko since Feb. 1 after being diagnosed with pneumonia. The news occurred hours after Japan confirmed 44 more infected on the Diamond Princess cruise ship quarantined outside Toyko.

The other deaths were in Hong Kong and the Philippines.

The WHO said the number of cases will keep growing as tests are pending on thousands of suspected cases.

[Teh One Who Knocks]

[lost in melb.]

I don't see sound and video correlating in that clip. However, I'm sure horrible things are happening

[RBP]

I don't see sound and video correlating in that clip. However, I'm sure horrible things are happening

It went viral. But the Chinese government is blocking the information. So riddle me this... am I talking about the video or Coronavirus?

[Teh One Who Knocks]

I don't see sound and video correlating in that clip. However, I'm sure horrible things are happening

It went viral. But the Chinese government is blocking the information. So riddle me this... am I talking about the video or Coronavirus?

That James Wood tweet had the video in it, linked from another Twitter account. Now the video is gone and the Twitter account has been deleted.