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Coronavirus Live Updates: Death Toll Reaches 56 as U.S. Finds Third Case
Hundreds of medical personnel are being deployed to Wuhan, China, and affected areas to treat the ill and stem the outbreak.
By The New York Times
RIGHT NOWA third infection has been confirmed in the United States, in Orange County, Calif., and Ivory Coast announced a suspected case.
Here’s what you need to know:
The death toll rises to 56, with one fatality in Shanghai.
Virus is ‘much more contagious’ than originally thought.
A third U.S. case is confirmed in California.
China halts the trade in wildlife across the country.
Americans in Wuhan are being evacuated to San Francisco.
Global concern grows as the outbreak spreads.
Public health experts warn against mass anxiety.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/26/world/china-coronavirus.html
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Coronavirus Live Updates: Death Toll Reaches 56 as U.S. Finds Third Case (Original Post)
Zolorp
Jan 2020
OP
Reminder: Trump let funding for the CDC program to fight global epidemics run out
DesertRat
Jan 2020
#12
Iliyah
(25,111 posts)1. Oh my .. . . .
Dennis Donovan
(18,770 posts)2. Kick - thank you for posting this
Moostache
(9,895 posts)3. I have no faith in our government to handle this level of crisis...
There is no way in hell that Trump and his moron brigade can even understand this, let alone respond to it in a proper way...
virgogal
(10,178 posts)9. What do you want them to do....appoint a corona virus czar?
Cornell Engineer
(80 posts)15. ring...ring
There is no way in hell that Trump and his moron brigade can even understand this, let alone respond to it in a proper way...
President Quid-Pro-Quo: "Yeah?"
Acting CDC Director: "Hello, Mr. President? This is Redfield over at the CDC. Sir, we are in BIG trouble here...the coronavirus is spreading like crazy and since you took millions of dollars from our budget to keep migrant kids in cages we now have insufficient funds to adequately track the disease and initiate a crash program to come up with a vaccine. Sir, you MUST provide us with emergency funding right now in order to help us get a handle on this before millions of people around the world and many Americans here at home die."
President Quid-Pro-Quo: "Yes, of course...certainly I will do all that I can. But first I need you to do me a favor though..."
President Quid-Pro-Quo: "Yeah?"
Acting CDC Director: "Hello, Mr. President? This is Redfield over at the CDC. Sir, we are in BIG trouble here...the coronavirus is spreading like crazy and since you took millions of dollars from our budget to keep migrant kids in cages we now have insufficient funds to adequately track the disease and initiate a crash program to come up with a vaccine. Sir, you MUST provide us with emergency funding right now in order to help us get a handle on this before millions of people around the world and many Americans here at home die."
President Quid-Pro-Quo: "Yes, of course...certainly I will do all that I can. But first I need you to do me a favor though..."
GeorgeGist
(25,321 posts)4. The third case found in US ...
has nothing to do with the death toll reaching 56.
Sloppy editing or deliberate fear mongering? You decide.
LisaL
(44,973 posts)5. Not sure what your point is here? Only those who died in the US should count?
Zolorp
(1,115 posts)6. The headine didn't say that it does.
So I don't get what your problem is. All it said was AS the death toll raises to 56, a third case was found in the US. The first in no way infers it was due to the second.
Sloppy reading or deliberate misreading? You decide.
UCmeNdc
(9,600 posts)7. Coronavirus 'spreads before symptoms appear' problem is huge.
Zolorp
(1,115 posts)8. After hearing about this yesterday, my wife decided to watch Contagion again.
Hopefully it doesn't go that way.
Response to Zolorp (Reply #8)
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Hortensis
(58,785 posts)11. Clinical features of 2019-nCoV infection from THE LANCET:
2019-nCoV is, of course, the specific new coronavirus strain in the news. This study was of people with suspected disease admitted to hospital. Death rate in this group (15%) was far higher than reported in the whole (2.7%) so far, but it gives an idea of the symptoms and how the body can be affected. The vast majority throw it off and get over it, of course.
