Deadly Wuhan Coronavirus

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FDA approves first US coronavirus treatment: Doctors across the US can now treat the sickest Americans with plasma from recovered patients

The US Food and Drug Administration on Tuesday approved the first treatment in the US for the coronavirus that has infected more than 50,000 Americans: blood plasma from people who have cleared the infection.

Blood plasma from recovered COVID-19 patients is rich in antibodies their immune system has developed to fight the infection.

China began using the century-old method to treat its patients last month, and New York Governor Andrew Cuomo announced Monday that plasma would be tested there to treat the sickest of the state's more than 25,000 coronavirus patients.

The treatment may be the best hope for critically ill COVID-19 patients while scientists work to develop new, specific treatments for the disease and test experimental drugs like chloroquine and remdesivir.


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'This is not a cold. This is the Grim Reaper knocking on my door': Fitness enthusiast, 42, blasts people who dismiss coronavirus symptoms as he describes terror and pain of muscle cramps, 104 temperature and struggling to breathe

A 42-year-old father from Illinois who has run a marathon and described himself as 'relatively healthy' has shared a diary of the brutal toll coronavirus can have on anyone, despite their age and physical condition. Michael Bane shared his plight in a lengthy Facebook post from his hospital bed Sunday, blasting other COVID-19-postive people for brushing off the virus as similar to influenza and warning followers it could kill him. Bane believes he contracted the novel coronavirus - which has killed over 500 people in the United States so far - on March 3 and the past two weeks have seen him struggle to even drink water as his body received blow after blow from the painful disease.

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Two-month old baby and a seven-year-old are diagnosed with deadly COVID-19 in NSW amid a huge spike in infections in Australia's coronavirus epicentre as number of cases soars to 2,317 overnight

A two-month-old baby and a seven-year-old child were among the new coronavirus cases emerging overnight - as the number to have tested positive in Australia rose to 2,363 by Wednesday morning.

New South Wales recorded another big jump in COVID-19 cases on Tuesday night, with the state's total scaling above 1,000. Premier Gladys Berejiklian said an increase in patients was expected and health authorities are enforcing strict quarantine.

'I want to stress that the number of cases in NSW continue to rise but the important thing to note has for every identified case there is strong enforcement, strong compliance and we are making sure that people stick to the rules,' she said on Wednesday morning.


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nivek

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This virus could seriously cripple India...

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India's prime minister decrees 21-day lockdown to curb virus

India will begin the world's largest lockdown on Wednesday, Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced in a TV address, warning citizens to stay inside or risk inviting the pandemic into their homes, and pledging $2 billion to bolster the country's beleaguered health care system.

“To save India and every Indian, there will be a total ban on venturing out,” Modi said Tuesday night, acknowledging that the 21-day lockdown would be a major blow to the economy, but insisting that the alternative could set the country back 21 years.

The move puts nearly one-fifth of the world's population under lockdown.

The announcement set off panic in many neighborhoods as people rushed to markets to stock up on supplies. At many places, police tried to disperse crowds outside stores.

Indian health officials have reported 469 active cases of COVID-19, the disease caused by the virus, and 10 deaths. Officials have repeatedly insisted there is no evidence yet of localized spread but have conducted relatively scant testing for the disease. In a country where tens of millions live in dense urban areas with irregular access to clean water, experts have said local spreading is inevitable.


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nivek

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London and Madrid are now facing WORSE coronavirus outbreaks than Italy's worst-hit region of Lombardy with deaths doubling every TWO days

Madrid and London are facing worse coronavirus outbreaks than Lombardy in Italy with deaths doubling every two days - but New York's mortality rate could be set to outpace them all. The humanitarian cost of the pandemic continues to mount globally as more than 415,000 people have been infected with the deadly disease, and more than 18,000 have been killed.

Lombardy, Italy, replaced Wuhan in China, as the most badly impacted region in the world, with authorities in the European country announcing that 743 more people had died in the country on Tuesday, bringing the total dead to 6,820.

Italian authorities believe some of the restrictive measures taken may be beginning to have an impact after officially registered new infections rose by just eight percent, the same percentage increase as Monday- the lowest level since Italy registered its first death on February 21.

The trajectory of the rapidly spreading virus shows that Madrid and London could become the next hotspots of the disease, with deaths now doubling every two days in the respective capital cities.

In the UK, 87 more patients died overnight in England, including 21 at the one NHS trust in London. The UK's death toll has risen almost six-fold in the space of a week, with just 71 fatalities recorded last Tuesday.

And in Spain the armed forces asked NATO for humanitarian assistance to fight the novel coronavirus as the national death toll touched 2,700 and infections soared towards 40,000. The Madrid region has suffered the brunt of the epidemic with 12,352 infections - just under a third of the total - and 1,535 deaths, or 57 percent of the national figure.

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US coronavirus death toll hits more than 780 after a rise of 190 in just one day - the biggest jump to date - with 54,905 total cases and an infection rate worse than Italy
  • Total cases number of cases in US now stands at 54,905 as of Tuesday evening
  • Experts say the spike is yet to come and the crisis will last for months, at least
  • On Tuesday alone, more than 8,000 new positive cases were confirmed
  • Across the US 175 million people living in 17 states have been urged to stay home
  • New York is by far the worst affected state in the country, with 25,665 cases
  • On Tuesday afternoon NYC mayor de Blasio said 131 people in the city had died
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Chairman of the Joint Chiefs warns coronavirus will NOT be over by Easter and warns the military is planning for up to four MONTHS of crisis

The Chairman of the Joint Chiefs Mark Milley anticipated the coronavirus crisis could last another three months - stretching until almost the Fourth of July, instead of Easter, which President Trump referenced Tuesday.

