Even if you're not sick, if you visit hospitals and work in environments where you might encounter people who are unwell and aren't wearing masks, it would be good to wear one. You can also reuse a personal mask that isn't soiled as long as you take care in how you remove and put it on, and have a container/bag for it. Obviously, if someone ran up to you and coughed into the mask, dispose! Haha.
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Coronavirus Discussion Thread (See Staff Post) [UPDATE: WHO declares global emergency. See threadmarks]
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Our country has confirmed its first case. Hopefully that's it. They aren't saying where they were found or been, so a bit scary. I'm assuming they are making sure the people she met doesn't just disappear into the provinces
The tricky part is that you don't know if you are sick. You could carry the virus without any symptom for up to 14 days as they say
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It's all over now, goodbye world
Meanwhile seasoned medical professionals in Sydney are apparently falling for shit and sharing it in the droves.
(The Bureau of Diseaseology, really bro)
Let's please stop fearmongering.
"Bureau of diseasology"
I can't...
But seriously, stop spreading FUD (not you, the original poster).
First Confirmed case in India - an Indian student who studied at Wuhan Medical university.
Hearing that masks are sold out in various places in the US, I was expecting to see a bunch at the airport this morning. The fear and panic hasn't spread to North Carolina, at least. Practically no one is wearing masks, most likely because we don't have any confirmed cases in this state.
I don't know the reason but I actually see more people in the US with these issues than I ever see in China, even with a few 1000 people in a small town I may see more compared to millions around here. Not sure why that is exactly.
I suspect a lot of the sales are due to scalpers looking to flip a profit.
Isn't the virus mostly droplet transmission? If you're not coughing and rubbing your nose on things, you're probably not going to be spreading the virus too efficiently.
No confirmed cases in Boston yet thank god. I have to take the T constantly for work, so if it gets here I'm screwed lol
Gold Coast? Hope that Tiger air flight from Melbourne comes up clear that the two were on.
Hell ya! (I'm a fellow Keralite lol)
I guess some of my family members there will be worried but ya the medical minds there are incredible.
even just "Corona's disease" at the very top
like what?
if you're one iota a "switched on person" you'll know that it's "Wuhan coronavirus", and officially biologically called "2019-nCoV"
Confirmed cases or potential cases?
Droplet transmission can still be from breathing and kissing and the like. And if you have no symptoms (which is possible for 1-14 days while infected, potentially), you might be doing all these things willy-nilly without knowing you're spreading it. Even just breathing on stuff, putting your hand on doorhandles, etc, could be leaving it.
The media coverage of all this has been terrible, as expected - plenty of scare-mongering and a lack of accurate information.
Theres a small chance it might be Chinese buying it and shipping it back to China. I know the NYT mentioned about Chinese-Americans doing so and the Chinese government waived customs for it.
I work in a hospital so I'm taking extra precaution for me and others , but I noticed when I wear it people behaviour change around me.
So i see most of the contamination story i hear are still directly connected to Wuhan, which would mean it's not spreading that much but i guess the virus went out 2 weeks ago and with the incubation period, we're going to see a ton of second hand new case next week, like.. a ton..
Better to have a deadly virus with low infection rates or a less lethal one with higher infection rates?
I would say that's a negative sign because it means that more people will become infected which increases the chance of mutation into a more severe form. Also, more people infected means that more will develop severe infections, maybe also an increasing number of fatalities.
"The virus has already likely mutated to acquire the capacity to "jump" from animals to humans and to be transmitted person-to-person. Since this is an RNA virus, it will continue to mutate as long as it continues to circulate in humans. Additional mutations as the virus adapts to the human host may make the virus less severe or more severe, or less or more efficient in spreading. It's too early to tell what will happen, which is why ongoing surveillance by sequencing virus genomes is so important."
I've thought of this as well. China implemented the quarantine without any plan to actually feed and take care of the 50+ million people now. That's a hell of a lot of people and many of them will require special attention. The longer it goes on the bigger the risk of more situations like this....
It must be. Glad the panic isn't spreading here as much as the media makes it sound. No one here seems to care, plenty of people coughing on the plane but no one's batting an eye, just folks going about their business spreading germs as usual, hah.
Yeah in MA, I only saw one other person, an Asian, wearing a mask on Tuesday. I was wearing it everywhere Tuesday because I have a bad cold. :( I've been staying home since I left work early on Tuesday feeling like shit.
No, that would be we have an emerging virus that would have similar transmissions characteristics to Influenza but 4X more deadlier in its current makeup. It could become less deadlier over time as it mutates, but basically we would have a more lethal virus than flu at this time.
And Flu kills a ton of people already with weak immune systems or complications.
That's just not fair, I'm so sorry for his loss. That's like an actual nightmare senario.
The promise of a budding family, then boom, it's all gone in a flash.
That's not really a technicality you want them to base decisions on.
I wish I could do that. I'm black and I've already been reported to my higher ups because they said I was creepy in a coat in the middle of winter.
I guess I'm stuck bobbing and weaving
Ontario Public Health says 27 cases under investigation now.
Edit: Ontario update
67 tests performed.
2 confirmed positive.
38 tested negative.
27 test results still pending.
The positive cases:
Husband is in stable condition in hospital.
Wife in self-isolation at home (seems to be doing well).
All passengers on flight who were seated within 2-3 meters of the infected couple have been contacted.
Edit: Ontario update
67 tests performed.
2 confirmed positive.
38 tested negative.
27 test results still pending.
The positive cases:
Husband is in stable condition in hospital.
Wife in self-isolation at home (seems to be doing well).
All passengers on flight who were seated within 2-3 meters of the infected couple have been contacted.
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The 2 suspected cases in NH came back negative
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