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COVID-19 🏴☠️ Pandemic
By: Surly1 Date: January 22, 2020, 6:10 am
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Now landed with cases reported in Australia and the US.
This terrifying graph shows how fast the Wuhan virus has spread
so far, and how close it is to becoming a global pandemic
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graph shows just how fast the <a
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/>coronavirus</a> has spread over the last two weeks
alone.</li> <li>The graph shows that the virus — also
known as 2019-nCoV — could soon become a pandemic, as more
and more cases are being found outside China.</li> <li>As of
Wednesday, nine people have died and 440 are infected worldwide,
according to China's health commission.</li> <li><a
href="
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/>here for Business Insider's full coverage of the Wuhan
virus.</a></li> <li><a
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/>Business Insider's homepage for more stories.
</a></li> </ul> <p>An alarming graph shows how fast the
<a
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/>coronavirus</a> has spread in the past two weeks alone and
highlights how soon it could become a pandemic.</p> <p>The
bar graph was posted on Twitter by Cate Cadell, the China
correspondent for Reuters, on Wednesday. </p> <p>It shows
that in the last three days, the number of infections has risen
sharply, as have the number of deaths, and the number of
countries discovering infected people.</p> <div
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Business Insider has contacted Cadell for
clarification.</p> <p>The outbreak of the pneumonia-like
virus — also known as 2019-nCoV — was first
discovered in Wuhan, central China, on December 31,
2019.</p> <p>Nine days later, state broadcaster China
Central Television <a
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/>to China's health commission</a>.</p> <p>Some 2,197 other
people have been identified as having been in close contact with
the virus, though 765 have been released, Health Commission
vice-minister Li Bin <a
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/>Wednesday</a>. Those figures were accurate as of midnight loca
l
time on Tuesday.</p> <p>He also called on people not to
visit or leave the city, effectively imposing a
quasi-quarantine.</p> <p>"Basically, do not go to Wuhan. And
those in Wuhan please do not leave the city," Li
said.</p> <p>The Wuhan virus may soon be named a pandemic
— meaning it will be defined as the "worldwide spread of a
new disease" by the World Health Organization — after
cases were reported in Taiwan, South Korea, Japan, and Thailand;
as well as <a
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/>in the US on Tuesday</a>.</p> <p><a
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/>banned live animal sales in Wuhan, after a food market selling
wolves and civet cats was linked to a deadly virus</a>
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Wuhan virus</a></p> <p><a
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Coronavirus: The Virus That Can Become a Pandemic 👀
By: AGelbert Date: January 29, 2020, 7:48 pm
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Re: New Pandemic?
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Trump Has Sabotaged America’s Coronavirus Response
By: Surly1 Date: February 1, 2020, 6:12 am
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Trump Has Sabotaged America’s Coronavirus Response
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As it improvises its way through a public health crisis, the
United States has never been less prepared for a pandemic.
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physician, Ronny Jackson, listen to a presentation about new
technology used by the Department of Veterans Affairs during an
event at the White House on Aug. 3, 2017. BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI/AFP
VIA GETTY IMAGE
When Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, the director-general of the
World Health Organization (WHO), declared the Wuhan coronavirus
a public health emergency of international concern on Thursday,
he praised China for taking “unprecedented” steps to control the
deadly virus. “I have never seen for myself this kind of
mobilization,” he noted. “China is actually setting a new
standard for outbreak response.”
The epidemic control efforts unfolding today in China—including
placing some 100 million citizens on lockdown, shutting down a
national holiday, building enormous quarantine hospitals in
days’ time, and ramping up 24-hour manufacturing of medical
equipment—are indeed gargantuan. It’s impossible to watch them
without wondering, “What would we do? How would my government
respond if this virus spread across my country?”
For the United States, the answers are especially worrying
because the government has intentionally rendered itself
incapable. In 2018, the Trump administration fired the
government’s entire pandemic response chain of command,
including the White House management infrastructure. In numerous
phone calls and emails with key agencies across the U.S.
government, the only consistent response I encountered was
distressed confusion. If the United States still has a clear
chain of command for pandemic response, the White House urgently
needs to clarify what it is
If the United States still has a clear chain of command for
pandemic response, the White House urgently needs to clarify
what it is
—not just for the public but for the government itself, which
largely finds itself in the dark.
