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Coronavirus Discussion Thread (See Staff Post) [UPDATE: WHO declares global emergency. See threadmarks]
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Meant travel insurance, which should cover any unexpected health related costs while we're there.
Japanese school where I'm enrolled told us stuff like how to prevent to get infected, that we shouldn't go to the school if we don't feel well and they won't accept Chinese students until the Coronavirus problem is resolved. My dad is coming to Japan this weekend and will be here for one week, I'm worried about him....
Also, I missed two hours of class because of my social anxiety and my school panicked thinking that I got infected.
Also, I missed two hours of class because of my social anxiety and my school panicked thinking that I got infected.
ahh be careful on that
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ahh be careful on that
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Thanks for the heads up! I'll have to scrutinize the policy further to make sure we don't get screwed over if anything happens 👀
Although this made me check my credit card as well for the travel benefits and it looks like my wife and I would be fully covered in case of a medical emergency, so I think everything looks ok.
It's likely on a downward slope unless there is an unregulated outbreak in another densely populated country. There will probably be pockets of illness for months however.
Plot twist? Your friend didn't speak to anyone at the gym. Didn't even go to the gym. He now has two weeks paid vacation. [NOTE: not calling your friend out, but I wouldn't be surprised if someone did that to get time off.]
...Why were they putting coronavirus patients in the same room as non-coronavirus patients??
Probably the best bet. Got plenty of time to see how things develop. I fly out next week but I think i'm going to cancel. It is looking a bit ominous at the moment. Cases continuing to rise, events being cancelled, policy of avoiding large crowds Etc. Spending a lot of money and want to see Japan in the best light possible and not something half hearted.
Fair enough but if she was having coronavirus-like symptoms she should have been isolated when those manifested. :/
Is it really practical to isolate everyone with a cold-like symptom? Even viral pneumonia was not that uncommon among the young and elderly.
Since many people have little to no symptoms, she could have shared the room when she was not showing obvious sign. So to be really safe you will need to isolate everyone. You will need an unlimited budget to build and staff a hospital like that.
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We can't monitor each and every post as they happen. If there's an issue, just hit the report button. Which coincidentally someone just used to report the post you're referring to and why I popped into the thread.
The 2 Iranians both tested positive and have both died https://www.reuters.com/article/us-...ive-for-coronavirus-official-idUSKBN20D1HN?il
That's not good, and Iranian nationals too it sounds like? They must have had a lot of time to infect other people.
I can't get my head around the Japanese cases. Seems a fair few popping up without any traceable contact and cases like the taxi driver that date back to the start of all this.
I'd have thought that would have led to an explosion of new cases by now but although they're rising the numbers still seem relatively low and mostly linked with close contact with known cases.
I'd have thought that would have led to an explosion of new cases by now but although they're rising the numbers still seem relatively low and mostly linked with close contact with known cases.
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I hate to say it but, it might be a case of most Japanese(Asian) people not being able to tell the difference between each other at the end of the day. If a customer doesn't do anything besides get in (with an app even) and leave, how would they know or even remember what non-japanese they encountered that day? If it was a German based disease and people in NY were put on full alert and random white dude takes the metro, would people be as freeked out because Americans didn't do enough to stop it, how could Joe Blow not notice?
Oh god, LAX? I have some friends in LA that are going to absolutely lose their minds now. Fingers crossed she's ok. ):Looks like the virus might have made its way to Honduras, Central America.
Llega a Tegucigalpa primera hondureña con sospechas de coronavirus
<div id='DTElementID-21351297' class='QuickRead'>La hondureña estuvo de vacaciones en Taiwán y pidió que se le realizaran los exámenes preventivos. Fue trasladada al Hospital del Tórax.</div>www.laprensa.hn
52 year-old woman who had been vacationing in Taiwan. Traveled to Honduras via LAX and El Salvador. Still not confirmed, but she is in quarantine.
Was reading newspaper and it said Japan (the whole country) only has ~1700 isolation bed to treat infectious disease. They have another ~1700 bed designated for flu. This seems rather low specially when Japan does (or did) not mandate MMR vaccine...
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Wow. I read a follow up article and it's 48 hours to get the results, so we should know tomorrow, hopefully.Looks like the virus might have made its way to Honduras, Central America.
