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    No new infections in Wuhan- that's good news.
    Wuhan reports no new infections for first time, imported cases surge

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    Quote Originally Posted by headhunter View Post
    chemical warfare could be to blame
    Don't you mean Germ Warfare?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Cujo View Post
    How so?
    almost 500 new deaths in Italy in 24hrs.it would need an atom bomb to kill that many in one small country, iran and spain are also on someones list.

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    Quote Originally Posted by sabang View Post
    You know, even during the Blitz people went out.
    What is it with the British obsessing about the 2nd WW as if an armed conflict had any congruence with a pandemic that has no known cure or treatment striking at the heart of a defenceless society.

    The notion, stupid though it is, is of course based on the analogy that the disease is a metaphor for Johnny Foreigner's depredations which can be vanquished simply by drawing together in a xenophobic huddle and singing together a chorus or two of Rule Britannia whilst cracking a corny joke and uttering vapid platitudes.

    "We'll pull through if we stick together!"..........that bollox will probably kill you. Stay away from folk and treat your neighbour as if he is the Grim Reaper is the more practical methodology in escaping the lottery of death.

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    Quote Originally Posted by sabang View Post
    No new infections in Wuhan- that's good news.
    Wuhan reports no new infections for first time, imported cases surge
    And this on the same day that all those nasty Western newspapers were kicked out. What is up China?

    China to expel New York Times, Wall Street Journal and Washington Post reporters - CNN

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    Quote Originally Posted by headhunter View Post
    almost 500 new deaths in Italy in 24hrs.it would need an atom bomb to kill that many in one small country, iran and spain are also on someones list.
    They have a combined population of almost 190 million.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Seekingasylum View Post
    a pandemic that has no known cure or treatment
    Favilavir

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    Given that there has been no statistical analysis involving controlled studies the claim is merely speculative.

    Who knows what it may achieve, it might even flip the virus into another mutation that is even more potent.

    Years ago researchers found a possible vaccine for HIV but in the end declined to experiment further for fear they might create a mutated viral strain that could be communicated by airborne transmission and not solely by the exchange of bodily fluids. It would have been the end of the human species.....

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    Quote Originally Posted by Seekingasylum View Post
    What is it with the British obsessing about the 2nd WW as if an armed conflict had any congruence with a pandemic that has no known cure or treatment striking at the heart of a defenceless society.

    The notion, stupid though it is, is of course based on the analogy that the disease is a metaphor for Johnny Foreigner's depredations which can be vanquished simply by drawing together in a xenophobic huddle and singing together a chorus or two of Rule Britannia whilst cracking a corny joke and uttering vapid platitudes.

    "We'll pull through if we stick together!"..........that bollox will probably kill you. Stay away from folk and treat your neighbour as if he is the Grim Reaper is the more practical methodology in escaping the lottery of death.
    You definitely didn't get enough hugs as a child eh?


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    Quote Originally Posted by David48atTD View Post
    BBC Summary ...

    Summary

    • Confirmed cases worldwide pass 200,000, more than 8,000 people have died
    • Italy registers 475 new deaths - the highest one-day rise since it was hit by the virus
    • The UK is to shut schools - but they will still need to look after children of key workers
    • Prime Minister Boris Johnson tells news conference "we need to apply further downward pressure" on cases
    • Canada and US closing border to non-essential transit
    • EU countries have begun turning away travellers from outside the bloc
    • Share prices fall in Europe and Asia as stimulus packages fail to reassure markets
    • Glastonbury festival and Eurovison Song Contest cancelled


    Coronavirus updates: UK to close schools to almost all children - BBC News
    Noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!
    Say it aint so.
    Not the Eurovision Song Contest.
    Nooooooooooooooooooo!!!!!
    Is life even worth living?

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    Unfortunately the link is in Hebrew, but this seems a good idea, although many Israelis whinged about the government requesting and getting access to their location data.

