Daily Mail: Coronavirus 'could be 1,000 times more infectious than SARS, scientists warn as they discover it plagues the body the same way as HIV and Ebola
* Coronavirus binds to human body cells similar to aggressive infectious diseases
* Makes it '100 to 1,000 times' more efficient at infecting than SARS, study found
* Coronavirus has already struck down 82,000 victims and killed almost 3,000
The coronavirus could be up to 1,000 times more infectious than SARS because it plagues the body in the same way as HIV and Ebola, scientists warn.
Experts initially presumed the spread of COVID-19 would follow the same trajectory as the SARS outbreak in 2002/3, because the viruses are almost identical genetically.
But they have discovered the way it binds to cells in the human body is akin to far more aggressive diseases like HIV and Ebola.
This makes it '100 to 1,000 times' more efficient at infecting people than SARS, according to researchers from Nankai University in Tianjin, northern China.
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Covid-19 Medical News -- News Updates February 28, 2020
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"But it wasn't until six months later, October, that then-President Obama declared a public health emergency on what was already a pandemic. By that time, the disease had infected millions of Americans and more than 1,000 people had died in the U.S.
ReplyDeleteCNN reported at the time:
Since the H1N1 flu pandemic began in April, millions of people in the United States have been infected, at least 20,000 have been hospitalized and more than 1,000 have died, said Dr. Thomas Frieden, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention."
So Obama took 6 months, Trump took 1 month and that means
'Orange Man bad!'
If liberals did not have double standards, they would have no standards at all.
John Ringo has a great book on the pandemic subject: The Last Centurion. I think I might reread it for the third or fourth tine.
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anon--
ReplyDeletestop your bullshit
Trump cut budget fort DC
Trump fired people in Health
Trump bungled message to the people on air
Trump put Pence, a know nothing in charge
and so you revert to Obama?
get real, Trump has now said this is nothing!
The markets say otherwise
Speaking of bullshit squirrel you are the king of it. Come on spread some more.
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ReplyDeleteTrump says criticism of coronavirus response is 'new Democrat hoax'
Rachel Sharp
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President Donald Trump has called criticism of the White House response to the coronavirus outbreak a 'new Democrat hoax' as a 15-year-old student became the third confirmed 'unknown origin' case in the United States in 24 hours.
The high school student in Washington state was the fourth 'unknown origin' case of the virus reported in the U.S. and hadn't recently traveled or been in contact with another known case.
Trump told a rally in North Charleston, South Carolina, that Democrats want him to fail and argued that steps he has taken so far have kept cases to a minimum and prevented virus deaths in the U.S.
In response to the hysteria he said: 'A virus that starts in China, bleeds its way into various countries all around the world, doesn't spread widely at all in the United States because of the early actions that myself and my administration took, against a lot of other wishes, and the Democrats' single talking point, and you see it, is that it's Donald Trump's fault.'
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President Trump told a rally in North Charleston, South Carolina, that Democrats want him to fail and argued that steps he has taken so far have kept cases to a minimum and prevented virus deaths in the U.S.
The President acknowledged that the virus could lead to deaths in the U.S., but told the Coliseum and Performing Arts Center, 'We're totally prepared.'
So far more than 60 cases have been identified in the U.S. with 84,128 cases of the virus around the world.
Shortly before Trump began to speak, health officials confirmed a second case of coronavirus in the U.S. in a person who didn't travel internationally or have close contact with anyone who had the virus. However the President did not mention the news.
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BREAKING: Trump has called off a meeting with Asian leaders next month in Vegas because coronavirus.
I guess it's just a #hoax for Trump when American lives are at stake, but a serious threat when it's his own.
The only real hoax is Trump and his deluded cult.
#SaturdayThoughts
ReplyDeleteBut viruses care little about national borders. And for the Trump administration, which has spent years trying to squeeze the Iranian government with an onerous suite of sanctions, a worsening outbreak in Iran could prompt difficult questions about how — and how much — to help a nation surrounded by American allies and troops.
The administration has already started taking tentative first steps. On Friday, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo announced that the U.S. had made a formal offer of assistance to the Iranian people via Switzerland, which serves as an intermediary between the two countries. It was unclear what form of assistance that would take, or whether Iran would accept it. The statement came a day after the Treasury Department formalized a trade channel via Switzerland that allows Swiss firms to send humanitarian supplies more readily to Iran, though a Treasury spokeswoman said it was not in specific response to the coronavirus.
But bigger decisions loom if the situation grows more dire and pressure grows for the U.S. to work more closely with Iran.
