China confirms human-to-human transmission of new coronavirus:
Human-to-human transmission of a new coronavirus strain has been confirmed in China, fueling fears of a major outbreak of the SARS-like virus as millions travel for the Lunar New Year holiday.
Zhong Nanshan, head of the National Health Commission, said on Monday patients may have contracted the new virus without having visited the central city of Wuhan where it was discovered before spreading across China and reaching three other Asian nations.
"Currently, it can be said it is affirmative that there is the phenomenon of human-to-human transmission," he said in an interview with China's CCTV state broadcaster.
Zhong said two people in Guangdong province in southern China caught the disease from family members who had visited Wuhan.
He added that 14 medical personnel helping with coronavirus patients have also been infected.
Human-to-human transmission could make the virus spread more quickly and widely.
CDC Confirms First US Case of New Coronavirus
Public health officials have confirmed the first U.S. case of a mysterious coronavirus that has already killed at least six people and sickened hundreds of others in China, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Tuesday.
A male traveler from China has been diagnosed in Snohomish County, Washington State with the Wuhan coronavirus, according to the CDC.
Officials said the sick male, in his 30s, is “very healthy.” He is currently being isolated at a medical center in the state “out of caution” and “poses little risk” to the public, they said. The CDC said the male reached out to local health authorities on Jan. 15 once he started experiencing pneumonia-like symptoms.
Previously:
China Reports 3rd Death, Nearly 140 New Cases of Coronavirus
(Score: 2, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday January 21 2020, @10:55PM (6 children)
Orwell's 1984 was so prescient.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday January 21 2020, @11:17PM (3 children)
This is a travesty! Didn't you see the stock [marketwatch.com] market [marketwatch.com] crashing [marketwatch.com]! The computer's doing the auto-layoff thing! Nobody has jobs any more! The ecomoney is ruined! This is biological warfare!
President Camacho will know what to do.
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday January 21 2020, @11:26PM
Novavax is up 73% [fool.com]
(Score: 2, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday January 21 2020, @11:33PM (1 child)
Almost all news seems to have transitioned from just being fake to now being fake and market manipulation. It is clear who they have turned to as they near bankruptcy.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday January 22 2020, @05:51PM
Transitioned? What makes you think it was ever anything different?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday January 22 2020, @03:20AM
What does this have to do with being at war with Eastasia? I'm confused!
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday January 22 2020, @03:28AM
Forgive the CNBC editors for grabbing a thesaurus when they saw "infected patient appears asymptomatic" - it's not like their audience is conversant with basic science. But do excoriate them for bobbling it so badly.
(Score: 0, Troll) by Ethanol-fueled on Tuesday January 21 2020, @10:56PM (8 children)
Elements in our government, elements so crooked that they would be willing to kill others Hillary-style, are listening.
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday January 21 2020, @11:00PM (2 children)
Don't worry, Elon Musk is working on a cure.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday January 21 2020, @11:14PM
Free upgrade next time you book your car in for a cerveza?
(Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday January 22 2020, @12:24AM
Curing by vehicular incineration? I guess it could work, if it cremates the occupants, further transmission is arrested.
(Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday January 21 2020, @11:03PM (2 children)
(Score: 5, Touché) by Osamabobama on Tuesday January 21 2020, @11:09PM
2020 yellow flu?
(I realize we can't call it that.)
Appended to the end of comments you post. Max: 120 chars.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday January 22 2020, @02:11AM
Spanish flu started in 1918 and was declared ended in 1920.
2020 ???
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday January 21 2020, @11:14PM (1 child)
Ebola circa 2014-2015 was fun. Just coughing in public could get you a sour look. Before that, swine flu I guess.
Will coronavirus deliver?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday January 21 2020, @11:46PM
SARS?
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday January 21 2020, @11:31PM (5 children)
There's also a league of locusts wreaking havoc: https://www.indiatimes.com/news/india/millions-of-locusts-are-wreaking-havoc-in-rajasthan-and-gujarat-the-worst-of-its-kind-invasion-504506.html [indiatimes.com]
And earthquakes in Kansas: https://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/small-earthquake-reported-south-central-kansas-68390168 [go.com]
Along with volcanic activity: https://www.express.co.uk/news/world/1228629/Taal-volcano-eruption-PHIVOLCS-earthquake-updates-latest-fissure-volcano-Philippines [express.co.uk]
And temperatures dropping to colder than Mars: https://calgary.ctvnews.ca/warmest-temperature-in-alberta-still-colder-than-the-warmest-temperature-on-mars-1.4768811 [ctvnews.ca]
The end times are neigh, if trump is impeached the lord will show his wrath.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday January 21 2020, @11:35PM
The lord is the guy who controls whatever superseded HAARP.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday January 21 2020, @11:54PM (1 child)
Too late, he's already impeached.
(Score: 2) by Osamabobama on Wednesday January 22 2020, @06:39PM
If Trump has been impeached the Lord® will have showen his wrathings.
Appended to the end of comments you post. Max: 120 chars.
