Pretty hyperbolic, but point taken.
This is not apples to apples, though. I don’t see a travel ban of this type working here.
“…an entire medical team of 14-15 were infected while operating on an infected patient.”
If this is the case, shouldn’t they be able to get some idea of the incubation period?
A boy in our town (Metro NYC) has it. He returned here from China two weeks ago. DH is an infectious disease doctor who says there are still many unknowns.
Yes, @3SailAway, I get the sense that since the 1st case was discovered about a month ago, there are more unknowns than knowns about this condition.
Haven’t heard in news that metro NY or Tx had a case (or suspected case), only state of WA with one confirmed case. I guess we will have of additional cases over time.
“Official” death toll up to 25.
Possible case in NJ.
The NJ woman was found NOT to have the virus. No word about TX test result or any NY case.
"On the eve of the Lunar New Year, transportation was shut down Friday in at least 10 cities with a total of about 33 million people. The cities are Wuhan, where the illness has been concentrated, and nine of its neighbors in central China’s Hubei province.
The Wuhan government said Friday it was building a designated hospital with space for 1,000 beds in the style of a facility that Beijing constructed during the SARS epidemic. The hospital will be erected on a 25,000 square-meter lot and is slated for completion Feb. 3, municipal authorities said."
From elsewhere:
“Chinese authorities had also canceled all major public events in the capital Beijing indefinitely, including the massive “temple fairs” that normally stand out among New Year celebrations. Beijing’s famed Forbidden City and Disneyland in the business hub of Shanghai also said they would be closed from Saturday.”
"Amid the government criticism, questions are also being raised about China’s ability to effectively screen for the disease. Details of those who have died after contracting the virus, which now includes someone as young as 36 years old, showed that several didn’t have a fever, potentially complicating global efforts to check for infected travelers as they arrive at airports and other travel hubs.
The lack of fever as a symptom means that temperature screening – the main method now being deployed at airports and transport hubs to control the outbreak – would fail to pick up on at least some cases.
“The whole airport screening exercise is to simply give people comfort that there is some government action to protect the public,” said Ramanan Laxminarayan, director of the Center for Disease Dynamics, Economics & Policy in Washington, D.C. “It has no real public health utility in the case of coronaviruses. What really matters is surveillance, infection control and isolation.”"
The interactive map @Mwfan1921 posted in post #55 is so good I’m going to post it again. It seems to be updated every 12 hours and shows suspected cases as well as confirmed. Today it shows the death toll at 26 and the suspected case on the Texas/Mexico border as confirmed not to be the Coronavirus (the dot has disappeared.) The spread of cases across China is frightening. I don’t think there’s any way they’ll be able to fully contain it, particularly with the possibility of a relatively long incubation period.
https://gisanddata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/opsdashboard/index.html#/bda7594740fd40299423467b48e9ecf6
It looks like it is contagious well before any symptom shows up. The numbers are going up fast, now over 800.
Second US case confirmed, in Chicago
https://wgntv.com/2020/01/24/1st-case-of-coronavirus-confirmed-in-chicago-cdc-says/
O’hare started screening all passengers from China yesterday.
Real time tracking from Johns Hopkins: https://gisanddata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/opsdashboard/index.html#/bda7594740fd40299423467b48e9ecf6
Check out the coverage in the Daily Mail. It’s the rag of all rags, but offers an invaluable insight into how tabloids work and how hysteria is fanned. They have videos supposedly of abandoned bodies and people dropping in the streets. Yikes.
France has two confirmed cases. The patients are all being kept isolated and no deaths outside of China, so thus far, much milder than the flu which IS killing folks everywhere. Also seems less lethal than SARS and MERS, so far.
Another suspected case in Texas. Says symptoms are very mild.
Purdue just sent a letter to student and families basically saying that anyone who goes to the health clinic with a fever and has travelled to China in the last 2 weeks will be quarantined as a precaution. Wondering if any other colleges are notifying students/family?
Percentage-wise? Probably not.
Who’s stocking up on masks?
If necessary, we are all set because my wife is a medical provider. But I told her to stock up for her practice, because if there is a run, she won’t be able to get them either.
Death toll bumped up to 41.
For me, more like food and water (and a full tank of whatever you heat your house with) as I’ll just hibernate and quarantine myself.
So, are doctors being given any directives or communiques from the federal, state or county level yet, @hebegebe?
I was talking to a couple retired physicians I know and they were talking about the SARS period and the lack of resources that would have been on hand. The instructions given were to have as many as a dozen people sharing a respirator.