# Coronavirus COVID-19 (2019-nCoV) Thread - 2020 Breaking News **URL:** \ **Category:** The Quarantine Zone\ **Tags:** covid-quarantine\ **Created:** [February 11, 2020, 1:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coronavirus-covid-19-2019-ncov-thread-2020-breaking-news/847758 "2020-02-11T01:16:04Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 32
**Author:** ![ZipperJJ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zipperjj/32/211_2.png) [@ZipperJJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZipperJJ)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2020, 1:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coronavirus-covid-19-2019-ncov-thread-2020-breaking-news/847758/622 "2020-03-12T01:51:29Z")
> [@Snowboarder\_Bo](#): > > I live in one of the most heavily traveled cities in the country (Las Vegas). We had our first case 6 days ago. Today we confirmed 3 more. ConExpo is here with up to 130,000 people. There has been no indication of how many people have been tested in the past week. My guess is it’s fewer than 100 people tested. > > In 2 days, ConExpo is over and all those people will fly or drive out of here and back to their home cities. > > That’s a lot of potential vectors that no one seems to be concerned with. And that doesn’t even take into account non-ConExpo visitors to our fine city. My friend left Ohio today for the 311 concert/festival in Vegas. He’s a healthy young dude but now he’s going to bring it back here. ---
**Author:** ![Paul\_in\_Qatar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ccd318/32.png) [@Paul\_in\_Qatar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Paul_in_Qatar)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2020, 1:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coronavirus-covid-19-2019-ncov-thread-2020-breaking-news/847758/623 "2020-03-12T01:52:31Z")
I have employees all over the world who cannot get back. I have employees in the Kingdom who live in towns that are shut off. They cannot come to work. I have people scheduled to fly out on vacation tonight. We will find out if they can go. We got people who are cut off from their families in nearby Bahrain. I am scheduled to retire at the end of the month. I may be trapped here. Swell times. ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2020, 2:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coronavirus-covid-19-2019-ncov-thread-2020-breaking-news/847758/624 "2020-03-12T02:03:53Z")
> [@Monty](#): > > Too bad that didn’t happen to Bakker. He should’ve been arrested for touting that “silver solution” nonsense as a cure for COVID-19. He is already getting sued and multi-cease-and-desisted. ---
**Author:** ![Kolak\_of\_Twilo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kolak_of_twilo/32/73_2.png) [@Kolak\_of\_Twilo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kolak_of_Twilo)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2020, 2:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coronavirus-covid-19-2019-ncov-thread-2020-breaking-news/847758/625 "2020-03-12T02:04:15Z")
DJT and Pence met and posed for pictures with Fabio Wajngarten, the Brazilian communications secretary this past Saturday during his visit at Mar a Lago. [Wajngarten has been tested for COVID-19](https://news.trust.org/item/20200312010526-12nsz/) because he was showing symptoms and is waiting for results to see is he tests positive. ---
**Author:** ![Melbourne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b5e925/32.png) [@Melbourne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Melbourne)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2020, 2:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coronavirus-covid-19-2019-ncov-thread-2020-breaking-news/847758/626 "2020-03-12T02:04:25Z")
3 new cases in my state yesterday. Victoria, Australia. All from the USA. You guys really let the side down. ---
**Author:** ![Sunny\_Daze](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunny_daze/32/438_2.png) [@Sunny\_Daze](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunny_Daze)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2020, 2:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coronavirus-covid-19-2019-ncov-thread-2020-breaking-news/847758/627 "2020-03-12T02:06:19Z")
Trump is going to defer taxes for certain impacted individuals. Hmmmm. I wonder if those people are wealthy? His friends? His donors? ---
**Author:** ![Dr\_Paprika](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dr_paprika/32/3042_2.png) [@Dr\_Paprika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr_Paprika)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2020, 2:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coronavirus-covid-19-2019-ncov-thread-2020-breaking-news/847758/628 "2020-03-12T02:18:44Z")
A Utah Jazz basketball player is said to have tested positive. The NBA has decided to put the season on hiatus to see what happens. Not a bad idea, the responsible thing, but may well turn out to be overblown. I suspect other leagues will follow. ---