When Ebola broke out in West Africa in 2014, President Barack
Obama recognized that responding to the outbreak overseas, while
also protecting Americans at home, involved multiple U.S.
government departments and agencies, none of which were speaking
to one another. Basically, the U.S. pandemic infrastructure was
an enormous orchestra full of talented, egotistical players,
each jockeying for solos and fame, refusing to rehearse, and
demanding higher salaries—all without a conductor. To bring
order and harmony to the chaos, rein in the agency egos, and
create a coherent multiagency response overseas and on the
homefront, Obama anointed a former vice presidential staffer,
Ronald Klain, as a sort of “epidemic czar” inside the White
House, clearly stipulated the roles and budgets of various
agencies, and placed incident commanders in charge in each
Ebola-hit country and inside the United States. The orchestra
may have still had its off-key instruments, but it played the
same tune.
Building on the Ebola experience, the Obama administration set
up a permanent epidemic monitoring and command group inside the
White House National Security Council (NSC) and another in the
Department of Homeland Security (DHS)—both of which followed the
scientific and public health leads of the National Institutes of
Health (NIH) and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
(CDC) and the diplomatic advice of the State Department.
On the domestic front, the real business of assuring public
health and safety is a local matter, executed by state, county,
and city departments that operate under a mosaic of laws and
regulations that vary jurisdiction by jurisdiction. Some massive
cities, such as New York City or Boston, have large budgets,
clear regulations, and epidemic experiences that have left deep
benches of medical and public health talent. But much of the
United States is less fortunate on the local level, struggling
with underfunded agencies, understaffing, and no genuine
epidemic experience. Large and small, America’s localities rely
in times of public health crisis on the federal government.
Bureaucracy matters. Without it, there’s nothing to coherently
manage an alphabet soup of agencies housed in departments
ranging from Defense to Commerce, Homeland Security to Health
and Human Services (HHS).
But that’s all gone now.
In the spring of 2018, the White House pushed Congress to cut
funding for Obama-era disease security programs, proposing to
eliminate $252 million in previously committed resources for
rebuilding health systems in Ebola-ravaged Liberia, Sierra
Leone, and Guinea. Under fire from both sides of the aisle,
President Donald Trump dropped the proposal to eliminate Ebola
funds a month later. But other White House efforts included
reducing $15 billion in national health spending and cutting the
global disease-fighting operational budgets of the CDC, NSC,
DHS, and HHS. And the government’s $30 million Complex Crises
Fund was eliminated.
In May 2018, Trump ordered the NSC’s entire global health
security unit shut down, calling for reassignment of Rear Adm.
Timothy Ziemer and dissolution of his team inside the agency.
The month before, then-White House National Security Advisor
John Bolton pressured Ziemer’s DHS counterpart, Tom Bossert, to
resign along with his team. Neither the NSC nor DHS epidemic
teams have been replaced. The global health section of the CDC
was so drastically cut in 2018 that much of its staff was laid
off and the number of countries it was working in was reduced
from 49 to merely 10. Meanwhile, throughout 2018, the U.S.
Agency for International Development and its director, Mark
Green, came repeatedly under fire from both the White House and
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo. And though Congress has so far
managed to block Trump administration plans to cut the U.S.
Public Health Service Commissioned Corps by 40 percent, the
disease-fighting cadres have steadily eroded as retiring
officers go unreplaced.
Klain has been warning for two years that the United States was
in grave danger should a pandemic emerge. In 2017 and 2018, the
philanthropist billionaire Bill Gates met repeatedly with Bolton
and his predecessor, H.R. McMaster, warning that ongoing cuts to
the global health disease infrastructure would render the United
States vulnerable to, as he put it, the “significant probability
of a large and lethal modern-day pandemic occurring in our
lifetimes.” And an independent, bipartisan panel formed by the
Center for Strategic and International Studies concluded that
lack of preparedness was so acute in the Trump administration
that the “United States must either pay now and gain protection
and security or wait for the next epidemic and pay a much
greater price in human and economic costs.”
The next epidemic is now here; we’ll soon know the costs imposed
by the Trump administration’s early negligence and present
panic. On Jan. 29, Trump announced the creation of the
President’s Coronavirus Task Force, an all-male group of a dozen
advisors, five from the White House staff. Chaired by Secretary
of Health and Human Services Alex Azar, the task force includes
men from the CDC, State Department, DHS, the Office of
Management and Budget, and the Transportation Department. It’s
not clear how this task force will function or when it will even
convene.
