It’s a new virus…getting a vaccine for it takes time, so the odds of finding one before it jumps borders is slim to none.
We still don’t have one for SARS. Luckily it does not seem to be as contagious. This coronavirus, unfortunately, is.
One thing that has to happen…world has to start holding China to account and get them to work with us better.
Whether they like it or not, most new viruses are going to emanate from that country…mostly because of the large population and also, quite frankly, unsanitary practices with animals.
If this is a Spanish Flu-like virus, their lumbering bureaucracy will have doomed a lot of people to, at best, a very unpleasant time.
And even if this peters out like SARS, one day one will come along that won’t peter out.
They’ve got to get better at getting quicker at jumping on this stuff when it happens.
The Chines Government has their heads in the sand when it comes to diseases like this. They don’t want to accept responsibility for their poverty and the impoverished nature that breeds these diseases. They don’t want the Chinese people to know that their government isn’t going to lift a finger to take care of them.
Thus is the way things are in a communist regime. Look the other way while the world yells…“Hey China, what are you going to do about yet another disease coming out of your borders”?
Latest update…555 confirmed cases in five countries…17 deaths.
3% confirmed fatality rate.
FoxNews reported an NIH official said they are in the “early stages” of developing a vaccine, but who knows what that means?
Edited to add…almost all of the deaths (Fox had 17, CNN has 9) are people who were vulnerable (elderly or immunocompromised somehow). SARS OTOH had a ten percent mortality rate and the deaths were not limited to the vulnerable.
OK…I get what you were saying now.
I look at it this way. It will take the rest of this week for officials to get a handle on this. To start quarantining people in China, perhaps the US should pull their head out of the impeachment fiasco for enough time to say we are closing air traffic to all Chinese flights or flights originating or passing through Chinese airports.
Get out ahead of this. If the Chinese government and those of nations where this is starting to take root do the right things and quarantine patients and keep them from traveling even between cities, they could limit the damage done.
however, if the world buries their heads in the sand. Like anything else it will get out of control.
This article should also be very comforting that this thing will probably by no more tenacious or deadly than SARS, MERS, Avian Flu, or anything else that comes out of the far east/South East Asia Region.
Again, I will speak to the overall good health of Americans and our overall top quality Health Care system as two excellent reason’s why this disease will have a microscopic foot print compared to influenza, over the next 6 months.
The Spanish Influenza (H1N1) worldwide pandemic of 1918 killed an estimated 50 million people.
Jus’ sayin’
Guess sometimes God finds it necessary to “cull the herd”?
