Tuesday, January 28, 2020

Are We On The Verge Of A Global Epidemic?

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Ted Regencia, Al Jazeera: Could China's coronavirus outbreak become a global epidemic?

WHO chief 'confident' of Beijing's response as Singapore expert says number of cases abroad better gauge of contagion.

Public health experts in Hong Kong on Monday raised alarms that there could be thousands of more carriers of a deadly new coronavirus in China and called for the enforcement of "draconian" travel curbs to prevent a global epidemic.

As of Tuesday, China had confirmed 106 deaths, including the first death in the capital, Beijing. It also reported at least 4,515 infections, with 1,771 new confirmed cases. Several other countries - including Germany, France, South Korea, Japan, Nepal, Thailand, Taiwan, Australia, the United States, Singapore and Vietnam - have also confirmed cases.

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WNU Editor: The coming weeks are going to be crucial. But the trend lines are not positive.

Update: John Hopkins is updating this outbreak in real time (click here).

7 comments:

  1. Reminds me of the ending of 2011's Planet of the Apes.

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  2. Once most of the human race is dead, they shall be replaced by people from Liverpool who can be trained to sweep the streets & other menial tasks if successfully weaned off drugs!!!

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    1. Are you saying, only the Scousers are going to survive?

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  3. Way overblown. People crying “Wolf!” once again.

    https://www.dailywire.com/news/walsh-the-media-wants-you-to-panic-over-the-coronavirus-dont-fall-for-it-here-are-the-real-facts

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  4. because the daily wire knows what the experts do not yet know, says Anon, who at least is wise enough not to reveal his name to reveal how dumb he is

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  5. “ The coronavirus mortality rate is a bit above the seasonal flu rate in the U.S., but not hugely so.”

    https://reason.com/2020/01/27/how-worried-should-you-be-about-the-wuhan-coronavirus/

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  6. above flu rate in mortality in US or in the world so far?

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