Deadly Wuhan Coronavirus

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China cannot even admit that the virus started in their country...

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Beijing mega-market shut down as regime unleashes wave of Covid propaganda blaming West

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Advancing the line that the virus originated abroad – stoking nationalist pride and anti-foreign sentiment – has allowed Chinese authorities to deflect public anger over its coverup of the pandemic.

“All available evidence suggests that the coronavirus, which has infected more than 59 million people in 190 countries, did not start in central China’s Wuhan,” Chinese state media has proclaimed.

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August

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US pig heads to blame for new Chinese Corona outbreak says China.
Coronavirus: New cases in China linked to pig heads, official says (news.com.au)

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US pig heads to blame for new Chinese Corona outbreak says China.
Coronavirus: New cases in China linked to pig heads, official says (news.com.au)

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When I worked for Verizon a group of us had to attend a meeting at one of the VZ buildings in Philadelphia PA. This building is right in the heart of Chinatown. A parking lot was catty corner to the building. When we got out of the car in the morning we were greeted by pig carcasses lined up in front of a Chinese restaurant. That sight put me off pork for a long time.
 

August

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UK coronavirus LIVE: Vaccine to be rolled-out ‘in 10 days’ as England begins final weekend before tiers
April Roach and Harriet Brewis 2 hrs ag

UK coronavirus LIVE: Vaccine to be rolled-out ‘in 10 days’ as England begins final weekend before tiers

A coronavirus vaccine could be rolled out in Britain in less than two weeks, with NHS hospitals instructed to prepare for their first deliveries between December 7 and December 9.

The rapid timeframe, reported by the Guardian, will depend on whether the Pfizer/BioNTech jab is approved by the UK’s medicines regulator.

It comes as the Government was forced to apologise after a Test and Trace error saw more than 1,300 people wrongly told they have Covid-19 between last Thursday and Monday.

Meanwhile, England has begun its final weekend of lockdown, with 99 per cent of the population set to face the toughest two tiers of of restrictions when the national shutdown ends on Wednesday.
 

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nivek

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Oh now this is just wonderful, talk about adding fuel to a fire, now what the hell are we going to do if Covid spreads through multiple species of wildlife that wouldn't have had contact with humans otherwise...This could cause multiple extinctions in the long run, mutate to a real nasty and deadly variety and come back to humans...ugh

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Escaped mink could spread the coronavirus to wild animals

More than 100 SARS-CoV-2 infected mink may have escaped from Danish fur farms, raising the risk that these escapees could spread the novel coronavirus to wild animals, creating a new reservoir for the virus, The Guardian reported.

"Every year, a few thousand mink escape," and this year, an estimated 5% of these escaped animals may have been infected with SARS-CoV-2, Sten Mortensen, veterinary research manager at the Danish Veterinary and Food Administration, told The Guardian. These mink may be spreading the coronavirus to wild animals, even as millions of mink still on farms are being culled to prevent spread of the virus.

After several hundred farms reported SAR-CoV-2 infections among their mink, the Danish government ordered that all mink in the country should be culled, to prevent further spread of the disease, Live Science previously reported. While circulating in mink, the virus had picked up genetic mutations, health authorities found, and this mutant virus spread from the mink to a small number of humans. The authorities were worried that if the mutant virus spread to more people, it could potentially make COVID-19 vaccines less effective.

Experts had doubts about this claim, noting there's not enough evidence that the mutated virus would be resistant to vaccines. In addition, the Danish government cannot legally order farmers to cull healthy animals, The Associated Press reported; however, despite the questionable legality of the order, more than 10 million of Denmark's roughly 17 million mink have already been culled.

No new cases of the mutant mink virus have cropped up in the past two weeks — but now, authorities warn that the virus may still be spreading, unnoticed, in the wild.

In general, mink are "very solitary creatures," so the risk of them spreading the virus to other animals may be low, Mortensen noted. Susceptible animals, such as free-roaming cats and members of the weasel family, would be most likely to catch the virus by eating infected mink or coming into contact with their feces, he said. For example, wild populations of European polecat (Mustela putorius), a close relative to ferrets and minks, can be found in Denmark, according to a report in the Journal of Zoology.