“Washington should be providing face masks, sanitizing gels, virus test kits and other products as necessary,” said Behnam Ben Taleblu, a senior fellow at the hawkish Foundation for Defense of Democracies. “U.S. government-funded broadcasters should be splicing in critical public health information about how to prevent and contain the spread of this fast-metastasizing virus.”
In China, where the coronavirus emerged and has hit hardest, Trump has maintained top-level relationships while managing a delicate balance of trade war brinkmanship and long-term maneuvering. At home, his administration is already mobilizing a government-wide effort to gird against a potential outbreak.
But in Iran, which the Trump administration has successfully isolated from much of the world since pulling out of the Iran nuclear deal, the president has very limited options to engage.
It’s been less than two months since the U.S. killed top Iranian general Qassem Soleimani and the nations stood on the brink of outright war. The coronavirus has prompted the U.S. to restrict travel for the recent surge of troops it sent to the region.
“President Trump essentially has sanctioned America out of influence inside Iran,” said Brian Katulis, a senior fellow at the left-leaning Center for American Progress.
The impact of those sanctions also hovers over Iran. They have damaged Iran’s relatively strong health care infrastructure, causing some shortages and skyrocketing medical prices.
Though they include exemptions for humanitarian goods, many experts said European banks have been unwilling to finance even those transactions for fear of running afoul of sanctions.
OMG the quiet and reserved James called out squirrel. It must be bad. Squirrel won't listen. I do not see the point of talking to squirrel. I think my time would be better spent learning and reading backward R's.
ReplyDeleteFor me to be called " quiet and reserved" is a first. Heh
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ReplyDeleteTrump rallies his base to treat coronavirus as a ‘hoax’ — NORTH CHARLESTON, S.C. — President Donald Trump on Friday night tried to cast the global outbreak of the coronavirus as a liberal conspiracy intended to undermine his first term, lumping it alongside impeachment and the Mueller investigation.
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Trump says the coronavirus is the Democrats' ‘new hoax’ — President Trump says that Democrats are using the virulent coronavirus as a “hoax” to damage him and his administration. — “The Democrats are politicizing the coronavirus,” he said from a campaign rally in North Charleston, South Carolina.
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Trump officials discuss tax cuts, other emergency measures in hopes of tackling coronavirus fallout — The proposals would do little to stop the virus's spread, but would aim to arrest economic fears — Trump administration officials are holding preliminary conversations about economic responses …
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Lauren Egan / NBC News:
You want people to take this seriously?
Delete"This is their new hoax," he said, apparently referring to Democrats' criticism of the official coronavirus response.
ReplyDeleteTrump, who opened the rally by declaring the "fake news just doesn't get it," accused the press of being "in hysteria mode" in its coverage of the virus.
The president's criticisms at Friday's rally reflected a broader White House effort to blame Democrats and the news media for some of the fallout of the virus.
Acting chief of staff Mick Mulvaney earlier Friday claimed the press was seeking to use the virus to harm Trump, while Donald Trump Jr. claimed on Fox News that Democrats are hoping coronavirus "kills millions of people" so it ends the president's "streak of winning."
That commentary comes a day after Vice President Pence, who is leading the administration's response efforts, urged lawmakers to put politics aside in addressing the coronavirus. Lawmakers on Capitol Hill are also in the middle of bipartisan negotiations to secure supplemental funding to combat the virus.
Trump on Friday pointed to his weeks-old decision to curb travel from certain infected areas and repeatedly cited the fact that no Americans have died of the coronavirus, though new cases are being reported in the country and the World Health Organization (WHO) earlier in the day raised its risk assessment of the disease to "very high."
"We have to take it very, very seriously," he said. "We are preparing for the worst."
Borders help. It is why the great merchant trading cities whose merchants traveled far and wide instituted the quarantine. If is is derived from the Italian word for 40 days.
ReplyDeleteAs a tourist to Venice, who is going beyond taking pretty pictures of Saint Mark's Square, and bragging rites of having visited it, a person could visit the Poveglia, quarantine island, of Venice and do a deep dive into history & epidemiology.
Lots of quarantine island around the world.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poveglia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quarantine_Island
Let's look at germs not respecting borders. Borders can slow germs spread, it might make all the difference in the world in terms of cumulative death toll.
Consider an analogy. It is the Battle of the Bulge. You're a small team of engineers facing a German Panzer juggernaut of a division of panzers. Certainly you cannot win! So why try?
But your duty bound to try. You blow a bridge. The German cross the river anyway with bridging equipment or find a ford or bridge a few miles up or down stream. Fruitless, right?
But now you have delayed the might Wermacht and dislocated their timetable, They are fucked!