(Score: 3, Informative) by PartTimeZombie on Wednesday January 22 2020, @12:09AM
Advice to Albertans:
That is really cold.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday January 22 2020, @12:52PM
Oooh! Is that when this boogaloo gets started and the Christians, the Identitatarians and fellow-travelers at least, start their jihad to cleanse the earth of the inferior races? The women I work with will finally have their fantasy of living in an Amish paradise free of trannies with their reproductive systems completely controlled by their husbands! Trump! Trump! Trump!
(Score: 2) by RamiK on Wednesday January 22 2020, @01:31AM (8 children)
This isn't even worth digging in the pantry for the instant chicken broth powder.
compiling...
(Score: 2) by c0lo on Wednesday January 22 2020, @02:34AM (2 children)
You're really willing to let die 3% of yourself? (grin)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
(Score: 3, Touché) by RamiK on Wednesday January 22 2020, @02:54AM (1 child)
If it's the waist blubber I'm even willing to pay good money for the job :D
compiling...
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday January 22 2020, @03:46AM
(Let me look in my cupboard after some gangrening agents and see if I can customize any specifically for waist blubber)
We may have a deal.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday January 22 2020, @09:04AM (1 child)
counting family at ~6 and close friends at ~7, a 3% deathrate is close to claiming one of them. if you add neighbours, you're almost certainly going to at least one funeral. while I find it easy enough to write this down, I don't believe I'm taking it lightly. 3% of the world's population dying would lead to huge changes for the rest as well, for instance a couple of extra civil wars (because someone would be blamed, and someone would be punished). I'm not sure to what extent your opinion or actions matter, but I would recommend that you take a few minutes to really think about the situation.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday January 22 2020, @11:30AM
Why don't you use some common sense before letting the news control your emotions?
That is 3% of people *who went to the hospital because they felt very sick*. It is not 3% of people exposed to the virus or even 3% of people infected with the virus.
Also, all respiratory infections consume vitamin c in your lungs which leads to weakened connective tissue and then pneumonia. If it becomes bad enough you can become critically ill and die. So... take as much as you need, the standard low dose given in the hospital is known to be insufficient. The pharmacokinetics of vitamin C is different in sick people than healthy people, and all the debunkers do is cite studies done in healthy people. When you are sick you need at least 30x more vitamin c than when you are healthy to see the same effects:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5725835/ [nih.gov]
(Score: 2) by All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us on Wednesday January 22 2020, @06:04PM (1 child)
That's only one of the measures as to how damaging something like this can be. How many would have been at risk of death without intervention, and what levels of intervention were required to keep those people going? Answer: You don't know.
Aside from that, there are Coronavirus variants where the death toll has reached 30-40%. Is that enough to gain your attention?
This sig for rent.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday January 22 2020, @06:49PM
No, this is a completely meaningless number out of context. Whatever you think it means, it doesn't.
(Score: 2) by hendrikboom on Friday January 24 2020, @08:37PM
Last I heard, 3% of patients *died*. How many are going to die but just haven't gotten around to it yet? How many have actually been released from treatment because they are finally healthy again?
(Score: 4, Informative) by c0lo on Wednesday January 22 2020, @02:16AM (10 children)
WHO [who.int]
NIH [nih.gov]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
(Score: -1, Offtopic) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday January 22 2020, @02:34AM (9 children)
So they stitched together some dna fragments, but did they detect an actual virus? Did they prove it is the infectious agent via kirchoffs laws, while using the appropriate negative controls?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday January 22 2020, @03:06AM (6 children)
There ain't such a thing as an actual virus. Only estimated viruses exist.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday January 22 2020, @03:10AM
I mean purify the nucleotide polymer that they claim is represented by this sequence from a protective protein/lipid coat that can get transferred from cell to cell and cause these symptoms.
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday January 22 2020, @03:14AM (4 children)
Keep in mind the human genome has STILL never been completed: https://www.statnews.com/2017/06/20/human-genome-not-fully-sequenced/ [statnews.com]
They did a 80-90% job (in fact no one really knows how much is left), but told everyone is was done. So I don't see why we are just supposed to take the word of these genetics people without experts from other fields weighing in.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday January 22 2020, @03:24AM (3 children)
Yep, just as I thought:
https://www.who.int/health-topics/coronavirus/laboratory-diagnostics-for-novel-coronavirus [who.int]
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday January 22 2020, @03:50AM (1 child)
The linked does not contain the blockquoted content.
Which one - linking error or quotation error?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday January 22 2020, @03:57AM
It's in section 3 of the pdf on that page. Most people do not like direct pdf links: https://www.who.int/docs/default-source/coronaviruse/20200117-interim-laboratory-guidance-version-final.pdf?sfvrsn=cd45dc4b_2&download=true [who.int]
(Score: 2) by c0lo on Wednesday January 22 2020, @03:54AM
[PDF warning]
Laboratory testing for 2019 novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV) in suspected human cases - Interim guidance - 17 January 2020 [who.int]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday January 22 2020, @03:47AM
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Koch%27s_postulates [wikipedia.org]
(Score: 3, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday January 22 2020, @05:08AM
No, because:
1. they didn't have the negative control, only the ground
2. they couldn't measure the current through the probes because viruses refuse to this day to pass through conductive wires, such as those used by ammeters
3. the potential signal was too noisy
For reference, see Kirchhoff's circuit laws [wikipedia.org]