Official Coronavirus Thread - Up to the minute Coronavirus map and count.

[toobfreak]

THE OFFICIAL PUBLIC RECORD OF NOTABLE COVID-19 FATALITIES SO FAR:

IRAN

Nasser Shabani, Iranian brigadier general (Revolutionary Guard), COVID-19.
Mohammad-Reza Rahchamani, 67, Iranian physician and politician, MP (1984–2000), COVID-19.
Fatemeh Rahbar, 56, Iranian politician, MP (2004–2016), COVID-19.
Hossein Sheikholeslam, 67, Iranian politician, MP (2004–2008) and Ambassador to Syria (1998–2003), COVID-19.
Mohammad Haj Abolghasemi, 71, Iranian military commander (Basij), COVID-19.
Mohammad Mirmohammadi, 70, Iranian politician, member of the Expediency Discernment Council (since 2012), COVID-19.
Hadi Khosroshahi, 81, Iranian cleric and diplomat, COVID-19.


CHINA

Li Wenliang, 33, Chinese ophthalmologist and whistleblower, COVID-19.
Hong Ling, 54, Chinese biochemist, COVID-19.
Yang Xiaobo, 57, Chinese engineer, politician and business executive, mayor of Huangshi (2009–2014), COVID-19.


ITALY

Vittorio Gregotti, 92, Italian architect, COVID-19.
Giovanni Battista Rabino, 88, Italian politician, MP (1983–1994), COVID-19.
Italo De Zan, 94, Italian racing cyclist, COVID-19.


SOUTH KOREA

Lee Cha-su, 62, South Korean politician and activist, COVID-19.


ARGENTINA

Marcelo Peralta, 59, Argentine saxophonist, COVID-19.

 

[Flopper]

Coronavirus: Facts vs. Panic

That was the situation a few weeks go. Today there 2499 cases in the US and only about 60 of them came from that Washington nursing home. Correction, the number just went to 2836.

This article explains what the President and his advisors are tryiung to acheive by 'flattening the curve, and the history of the CDC chart.

The story behind ‘flatten the curve,’ the defining chart of the coronavirus

It's a little late to be closing the stable door. The horses bolted weeks ago.

A little over two weeks ago there were only a few cases both confined to small areas in Washington and California. The CDC and the World Health Organization were screaming the need for immediate action but the president was too busy with his South Carolina rally attacking democrats and the media for exaggerating the situation with something so outlandish as an epidemic. He downplayed the virus and called it the flu. In the days following, he ignored the pleas for test kits and joked about the virus in tweets. And after the virus was spreading, he lied to the nation about the availability of test kits, saying that anybody can get a test. First HHS, said that was not so, that testing required a doctor's order. The CDC then admitted that they had a protocol that limited testing to only those with confirmed exposure to the virus and with symptoms. Later Trump's NIH adviser testified before congress that there were not enough test kits.

Finally after the virus had spread to over half the states, the president decides it's time for action. His lack of action in those first critical weeks will be responsible for many thousands more cases and hundreds if not thousands of deaths.

 

[Flopper]

Another gem from @AOC

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How someone healthy can spread virus they don't have?

I think that maybe she wanted to say "perhaps you think you're healthy but the virus could be inside you so you can infect others..."

Symptoms usually start about 4 or 5 days after exposure but that is just an average. It can longer or shorter periods. Some people never show symptoms. Keep in mind that other problems a person may have may mask symptoms.

In the early days of the virus it was assumed a person had to be symptomatic to spread the virus. In fact, that is what many of the nations top healthcare professionals had been saying. However, recent evidence has medical researchers questing this assumption. This is why social distancing is so important. There may be no signs that a person close to you is carrying the virus.

 

[Ame®icano]

Official corona virus infected count in North Korea today:

8:05 AM - 1
8:13 AM - 0
8:48 AM - 1
9:00 AM - 0
9:23 AM - 1
9:29 AM - 0

 

[Unkotare]

Bad enough they cancelled the St Paddy's Day parade in Southie, but today all the pubs and restaurants there agreed to close during what is the busiest time of the year in the area for those businesses. All the bars were packed out last night. Can't go grab a pint in Southie on St Patrick's Day? End of times.

 

[toomuchtime_]

Bad enough they cancelled the St Paddy's Day parade in Southie, but today all the pubs and restaurants there agreed to close during what is the busiest time of the year in the area for those businesses. All the bars were packed out last night. Can't go grab a pint in Southie on St Patrick's Day? End of times.

End of times and you can't even go out to celebrate it!

 

[Ame®icano]

A little bit of history here...

** The Black Death which killed 1/2 of Europe's population came from the China.

Origins Of The Black Death Traced Back To China

The authors in this new study say the plague evolved around the area of China over 2000 years ago and spread globally several times as deadly pandemics. They compared 17 complete plague genome sequences as well as 933 variable DNA sites on a unique worldwide collection of bacterial strains (plague isolates), allowing them to follow pandemics that took place in history around the world, and to work out the age of different waves of them.

