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good thing the federal government is led by a complete fucking idiot
This is a case where a Chinese travel ban would actually be a good idea. Though I'm sure if Trump were to propose that a judge in Hawaii would immediately issue an injunction.
good thing the federal government is led by a complete fucking idiot
This is a case where a Chinese travel ban would actually be a good idea. Though I'm sure if Trump were to propose that a judge in Hawaii would immediately issue an injunction.
Even worse, it will limit the ability for organisations to get staff and resources to affected regions, and move patients around to places with the ability to treat them.
https://www.vox.com/2014/10/18/6994413/research-travel-bans-...
Anyone have a sober perspective of how bad this is likely to get? Is this comparable to a bad but forgetten-by-the-next-year flu strain? To SARS? To the Spanish Flu?
According to some of the sources I've found online, coronaviruses tend to be much less easily spread from human to human than something like the flu, but just a few days ago officials were saying they didn't think this virus was transmissible between humans, which they now have confirmed is in fact possible, so clearly its a very fast developing situation.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
This is a case where a Chinese travel ban would actually be a good idea. Though I'm sure if Trump were to propose that a judge in Hawaii would immediately issue an injunction.
Travel bans don't work for infectious disease management. Humans travel around barriers, and the disease generally doesn't care where the border is. Even worse, it will limit the ability for organisations to get staff and resources to affected regions, and move patients around to places with the ability to treat them. https://www.vox.com/2014/10/18/6994413/research-travel-bans-...
“No one came in and no one came out. Schools were closed and there were no public gatherings. We came up with the term ‘protective sequestration’, where a defined and healthy group of people are shielded from the risk of infection from outsiders.”
There is also /r/China_Flu/ for those that wanta centralized location for news.
I think this is certainly not a great thing but I urge people not to panic. Any time some sort of new disease starts to spread a portion of the population immediately overreacts and starts to get a little nutty "how do I protect myself? What should I buy? Will bleach kill it?! How about OmniCide, Madacide, Opticide?!?!".
Keep in mind that colds and regular flu are going around right now too, if you feel sick it's probably not this virus. Last week my office had a stomach bug, by Friday a few people had bad head/chest colds, this week the stomach bug is all gone and half the office has a head/chest cold and definitely not this virus yet someone on second shift has a hospital mask on (and as far as I know don't have a valid medical reason to remotely justify it).
Like the recessions the flu scares are cyclical.
(Chinese New Years is in 3 days and few hundred million people will travel in congested trains and flights. Also people in China usually don’t cover their mouths when they cough)
Coronavirus: Chinese hospitals not testing patients, say relatives https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/jan/21/coronavirus-ch...
Wuhan virus kills fourth patient, infects hospital staff amid fear of ‘super-spreader’ https://www.scmp.com/news/china/society/article/3046908/new-...
man in Wuhan infected with coronavirus went to hospital but got sent away, took a flight to Dalian & became Patient Zero in Dalian https://www.reddit.com/r/China/comments/erszdd/disease_contr...
Coronaviruses are transmitted in what seems to be the same manner as influenza and generate some of the same symptoms. Why do the worst coronaviruses, like SARS, transmit so slowly, while the flu is practically ubiquitous?
Coronaviruses are transmitted in what seems to be the same manner as influenza and generate some of the same symptoms. Why do the worst coronaviruses, like SARS, transmit so slowly, while the flu is practically ubiquitous?