In the absence of a formal structure, the government has
resorted to improvisation. In practical terms, the U.S.
government’s public health effort is led by Daniel Jernigan, the
incident commander for the Wuhan coronavirus response at the
CDC. Jernigan is responsible for convening meetings of the
nation’s state health commissioners and briefing CDC Director
Robert Redfield and his boss, Azar. Meanwhile, state-level
health leaders told me that they have been sharing information
with one another and deciding how best to prepare their medical
and public health workers without waiting for instructions from
federal leadership. The most important federal program for
local medical worker and hospital epidemic training, however,
will run out of money in May, as Congress has failed to vote on
its funding. The HHS Office of the Assistant Secretary for
Preparedness and Response (ASPR) is the bulwark between
hospitals and health departments versus pandemic threats; last
year HHS requested $2.58 billion, but Congress did not act.
On Thursday, the CDC confirmed the first human-to-human spread
of the Wuhan coronavirus inside the United States, between a
husband and wife in Chicago. While the wife acquired her
infection traveling in China, she passed the virus to her
husband on return to the United States. Though only six Wuhan
coronavirus cases have been confirmed in the United States, with
no deaths, Nancy Messonnier of the CDC told reporters on
Thursday: “Moving forward, we can expect to see more cases, and
more cases mean the potential for more person-to-person spread.”
Surveying the largest drug store chains in New York City on
Wednesday, I found that all were sold out of medical face masks
and latex gloves, as is Amazon. Searching online for protective
masks reveals that dozens of products intended for use to block
dust and particles far larger than viruses are garnering brisk
sales—and none available that can actually prevent viral
exposure. The surge in mask and glove sales to worried citizens
all over the world needs refereeing. Bona fide anti-viral masks
should be prioritized to front-line medical and public health
staff, and the populace shouldn’t be misled into purchasing and
wearing products that offer no genuine protection.
Countering misinformation, conspiracy theories, rumormongering,
and discriminatory behavior against people believed to be
disease spreaders requires thoughtful communication from
leadership at the highest levels of government. None is in
evidence. Instead, Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross appeared on
Fox Business on Thursday to fan the flames of fear for the sake
of hypothetical business opportunities. “It does give businesses
yet another thing to consider when they go through their review
of their supply chain,” Ross said. “It’s another risk factor
that people need to take into account. So, I think it will help
accelerate the return of jobs to North America, some to the
U.S., probably some to Mexico as well.” Meanwhile, Trump, asked
at the recent World Economic Forum gathering in Davos,
Switzerland how he intended to respond to the epidemic, said the
situation was under control and a world away from the United
States.
In a statement released this week, Pompeo sought to calm
Americans, saying, “People should know that there are enormous
efforts underway by the United States government to make sure
that we do everything we can to protect the American people and
to reduce the risk all around the globe.” But late Thursday
night, the secretary—in clear defiance of WHO’s admonishment
against restricting travel to and from China—issued an advisory
saying, “Those currently in China should consider departing.”
In recent days, a handful of policy leaders have been shifted
from government positions focused on weapons of mass destruction
and bioterrorism to the slowly emerging epidemic response
infrastructure, such as Matthew Pottinger, Philip Ferro, and
David Wade on the NSC and the bioterrorism expert Anthony
Ruggiero. It’s not at all clear how they would handle an
explosion of coronavirus cases, were such a dreadful thing to
occur in the United States. “The full weight of the US
Government is working on this,” a senior administration official
told CNN on Tuesday. “As with any interagency effort of this
scale, the National Security Council works closely with the
whole of government to ensure a coordinated and unified effort.”
The last time the U.S. government and its many local and state
counterparts faced an explosive pandemic on American soil was
2009, with the spread of H1N1, or swine flu. The then-new Obama
administration was still filling key positions across the
executive branch when the epidemic emerged that spring, and it
struggled to set the proper tone in reaction to what turned out
to be an exceptionally contagious, but not unusually virulent,
form of influenza. The challenge revealed enormous gaps in
America’s ability to swiftly manufacture vaccines, stock-outs of
face masks and vital hospital supplies, and serious difficulty
in keeping ahead of outright lies, conspiracy theories, and
rumormongering on cable TV and social media. The much more
deadly pandemic test came in 1981, with the arrival of HIV: It
did not go well, as history has well established, because
homophobia was so pervasive in the country and within government
that gay men, rather than the virus killing them, were treated
as a national scourge.
Since the great influenza pandemic of 1918, the United States
has been spared terrifying epidemics. Americans now are epidemic
voyeurs. They watch YouTube videos of China’s struggles. They
see the government attack its epidemic by building a 1,000-bed
quarantine hospital in a single week, lock down cities larger
than New York or Los Angeles, ramp up 24/7 manufacture of face
masks and protective gear, deploy its armed forces medical corps
to treat ailing citizens, send enormous convoys of food and
supplies to anxious citizens of Wuhan, and release terrifying,
growing tallies daily of its swelling patient populations. They
look in horror at panicked lines of masked people waiting to
learn if their fevers are caused by the deadly disease, at
bodies lying on cold floors in overcrowded hospitals, and at
people crying out from behind their masks for help. And they
ask, “What would the United States do? What would the White
House do?” The answers are not reassuring.