If allowed to spread unchecked in wild animals, SARS-CoV-2 could continue to circulate in different species and pose a "permanent pandemic threat to humans and animals," Marion Koopmans, head of viroscience at Rotterdam's Erasmus University in the Netherlands, told The Guardian. It's also possible that, as the virus circulated, it could mutate to infect a wider range of animal species than it currently does, Joanne Santini, a microbiologist at University College London, told The Guardian.

The Netherlands, Spain, Sweden and the United States have all reported SARS-CoV-2 infections among farmed mink and have culled thousands of the animals as a result. Coronavirus vaccines for mink are currently being developed in the U.S., in an attempt to protect the animals and the mink farming industry, according to The Guardian. But representatives of Humane Society International have argued that all the animals should be culled and the industry dissolved, both to prevent avoidable suffering of the mink and to lower the risk of future pandemics.

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nivek

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Escaped mink could spread the coronavirus to wild animals

More than 100 SARS-CoV-2 infected mink may have escaped from Danish fur farms, raising the risk that these escapees could spread the novel coronavirus to wild animals, creating a new reservoir for the virus, The Guardian reported.

"Every year, a few thousand mink escape," and this year, an estimated 5% of these escaped animals may have been infected with SARS-CoV-2, Sten Mortensen, veterinary research manager at the Danish Veterinary and Food Administration, told The Guardian. These mink may be spreading the coronavirus to wild animals, even as millions of mink still on farms are being culled to prevent spread of the virus.

After several hundred farms reported SAR-CoV-2 infections among their mink, the Danish government ordered that all mink in the country should be culled, to prevent further spread of the disease, Live Science previously reported. While circulating in mink, the virus had picked up genetic mutations, health authorities found, and this mutant virus spread from the mink to a small number of humans. The authorities were worried that if the mutant virus spread to more people, it could potentially make COVID-19 vaccines less effective.

Experts had doubts about this claim, noting there's not enough evidence that the mutated virus would be resistant to vaccines. In addition, the Danish government cannot legally order farmers to cull healthy animals, The Associated Press reported; however, despite the questionable legality of the order, more than 10 million of Denmark's roughly 17 million mink have already been culled.

No new cases of the mutant mink virus have cropped up in the past two weeks — but now, authorities warn that the virus may still be spreading, unnoticed, in the wild.

In general, mink are "very solitary creatures," so the risk of them spreading the virus to other animals may be low, Mortensen noted. Susceptible animals, such as free-roaming cats and members of the weasel family, would be most likely to catch the virus by eating infected mink or coming into contact with their feces, he said. For example, wild populations of European polecat (Mustela putorius), a close relative to ferrets and minks, can be found in Denmark, according to a report in the Journal of Zoology.

If allowed to spread unchecked in wild animals, SARS-CoV-2 could continue to circulate in different species and pose a "permanent pandemic threat to humans and animals," Marion Koopmans, head of viroscience at Rotterdam's Erasmus University in the Netherlands, told The Guardian. It's also possible that, as the virus circulated, it could mutate to infect a wider range of animal species than it currently does, Joanne Santini, a microbiologist at University College London, told The Guardian.

The Netherlands, Spain, Sweden and the United States have all reported SARS-CoV-2 infections among farmed mink and have culled thousands of the animals as a result. Coronavirus vaccines for mink are currently being developed in the U.S., in an attempt to protect the animals and the mink farming industry, according to The Guardian. But representatives of Humane Society International have argued that all the animals should be culled and the industry dissolved, both to prevent avoidable suffering of the mink and to lower the risk of future pandemics.

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So why weren't there any added security to these caged areas to contain these infected minks effectively, they should have all been killed by now anyway, this is an unacceptable situation...

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pigfarmer

tall, thin, irritable
I can't speak for the whole world and there does seem to be a disconnect between what we see on TV and what we actually see around us. Weeks of the same footage of portable morgues outside Elmhurst Hospital for example. It doesn't show that the place was a s******e to begin with and was already shut down once and even with all the preparation in the world would probably still find a way to fill a few body bags unnecessarily. I can't speak from experience but my wife can - she grew up there and has been there often enough and has no kind words for it.

