Hendrik_2000
Lieutenant General
Coronavirus 2019-2020 thread (no unsubstantiated rumours!)
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Hendrik_2000
Lieutenant General
Here is where she live
Woodbridge, Virginia, where she lives, seems to be within walking distance from Springfield, Virginia where an unknow pneumonia outbreak was reported from a nursing home in June 2019.
Woodbridge, Virginia, where she lives, seems to be within walking distance from Springfield, Virginia where an unknow pneumonia outbreak was reported from a nursing home in June 2019.
Hendrik_2000
Lieutenant General
Good move but should have done it sooner. Same policies should enact for Guangdong and Shanghai and the rest of China.
Beijing tightens quarantine rules for travellers from overseas
BEIJING (Reuters): Beijing’s city government is further strengthening quarantine rules for individuals who arrive in China from overseas, as the Chinese capital seeks to minimise coronavirus-related risks, Beijing Daily reported on Tuesday (March 24).
The paper said all people entering the Chinese capital will be subject to centralised quarantine and testing for the coronavirus.
The report also said those who enter the city and have travelled from overseas to China in the past 14 days will also be subject to centralised quarantine and testing for the coronavirus, which has killed nearly 3,300 and infected nearly 82,000 in mainland China.
The move came as mainland China saw a doubling in new coronavirus cases, driven by a jump in infected travellers arriving from abroad, while more locally transmitted cases crept into its daily tally, including one in the central city of Wuhan.
China had 78 new cases on Monday, the National Health Commission said, a two-fold increase from a day earlier.
Of the new cases, 74 were imported infections, up from 39 a day earlier.
The Chinese capital was the hardest-hit, with a record 31 new imported cases, followed by southern Guangdong province with 14 and the financial hub of Shanghai with nine.
The total number of imported cases in China stood at 427 as of Monday.
Beijing has imposed tough screening and quarantine protocols, and has diverted all incoming international flights to other Chinese cities, but that has not stemmed the influx of Chinese nationals, many of whom are students returning home from virus-hit countries.
The number of local infections from overseas arrivals – the first of which was reported in the southern travel hub of Guangzhou on Saturday – remains very small.
On Monday, Beijing saw its first case of a local person being infected by an international traveller arriving in China.
Shanghai reported a similar case, bringing the total number of such infections to three so far.
Meanwhile, of China’s four new locally transmitted infections on Monday, one was in Wuhan, the capital of central Hubei province. This follows five days of no new infections in the city, the epicentre of the outbreak in China.
Guangdong reported on Monday a local case linked to an infected individual from Hubei.
Policymakers are conscious of the potential social instability and economic disruption that a new wave of infections could cause, especially in Hubei, where factories and businesses are only just starting to resume.
A private survey on Tuesday suggested that a 10-11 per cent contraction in first-quarter gross domestic product "is not unreasonable".
Many Chinese say they remain worried about the possibility of a new wave of infections as more people return to work as severe travel restrictions are eased with slowing infections.
They are also cautious of spending too much, concerned about job security as the economy slows.
The epidemic has hammered all sectors of the economy – from manufacturing to tourism.
To persuade businesses to reopen, policymakers have promised loans, aids and subsidies.
In Beijing, the city is reopening the Badaling section of the Great Wall, an infamously crowded part of the Unesco World Heritage Site
In the impoverished province of Gansu, government officials are each required to spend at least 200 yuan (S$41.06) a week to spur the recovery of the local catering industry. - Reuters
Beijing tightens quarantine rules for travellers from overseas
BEIJING (Reuters): Beijing’s city government is further strengthening quarantine rules for individuals who arrive in China from overseas, as the Chinese capital seeks to minimise coronavirus-related risks, Beijing Daily reported on Tuesday (March 24).
The paper said all people entering the Chinese capital will be subject to centralised quarantine and testing for the coronavirus.
The report also said those who enter the city and have travelled from overseas to China in the past 14 days will also be subject to centralised quarantine and testing for the coronavirus, which has killed nearly 3,300 and infected nearly 82,000 in mainland China.
The move came as mainland China saw a doubling in new coronavirus cases, driven by a jump in infected travellers arriving from abroad, while more locally transmitted cases crept into its daily tally, including one in the central city of Wuhan.
China had 78 new cases on Monday, the National Health Commission said, a two-fold increase from a day earlier.
Of the new cases, 74 were imported infections, up from 39 a day earlier.
