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Seattle-Area Patient With Coronavirus Dies

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Re: Seattle-Area Patient With Coronavirus Dies

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Post by asdfasgasdgasdg »

cheeze wrote: post #2

Amazon recently announced that all non essential work travel is cancelled. Friend who works there said they are taking it very seriously - any "essential" travel must be approved from the highest levels. They also announced that interviews will be conducted via VC going forward during the outbreak. I wonder if they 'shut down' campus and encourage everybody to work from home after this, self quarantine kind of thing.…

The company I work for has canceled travel to "affected regions" period -- no exceptions for "essential" travel. But it hasn't cancelled business travel elsewhere (e.g. the US, Canada, South America) . . . yet. I can only imagine in a week or two that will be the next step.

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Post by Medicalidiot »

I'm not going to stop saying this. This looks very dangerous and we should take very precaution possible to slow transmission. All nonessential travel should be avoided, don't touch your face, wash your hands. Slowing this virus down makes everything so much better.

[1] Estimate that the case to fatality ratio is between 5-8%. The transmission rate is between 2 and 3. Both of these numbers are similar to the earlier SARS outbreak in the early 2000s.

[2] The death rate in Wuhan is significantly higher than that outside. We want to buy time so our healthcare facilities can handle the volume of patients.

Take precautions everyone! This may not seriously affect you but you can help prevent the spread to people you love.

[1] https://www.mdpi.com/2077-0383/9/2/523

[2] https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.02.17.20023630v...

Re: Seattle-Area Patient With Coronavirus Dies

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Post by cheeze »

BooneJS wrote: post #6
cheeze wrote: post #2

Amazon recently announced that all non essential work travel is cancelled. Friend who works there said they are taking it very seriously - any "essential" travel must be approved from the highest levels. They also announced that interviews will be conducted via VC going forward during the outbreak. I wonder if they 'shut down' campus and encourage everybody to work from home after this, self quarantine kind of thing.…

I wonder if this “temporary alteration” will impact the way business is conducted long-term. Instead of choosing between conference calls or flights, choose VC.

Whether they want to or not, they are now being forced into running a large scale experiment of only conducting interviews over VC. Should at least yield some interesting data.

I personally hate doing VC interviewing. It's already hard enough to make a decision from an hour long in person meeting, but VC complicates that more.

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Post by asdfasgasdgasdg »

BooneJS wrote: post #6
cheeze wrote: post #2

Amazon recently announced that all non essential work travel is cancelled. Friend who works there said they are taking it very seriously - any "essential" travel must be approved from the highest levels. They also announced that interviews will be conducted via VC going forward during the outbreak. I wonder if they 'shut down' campus and encourage everybody to work from home after this, self quarantine kind of thing.…

I wonder if this “temporary alteration” will impact the way business is conducted long-term. Instead of choosing between conference calls or flights, choose VC.

As someone who doesn't have to do business travel very often, I enjoy the trips to go meet with long-lost colleagues. But at the same time, it's pretty clear at least to me that most of these things are a waste of company money and don't really move the ball forward much compared to typical electronic collaboration. Selfishly, I'd be sad if business travel suffered a large permanent reduction. But it would be better for the business and the environment if it did, even ignoring the risk of propagating diseases.

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Post by nexuist »

BooneJS wrote: post #6
cheeze wrote: post #2

Amazon recently announced that all non essential work travel is cancelled. Friend who works there said they are taking it very seriously - any "essential" travel must be approved from the highest levels. They also announced that interviews will be conducted via VC going forward during the outbreak. I wonder if they 'shut down' campus and encourage everybody to work from home after this, self quarantine kind of thing.…

I wonder if this “temporary alteration” will impact the way business is conducted long-term. Instead of choosing between conference calls or flights, choose VC.

Hopefully it encourages innovation in the space. 17 years after Skype came out we'd still all rather prefer to be in the same physical room than a laggy, compressed, low quality virtual call.

Re: Seattle-Area Patient With Coronavirus Dies

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Post by kjlhiou534 »

burlesona wrote: post #3

First posted this on another article before seeing this one. Not much information in this article, but given they only just reported new cases that makes me wonder if this person didn’t come to a hospital until they were in severe condition - probably because they had no idea it was coronavirus and were thinking “it’s the flu, it’ll pass.” If so it likely means many more cases in the community than we currently know…

Surely there are a number of people with severe pneumonia all over the US right now. Maybe they just started testing them for coronavirus.

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Post by gdubs »

crystaldev wrote: post #7

We have no idea what's happening[1] so maybe paranoia is a reasonable default? [1] https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/27/us/politics/us-coronaviru...

Meta point but when NYT introduced their paywall they said access would be free during emergencies. Certainly this qualifies.

Re: Seattle-Area Patient With Coronavirus Dies

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Post by rolph »

burlesona wrote: post #3

First posted this on another article before seeing this one. Not much information in this article, but given they only just reported new cases that makes me wonder if this person didn’t come to a hospital until they were in severe condition - probably because they had no idea it was coronavirus and were thinking “it’s the flu, it’ll pass.” If so it likely means many more cases in the community than we currently know…

a lot of people will walk about with pneumonia [of various origins] and its no big deal to them until they just suddenly pass out or cant walk 2 steps without taking a knee
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