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[Victoria Watcher]

we now have one death outside of china (phillipines).  this thing is pretty tame.

Edited by Victoria Watcher, 02 February 2020 - 08:50 AM.

[Mike K.]

It’s SuperBowl Sunday!

Nobody cares about the virus any more.

[LeoVictoria]

Coronavirus dashboard in case it hasn't been posted.

https://gisanddata.m...423467b48e9ecf6

Edited by LeoVictoria, 02 February 2020 - 09:29 AM.

[RFS]

Still doubling every 4 or 5 days

[DavidSchell]

Fatality rate below 2% .... down from 3%

[DavidSchell]

Thailand 'cures' coronavirus with anti-HIV drug cocktail in 48 hours

https://www.dailysab...ail-in-48-hours

[LeoVictoria]

I'm putting a larger buy of equities on hold until this thing stabilizes.  

[RFS]

19,886 cases, 426 deaths

[RFS]

Death toll now 80.  From just 2 deaths about a week ago.  Confirmed cases in China close to 3000.  

 

In one week cases went up 6.5x.  deaths 5x.  Will we see over 100k cases and 2000-3000 deaths by Feb 10?  

[spanky123]

Flu (US alone). 800K hospitalizations and 60k deaths last year.

Edited by spanky123, 03 February 2020 - 04:27 PM.

[Victoria Watcher]

Three more cases of the new coronavirus were confirmed in the U.S. on Sunday, all in California, bringing the total number of people in the country with the disease to 11. The weekend also saw the first death blamed on the flu-like illness outside of China.

 

As of Monday evening there were more than 20,000 confirmed cases in more than two dozen countries, the vast majority of them in China, according to the World Health Organization. There have been at least 425 deaths in China, and one in the Philippines.

 

U.S. officials declared a public health emergency last week and, as a result, foreign nationals who have traveled to China in the last two weeks and aren't immediate family members of U.S. citizens or permanent residents will be temporarily banned from entering the U.S. Under the orders of Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar, anyone entering the U.S. who has been in China's Hubei province in the last two weeks will be subject to a two-week quarantine. 

 

The first 195 Americans evacuated from Wuhan, the epicenter of the outbreak, are under federal quarantine and will remain at a military base in Southern California until mid-February. The government hasn't issued such a quarantine order in more than 50 years.

 

Of the 11 confirmed cases in the U.S., six are in California, one is in Washington state, one is in Arizona, two are in Illinois, and one is in Massachusetts. 

 

The State Department has warned Americans to avoid all travel to China due to the "rapidly spreading" outbreak. The decision came after the WHO designated the outbreak a global public health emergency.

 

https://www.cbsnews....han-2020-02-03/

Edited by Victoria Watcher, 03 February 2020 - 04:34 PM.

[VIResident]

In one week cases went up 6.5x.  deaths 5x.  Will we see over 100k cases and 2000-3000 deaths by Feb 10?  

AI will have answers shortly.

[Love the rock]

I have questions maybe someone can answer for me . If you have permanent residency and have  Chinese citizenship can you apply to become a Canadian citizen . If you can ,what’s involved.

With China being a communist country  are you allowed to return to visit friends and family if you become Canadian. I’m wondering also if you plan on living in Canada permanently  are there drawbacks in becoming Canadian .

[Victoria Watcher]

the answer to the second part is yes it’s easy to travel back and forth. it’s communist but not everybody is trying to escape like many other countries.

[spanky123]

the answer to the second part is yes it’s easy to travel back and forth. it’s communist but not everybody is trying to escape like many other countries.

It is a communist country with more free market millionaires then there are people living in Canada!

One item hardly reported by the MSM is that China has built a hospital with 1,500 beds in 10 days!

[Greg]

There have been only two deaths outside of China so far (one in Hong Kong, and one in the Philippines) and almost all of the deaths in China have been in the Hubei province. I think it may be reasonable to begin to theorize that the death rate in areas with access to top-rate medical care is actually going to be very low. For example, there have been 797 cases in Guangdong province (home to Sun Yat-sen University), with 24 recoveries and no deaths.

[Mattjvd]

I have questions maybe someone can answer for me . If you have permanent residency and have Chinese citizenship can you apply to become a Canadian citizen . If you can ,what’s involved.
With China being a communist country are you allowed to return to visit friends and family if you become Canadian. I’m wondering also if you plan on living in Canada permanently are there drawbacks in becoming Canadian .

No, there aren't any travel restrictions if a Chinese citizen became a Canadian. Only issues I can think of is you would have to partner with someone back in China if you owned a business there. They are pretty strict about businesses in China having at least partial Chinese ownership.

A relative of mine's wife is from China and she is now a Canadian citizen, they both go back to China for a couple of weeks each year to visit her family.

Edited by Mattjvd, 03 February 2020 - 10:54 PM.

[Victoria Watcher]

The deadly coronavirus outbreak that has spread from China does not yet constitute a "pandemic", the World Health Organization (WHO) has said.

A pandemic is the worldwide spread of a new disease, according to the WHO.

At least 427 people have died with more than 20,000 confirmed cases around the world, most of them in China.

More than two dozen nations have reported cases but, so far, no confirmations have been made across Africa or Latin America.

On Tuesday, three more Asian countries - Singapore, Malaysia and Thailand - confirmed infections among citizens who had not travelled to China.

Officials say 425 people have died in China and one in Hong Kong. One death has also been confirmed in the Philippines.

 

 

https://www.bbc.com/...-china-51368873

[Mike K.]

This is starting to fizzle out as authorities get the situation under control. SARS was a wake-up call and this time around the proper measures were in place, authorities acted relatively quickly, and populations understood the importance of personal responsibility. Technology has also helped spread the word a lot faster and split the nonsense from facts.

[Victoria Watcher]

i can't actually find wuhan population density figures but that has to be part of it.

 

 

https://www.business...outbreak-2020-1

 

Wuhan is sometimes known as "China's Chicago" because of its proximity to rivers and lakes, but it's about four times bigger. Its population exceeds that of New York City by about 2.6 million.

 

In terms of land area, the city is more than twice the size of Shanghai and eight times the size of Hong Kong. But people there live tightly clustered within the city limits. Wuhan is the most densely populated city in central China.

 

Crowded conditions can increase the likelihood of people transmitting infectious diseases, research from the University of Geneva has shown. That's because people in close proximity are more likely to touch, shake hands, or transmit the virus through the air by coughing or sneezing.

Edited by Victoria Watcher, 04 February 2020 - 08:16 AM.