A recent cluster of pneumonia cases in Wuhan, China, was caused by a novel betacoronavirus, the 2019 novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV). We report the epidemiological, clinical, laboratory, and radiological characteristics and treatment and clinical outcomes of these patients.
Methods
All patients with suspected 2019-nCoV were admitted to a designated hospital in Wuhan. We prospectively collected and analysed data on patients with laboratory-confirmed 2019-nCoV infection by real-time RT-PCR and next-generation sequencing. .... Outcomes were also compared between patients who had been admitted to the intensive care unit (ICU) and those who had not.
Findings
By Jan 2, 2020, 41 admitted hospital patients had been identified as having laboratory-confirmed 2019-nCoV infection. Most of the infected patients were men (30 [73%] of 41); less than half had underlying diseases (13 [32%]), including diabetes (eight [20%]), hypertension (six [15%]), and cardiovascular disease (six [15%]). Median age was 49·0 years (IQR 41·0–58·0). ...
Common symptoms at onset of illness were fever (40 [98%] of 41 patients), cough (31 [76%]), and myalgia or fatigue (18 [44%]); less common symptoms were sputum production (11 [28%] of 39), headache (three [8%] of 38), haemoptysis (two [5%] of 39), and diarrhoea (one [3%] of 38).
Dyspnoea developed in 22 (55%) of 40 patients (median time from illness onset to dyspnoea 8·0 days [IQR 5·0–13·0]). 26 (63%) of 41 patients had lymphopenia. All 41 patients had pneumonia with abnormal findings on chest CT. Complications included acute respiratory distress syndrome (12 [29%]), RNAaemia (six [15%]), acute cardiac injury (five [12%]) and secondary infection (four [10%]). 13 (32%) patients were admitted to an ICU and six (15%) died. ...
Interpretation
The 2019-nCoV infection caused clusters of severe respiratory illness similar to severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus and was associated with ICU admission and high mortality. Major gaps in our knowledge of the origin, epidemiology, duration of human transmission, and clinical spectrum of disease need fulfillment by future studies.
Methods
All patients with suspected 2019-nCoV were admitted to a designated hospital in Wuhan. We prospectively collected and analysed data on patients with laboratory-confirmed 2019-nCoV infection by real-time RT-PCR and next-generation sequencing. .... Outcomes were also compared between patients who had been admitted to the intensive care unit (ICU) and those who had not.
Findings
By Jan 2, 2020, 41 admitted hospital patients had been identified as having laboratory-confirmed 2019-nCoV infection. Most of the infected patients were men (30 [73%] of 41); less than half had underlying diseases (13 [32%]), including diabetes (eight [20%]), hypertension (six [15%]), and cardiovascular disease (six [15%]). Median age was 49·0 years (IQR 41·0–58·0). ...
Common symptoms at onset of illness were fever (40 [98%] of 41 patients), cough (31 [76%]), and myalgia or fatigue (18 [44%]); less common symptoms were sputum production (11 [28%] of 39), headache (three [8%] of 38), haemoptysis (two [5%] of 39), and diarrhoea (one [3%] of 38).
Dyspnoea developed in 22 (55%) of 40 patients (median time from illness onset to dyspnoea 8·0 days [IQR 5·0–13·0]). 26 (63%) of 41 patients had lymphopenia. All 41 patients had pneumonia with abnormal findings on chest CT. Complications included acute respiratory distress syndrome (12 [29%]), RNAaemia (six [15%]), acute cardiac injury (five [12%]) and secondary infection (four [10%]). 13 (32%) patients were admitted to an ICU and six (15%) died. ...
Interpretation
The 2019-nCoV infection caused clusters of severe respiratory illness similar to severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus and was associated with ICU admission and high mortality. Major gaps in our knowledge of the origin, epidemiology, duration of human transmission, and clinical spectrum of disease need fulfillment by future studies.
