2019-nCoV Coronovirus (COVID-19]

MY BAD VG

 

Antibiotics probably won’t help- it sounds like a cold unfortunately.

 

You'll do better next time..

 

A hospital worker in the county that borders mine has tested positive for Covid-19. The hospital is attempting to get in touch with everyone who may have had contact with this person, which seems impossible to me. This is the closest case to me so far.

Illinois, just north of me, has just today ordered all residents to stay home. Talk around the office today is whether we will be back to work on Monday.

 

Meanwhile, in Nth Korea:

NKorea fires unidentified projectile

 

Meanwhile in Sydney....

3800 crew and passengers with SARS 2.0 were allowed to get off a cruise ship as long as they pinky swear to self isolate

Passengers and crew from cruise ship that docked in Sydney test positive for coronavirus

 

Someone in my work building tested positive today. 45 story building, but who knows. I figure I'll just get it honestly.

I'm not super worried, but earlier this week I woke up with allergies, sneezed and had a brief 5 second wave of dispair. "Oh God, it's coming!"

 

Something like 60% of people will get it. Many will be asymptomatic or only have a mild illness. Bit of a chook lottery though.

 

Ugh. Netflix did this update lately where you can see the top ten steaming for the day or whatever.

Pandemic and 2012 are big this week. You kids!

 

What's happening with the Kung flu tonight? Haven't read anything on facebook.

 

Bagel will love this one:


As a minister who worked with Andrew Yang, I'm glad to see everyone finally admitting he was right

 

TheSpaceAcademy.org✨ on Twitter

 

‪One of VP Pence's staff has tested positive for Covid-19.

Staff member in Vice President Mike Pence's office tests positive for coronavirus - CNNPolitics

 

The coronavirus crisis has hit Germany with full force. Infections are increasing rapidly, schools, factories and bars have closed across the country, and government measures to slow the outbreak are becoming more draconian by the day.

In one crucial way, however, the country is proving remarkably resilient: relative to known infections, the number of deaths has so far been minuscule.

According to data from Johns Hopkins University, there were 13,979 coronavirus infections in Germany on Thursday afternoon, more than in any other country except China, Italy, Iran and Spain.

At the same time, Germany had only registered 42 deaths. Neighbouring France, by contrast, reported 9,058 infections and 243 deaths. Spain had 17,395 infections and 803 deaths. The US, the UK, Italy and even South Korea all show case fatality rates significantly higher than Germany.

The apparent anomaly has sparked debate in Germany and beyond, though experts warn against drawing sweeping conclusions. They argue that the country’s low fatality rate most likely reflects the fact that the outbreak is still at a relatively early stage, and that the age profile of those affected has so far been younger than that in other countries. Younger patients without previous ailments have a much better chance of surviving Covid-19 than elderly patients.

"The capacity in Germany is very, very significant. We can conduct more than 160,000 tests per week, and that can be increased"
~Lothar Wieler, Koch institute

Another factor that may help explain the variance is the unusually high number of tests being carried out in Germany. According to Lothar Wieler, the president of the Robert Koch Institute, German laboratories are now conducting about 160,000 coronavirus tests every week — more than some European countries have carried out in total since the crisis started. Even South Korea, which is conducting 15,000 tests a day and has been held up by virologists as an example to follow, appears to be testing less than Germany.

“This is about capacity. The capacity in Germany is very, very significant. We can conduct more than 160,000 tests per week, and that can be increased further,” Prof Wieler told journalists this week. Test capabilities would be boosted not least in part by switching laboratories that specialise in animal health towards coronavirus checks. There was no sign that test kits were running low, Prof Wieler added.

In the short term at least, mass testing feeds through into a lower fatality rate because it allows authorities to detect cases of Covid-19 even in patients who suffer few or no symptoms, and who have a much better chance of survival. It also means that Germany is likely to have a lower number of undetected cases than countries where testing is less prevalent. Indeed, one notable feature of the coronavirus outbreak in Germany so far is the high number of relatively young patients: according to data from the Robert Koch Institute, more than 80 per cent of all people infected with the coronavirus are younger than 60.

 

Dude at work listens to talk radio all day. He comes up to me a dozen times today to give me "updates". I asked a couple days ago who he was listening to, he says Rush Limbaugh. There's an expert.