'You're looking at eight to 10, maybe 12 weeks, something like that, call it three months,' Milley said at the Pentagon Tuesday, according to Fox News. 'Some of it depends on what we do as a nation to mitigate it, to flatten the curve so to speak. But we, the United States military, we're going to do this as long as the mission takes.'

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AD1184

Celestial
The papers keep reporting 'the biggest daily jump to date' in either the number of cases or the number of new deaths. But this is the expectation in almost all ongoing epidemics. We are in the very early stages where a relatively small proportion of the population has been infected.

Lockdowns have been put in place, but you have to wait two weeks post lockdown to see that reflected in a reduction in the daily number of new cases, and about four weeks to see it reflected in the number of new deaths. Only Italy has potentially made it to the first of these events (but not the second, as we see from the large number of new deaths yesterday).
 

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I have been looking at the daily new case graphs for various western countries, after first noticing something in the British reporting of this on Public Health England's dashboard:

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There was a pronounced dip in reported cases on the 22nd of March. It occurs to me that it was a Sunday. So I looked at graphs for other countries and noticed that many of them had Sunday dips (or Saturday dips, as in the US, or both days in the case of Germany), despite the fact that the overall trend is exponentially upwards in each case. So it looks like the authorities in many places are making less of an effort to report cases on Sundays, likely due to staffing issues. This is reminiscent of studies which have shown that there tend to be worse outcomes for those who have surgery on a Friday, Saturday or Sunday.

I don't wish to sound like I am whinging as I am not directly contributing to the fight against the spread of the virus, and people need time off, even if they are involved with it. It is just an interesting observation, and something to consider when reading reports of new case counts. If a news outlet reports a dip, you might first ask yourself whether it is weekend data, before getting your hopes up about the actual trajectory of the epidemic.
 

pigfarmer

tall, thin, irritable
Jeeeesus, is there no end to their appetite.

The ancients were huge on canibalism and not because of poverty either. They say it was political what ever that could mean but a pound to a penny it was about power, potency, success or recovery.

If our politicians found themselves on the wrong side of an issue or a vote and could actually be EATEN - crack the bones, suck out the marrow - then wouldn't that make politics much more interesting? Certainly would focus one's attention.

We've been calling for terms limits, just didn't know the dinner bell was the answer.

I'd have C-Span on all the time.
 

Shadowprophet

Truthiness
Who knows how long they will keep this up. but fox news is doing a live feed of the Johns Hopkins Heat Map.




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I had been meaning to talk to Nivek About adding some sort of Html plugged-in version of this page so people can track the virus from AE, But I'm almost certain the thought has occurred to him to do something. I mean everyone is tracking it anyway, So why not add some sort of option to track the heat map here. It's just logical. But this is just a thought.
 

pigfarmer

tall, thin, irritable
I guess the message here is to follow your doctor's advice ......

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Rwandan man who breached coronavirus lockdown killed by crocodile
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A man in Rwanda violated lockdown orders amid the coronavirus outbreak to go fishing – but was killed and eaten by an crocodile, according to a report.

He had broken the stay-home rule, he’s among very few people here who are not cooperating with the lockdown to stop the virus,” Alice Kayitesi, mayor of the southern Kamonyi district, told the BBC.

The unidentified man was attacked by the croc on Wednesday in the Nyabarongo river, the news outlet reported.

The African country of some 12 million people has confirmed 40 cases of COVID-19, the highest in the region, though no deaths have been reported.
 

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Man, 26, who shared a Snapchat video of himself licking toiletries in Walmart while taunting 'who's scared of coronavirus?' is ARRESTED and charged with making a terrorist threat

Cody Pfister, 26, of Warrenton, Missouri, uploaded the video to Snapchat on March 11 and was charged on Tuesday with 'knowingly causing a false belief or fear that a condition involving danger to life existed.' Warrenton police said they had received complaints from around the world including the UK, Ireland and the Netherlands and said it takes these concerns 'extremely seriously.' Pfister, who has previous convictions for burglary and theft, is the latest to get into trouble with the law in a worrying trend seeing younger generations mocking the deadly virus on social media.

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Europe's odd man out: Sweden refuses to bring in lockdowns despite 2,272 infections, keeps bars open and even ENCOURAGES people to go out

While most of Europe is firmly locked down in a bid to curb the spread of Covid-19, Sweden is taking a softer line, keeping primary schools, restaurants and bars open and even encouraging people to go outside for a nip of air.

This stands in stark contrast to the urgent tone elsewhere and has sparked heated debate whether Sweden is really doing the right thing.

The country has reported more than 2,299 confirmed cases of the coronavirus and 41 deaths.

'We cannot allow the human desperation in Wuhan and Bergamo to be repeated in Sweden. That would be a gamble that violates society's most fundamental principle: that every person has an inherent value,' the editor-in-chief of Sweden's biggest newspaper, Dagens Nyheter, wrote on Sunday, calling for either tougher measures or more widespread coronavirus testing.


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