DesertRat
(27,995 posts)12. Reminder: Trump let funding for the CDC program to fight global epidemics run out
Cornell Engineer
(80 posts)14. CDC Funding Cuts
Who the hell needs research money for developing new vaccines to prevent global epidemics???
We got us a few miles of brand new wall to stop all them nasty germs and fatal viruses.
Cornell Engineer
(80 posts)13. Meet the Acting Director of the CDC...
https://www.vox.com/2018/3/22/17150322/robert-redfield-cdc-director-trump
One of the researchers who first reported Redfield’s misuse of data has been speaking out publicly after news of Redfield’s appointment emerged, Kaiser Health News reported. “Either he was egregiously sloppy with data or it was fabricated,” said former Air Force Lt. Col. Craig Hendrix, who is now based at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. “It was somewhere on that spectrum, both of which were serious and raised questions about his trustworthiness.”
https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2018/03/trumps-pick-for-cdc-director-is-experienced-but-controversial/556202/
But Redfield has not escaped the controversy that has dogged other Trump-era appointees. In the mid-1990s, Redfield oversaw a clinical trial of an experimental HIV vaccine at the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research. He was accused of manipulating data from the trial, “sloppy or, possibly, deceptive” data analysis, and overstating results in a number of talks and publications. After an investigation, the military cleared Redfield of misconduct charges, but as Jon Cohen reported for Science at the time, the Army never provided an explanation of how it reached its conclusions.
Sounds like the perfect guy to be in charge of heading off a potential global epidemic. If he can't stop possibly millions of Americans from dying in a 1918-like flu pandemic at least we can hope he'll be able to fudge the numbers so that it doesn't look so bad.
https://www.marketwatch.com/story/scientist-who-simulated-the-global-impact-of-a-coronavirus-outbreak-says-the-cats-already-out-of-the-bag-and-chinas-efforts-to-contain-the-disease-unlikely-to-be-effective-2020-01-24
Toner, an M.D. and researcher at the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security, took part in a simulation, undertaken in partnership with the World Economic Forum and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, that posited such a disease could kill 65 million people within 18 months under the right circumstances.
Sleep well, peeps.
One of the researchers who first reported Redfield’s misuse of data has been speaking out publicly after news of Redfield’s appointment emerged, Kaiser Health News reported. “Either he was egregiously sloppy with data or it was fabricated,” said former Air Force Lt. Col. Craig Hendrix, who is now based at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. “It was somewhere on that spectrum, both of which were serious and raised questions about his trustworthiness.”
https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2018/03/trumps-pick-for-cdc-director-is-experienced-but-controversial/556202/
But Redfield has not escaped the controversy that has dogged other Trump-era appointees. In the mid-1990s, Redfield oversaw a clinical trial of an experimental HIV vaccine at the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research. He was accused of manipulating data from the trial, “sloppy or, possibly, deceptive” data analysis, and overstating results in a number of talks and publications. After an investigation, the military cleared Redfield of misconduct charges, but as Jon Cohen reported for Science at the time, the Army never provided an explanation of how it reached its conclusions.
Sounds like the perfect guy to be in charge of heading off a potential global epidemic. If he can't stop possibly millions of Americans from dying in a 1918-like flu pandemic at least we can hope he'll be able to fudge the numbers so that it doesn't look so bad.
https://www.marketwatch.com/story/scientist-who-simulated-the-global-impact-of-a-coronavirus-outbreak-says-the-cats-already-out-of-the-bag-and-chinas-efforts-to-contain-the-disease-unlikely-to-be-effective-2020-01-24
Toner, an M.D. and researcher at the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security, took part in a simulation, undertaken in partnership with the World Economic Forum and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, that posited such a disease could kill 65 million people within 18 months under the right circumstances.
Sleep well, peeps.