** Despite of being called the "Spanish" flu, it originated in China.

Why Was the 1918 Influenza Pandemic Called the ‘Spanish Flu’?

For many years, medical historians and epidemiologists hypothesized that the outbreak could have started at a British army base in Étaples, France, or at Fort Riley in Kansas, where the first American cases of this new strain of flu were recorded in March of 1918.
More recently, experts have proposed a third hypothesis: The Spanish flu originated somewhere in northern China in late 1917 and swiftly moved to western Europe with the 140,000 Chinese laborers the French and British governments recruited to perform manual labor to free up troops for wartime duty.

** The 1957-1958 Flu pandemic was also traced back to China

Asian Flu (1957 Influenza Pandemic)

The "Asian Flu" was a category 2 flu pandemic outbreak of avian influenza that originated in China in early 1956 lasting until 1958. It originated from mutation in wild ducks combining with a pre-existing human strain. A vaccine for H2N2 was introduced in 1957, and the pandemic slowed down. There was a second wave in 1958, and H2N2 went on to become part of the regular wave of seasonal flu. In 1968, the H2N2 Asian flu disappeared from the human population and is believed to have gone extinct in the wild

** The 1968 H3N2 Flu Pandemic originated in China

Avian-origin H3N2 canine influenza A viruses in Southern China

This study reports four sporadic cases of H3N2 canine influenza in southern China, which were identified from sick dogs from May 2006 to October 2007. The evolutionary analysis showed that all eight segments of these four viruses are avian-origin and phylogenetically close to the H3N2 canine influenza viruses reported earlier in South Korea. Systematic surveillance is required to monitor the disease and evolutionary behavior of this virus in canine populations in China.

The first documented canine influenza infection was probably caused by the early variants of the pandemic H3N2 influenza A virus (Kilbourne and Kehoe, 1975).

** 1997 H5N1 Bird flu came from China

Bird flu. SARS. China coronavirus. Is history repeating itself?

That was certainly the case in late 1997, just after China’s assumed sovereignty over Hong Kong, when the territory was hit by an outbreak of the H5N1 virus known as “bird flu.” Well into the outbreak, with people sick and some dying, Hong Kong officials were reluctant to finger China as the source, even though 80% of the territory’s poultry came from the mainland. Hong Kong ordered the slaughter of more than 1.3 million chickens, ducks, pigeons, and other birds, but officials were still nonsensically hesitant to point to China as the culprit behind the contagion out of fear of contradicting Beijing, which insisted — wrongly — that all its chickens were healthy.

** 2002 and 2004 SARS pandemic originated in China

The SARS pandemic

SARS originated in China in 2002. It's thought that a strain of the coronavirus usually only found in small mammals mutated, enabling it to infect humans.
The SARS infection quickly spread from China to other Asian countries. There were also a small number of cases in several other countries, including 4 in the UK, plus a significant outbreak in Toronto, Canada.

** 2009 Swine flu started in China

In New Theory, Swine Flu Started in Asia, Not Mexico

Contrary to the popular assumption that the new swine flu pandemic arose on factory farms in Mexico, federal agriculture officials now believe that it most likely emerged in pigs in Asia, but then traveled to North America in a human.

 

[Flopper]

A little bit of history here...

** The Black Death which killed 1/2 of Europe's population came from the China.

Origins Of The Black Death Traced Back To China

The authors in this new study say the plague evolved around the area of China over 2000 years ago and spread globally several times as deadly pandemics. They compared 17 complete plague genome sequences as well as 933 variable DNA sites on a unique worldwide collection of bacterial strains (plague isolates), allowing them to follow pandemics that took place in history around the world, and to work out the age of different waves of them.

** Despite of being called the "Spanish" flu, it originated in China.

Why Was the 1918 Influenza Pandemic Called the ‘Spanish Flu’?

For many years, medical historians and epidemiologists hypothesized that the outbreak could have started at a British army base in Étaples, France, or at Fort Riley in Kansas, where the first American cases of this new strain of flu were recorded in March of 1918.
More recently, experts have proposed a third hypothesis: The Spanish flu originated somewhere in northern China in late 1917 and swiftly moved to western Europe with the 140,000 Chinese laborers the French and British governments recruited to perform manual labor to free up troops for wartime duty.