Laurie Garrett is a former senior fellow for global health at
the Council on Foreign Relations and a Pulitzer Prize winning
science writer.
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75,000 cases? Model says outbreak will double in size every 6.4
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A new study suggests that official figures for the scale of the
Wuhan coronavirus outbreak have been far too low.
The study, published in the prestigious Lancet journal,
projected that as of January 25, there were 75,815 people
infected in Wuhan. At the time the official figure was 761.
It also dismissed a lockdown in Wuhan as "negligible," since the
virus had already spread by the time it was implemented.
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The true number of people infected with the deadly Wuhan
coronavirus is more than 75,000, according to a scientific
model, which claims the official number for those infected is
far too low.
Academics at the University of Hong Kong published a paper on
Friday in The Lancet, a prestigious medical journal, estimating
the rate at which the virus is spreading.
It used official data on the number of infections to calculate
what it said was the true extent of the disease — almost 100
times the official figures.
Underpinning the analysis is the idea that the number of
international cases is disproportionately high given the number
of people who travel from Wuhan to other countries.
The academics used the international figures to reverse-engineer
a total for the number of cases among greater Wuhan's population
of around 19 million.
They said that, as of January 25, they estimated that the number
of cases was 75,815.
According to CNN, the official total on January 25 for the whole
of Hubei province, which includes greater Wuhan, was 761, barely
1% of the total projected by the scientists.
The paper is not the first to suggest that the official figures
do not adequately capture the scope of the outbreak. A paper
from Imperial College London published on January 17 suggested
that the figures were too low by a factor of 35.
As part of their model, the Hong Kong academics predicted that
the scale of the virus would double every 6.4 days. By that
logic, the number of people in greater Wuhan with the virus as
of this Friday (January 31) would be 151,630.
The official number of cases on January 31 was less than 10,000.
The number increased to around 12,000 as of February 1 local
time.
The authors of the study said they had taken into account the
effect of the dramatic lockdown imposed on Wuhan and surrounding
cities last week.
However, they said that its overall effectiveness would be
"negligible" given that a critical mass of cases had already
been observed in several other cities.
In a meeting on Thursday, the World Health Organization declared
the coronavirus outbreak a global health emergency.
On Friday, the US government announced a ban on any foreigner
entering the country within 14 days of being in mainland China.
It said US citizens would be allowed to enter but placed in
quarantine.
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Coronavirus Hammers Bulk Shipping
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(Bloomberg) — The coronavirus crisis in China has hammered many
markets this month. None may have felt a bigger impact than
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... logic, science and probabilities all suggest we brace for im
pact.
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[quote]Coronaviruses tend to be contagious in relatively close
contact (within two meters / six feet) but masks may not be
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Mon, 02/03/2020 - 14:00
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Coronavirus Disrupts Global Container Shipping
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(Reuters) – China’s fast-spreading coronavirus is throwing the
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Coronavirus: Is the Climate Plague Here?
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Re: New Pandemic?
By: AGelbert Date: February 17, 2020, 1:22 pm
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[quote]ItaliaSovrana@peppathefrog
Director of the Japan Community Health Care Organisation
“70% of those testing positive are not showing any symptoms at
all”
Xinxian country, extend quarantine to 21 days for citizens
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Agelbert NOTE: The scariest thing about this virus is the fact
that 70% of those which test positive for it HAVE NO SYMPTOMS.
That means that it will continue to spread exponentially. When
the amount of infected passes above a certain amount, quarantine
is not affordable, practical or effective, as far as government
efforts to contain the epidemic are concerned. At that point,
which the 'no symptoms' stalking horse of this virus is rapidly
bringing to deadly fruitition, a global depression is
inevitable.
Consider, for example(s), the tourist and hotel businesses that
have always done quite well, even with 90% of the global
population being assaulted continually by greedball capitalists
doing their neoliberal profit over people and planet thing.
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NOW, greedball money CANNOT protect the top 10% when they
travel, so they will not travel. No greedballs traveling, no
tourist industry, no cruise ship or hotel profits, etc.
The greedballs will finally learn what it is like to NOT be in
control. No amount of 🐍 stock market rigging and fascist
🦀 Trumpian happy talk economics numbers fakery will be
able to stop the worldwide depression as everybody does their
best to avoid everybody that might be infected.
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