We’ve had our first case of COVID19 in Whatcom County.
Hey, what’s the difference between the coronavirus and the Boeing 737 Max? The coronavirus is airborne.
Dozens of people get coronavirus at meeting for biotech company. (No comment yet from Alanis Morisette.)
Here’s a good one, though as it’s NYTimes it might be behind a paywall.
Side note: A couple weeks back, the site gave me a popup offering an e-subscription for a dollar a week for a year. I happily ponied up.
Interesting but believable. In NYC (and Washington DC to some extent) you can often get by quite well without a car so there’s no point in having one most of the time. Here in the 'burbs, everyone has cars but might avoid using them for commuting due to traffic etc. - but I suspect I’m NOT the only person who decided to drive vs using transit.
My husband told me that his project (a fairly large one) has called an all-hands meeting for tomorrow. An in-person all-hands meeting. Insane.
“Okay people! Okay! quiet down; let’s get started. Let’s make a little more room, we’ve still got a few more people outside. Alright. Thank you all for coming to this meeting. I know it’s standing-room-only crowded, but we wanted to be sure that we had everyone on-board with the new company procedures to help stop the spread of this highly contagious disease.”
As a resident of British Columbia, could you please stop it there? Our border guards are asking people whether they’ve been to Iran or China, but not Italy or Washington State.
Most of North Carolina’s current cases are people who were at this conference.
(my bolding)
From here: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/mar/11/can-a-face-mask-stop-coronavirus-covid-19-facts-checked
I’ve heard it said on podcasts (either the Weeds, Post Reports, Today Explained, or the Daily – I don’t remember which, but all are reputable sources) that the higher fatality rates may be what happens when there is a spike in infections that overwhelms the hospitals (or where medical care is otherwise less available).
And thanks, Kayaker for supplying the link I left off a couple of pages back about this being airborne.
E3 has been cancelled:
Iran’s senior VP and two other cabinet members have the virus. The Iranian death toll went from 62 to 354 yesterday.
Qatar saw a 1-day jump in confirmed infections from 24 to 262.
There are certainly plenty of opportunities to catch a cold while travelling via bus or train: you’re sealed up in a confined space, no more than a foot or two from everyone else - but one culprit while flying is that the air is so dry, which is less of an issue on a bus or plane. The vehicle might be air-conditioned, but the air will probably NOT be as badly dried out as on a plane.
You’ll be touching different surfaces as well. A bus won’t have a tray table like a plane does (a train might), and those supposedly are germ-laden. If you use the bathroom, bus toilets often have just hand sanitizer vs any real hand-washing facilities. Train toilets tend to be pretty disgusting after an hour or so, what with water slopping everywhere due to the train movement (and the users’ general pigginess). And none of them are cleaned regularly… in hindsight I feel really bad for anyone who used a train toilet during the last 45 minutes of a certain trip from NYC to DC a couple years ago, as it turns out I had an active case of something like norovirus which promptly went through my entire household :(.
As far as your hypothetical healthy 65 year old and frail 20 year old: yes. of course that 65 year old is likelier to do better than his/her age peers, and the 20 year old is likelier to do more poorly. This is why the averages are just that: on average, a 65 year old is at higher risk because he is likelier to have underlying health conditions that make it harder to recuperate, and even just the age means he might be less robust. The healthy 65 year old set against a healthy 20 year old would be a better comparison: All things equal, I’d expect 100 spry geezers to do somewhat less well than 100 spry college students.
Before the coronavirus I would cough to cover my fart. Now I fart to cover my cough.
Oh, this should help. (Reuters)
Un-fucking-real.
ETA: In other news, coronavirus was declared a world pandemic today. Probably not breaking news to anyone paying attention.
Response to info leaking about expert recommendations being rejected, like the advice for elderly and vulnerable people to not take commercial flights?
I found an article yesterday that discusses the mortality rate, using data from China only: How does the new coronavirus compare with the flu?
There are many links to studies that are cited. The article seems to be thorough and carefully written. Here is what is listed for mortality rate of COVID-19:
Age 80+ ——— 14.8%
Age 70-79 ----- 8.0%
Age 60-69 ----- 3.6%
Age 50-59 ----- 1.3%
Age 40-49 ----- .4%
Age 10-39 ----- .2%
Age 0-9 ------ no recorded deaths
SO PLEASE son’t take these numbers as hard fact; it’s just the numbers from one set of data and that data is admittedly incomplete. This is prolly the best estimate we have at this time, tho, IMO.
And yeah, as **Aspenglow[/]b noted, the WHO just declared this to be a pandemic.
And yeah, as **Aspenglow[/]b noted, the WHO just declared this to be a pandemic.
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