Tallies of the day
China Cases - 11,156, 1,982 new cases confirmed in the past 24 hours
China Deaths - 258
Total cases worldwide 11,288
Good point @CIEE83 - the German employees may not have contracted the virus from their colleague after that colleague returned to work. All we know for sure is that two of those employees did not catch the virus from the original carrier - since those two never met the Chinese woman.
@melvin123 re: touchscreen, I use a stylus and wear gloves, or grab a plastic bag to use to cover the stylus. Always in grocery stores or anywhere that uses a stylus I use bag, or regular gloves.
When using the escalator, I never touch the railings. In elevator I use my knuckles.
And, most importantly, I donāt shake hands during flu season, I fist Bump people, saying ā hey, during flu season I donāt shake hands, donāt take it personally, trying to prevent spreadā and, everyone appreciates this, often saying āgood ideaā !
https://www.health.harvard.edu/blog/fist-bump-better-handshake-cleanliness-201407297305
āShaking hands transmitted 2 times more bacteria than high fives, and 10 times more bacteria than bumping fists. Their results are published in the August 2014 issue of the American Journal of Infection Control.ā
At least it seems to be an arithmetic progression as opposed to geometric.
We are trying to get folks to do elbow bumps in lieu of shaking hands or fist bumps. So far, most folks do not seem offended.
Elbows can be used to press buttons, including those on elevators.
Interesting that the individual who tested negative was retested. Iām sure most patients are NOT retested. Maybe the tests arenāt that sensitive.
And all reports did indicate weād see an increase before it would get better soā¦
I would assume the tests themselves are still under fine tuning. Perhaps our scientist/medical friends here can enlighten us on how that works. The article did say she had a very low viral load.
I posted up thread several days ago that our student is scheduled to study this semester in Taiwan, scheduled to depart the US in a week. We have been wary, but following the news and trying to remain focused on the facts. @doschicos asked a few posts back what we have decidedā¦ Yesterday the college told us they have not made any decision to cancel the program, but we are leaning strongly towards canceling the trip anyway, since the situation still seems to be escalating.
Itās a tough decision Iām sure, @xanthippe, but hopefully your child will have other opportunities to study abroad in the future.
Interesting read about surveillance and the virus in China.
https://abcnews.go.com/Health/wireStory/shunned-people-virus-hit-city-tracked-quarantined-68680740
Article on Chicago couple, efforts to track down people they been in contact with and how the husband has recently traveled to Ohio.
Hmm, when I sneeze, I do so into the inside crook of my elbow. Not sure that an elbow bump with me would be a good thing. One thing that Iāve done in situations that have called for a handshake when Iāve had a cold is do a little half bow as an acknowledgement, and then tell them I have a cold. That seems to go over well.
The Chicago coupleās grandkid is sick. They are testing. What were they thinking!
How? It will have to be the person sneezes a lot spewing germs all over or something similar.
During the SARS epidemic, the dr. who carried the infection from China to HK was a āsuper spreaderā, they found live virus months later on the carpets near his hotel room.
It really doesnāt have to do with sneezing and spewing germs. You can find a lot online, lots of research on it. In lots of ways, I donāt think even the scientists know how exactly but in some cases of diseases they estimate that 20% of infected individuals are responsible for up to 80% of transmissions. Some people seem to shed at higher rates., even when not showing symptoms.
I am not super worried about this Wuhan virus, unless I started to see mortality rates up in healthy/younger population.
I think all the antiseptics used ( most are antibacterial) are more damaging to our health. Using regular soap for hand washing is the best way.
Some of us do have pre-existing illness, especially respiratory. Any new respiratory virus prompts more concern.
It is somewhat ācomfortingā that no deaths to this new virus have occurred outside of China. In that respect it does seem less lethal than SARS and MERs.
Is this going to slow down the Chinese women visiting at the end of their pregnancy with the explicit intent of giving birth to a dual citizenship baby??
Well, this is the rule:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/coronavirus-china-live-updates/20
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What is the source for this? Sounds very unlikely.