    “Hello, you were near a Corona patient”: Israel's ministry of health has begun sending text messages to people whose phone's GPS placed them near a confirmed Coronavirus patient, ordering them into quarantine


    "שלום, היית ליד חולה קורונה": ההודעה שקיבלו 400 איש בעקבות איכוני שב"כ

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    I hope to fuck baldy hasn't seen "Outbreak".


    There are now two lawmakers who have tested positive for coronavirus on Capitol Hill, the first to be diagnosed with COVID-19. Congressmen Mario Diaz-Balart, Republican of Florida, and Ben McAdams, a Utah Democrat, both tested positive for the virus, according to press releases from their offices. The two were last seen at the Capitol on Friday when the House voted on the Families First Coronavirus Response Act alongside hundreds of other members.
    This comes as at least 17 members in the House of Representatives have self-quarantined after coming into contact with an individual or individuals who later tested positive for the virus.
    Diaz-Balart said in his statement that he developed symptoms including a headache and fever Saturday evening, and the test results came back positive on Wednesday.

    https://www.cbsnews.com/news/first-two-lawmakers-diagnosed-with-coronavirus/

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    Quote Originally Posted by harrybarracuda View Post
    Unfortunately the link is in Hebrew, but this seems a good idea, although many Israelis whinged about the government requesting and getting access to their location data.
    There's an excuse the General here would like.

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    Thai doctors claim drug success against virus


    Thai doctors have declared the use of anti-flu and AIDS drugs a success in reducing symptoms of coronavirus patients after using them on a Chinese woman.
    Two doctors from Rajavithi Hospital in Bangkok — Dr Kriangsak Atipornwanich, an expert physician, and Assoc Prof Dr Subsai Kongsangdao, a specialist — said at a briefing in Bangkok that improvements were seen in the 71-year-old woman 48 hours after administering the two groups of medications.
    The woman was admitted first to Hua Hin Hospital and then transferred to Rajavithi Hospital on Jan 29.
    After finding she had serious symptoms, the doctors decided to use oseltamivir, an anti-flu drug used to treat the Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS), as well as lopinavir and ritonavir, two AIDS drugs.
    Dr Kriangsak acknowleged that the Chinese had already been using AIDS medications on novel coronavirus patients.


    "We checked related information and found anti-flu drugs were effective on MERS so we combined both groups of medications.
    “After poor lab tests for 10 days, the test finally turned positive after 48 hours of administering the medications. The treatment, as well as the recovery, is fast,” he said.
    They noted they had reported the discovery to a medical journal and would use the drugs on additional patients. The two groups of drugs are effective on patients with serious symptoms, they said.
    Doctors from the Public Health Ministry also said at the briefing on Sunday the accumulated number of patients in Thailand stood at 19.
    One was discharged, bringing the total number of treated cases to eight. Thirty-eight more met the criteria for investigation, bringing the total under investigation to 382, they said.

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    Wishful thinking, the equivalent of sticking the tail on the donkey whilst blindfolded.

    The next thing will no doubt be the homeopathic fraternity discovering the ingestion of St. John's Wort under a myrtle twig is a curative therapy and makes your dick longer.

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    What scientists are working on to find a cure for coronavirus COVID-19

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    COVID-19 is caused by a new virus, which means no-one has any immunity when they are first exposed to it like they might do with other viruses.

    "With flus they're all derived from very similar types of viruses, whereas this is a new virus where everyone is naive to [it]," said evolutionary biologist Jemma Geoghegan of the University of Otago, who studies the emergence and evolution of viruses.

    This means when it comes to cures for COVID-19, while scientists can draw on what we know about other viruses, in many ways they're starting from scratch.

    Viral infections are often harder to cure than bacterial infections because you can't treat them with antibiotics, although antiviral medications are available for some infections.

    Treatments might be used to alleviate the symptoms of your infection while your immune system is fighting the virus.
    Conversely, vaccines are designed to prevent people getting infected in the first place.

