"Because the 'Ratings' of my News Conferences etc. are so high, 'Bachelor finale, Monday Night Football type numbers' according to the @nytimes, the Lamestream Media is going CRAZY. 'Trump is reaching too many people, we must stop him.' said one lunatic. See you at 5:00 P.M.!" he said.
Michael wrote:UK Imperial College scientist, Neil Ferguson, who made a prediction using a mathematical model that expected 2.1 million deaths in the USA and 500,000 in the UK has revised the estimate down to 20,000 for the UK based on preventative measures implemented by the health service, and a study from Prof. Gupta of Oxford that suggests the virus has already worked its way through a significant population of the UK, as much as half.
Ferguson says his revision maintains a similar R0 rate of infection, but the difference in total mortality is a factor of 1/25th for the UK according to his response. An analogous figure (not given by Ferguson explicitly) for the USA would be 84,000 deaths, which would be horrible, but similar in total deaths for a much smaller population during the previous two worst flu epidemics in 1968 and 1957 in the USA.
Oxford Prof. Gupta's study suggests half of the UK population has already been exposed. This study will depend on randomized serological testing to confirm its hypothesis.
Financial Times article about the Oxford study, March 24, 2020
Coronavirus may have infected half of UK population — Oxford study
FT paywall
Daily Wire summary, March 24
Oxford Epidemiologist: Here’s Why That Doomsday Model Is Likely Way Off
New Scientist, March 25, 2020
UK has enough intensive care units for coronavirus, expert predicts
Daily Wire summary, March 26
Epidemiologist Behind Highly-Cited Coronavirus Model Drastically Downgrades Projection
Those are fake certs to allow Chinese nationals to return home.
windwalker wrote:The paper, written by a large group of Chinese researchers from several institutions, offers details about the first 41 hospitalized patients who had confirmed infections with what has been dubbed 2019 novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV).
In the earliest case, the patient became ill on 1 December 2019 and had no reported link to the seafood market, the authors report. “No epidemiological link was found between the first patient and later cases,” they state. Their data also show that, in total, 13 of the 41 cases had no link to the marketplace. “That’s a big number, 13, with no link,” says Daniel Lucey, an infectious disease specialist at Georgetown University.
https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/01 ... g-globally
Tends to support one theory that there might have been some type of accident
in the bio lab near by...
Giles wrote:
The 'laboratory accident' hypothesis could be true, the information you post is interesting. But if the virus did come from the wet market, then maybe even from the get-go there were some infected persons who were asymptomatic or only had the sniffles. So these people, even unidentified in retrospect, could already have been carrying the virus out of the market and unknowingly passing it on to others who had no identified link to the market, but then fell ill. So culpable lab error or just early asymptomatic spreaders? Occam's razor would tend to point to the latter, but of course the lab narrative can't be disproved either.
If my thinking is faulty here, then I'm open to correction!
Burger King Taiwan has come under fire from both sides of the Taiwan Strait for labeling the coronavirus as the “Wuhan virus” in a Facebook post before changing it to COVID-19.
The fast-food chain in Taiwan used the term Wuhan virus in a March 25 post to promote its products, which enraged its Chinese counterpart. Despite the restaurants being operated by different franchises in Taiwan and China, Burger King China issued a statement Sunday (March 29) grilling Burger King Taiwan for what it called “irresponsible remarks.”
The statement read that it has contacted the company in Taiwan to delete remarks that hurt people’s feelings and said the management has made changes accordingly and was apologetic. It added that “As a member of the Burger King family, we felt regret over the ‘Taiwan region’s irresponsible act’ as we fight against the outbreak,” reported Newtallk.
The post has been modified to replace Wuhan virus with COVID-19, but the adjustment infuriated the public in Taiwan. Netizens panned the company for kowtowing to China and threatened to stage a boycott, with some expressing disbelief, wondering “Why would one apologize for telling the truth?”
The way the novel virus is addressed has become a contentious topic, as U.S. President Donald Trump on March 18 defended his practice of branding the pandemic as the “Chinese Virus,” which inflamed Beijing. The U.S. State Department failed in its attempt to include “Wuhan virus” in a joint statement with members of the Group of Seven on March 26, with diplomats describing this act as crossing a red line, reported CNN.
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