**Author:** ![C3](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/c3/32/3108_2.png) [@C3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/C3)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2020, 2:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coronavirus-covid-19-2019-ncov-thread-2020-breaking-news/847758/629 "2020-03-12T02:32:49Z")
North Carolina has 10.5 million people and [250 tests left](https://www.newsobserver.com/news/politics-government/article241093956.html). ---
**Author:** ![jasg](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f0a364/32.png) [@jasg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jasg)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2020, 2:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coronavirus-covid-19-2019-ncov-thread-2020-breaking-news/847758/630 "2020-03-12T02:34:48Z")
Got real for us today. Employer contacted son and told him he has been in close contact with a co-worker who tested positive. ---
**Author:** ![Tom\_Tildrum](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e95f7d/32.png) [@Tom\_Tildrum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tom_Tildrum)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2020, 2:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coronavirus-covid-19-2019-ncov-thread-2020-breaking-news/847758/631 "2020-03-12T02:54:05Z")
Famed sex club Snctm is going forward with its previously scheduled [orgies](https://pagesix.com/2020/03/09/snctms-la-nyc-orgies-thrusting-onwards-in-face-of-coronavirus/) in New York and LA. ---
**Author:** ![elfkin477](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a9a28c/32.png) [@elfkin477](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elfkin477)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2020, 3:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coronavirus-covid-19-2019-ncov-thread-2020-breaking-news/847758/632 "2020-03-12T03:16:33Z")
> [@eschrodinger](#): > > I was at my allergist’s office yesterday. The office is in a hospital. Walking down the hall, I passed a bunch of other medical offices with various specialties. All of them had some kind of notice on the outside of the door about Covid-19. My allergist’s office asked that you request gloves and a mask if you have a cough. The office next door, which was for several specialties, required everyone who entered to put on gloves and a mask, which the sign said were available just inside the door. Other signs said to put on a mask and inform the front desk if you have a cough/fever. > > Obviously some differences in views on what precautions need to be taken, probably partly informed by the typical population of patients and staff. The everyone gets a mask approach seems appropriately cautious to me, except that I wonder how many masks they have on hand. If they run out and can’t get more, they won’t be able to implement even the less cautious approach. I went to my orthopedic follow up yesterday, also located in a hospital in New Hampshire. I passed by signs for another entrance - the purpose of which I’ve never figured out despite parking in the same lot during each of my dad’s hospitalizations there - saying due to concerns about Covid-19 the entrance was closed and to use another one…😕 It’s not marked but I have seen older patients coming out and some catching dial-a-ride type vans, so maybe it’s a geriatric medicine office? Hmm. Nothing unusual was going on inside the hospital, though. Not even as sign asking people who were ill to use a mask like urgent care has for years. The receptionist did ask if I’d traveled out of the country in the past 30 days, however. Seems to me that asking if I’ve been to Boston (yes, two weeks ago) or New York (not since last September, fortunately) in the past few weeks would’ve been more logical given the proximity and number of cases. ---
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2020, 3:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coronavirus-covid-19-2019-ncov-thread-2020-breaking-news/847758/633 "2020-03-12T03:25:06Z")
Well, you come home after being out for a couple hours at a election forum for candidates and all sorts of stuff happens. As I’m processing all this info, I can’t quite quickly google up an answer to: what is the reason the UK is exempt from this travel ban? ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2020, 3:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coronavirus-covid-19-2019-ncov-thread-2020-breaking-news/847758/634 "2020-03-12T03:29:01Z")
> [@pulykamell](#): > > As I’m processing all this info, I can’t quite quickly google up an answer to: what is the reason the UK is exempt from this travel ban? Cynical me guesses “because Trump likes Boris Johnson and Brexit.” ---
**Author:** ![Rick\_Kitchen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rick_kitchen/32/522_2.png) [@Rick\_Kitchen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rick_Kitchen)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2020, 3:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coronavirus-covid-19-2019-ncov-thread-2020-breaking-news/847758/635 "2020-03-12T03:35:34Z")
> [@Dr\_Paprika](#): > > A Utah Jazz basketball player is said to have tested positive. The NBA has decided to put the season on hiatus to see what happens. Not a bad idea, the responsible thing, but may well turn out to be overblown. I suspect other leagues will follow. The same player who two days ago was mocking the NBA’s precautions and touched every microphone in the press conference. ---
