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Italy keeps getting worse.

https://mobile.twitter.com/BNODesk/status/1236337756214788100

The health system is so strained there they are now enlisting retired doctors to help treat the epidemic.

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He neglected to mention South Carolina.

Edit, it would seem that it is yet to be verified by cdc, but local testing confirms CV.

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When was that one confirmed? That tweet thread was from last night.

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I just edited. Not confirmed by cdc yet, but there are two suspected cases, one in Kershaw and one in Charleston.

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Ask them how many test kits for swine flu were available back in 2009. Six months after the first case broke here, they had shipped a thousand.

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I wouldn’t be surprised to see all 50 states with confirmed cases by the end of the weekend, or early next week at the latest.

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Seems pretty obvious. Something this easily transmissible and with a long period of asymptomatic while infectious period can’t be contained. Best you can hope is to slow it down to give us more time to prepare.

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This makes me wonder how transmissible it is. I mean, obviously it’s contagious, but the glimmer of hope I’m seeing from this is that it’s not lasting long outside the body, so casual contact may not transmit.

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That’s what I’m thinking. Passengers has private quarters while the crew probably have shared quarters.

So if you’re open space individual out in country you’re probably not going to get it.

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Absolutely insane. 76 total cases, 57 of which a cluster from one person. Zero deaths. In the last week of February alone, there were 8,500 confirmed new influenza cases in New York state, with over 140,000 confirmed cases this season. 9 children have died of the flu in New York. This is what calls for a state of emergency? I realize this was mostly done to free resources, but it adds to the fear and hysteria.

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It’s all about politics.

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New York City has 8.6 million persons in it. To the extent that one could use the infection rate on the cruise ships as guide could be looking at 1.5 - 2 million persons infected alone. I would hesitant to use a cruise ship as a model for NYC, tho.

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Has this already been discussed? Are children who are in good health likely to never catch this virus?

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I think this virus is a very very advantageous little bugger. I truly believe that the pollution in China, creates severely damaged lungs which makes these older peoples lungs very hospitable to this Corona Virus which attaches itself inside the lungs.

When you have people who have to wear masks just to go outside, you will have severe lung damage. Children lungs have not been damaged yet. Therefore the virus does not attAch as easily. Causing fewer children to get sick then expected.

That’s my theory.

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Have there been links regarding the demographics of those infected in the US?

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Just the very good map from Johns Hopkins.

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Is that the one that looks like a nuclear war happened with big red circles eating everyone?

I don’t see anything on there indicating demographics. I see the vast majority of deaths have happened in the west coast.

Weird, I wonder what the demographics would reveal about this whole scare. :thinking:

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Yes it is…ya gotta dig…

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That’s the link I had open already. Don’t see any demographics, but whatevs. Thankful there’s not been a case reported in Missouri yet.

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It’s discussed in the article, but the theory I’ve heard given most credence is that children are exposed to more viruses given daycare, schools, etc. and therefore likely have some adaptive immunity whereas adults do not. Children also have pretty robust immune systems.