The Chinese capital was the hardest-hit, with a record 31 new imported cases, followed by southern Guangdong province with 14 and the financial hub of Shanghai with nine.
The total number of imported cases in China stood at 427 as of Monday.
Beijing has imposed tough screening and quarantine protocols, and has diverted all incoming international flights to other Chinese cities, but that has not stemmed the influx of Chinese nationals, many of whom are students returning home from virus-hit countries.
The number of local infections from overseas arrivals – the first of which was reported in the southern travel hub of Guangzhou on Saturday – remains very small.
On Monday, Beijing saw its first case of a local person being infected by an international traveller arriving in China.
Shanghai reported a similar case, bringing the total number of such infections to three so far.
Meanwhile, of China’s four new locally transmitted infections on Monday, one was in Wuhan, the capital of central Hubei province. This follows five days of no new infections in the city, the epicentre of the outbreak in China.
Guangdong reported on Monday a local case linked to an infected individual from Hubei.
Policymakers are conscious of the potential social instability and economic disruption that a new wave of infections could cause, especially in Hubei, where factories and businesses are only just starting to resume.
A private survey on Tuesday suggested that a 10-11 per cent contraction in first-quarter gross domestic product "is not unreasonable".
Many Chinese say they remain worried about the possibility of a new wave of infections as more people return to work as severe travel restrictions are eased with slowing infections.
They are also cautious of spending too much, concerned about job security as the economy slows.
The epidemic has hammered all sectors of the economy – from manufacturing to tourism.
To persuade businesses to reopen, policymakers have promised loans, aids and subsidies.
In Beijing, the city is reopening the Badaling section of the Great Wall, an infamously crowded part of the Unesco World Heritage Site
In the impoverished province of Gansu, government officials are each required to spend at least 200 yuan (S$41.06) a week to spur the recovery of the local catering industry. - Reuters
Do me a favor and wear a mask for you,. Your loved ones, and for us. There are evidence the virus can spread via droplets or even aerosol on unventilated confined spaces. Not saying supermarket is such a confined space but I would take precaution. Not worth the risk for a trivial mask.
Some 28% of tests in New York are positive. It doesn't look good for the next few weeks. I think some states might be able to flatten the curve within the next few weeks. Others such as NYC would have a hard time to confront the surge.
New York coronavirus cases surge 38% overnight to 20,875
New York is the hardest-hit state in the country, ahead of New Jersey, California and Washington state, Cuomo said. New York City, alone, accounts for 12,305 confirmed infections, he said.
“This could go on for several months,” Cuomo said. Roughly 13% of all cases have been hospitalized, 621 of the patients have ended up in the ICU and 157 people have died, he said.
“Nobody can tell you is it four months, six months, eight months, nine months. But it is several months,” Cuomo said. “We all have to now confront that that is a new reality. That is not going to change. You are not going to turn on the news tomorrow morning and they’re going to say, ‘Surprise, surprise this is all now resolved in two weeks.’”
Cuomo estimated up to 80% of the state’s more than 19.4 million residents will get the coronavirus. Last week, Cuomo estimated there are likely “tens of thousands” of COVID-19 cases in the state among residents who didn’t know they had it.
“Many people will get the virus but few will truly be in danger,” he said Monday.
On Sunday, Cuomo said the state had 15,168 cases, more than France or South Korea were reporting at the time and those numbers are expected to dramatically rise as the state ramps up testing.
New York and New Jersey are seeing coronavirus than other parts of the country, a U.S. official in charge of the White House’s pandemic response efforts said Monday.
“The New York metro area of New Jersey, New York City, and parts of Long Island have an attack rate close to one in 1,000,” Dr. Deborah Birx, a physician and the White House coronavirus response coordinator, said at a press briefing Monday evening. The attack rate is the percentage of a population that gets the disease.
She said roughly 28% of the specimens submitted in that region have tested positive for COVID-19, while less than 8% have tested positive for the disease in the rest of the country.
“To all of my friends and colleagues in New York, this is the group that actually needs to social distance and self-isolate,” she said. “Clearly, the virus had been there for a number of weeks.”
Cuomo has said he worries the outbreak will stretch U.S. hospitals to their maximum capacity, saying the nation doesn’t have enough hospital beds to handle a pandemic. Hospitals across the nation are running low on personal protective equipment. Cuomo said the state has had some luck finding extra gear for doctors and nurses and is sending hundreds of thousands of surgical masks, N95 masks, gloves and gowns to hospitals across the state.