Llega a Tegucigalpa primera hondureña con sospechas de coronavirus
<div id='DTElementID-21351297' class='QuickRead'>La hondureña estuvo de vacaciones en Taiwán y pidió que se le realizaran los exámenes preventivos. Fue trasladada al Hospital del Tórax.</div>
52 year-old woman who had been vacationing in Taiwan. Traveled to Honduras via LAX and El Salvador. Still not confirmed, but she is in quarantine.
So at least a 100 already affected in Iran. Fuckin Iranian government, once again showing that they try to keep the news from public until everything goes south.
Lol, yeah from what he has said he thinks a few others have already done that.
He's still expected to work the two weeks just working from home, which in his role will make everything take twice as long as he's a Project Manager so he is not happy about it.
EDIT: Removed link because it's got "vaccines cause autism hurr hurr" in the article. Here's an alternate link. Basically no, it is not mandated, and there's an MR vaccine there, not MMR. There was an MMR vaccine but there were tainted vaccines in the 90s that caused a backlash and it's no longer administered.
Japan's backward vaccination policy
Citizens are being needlessly left exposed to infectious diseases.
www.japantimes.co.jp
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EDIT: Removed link because it's got "vaccines cause autism hurr hurr" in the article. Here's an alternate link. Basically no, it is not mandated, and there's an MR vaccine there, not MMR. There was an MMR vaccine but there were tainted vaccines in the 90s that caused a backlash and it's no longer administered.
Japan's backward vaccination policy
Citizens are being needlessly left exposed to infectious diseases.
No, Japanese children are not healthier because vaccines are not mandatory in their country
An article shared thousands of times on Facebook claims that Japan “has the healthiest children on the planet” because vaccination is not mandatory in their country. This is false. Children in Japan are particularly healthy by international standards, but they are also one of the most vaccinated...
factcheck.afp.com
That doesn't sound that atypical. High-grade isolation wards aren't that common anywhere in the world, you'll typically only find them at the largest hospitals.
And yet, it seems like they aren't taking it seriously enough especially considering the stakes are so fucking high. This shit MUST be dealt with before the Olympics, and yet they're doing shit like allowing Diamond Princess passengers who last tested negative off the ship with no additional quarantine while over 20% of the ship has tested positive.
A report published in the New England Journal of Medicine chronicles two patients in Germany who were asymptomatic carriers with the ability to infect others.
Scientific consensus that the virus can be spread by asymptomatic carriers continues to grow.
NEJM said:
Scientific consensus that the virus can be spread by asymptomatic carriers continues to grow.
You are trolling, right? Like, this is definitely satire?
If you have to start off your comment with "I hate to say it but," you probably shouldn't fucking say it.
What's more confusing to me than spreading without symptoms is spreading without the virus being detectable through testing
I think some soccer and races have been cancelled in China along with friendlies and exhibition competitions.
Overwatch League was moved to Seoul.
There is a big Dota 2 tournament in LA with 3-4 Chinese teams scheduled to attend in late March.
It will be interesting to see what happens when Chinese teams try to get visas and enter other big countries or how quarantine protocols are going to work for Chinese competitors travelling abroad. I think there is a 14 day quarantine coming from China. Are competitors going to go to Canada or Korea and wait 14 days then travel to the US?. There was a top Dota 2 team from Hubei province that didn't even bother to qualify for the LA tournament because they knew they wouldn't get approved for US visas.
I might be reading wrongly but it seems like they were only initially tested negative based on symptoms, not with the actual test itself? The virus was eventually detected with the actual tests.
That's not what the letter says. They found no false negatives. The "symptomatic" people just had colds or something. All but two people did not have the virus.
They found the virus in two asymptomatic people. They were able to "infect" some sort of in vitro test culture from the throat samples, indicating that it might be possible for the asymptomatic carriers to infect others. Stress on might since there's no solid proof. They did not show that the virus was shed, only that it was present in potentially infectious amounts in their throat swap sample.
Oh, that's a lot better then.
Yes, this is correct. Also, one of tHe testing methods, the rapid on-site test, is difficult to conduct properly, is known to have produced false negatives, and are in short supply. It's not feasible at the moment to test everyone with a suspected contact with the infection with either clinical testing method.
Without being able to detect transmissibility with detectable symptoms it may not be possible to contain the spread without some form of cordon sanitaire.
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