Japan and Covid-19 show diversity is not a strength. More from Black Pigeon Speaks.
We are being told to flatten the curve by practicing social distancing. We are being told to quarantine shame those who break the new societal taboos. So how exactly do you introduce entirely new cultural norms across much of the world in the space of just a few weeks? Watch and learn. More from James Corbett on The Corbett Report.
The number of reported coronavirus cases around the world has now surpassed 384,000. Styxhexenhammer666 says we now know more about the death toll and mortality rates. This is an extremely infectious contagion and one that kills widely, especially the elderly. Also, here Styx ponders some of the oddities we are seeing. For instance, why are the number of cell phone users dropping so rapidly in China? Are people dying or simply turning off their phones because it’s being used to limit their mobility. Also, what’s with the asymptomatic Chinese carriers?
Very bad news – according to a new CDC study, ChinaVirus survived in the cabins of the Diamond Princess cruise ship for 17 days. The ship was quarantined in Yokohama, Japan on Feb. 3, and is being studied by international infectious disease experts worldwide. The CDC released the new study yesterday. Previously it was thought that the coronavirus could live no longer than 3 days on plastic and stainless steel surfaces.
But the virus: “… was identified on a variety of surfaces in cabins of both symptomatic and asymptomatic infected passengers up to 17 days after cabins were vacated on the Diamond Princess but before disinfection procedures had been conducted….” The CDC scientists were investigating how: “… transmission occurred across multiple voyages of several ships.”
The good news of the study is that despite the very confined space on cruise ships, only 712 of 3,711 people on the Diamond Princess, or 19.2% became infected with ChinaVirus. But the bad news is that 331 of them were asymptomatic at the time of the testing – that is, they had no symptoms. Similar stats were found in multiple other international cruises since then, including 60 Americans from Nile River cruises in Egypt. The bottom line is that there is a lot that remains to be known about the ChinaVirus, but the most worrisome part is that those infected can infect others without knowing that they ever had the virus. More from Bill Still.
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Watching hilarious, informative and downright crazy coronavirus videos online. More from Mr. Obvious.
Did political correctness doom Italy’s response to the coronavirus? That’s what an Italian virologist is claiming. More from Dr. Steve Turley.
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