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Re: Seattle-Area Patient With Coronavirus Dies

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Post by donarb »

donarb wrote: post #29
aazaa wrote: post #24

The article leaves more questions than it answers: > A person in Washington state infected with coronavirus has died, according to the Seattle and King County Department of Health. Was this one of the reported cases on Friday, or yet another new one? Unfortunately, I suspect we've already moved past the point of worrying about individual cases.

It was not one of the reported cases on Friday, the person that died was a 19 year old male.

Hmm, the president just said that it was a 50 year old woman that died. But the Seattle Times stated that that woman was at home resting comfortably. We'll probably know more after the 1 pm press conference by King County health officials.

Re: Seattle-Area Patient With Coronavirus Dies

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Post by erentz »

jcoffland wrote: post #34

One person has died in the US. It's not time to panic. I expected more logical comments here.

The concern is people have not been taking this seriously for the past two months. This has resulted in the US being on the back foot and only acting in a reactive manner. The CDC has fallen flat on its face and now state public health departments need to try to pick up the slack. I hope they do.

Other countries are already trying to slow down spread via cancellation of events and closures of schools. The same needs to happen here so that our hospital system has a chance to cope. The real danger is what happens when the 19% of people who get infected that require some level of hospital care can’t get it. The death rates will then rise considerably. Those are preventable deaths if we slow this down.

There needs to be clear and fact based communication from authorities every day about the current situation and what the public can do to play their part. People panic when information is hidden from them, they aren’t stupid they will see what’s going on. They need to know that all the correct things are being done.

Re: Seattle-Area Patient With Coronavirus Dies

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Post by learc83 »

jp57 wrote: post #36

Is it possible that the virus has been circulating in the states since Christmas or earlier? I live in the states, though not in Seattle. My wife's best friend teaches ESL at a major university. She has several Chinese students in her class who went home over the semester break in December and January. In mid-to-late January, the teacher, her husband, my wife, and I all came down with the "flu" in swift succession, w…

My brother's wife is also an ESL teacher. She had multiple students who traveled home to Wuhan during the winter break. Shortly after school starting she came down with a cold, gave it to my brother, and he had a pretty bad cough for a month. He's just now getting over it.

Re: Seattle-Area Patient With Coronavirus Dies

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Post by runarberg »

RobRivera wrote: post #35
runarberg wrote: post #32

Earlier quoted context omitted.

As we are several decades into an equally serious—or perhaps a far greater—catastrophe with globally rising temperatures—in part to blame by human activities that are now hindered because of this new immediate emergency. I love that it took a global virus outbreak for these companies to take these actions that they should have taken long since in an effort against the climate disaster.

I don't know where to begin with this opinion and commentary so I'll just say how I feel. Finding solace of potential human loss of life through a lens of reduced carbon footprint is tonedeaf to those who have lost loved ones to this disaster, and furthermore alienates an enriching dialogue between climate deniers by providing a scapegoat to keep heads in sand. "Look at those climate cry babies, celebrating loss of l…

The numbers don’t really add up though since the climate disaster is causing few orders of magnitude more deaths then the corona virus outbreak.

I find it great that companies and governments are taking actions to reduce harm (like I said, I love it), but these actions should have been taken long ago to prevent a far greater harm being caused by another disaster.

Re: Seattle-Area Patient With Coronavirus Dies

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Post by hinkley »

When is it time to start freaking out? I have a friend who may be starting to unhinge a little bit. Whereas I have some sort of stoic “this is completely out of my control and will happen or it won’t” response that is probably not that much more rational.

Re: Seattle-Area Patient With Coronavirus Dies

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Post by rolph »

war1025 wrote: post #30
progman32 wrote: post #22

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Why are you asking?

There has been speculation I've overheard that the virus is particularly deadly to Asian people. Seems like a bogus theory to me, but I suspect that was the reason for the question. Largely plays into the "escaped bioweapon" theory.

there is a basis for the recombinant selection of specificity to histocompatability type [in simple terms that can mean race]

I have a gut feeling it would be impossible to contain or manage the media if this virus or any other pathogen was killing only those of asian heritage so we would know if it actually was happening.

There is no indication any one particular ethnic group is hit harder at this time as there is no adequate comparison between the asian and other than asian people

Re: Seattle-Area Patient With Coronavirus Dies

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Post by bespokedevelopr »

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.

Given the impact airline travel has on global warming I hope it results in fewer companies using air travel in place of video conferencing.

Re: Seattle-Area Patient With Coronavirus Dies

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Post by goodcanadian »

jp57 wrote: post #36

Is it possible that the virus has been circulating in the states since Christmas or earlier? I live in the states, though not in Seattle. My wife's best friend teaches ESL at a major university. She has several Chinese students in her class who went home over the semester break in December and January. In mid-to-late January, the teacher, her husband, my wife, and I all came down with the "flu" in swift succession, w…

The general sentiment was that this years flu shot was a dud.

The flu shot is a guess at which viruses will be most prevalent this year. A recent study I saw (sorry, I don't have a link) suggested that a single flu shot has little impact on your likelihood of getting the flu this year. If you regularly get flu shots, however, after 4 years, your immunity is significantly increased (I presume because you have be immunised against enough different viruses).

No comment on your situation, exactly; I just thought it was an interesting and relevant factoid.

Re: Seattle-Area Patient With Coronavirus Dies

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Post by fzeroracer »

ramblerman wrote: post #28
Medicalidiot wrote: post #12

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…

> This looks very dangerous, fatality ratio is between 5-8%. We're better than this at HN. There are stats on the mortality rates, and given you are younger than 50 there is a less than 0.4% mortality rate. Furthermore, recent autopsies have shown this is a virus that hits the lungs more than anything else. China with it's incredible pollution, might have skewed mortality rates that are higher than we may expect in E…

> We're better than this at HN. There are stats on the mortality rates, and given you are younger than 50 there is a less than 0.4% mortality rate.

Generally speaking, people younger than 50 probably know someone older than 50 and might even be in daily contact with them. You know, parents, grandparents, uncles and all that. I'm not afraid of dying from the coronavirus, I'm afraid of being an infection vector for someone else higher at risk.

> more people going to the ICU without case doesn't help

In a sane healthcare system, this would actually help. Because ideally, we'd have cheap, easily accessible tests for the coronavirus and people could get tested in a safe environment without fear of spreading or catching it.

But alas, it seems we're more comfortable with turning away potential coronavirus patients and letting them spread it on their own. Especially because people don't have the option to self-quarantine.

Re: Seattle-Area Patient With Coronavirus Dies

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Post by gdubs »

jp57 wrote: post #36

Is it possible that the virus has been circulating in the states since Christmas or earlier? I live in the states, though not in Seattle. My wife's best friend teaches ESL at a major university. She has several Chinese students in her class who went home over the semester break in December and January. In mid-to-late January, the teacher, her husband, my wife, and I all came down with the "flu" in swift succession, w…

FWIW our family got hit with the same thing. The cough was... different than anything we’ve experienced in recent memory. I assumed it was the flu (we stayed home and didn’t get tested, but it was pretty brutal.)
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