He said he would have liked for hospitals to increase their capacity by 100%, but added that would be unreasonable.
“I think it’s unreasonable to tell hospitals to double their capacity,” Cuomo said. “They must increase by 50% at least.”
On Friday, Cuomo of their workforce at home and put in place stringent new restrictions on New Yorkers.
Cuomo said he has asked the federal government to and has signed off on several locations to build temporary hospitals to treat patients.
New York coronavirus cases surge 38% overnight to 20,875
- Cuomo estimates that up to 80% of the state’s more than 19.4 million residents will get the coronavirus.
- Roughly 13% of all cases have been hospitalized, 621 of the patients have ended up in the ICU and 157 people have died, he said.
- New York has run 78,289 COVID-19 tests and is testing more than 16,000 people a day now, he said.
New York is the hardest-hit state in the country, ahead of New Jersey, California and Washington state, Cuomo said. New York City, alone, accounts for 12,305 confirmed infections, he said.
“This could go on for several months,” Cuomo said. Roughly 13% of all cases have been hospitalized, 621 of the patients have ended up in the ICU and 157 people have died, he said.
“Nobody can tell you is it four months, six months, eight months, nine months. But it is several months,” Cuomo said. “We all have to now confront that that is a new reality. That is not going to change. You are not going to turn on the news tomorrow morning and they’re going to say, ‘Surprise, surprise this is all now resolved in two weeks.’”
Cuomo estimated up to 80% of the state’s more than 19.4 million residents will get the coronavirus. Last week, Cuomo estimated there are likely “tens of thousands” of COVID-19 cases in the state among residents who didn’t know they had it.
“Many people will get the virus but few will truly be in danger,” he said Monday.
On Sunday, Cuomo said the state had 15,168 cases, more than France or South Korea were reporting at the time and those numbers are expected to dramatically rise as the state ramps up testing.
New York and New Jersey are seeing coronavirus than other parts of the country, a U.S. official in charge of the White House’s pandemic response efforts said Monday.
“The New York metro area of New Jersey, New York City, and parts of Long Island have an attack rate close to one in 1,000,” Dr. Deborah Birx, a physician and the White House coronavirus response coordinator, said at a press briefing Monday evening. The attack rate is the percentage of a population that gets the disease.
She said roughly 28% of the specimens submitted in that region have tested positive for COVID-19, while less than 8% have tested positive for the disease in the rest of the country.
“To all of my friends and colleagues in New York, this is the group that actually needs to social distance and self-isolate,” she said. “Clearly, the virus had been there for a number of weeks.”
Cuomo has said he worries the outbreak will stretch U.S. hospitals to their maximum capacity, saying the nation doesn’t have enough hospital beds to handle a pandemic. Hospitals across the nation are running low on personal protective equipment. Cuomo said the state has had some luck finding extra gear for doctors and nurses and is sending hundreds of thousands of surgical masks, N95 masks, gloves and gowns to hospitals across the state.
He said he would have liked for hospitals to increase their capacity by 100%, but added that would be unreasonable.
“I think it’s unreasonable to tell hospitals to double their capacity,” Cuomo said. “They must increase by 50% at least.”
On Friday, Cuomo of their workforce at home and put in place stringent new restrictions on New Yorkers.
Cuomo said he has asked the federal government to and has signed off on several locations to build temporary hospitals to treat patients.
AssassinsMace
Lieutenant General
A lot of articles contradicting one another on how the virus spreads. Some articles say ventilation spreads the virus more. At this stage for the US it's better getting those masks to healthcare workers. If people are sick, then they should self-isolate and not go out in public. I've been in plenty of confined spaces in public not only supermarkets. The last time I was in Costco, I saw a family of four all wearing masks. Not all of them have to go to Costco. You can get one person to go and they can save three masks. It's a waste. If people are that afraid of catching the coronavirus, don't go out in public. That's the best way not to catch the virus.
Jura The idiot
General
Yesterday at 8:57 PM
United States
Deaths:
582
so what military forum is this here, not asking what the CIA, NSA with multiple-billion budgets (classified hahaha) were doing to miss the pandemics coming to the US (and NATO)?!
... Last updated: March 24, 2020, 05:29 GMT
United States
Deaths:
582
so what military forum is this here, not asking what the CIA, NSA with multiple-billion budgets (classified hahaha) were doing to miss the pandemics coming to the US (and NATO)?!