Fun Fact: Venice was a town set up to have better borders than Aquileia. You have never heard of Aquileia you say. It is because Attila sacked it. Refugees went to Venice which had better borders, water.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sack_of_Aquileia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venice
Borders are important even when they are not 100%.
Dear Heart,
ReplyDeleteYou think border are useless, get rid of your useless borders.
It is called the skin.
Borders do not work right? So skin must not work either.
While you are at get rid of all the cell walls of all your cells.
Cell walls are borders for cells. Evil, No?
Afterwards as spreading mass of protoplasm, get back to us on how that went. If you can.
PS: Please have all the mendacious, selfish liberal idiots, who hold up No borders signs.
Sincerely, The Cardiologist
REMEMBER SCIENCE!
Anon 10:04 aka Squirrel
ReplyDeleteI say this reply to a critic of sanctions.
Matthew Petti - By your headline, you are implying that no rogue nations should ever be sanctioned due to unforseen circumstances. So what is your next juicy write-up? The sanctions on North Korea?
The logical end result of Mathew Petty or squirrelly thinking is that no country can ever be sanctioned.
Not Iran
Not North Korea
Not the USSR
Not Saudi Arabia
Not Hitler's Germany
Not Imperial Japan
Squirrel stick to pictures of Naked women from Russia that may have embedded malware.
ReplyDeleteWatch out for photos containing malware
Fredos of the world doing a public service for world, but for whom?
Horny guys?
The Russians?
Why are they giving away the pictures for free?
Is anything ever free?
Is Fredo a modern day Mary Mallon?
Or will free pix means that the computer gets hacked and bank accounts and retirement account get drained?
Derrr Fredo for President!
the spreading coronavirus pandemic, which has claimed more than 3,000 lives and is now starting to reach the United States, is not the sort of easy culture-war sport that Trump can deride ad infinitum on Twitter. Trump’s unhinged press conference on the coronavirus threat earlier this week traded in blatant falsehoods about the pandemic’s outbreak and likely future course—asserting without evidence that it would abate with warmer weather and that the United States is ideally prepared to confront the threat, after Trump himself has largely gutted the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s chain of command for such threats.
ReplyDeleteEven though that performance might seem like “typical Trump, spreading disinformation and spin like so much ink from a startled squid,” Spaeth writes, there’s also an all-too-plain whiff of panicked desperation in this latest fusillade of presidential lies—“a recognition on Trump’s part, through the apocalyptic swirl of his own paranoia, that the coronavirus represents a very real threat to his presidency.”
"Virus is Dem hoax, sayeth Trump"
ReplyDeleteSAN ANTONIO – The number of evacuees infected with the novel coronavirus climbed to 11 on Friday, per the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
The CDC reports those infected with the coronavirus include nine from the Diamond Princess cruise ship, one from the Wuhan group of quarantined passengers and one that was transferred from the Marine Corps Air Station Miramar in San Diego, Calif.
San Antonio city officials maintain that the risk of the virus spreading to the general public is still low.
A total of 145 people remain under quarantine orders in San Antonio after two planes — one from Wuhan and one from Tokyo — arrived at Joint Base San Antonio Lackland. Ninety people from the Wuhan plane were released after clearing quarantine without contracting the virus, Nancy Knight, of the CDC, said at a news conference Thursday in Austin that Gov. Greg Abbott chaired.
Anon 10:33 Aka idiot
ReplyDeleteMy spouse just flew to Socal. They went to the Getty Museum and the The Museum of Contemporary Art.
I felt good about them going. I was not worried about the COVID 19 virus. Unlike you I am not a partisan fear mongering hack. I know far more science than you.
I read where the genetics of a disease responded to the health care environment in a manner similar to a supply demand curve. If you understand how to maximize profits given a supply curve and a demand curve, then you understand diseases. I shit you naught.
That is the germ wants to maximize its progeny. In a healthy environment (good health care system), the germ has to evolve to become less virulent in order to continue to propagate.
https://www.cdc.gov/csels/dsepd/ss1978/lesson3/section3.html
Here are the fatality rates of coronavirus for every age bracket — and they vary widely
PS: I also note that the press is buying ink by the barrel, because they want to maximize profits and they are not all are entirely scrupulous.
You appear that way to this reader on this blog.
ReplyDeleteI have an uncle, who, if he was talking, he would quit talking, if you interrupted him. He would not quit talking for a few minutes, but for the rest of the conversation. The conversation could last another hour or two among a group of 5 or more people, but he would not talk again.
ReplyDeleteThe guy would is a very good mason and does a lot of charity work. He knows quite a bit. The lesson I have learned is that if you are overbearing or inconsiderate, some people will stop conversing and you will never know what they know and they could be very wise.
I've earned other lessons as well and just cannot abide by certain people.