What's wrong with this picture? - China can build a pre-fab hospital in weeks to treat coronavirus patients, while the U.S. does not have at least 51 intelligent Senators.
YEP, it's sad that, yet again, so many myths about it's spread are spreading as quickly as it is.
It doesn't move freely in air as influenza viruses do.
Don’t Worry About The Coronavirus. Worry About The Flu.
The first new disease outbreak in the social media era has been defined by the rapid spread of panic and uncertainty. Here’s what you should worry about — and what you shouldn’t.
Dan Vergano BuzzFeed News Reporter Reporting From Washington, D.C.
Last updated on January 30, 2020, at 4:41 p.m. ET
Posted on January 28, 2020, at 12:48 p.m. ET
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Human coronaviruses first jump from animals to people — from bats during SARS and camels in MERS — and then mutate to spread person-to-person. The animal that the new coronavirus originated in is still in dispute; one early scientific paper concluded it came from bats, while another argued that it closely resembled a virus that infects snakes. It’s important to know this origin to help stop future animal-to-human virus outbreaks.
Another dispute in the 2019-nCoV outbreak is over when it becomes infectious in the course of an illness, with some Chinese officials suggesting it is early, when no symptoms are evident. That matters because the disease is thought to have a 2- to 14-day incubation period when a potentially infectious person could be unknowingly spreading the disease.
China has suffered a widespread shortage of medical face masks, which experts say are only somewhat effective at stopping the spread of respiratory illnesses. Chinese Premier Li Keqiang also reportedly pledged to provide hospitals in Wuhan with 20,000 pairs of safety goggles to prevent exposure through the eyes; this could benefit health care workers who are exposed to coughing patients in the worst stages of the disease.
For people in the US, CDC suggests washing your hands frequently; not putting your fingers in your mouth, eyes, or nose; and avoiding sick people — standard advice during flu season. Masks would not be necessary for anyone in the US, Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar said on Tuesday.
Why Coronavirus Seems to Be Striking More Adults Than Kids
Don't endanger children by bringing them up too cleanly, their defensive immune systems given some practice do work.
Do have them vaccinated as per health experts recommendations.
VIDEO - WHO Declares Global Emergency Over Coronavirus Duration 1:07
By Jamie Ducharme January 31, 2020
More than 8,000 people worldwide have been infected, and 171 have been killed, by a novel coronavirus .. https://time.com/5774265/wuhan-china-virus-advances/ .. that originated in Wuhan, China last month. But early research out of Wuhan suggests one group has been largely spared by the contagious disease: young children.
Though there are not good data to show how many children have been infected as the virus spread beyond those first 425 patients, it’s certain that that number is no longer zero: a nine-month-old baby in Beijing is the youngest known patient, according to city health authorities .. https://www.cnn.com/asia/live-news/coronavirus-outbreak-hnk-intl-01-26-20/h_97cea2031c448b3e68fbedf5f7a1f8fb . Even still, the early patient characteristics reported in NEJM provides clues about who the virus is, or is not, infecting.
It also provides another point of comparison to fellow coronavirus severe acute respiratory syndrome .. https://time.com/5769314/hong-kong-sars-memories-wuhan-coronavirus/ , or SARS, says Dr. Mark Denison, a pediatric infectious disease specialist at Vanderbilt University School of Medicine. SARS was “dramatically less common” among children than adults during the outbreak that began in China around 2003, and Denison says kids younger than 13 reported much less severe symptoms than older patients.
It’s possible that, due to some quirk of biology, children are simply less susceptible than adults to 2019-nCoV infection; their cells may be less hospitable to the virus, making it more difficult for 2019-nCoV to replicate and jump to other people, Denison says. The NEJM authors write that kids may be getting the virus but showing milder symptoms .. https://time.com/5772134/coronavirus-mild-symptoms/ .. than adults, making them less likely to seek medical care and thus excluding them from research and case counts.
Denison says that tracks with the behavior of many other viral illnesses. “Evolutionarily, we’re designed to be exposed to these things as kids, and then we have broad-based immunity,” he says. “Get it now while you’re more likely to survive, and then you won’t get it later.”
Take the seasonal flu, for example. Plenty of kids in the U.S. get the influenza virus each year, but far fewer children than adults die from the disease. During the 2018-2019 season .. https://www.cdc.gov/flu/about/burden/2018-2019.html#anchor_1571233350177 , for example, an estimated 7.6 million kids ages five to 17 got the flu, but only 211 died, for a mortality rate of 0.002%. By contrast, an estimated 11.9 million adults 18 to 49 got the flu, but 2,450 died—a mortality rate of 0.02%.
Dr. Sharon Nachman, a pediatric infectious disease specialist at Stony Brook Children’s Hospital, in Stony Brook, N.Y., adds that children’s environments may help them. Kids may see more common coronaviruses—a class of viruses .. https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/about/symptoms.html .. that includes some that can cause the common cold—than adults do, potentially giving them a certain amount of umbrella immunity. “They’re in school and daycare; they’re in a milieu of infectious diseases,” Nachman says. “Maybe there’s some immunity from coronaviruses that [they develop, but] doesn’t last lifelong.”
Kids are also often plain healthier than adults, Nachman says. “If you’re well and you get an illness, you often do better than if you have” other underlying conditions, she says. Children may also be more up-to-date on their vaccinations, sparing them secondary infections .. https://time.com/5714159/measles-immune-amnesia/ .. that can often come along with an illness and bring about complications.
Still, Denison cautions that these are just theories at this point, and “do not mean that children can’t get infected and they can’t transmit infection.”
Nachman adds that routine behaviors can help keep populations healthy, regardless of the disease in question. “Good hand-washing helps. Staying healthy and eating healthy will also help,” she says. “The things we take for granted actually do work. It doesn’t matter what the virus is. The routine things work.”
Rush Limbaugh announces he has advanced lung cancer
Source: New York Daily News
Rush Limbaugh, the loudmouthed conservative radio host, announced on his show Monday that he has been diagnosed with advanced lung cancer.
The 69-year-old “The Rush Limbaugh Host” said he has begun treatment for the cancer, but didn’t go into details.
“There are going to be days that I’m not going to be able to be here,” he said on the show.
Limbaugh launched his career as a DJ on a Pennsylvania radio station in 1971 and continued moving up the food chain, including joining New York’s WABC in 1988, just before the Republican National Convention.
I'm not to worried about this as anywhere between 3,000 and 49,000 die just from the flu each year just in the United States. Although this has a much higher mortality rate per patient
Coronavirus: UK declares 'serious and imminent threat' to public health – latest news
"Coronavirus Cases Have More Than Tripled In Past Week; 17,000 Now Sick In China February 3, 202011:10 AM ET "
17,000 to 40.000 in one week. Not to freak out about, but it's heavy.
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Declaration gives UK government additional powers as death toll inside China jumps to 908 with more than 40,000 infections
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The airline said Public Health England is reaching out to all customers on the flight.
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