**Author:** ![Rick\_Kitchen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rick_kitchen/32/522_2.png) [@Rick\_Kitchen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rick_Kitchen)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2020, 3:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coronavirus-covid-19-2019-ncov-thread-2020-breaking-news/847758/636 "2020-03-12T03:37:32Z")
7-11 owner in New Jersey arrested for selling his home brew hand sanitizer that burned kids. [https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-03-11/n-j-7-eleven-owner-arrested-over-sanitizer-that-burned-boys](https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-03-11/n-j-7-eleven-owner-arrested-over-sanitizer-that-burned-boys) ---
**Author:** ![Snowboarder\_Bo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowboarder_bo/32/229_2.png) [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2020, 4:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coronavirus-covid-19-2019-ncov-thread-2020-breaking-news/847758/637 "2020-03-12T04:06:48Z")
126,367 confirmed infections 4,633 dead 68,304 recovered In the US: 1,327 confirmed infections 38 dead 15 recovered ——— I started this thread 29 days ago when the death toll had just passed 1000 and posted the first set of numbers the following day: > [@Snowboarder\_Bo](#): > > 45,115 confirmed infections > 1,115 deaths > 4,781 recovered At that time, there were zero confirmed infections within the US. ---
**Author:** ![PastTense](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pasttense/32/14550_2.png) [@PastTense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PastTense)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2020, 4:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coronavirus-covid-19-2019-ncov-thread-2020-breaking-news/847758/638 "2020-03-12T04:13:05Z")
> [@pulykamell](#): > > As I’m processing all this info, I can’t quite quickly google up an answer to: what is the reason the UK is exempt from this travel ban? Look at this chart: [https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/](https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/) As you can see the UK has substantially fewer cases than Italy, Spain, France, Germany. And look at the last column: cases per million population and sort that highest at the top. ---
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2020, 4:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coronavirus-covid-19-2019-ncov-thread-2020-breaking-news/847758/639 "2020-03-12T04:25:45Z")
> [@PastTense](#): > > Look at this chart: > [COVID - Coronavirus Statistics - Worldometer](https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/) > > As you can see the UK has substantially fewer cases than Italy, Spain, France, Germany. > And look at the last column: cases per million population and sort that highest at the top. Well, my family is Polish. And Poland is rather low on the list not matter how you slice it. And yet they’re banned. But the UK is not? This doesn’t quite explain it to me. Portugal, both per capita and in number of cases is lower than the UK. Banned too. Ireland? Marginally higher than the UK, per capita, lower in number of cases, but banned. It just doesn’t quite make sense to me. ---
**Author:** ![Snowboarder\_Bo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowboarder_bo/32/229_2.png) [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2020, 4:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coronavirus-covid-19-2019-ncov-thread-2020-breaking-news/847758/640 "2020-03-12T04:29:17Z")
[Coronavirus Conference Gets Canceled Because of Coronavirus](https://time.com/5800932/coronavirus-conference-canceled/) > [@](#): > > The Council on Foreign Relations has canceled a roundtable called “Doing Business Under Coronavirus” scheduled for Friday in New York due to the spread of the infection itself. CFR has also canceled other in-person conferences that were scheduled from March 11 to April 3, including roundtables in New York and Washington and national events around the U.S. ---
**Author:** ![Snowboarder\_Bo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowboarder_bo/32/229_2.png) [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2020, 4:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coronavirus-covid-19-2019-ncov-thread-2020-breaking-news/847758/641 "2020-03-12T04:52:42Z")
[Clay Bentley, quarantined in a GA hospital with COVID-19 is interviewed by CNN.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vcb38Pbmmpw) 11 minute video includes interview and a video Mr. Bentley shot and posted online 9 March for the first 5 minutes and interview segments alternating between Mr. Bentley and Dr. Carlos Del Rio, an infectious disease specialist, for the last 6 minutes or so. I hope that Mr. Bentley enjoys a full recovery. He does not look or sound good in any of the video but he says he thinks he has turned the corner; I hope he is correct. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coronavirus-covid-19-2019-ncov-thread-2020-breaking-news/847758.md?page=31) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coronavirus-covid-19-2019-ncov-thread-2020-breaking-news/847758.md?page=33)