Deadly Wuhan Coronavirus

Dejan Corovic

As above, so bellow
I've been watching Australia more lately, they seemed to have nipped the virus spread fairly well however they are going into Autumn and Winter which they may see a spike in cases coming...Not sure if temperature means a whole lot to this particular virus, time will tell...I agree with you though, a second wave could be extremely deadly, more so than the first wave, like the Spanish flu pandemic over a century ago...

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In Australia population density is untypically low. Most of them have their own houses. Here in London most people live on top of each other, travel to work in public transport. So pandemic dynamics is going to be very different.
 

Sheltie

Fratty and out of touch.
Obesity New Risk Factor for Young COVID Patients

I've seen a number of recent news stories suggesting the higher obesity rate in the US may be a possible reason for the higher mortality rate. In the US the obesity rate for adults is approximately 42%, certainly significantly higher than most Asian countries.

I personally find the obesity epidemic here to be extremely alarming but discussions of the topic never seem to gain traction in the media or on social networking sites.
 

nivek

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There's almost 400 deaths in North Carolina, but less than 10 in the county I live...

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Standingstones

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What I read about Australia and New Zealand was that they recognized the problem early. They started massive testing and then isolated those areas that showed the virus in large numbers. The US government on the other hand knew about this early and sat on their hands.

Do you know of places where large scale testing is being done? I haven’t heard of such things in Pennsylvania. It also seems our country decided not to put resources into such things as masks and ventilators until we were knee deep into the virus situation.

I guess I fall into the camp where the world is going through a massive change and the people are going to ignore or fight to the bitter end what needs to be done. We only need to read of these people, ministers and government officials, who tell the populace to ignore using masks, staying apart from others etc. Quite a few caught the Corona virus and are no longer with us. Everyone please use some common sense until we possibly come up with an antidote.
 

nivek

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Brazil is letting the coronavirus run wild with little intervention, and the results are strikingly bad
  • Brazil, which has a population of more than 209 million, has reported more than 91,000 confirmed cases of COVID-19 and at least 6,300 deaths from the virus.
  • Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro has downplayed the virus for weeks and even encouraged protesters calling for state-issued lockdowns to be lifted.
  • The country has yet to hit its peak in COVID-19 cases, and experts worry that the case count and death toll could be much higher than reported.
Brazil is facing an extreme surge in COVID-19 cases after the government left the virus to spread virtually uncontrolled for weeks, all while the country's president mocked stay-at-home policies and pushed against directives from the World Health Organization.

As of Friday evening, Brazil, which has a population of 209 million, had 91,589 confirmed cases of COVID-19 and 6,329 deaths from the virus, according to Johns Hopkins data. That makes the country's per-capita death rate 3.02 deaths per 100,000 people.

Experts told The Associated Press that the numbers of cases and deaths could be much higher because Brazil does not yet have widespread testing.

Since the novel coronavirus started to spread across the world, countries have issued lockdowns, stay-at-home orders, and curfews to help contain outbreaks. Even Sweden, which has left restaurants, schools, and public spaces open, has urged its residents to social distance and stay home when necessary.

But in Brazil, there's an alarmingly relaxed approach from the country's president, Jair Bolsonaro — the only stay-at-home orders in place have been issued by governors, borders are still open, and there are very few countrywide quarantine regulations.

Brazil's extraordinarily low testing rate — 32 times lower than in the US, which is still looking to ramp up its own testing, according to The Washington Post — is so low that hospital patients and medical workers are not being tested for the virus.

According to the latest report from Pantheon Macroeconomics, an economic-research consultancy firm, Brazil wasn't hit hard by the virus until late March or early April, but the number of new cases is growing by the day.


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nivek

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Younger adults are getting seriously sick and ending up in the hospital because of the coronavirus, and it's alarming doctors
  • Doctors on the frontlines say they're astonished at how many relatively young people are becoming severely ill from the novel coronavirus.
  • Business Insider spoke with one 31-year-old New York doctor who was about to be admitted to the ICU before starting to recover from COVID-19.
  • "For someone in their 40s, 50s, you want to try every thing you can to get them to survive," one ICU doctor told Business Insider.
  • The shock of finding otherwise healthy people in their 30s, 40s, and 50s, in the hospital severely ill with COVID-19 has been a common refrain in Business Insider's conversations with doctors on the front lines. Other viral outbreaks, especially the flu, tend to hit the youngest and oldest Americans the hardest
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nivek

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Britain's coronavirus-free zones: Interactive map shows how hundreds of UK areas and villages have managed to avoid a fatality



An interactive map which shows coronavirus deaths by postcode reveals hundreds of towns and villages have managed to avoid a single fatality during the pandemic. Looking at the map, from Office for National Statistics data, reveals large swathes of Wales, South West and East England have remained unscathed by the virus which has blighted the majority of the country. But it also reveals how three areas of London, which is where more than half of all UK Covid-19 deaths have occurred, have not yet had a registered coronavirus death.