    They do this by imitating the infection, so that the body's immune system knows how to fight that particular infection and protect you against getting it in the future.

    What scientists are working on to find a cure for coronavirus COVID-19 - Health - ABC News
    Someone is sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago ...


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    Quote Originally Posted by harrybarracuda View Post
    You definitely didn't get enough hugs as a child eh?

    Or brain cells...

    WTF are Europe doing? They have been a total failure, now more cases and more deaths than China - kinda hard to think of Europe being first world and China being third world when this is the way the healthcare management is.

    Korea down to 8th. Europe and US steaming up the charts.

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    Cycling should be banned!!!

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    When will we get a vaccine for COVID-19?

    Lots of different groups around the world are working on possible COVID-19 vaccines.

    "There are now 15 potential vaccine candidates in the pipeline globally using a wide range of technolog[ies]: mRNA, DNA, nanoparticle, synthetic and modified virus-like particles," said microbiologist Ian Henderson of the University of Queensland.

    The US National Institutes of Health announced that they have funded phase 1 clinical trials of a potential COVID-19 vaccine, called mRNA-1273, which began this week.

    The vaccine was able to be brought to clinical trials so quickly because researchers had already been working on a vaccine to protect against another coronavirus, which causes Middle East respiratory syndrome (MERS).

    While results from this first trial may be available within three months, it will still take at least a year and likely longer for a resulting vaccine to be widely available to the public.

    What scientists are working on to find a cure for coronavirus COVID-19 - Health - ABC News


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    Quote Originally Posted by harrybarracuda View Post
    Unfortunately the link is in Hebrew, but this seems a good idea, although many Israelis whinged about the government requesting and getting access to their location data.
    Religious nutters is what we need right now.

    This week, evidence has come to light that the virus spreads quickly through haredi neighborhoods and communities. In the haredi Jerusalem suburb of Telzstone, for example, nearly one in four residents has been ordered into isolation. And in New York, at least 100 people in the Borough Park neighborhood of Brooklyn have tested positive.

    Despite this, appeals made by law enforcement representatives directly to Kanievsky and other influential rabbis earlier this week failed to change their minds.
    “Rabbi Kanievsky says canceling Torah study is more dangerous than corona,” Shmulik Woolf, a member of the rabbi’s inner circle, told the Jewish Telegraphic Agency on Wednesday.
    But Woolf added that aside from the issue of yeshiva closures, in all other matters it is important to listen to the directives of the Ministry of Health.
    Back in Ramat Beit Shemesh Bet, after beating a hasty retreat from Torah V’Yirah, I walked down the street to another synagogue and struck up a conversation with an 18-year-old yeshiva student who identified himself only as Natan.
    “The Torah protects us and saves us. We’re not scared,” he told me, echoing a widely held belief in his community. “I’m young. People in the yeshivas aren’t afraid because we won’t get sick and anyone with a fever is sent home. We learn Torah, so it won’t happen.”

    Maybe another good thing this virus is good for

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    Quote Originally Posted by Bettyboo View Post
    WTF are Europe doing? They have been a total failure, now more cases and more deaths than China -
    Didn't China expel all Foreign press just a few days back? For fucking certain I would not be believing one word their own press might release about how many have died (for fear of being shot thru the head if it makes China look bad).

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    Quote Originally Posted by Bettyboo View Post
    Or brain cells...

    WTF are Europe doing?
    Reporting honestly?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Bettyboo View Post
    WTF are Europe doing?
    Testing more people?

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    Quote Originally Posted by harrybarracuda View Post
    He does have a point although in fairness you did say "religious nutters", and the less of them there are on the planet, the better.

    I'm sure there's a lot of "God works in mysterious ways" excuses coming out of temples, churches, mosques and synagogues right now.
    Good time to re-stock a load of TD Amulets.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Dillinger View Post
    Testing more people?
    As opposed to quietly cremating them.

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