Merged 2019-nCoV / Corona virus

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It seems to take 1-2 weeks to die from this. None of the infected outside China has been released either, so it says nothing much so far.
The numbers grow slower now though.
 
Dr.Sid said:
So .. none ?
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No need. Everyone else can see it is garbage. Have a think about what it would take for it to be true. Has this ever happened before? Is the source reliable? The answer to the last one is no, and has been mentioned in this thread so no need for elaboration.
 
4,000 patients, 304 deaths in China.
100 patients, ZERO deaths in the rest of the world.

World panics. Really?
 
The Atheist said:
No deaths outside Hubei, which is a little odd, but hopefully a sign the virulence is dropping.
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There have been deaths (very few) outside of Hubei, at least according to the link that's been posted in this thread several times. For instance it lists one death in Shanghai so far.
 
casebro said:
4,000 patients, 304 deaths in China.
100 patients, ZERO deaths in the rest of the world.

World panics. Really?
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It is the way modern media works.

Fear sells

They don't even bother calling it by its actual name, as "Coronavirus" sounds more scary than "2019-nCoV"

They miss pointing out the cold is a Coronavirus. Mind you so was SARS
 
Roboramma said:
There have been deaths (very few) outside of Hubei, at least according to the link that's been posted in this thread several times. For instance it lists one death in Shanghai so far.
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Yeah, mu mistake - all the deaths in the past 24 hours have been in Hubei.

Meanwhile a very sensible piece here: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2...el-bans-plunge-china-into-deepening-isolation

The real issue now for the world is what happens outside China,” Sir Jeremy Farrar, director of the Wellcome Trust, told the BBC. “What we need to look out for now is when does [it] start to spread – if it spreads – in the community or between people outside China itself. And that will be the signal that actually other countries may suffer from the same sorts of issues we see in China.”

He said the severity of any wider outbreak could lie anywhere between something like seasonal winter flu and “something akin to what we are seeing in China at the moment.
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One thing's for sure, if it does get out of control internationally, health systems will be unable to cope. They barely cope with annual influenza epidemics and that's with 2/3 of the population vaccinated against it.
 
cullennz said:
It is the way modern media works.

Fear sells

They don't even bother calling it by its actual name, as "Coronavirus" sounds more scary than "2019-nCoV"

They miss pointing out the cold is a Coronavirus. Mind you so was SARS
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Do you think it is a media conspiracy?
 
You know, there has been so much media coverage that I would bet there are articles saying that the cold and SARS are coronaviruses. MERS is a coronavirus too.
 
I had a plumber round my house today, and he insisted that the truth is being covered up and in reality thousands of people have already died in China. He told me people were dropping dead in the streets and there are videos of this on social media.

I didn't believe a word of it, but it is a sign of how panic spreads.
 
William Parcher said:
You know, there has been so much media coverage that I would bet there are articles saying that the cold and SARS are coronaviruses. MERS is a coronavirus too.
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Probably has been, but those news media are probably the non click bait ones.
 
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