Lambeth North and neighbouring Borough and Southwark Street, as well as North Acton, are all yet to record a death due to coronavirus. Outside of London, twenty-four towns in Cornwall have not incurred any COVID-19 deaths, with the county suffering just 14 deaths per 100,000 people (pictured, areas in England and Wales with no coronavirus deaths).

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nivek

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In the US 28 percent of the closed cases result in death...

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nivek

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Bees dying of disease eerily similar to coronavirus, British scientists say

The latest buzz in the science world: Honeybees are dying of something that is freakishly similar to the coronavirus.

Bee populations around the globe have been decimated by a viral disease that creeps into hives via asymptomatic insects and spreads like wildfire, British researchers discovered. Their research even suggests the insects could benefit from social distancing.

The scientists found piles of bee carcasses outside hives infected with chronic bee paralysis virus, which causes severe trembling, flightlessness and death within a week, the Guardian reported.

The infection was once a rarity but has spread rapidly, according to the researchers at Newcastle University, who examined bees in 25 countries.

In Britain, for example, chronic bee paralysis virus took only a decade to invade 39 of 47 English counties and six of eight Welsh counties. In the US, the infection rate jumped from 0.7% in 2010 to 16% in 2014.

The findings, published in Nature Communications, suggests that the disease is twice as likely to infect commercially harvested bees — and that colonies not confined to the close quarters might fare better.

“You can’t do social distancing in a hive as easily, but you can manage it by increasing the space in there,” Professor Giles Budge told the website.

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AD1184

Celestial
Bees dying of disease eerily similar to coronavirus, British scientists say

The latest buzz in the science world: Honeybees are dying of something that is freakishly similar to the coronavirus.

Bee populations around the globe have been decimated by a viral disease that creeps into hives via asymptomatic insects and spreads like wildfire, British researchers discovered. Their research even suggests the insects could benefit from social distancing.

The scientists found piles of bee carcasses outside hives infected with chronic bee paralysis virus, which causes severe trembling, flightlessness and death within a week, the Guardian reported.

The infection was once a rarity but has spread rapidly, according to the researchers at Newcastle University, who examined bees in 25 countries.

In Britain, for example, chronic bee paralysis virus took only a decade to invade 39 of 47 English counties and six of eight Welsh counties. In the US, the infection rate jumped from 0.7% in 2010 to 16% in 2014.

The findings, published in Nature Communications, suggests that the disease is twice as likely to infect commercially harvested bees — and that colonies not confined to the close quarters might fare better.

“You can’t do social distancing in a hive as easily, but you can manage it by increasing the space in there,” Professor Giles Budge told the website.

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In what way is it 'freakishly similar' to coronavirus?
 

nivek

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In what way is it 'freakishly similar' to coronavirus?

I guess mainly in the way it's quickly spreads through the bee colonies?...

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AD1184

Celestial
I guess mainly in the way it's quickly spreads through the bee colonies?...

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You could say then that it is 'eerily similar to chickenpox', or bovine foot and mouth, or any of many other viral diseases. What their headline is saying is essentially 'virus behaves like many other viruses'.
 

nivek

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AD1184

Celestial
Has anyone else noticed that if you go over to Google Maps and look at the city of Wuhan and select the satellite layer, the registration of the streets superimposed over the imagery is not correct? i.e. The pictures do not line up with the street markings and the labels? This artefact is also present in Google Earth.

Furthermore, if you type in the search box, "Wuhan Institute of Virology", it takes you to an address that is nowhere near the actual location? The Wikipedia page for the Institute also apparently gives the wrong location as well. If you do an image search for the WIV, it gives you lots of pictures of a building that looks like this (this picture illustrates a Guardian article):

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This building, as located by matching its appearance to a building on the map, is located in the Jiangxia District of Wuhan, an industrial area in the southern part of the city. Both Google Maps and Wikipedia identify its location as the Wuchang District, which is about eight miles to the north and much closer to the centre of the city.
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nivek

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Has anyone else noticed that if you go over to Google Maps and look at the city of Wuhan and select the satellite layer, the registration of the streets superimposed over the imagery is not correct? i.e. The pictures do not line up with the street markings and the labels? This artefact is also present in Google Earth.

Furthermore, if you type in the search box, "Wuhan Institute of Virology", it takes you to an address that is nowhere near the actual location? The Wikipedia page for the Institute also apparently gives the wrong location as well. If you do an image search for the WIV, it gives you lots of pictures of a building that looks like this (this picture illustrates a Guardian article):

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This building, as located by matching its appearance to a building on the map, is located in the Jiangxia District of Wuhan, an industrial area in the southern part of the city. Both Google Maps and Wikipedia identify its location as the Wuchang District, which is about eight miles to the north and much closer to the centre of the city.
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This slide shows the WIV further south:

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nivek

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The daily new cases in the US seems to have plateaued with some highs and lows like small waves whilst the active cases are on a steady incline, looking like a giant water slide...


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