That said, I've been watching locally and although the #s are low they are increasing for real.
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nivek

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COVID-19 was silently spreading across US as early as December 2019, CDC study says

The first confirmed coronavirus case in the U.S. was reported on Jan. 19 in a Washington man after returning from Wuhan, China, where the first outbreak of COVID-19 occurred.

Now, data from a new government study paints a different picture — the coronavirus may have been silently spreading in America as early as December 2019.

Researchers with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention collected 7,389 blood samples from routine donations to the American Red Cross between Dec. 13, 2019 and Jan. 17, 2020.

Of the samples, 106 contained coronavirus antibodies, suggesting those individuals’ immune systems battled COVID-19 at some point.

A total of 39 donations carrying coronavirus antibodies came from residents in the western states of California, Oregon and Washington and 67 samples from the more eastern states of Connecticut, Iowa, Massachusetts, Michigan, Rhode Island and Wisconsin.

The study, published Monday in the journal Clinical Infectious Diseases, adds to growing evidence that the coronavirus had been spreading right under our noses long before testing could confirm it.

“The presence of these serum antibodies indicate that isolated SARS-CoV-2 infections may have occurred in the western portion of the United States earlier than previously recognized or that a small portion of the population may have pre-existing antibodies that bind SARS-CoV-2,” the study reads.

However, the researchers say “widespread community transmission was not likely until late February.”

Some of these early infections may have gone unnoticed because patients with mild or asymptomatic cases may not have sought medical care at the time, the researchers explain in the study. Sick patients with symptoms who did visit a doctor may not have had a respiratory sample collected, so appropriate testing may not have been conducted.

But the researchers wonder if the detection of antibodies in these patient samples really does indicate a past coronavirus infection, and not of another pathogen in the coronavirus family, such as the common cold.

A study published in August found that people who have had the common cold could have cells in their immune systems that might be able to recognize those of the novel coronavirus, McClatchy News reported.

Scientists behind the finding say this “memory” of viruses past could explain why some people are only slightly affected by COVID-19, while others get severely sick.

The researchers call this phenomenon “cross reactivity,” but they note it’s just one of several limitations to their study. The team also said they can’t tell if the COVID-19 cases were community- or travel-associated and that none of the antibody results can be considered “true positives.”

“A true positive would only be collected from an individual with a positive molecular diagnostic test,” the researchers wrote in the study.

Back in May, doctors in Paris also learned the coronavirus had been silently creeping around Europe a month before the official first-known cases were diagnosed in the region.

The first two cases — with known travel to China — in France were reported Jan. 24, but after testing frozen samples from earlier patient records, doctors realized a man with no recent travel had the coronavirus in December.

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Vaccines may not prevent the transmission of Covid-19 from vaccinated to unvaccinated, Moderna chief doctor warns

The recent data from multiple coronavirus vaccine trials has uplifted people around the world – as it was revealed multiple jabs showed high efficacy against the novel virus.

Moderna, an American biotechnology company, announced its coronavirus vaccine was 94.5 per cent effective at protecting people from Covid-19. But the company’s top doctor has now warned this news doesn’t necessarily mean those who are vaccinated will be unable to transmit the virus to the unvaccinated.

"They do not show that they prevent you from potentially carrying this virus transiently and infecting others," Moderna Chief Medical Officer Tal Zaks told Axios, adding the public should not “over-interpret the results” of the vaccine yet.

“I think we need to be careful, as we get vaccinated, not to over-interpret the results,” Dr Zaks said. “When we start the deployment of this vaccine, we will not have sufficient concrete data to prove that this vaccine reduces transmission.”

“Do I believe that it reduces transmission? Absolutely yes, and I say this because of the science,” he added. “But absent proof, I think it’s important that we don’t change behaviors solely on the basis of vaccination.”

The sobering clarification means that while a coronavirus vaccine would be one more step for the public to return to some semblance of normalcy, that return might take longer depending on transmission results.

If it turns out that the vaccines only prevent serious complications of Covid-19 and do not prevent the transmission of the virus from one person to another, then that means “getting back to normal” will take longer and rely on a vast majority of the world population getting vaccinated.

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