** The 1957-1958 Flu pandemic was also traced back to China

Asian Flu (1957 Influenza Pandemic)

The "Asian Flu" was a category 2 flu pandemic outbreak of avian influenza that originated in China in early 1956 lasting until 1958. It originated from mutation in wild ducks combining with a pre-existing human strain. A vaccine for H2N2 was introduced in 1957, and the pandemic slowed down. There was a second wave in 1958, and H2N2 went on to become part of the regular wave of seasonal flu. In 1968, the H2N2 Asian flu disappeared from the human population and is believed to have gone extinct in the wild

** The 1968 H3N2 Flu Pandemic originated in China

Avian-origin H3N2 canine influenza A viruses in Southern China

This study reports four sporadic cases of H3N2 canine influenza in southern China, which were identified from sick dogs from May 2006 to October 2007. The evolutionary analysis showed that all eight segments of these four viruses are avian-origin and phylogenetically close to the H3N2 canine influenza viruses reported earlier in South Korea. Systematic surveillance is required to monitor the disease and evolutionary behavior of this virus in canine populations in China.

The first documented canine influenza infection was probably caused by the early variants of the pandemic H3N2 influenza A virus (Kilbourne and Kehoe, 1975).

** 1997 H5N1 Bird flu came from China

Bird flu. SARS. China coronavirus. Is history repeating itself?

That was certainly the case in late 1997, just after China’s assumed sovereignty over Hong Kong, when the territory was hit by an outbreak of the H5N1 virus known as “bird flu.” Well into the outbreak, with people sick and some dying, Hong Kong officials were reluctant to finger China as the source, even though 80% of the territory’s poultry came from the mainland. Hong Kong ordered the slaughter of more than 1.3 million chickens, ducks, pigeons, and other birds, but officials were still nonsensically hesitant to point to China as the culprit behind the contagion out of fear of contradicting Beijing, which insisted — wrongly — that all its chickens were healthy.

** 2002 and 2004 SARS pandemic originated in China

The SARS pandemic

SARS originated in China in 2002. It's thought that a strain of the coronavirus usually only found in small mammals mutated, enabling it to infect humans.
The SARS infection quickly spread from China to other Asian countries. There were also a small number of cases in several other countries, including 4 in the UK, plus a significant outbreak in Toronto, Canada.

** 2009 Swine flu started in China

In New Theory, Swine Flu Started in Asia, Not Mexico

Contrary to the popular assumption that the new swine flu pandemic arose on factory farms in Mexico, federal agriculture officials now believe that it most likely emerged in pigs in Asia, but then traveled to North America in a human.

It’s not a big mystery why this is happening. The Chinese have always been a people that concentrated their population in small areas. They value close contact with friends, neighbors, and family. Land has always been for cultivation, not building homes. They were never a frontier society. The people have always collected together in close quarters. Plus they have a history of intimate contact with lots of species of animals that are potential reservoirs, and they don’t have great hygiene compared to the rest of the world. It’s a recipe for spitting out these kinds of viruses.
https://www.realclearscience.com/bl..._outbreaks_always_seem_to_start_in_china.html

 

[Unkotare]

A little bit of history here...

** The Black Death which killed 1/2 of Europe's population came from the China.....

It actually emerged in the Steppes in an area between the Caspian sea and southern Russia. More people died of the black death in China than in Europe.

 

[Aletheia4u]

This coronavirus scare is all about trying to make laws that makes it harder for antivaxx parents from opting out their children from being vaccinated. Once they accomplish one state. Then rest of the nation will soon follow.

 

[Fort Fun Indiana]

This coronavirus scare is all about trying to make laws that makes it harder for antivaxx parents from opting out their children from being vaccinated. Once they accomplish one state. Then rest of the nation will soon follow.

This kind of embarrassing, stupid insanity is exactly what we don't need right now.

 

[Aletheia4u]

 

[Billy_Kinetta]

3000, out of a population of 328,200,000. 50 deaths, all persons with underlying problems.

Just sayin'.

 

[bluzman61]

3000, out of a population of 328,200,000. 50 deaths, all persons with underlying problems.

Just sayin'.

Yep, NOT a very high percentage, to say the least.

 

[MarathonMike]

THE SKY IS FALLING!!!!!! I NEED MORE TOILET PAPER!!!!!!!!

 

[PredFan]

3000, out of a population of 328,200,000. 50 deaths, all persons with underlying problems.

Just sayin'.

what is that a 1.6% mortality rate? Nothing to get panicky about.

 

[Likkmee]

So the real numbers are at 60,000 or so...no temperature as of yet

 

[JGalt]

3000, out of a population of 328,200,000. 50 deaths, all persons with underlying problems.

Just sayin'.

Hillary killed more people than that,.

 

[bluzman61]

3000, out of a population of 328,200,000. 50 deaths, all persons with underlying problems.

Just sayin'.

Hillary killed more people than that,.

Yep. The Hildebeast, Bubba Bill and the Kenyan-born miscreant's kills are in the hundreds. Check out the Clinton Body Count and Obama Body Count lists on Conservapedia.com. It's frightening and eye-opening stuff.

 

[Crixus]

3000, out of a population of 328,200,000. 50 deaths, all persons with underlying problems.

Just sayin'.

No, no, you must PANICK !