Comments on: An update on the new virus outbreak originating from China https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/an-update-on-the-new-virus-outbreak-originating-from-china/ Fri, 24 Jan 2020 17:42:39 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: sippin_bourbon https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/an-update-on-the-new-virus-outbreak-originating-from-china/#comment-1075773 Fri, 24 Jan 2020 17:42:39 +0000 https://behindtheblack.com/?p=63155#comment-1075773 Bigger issue than originally thought. There are reports of mutation, and late containment efforts.

Perhaps a lower mortality rate, but a faster rate of transmission, or greater level of contagion (if that is the right word for this).

The result can be a higher actual death toll, even if the disease itself is less dangerous individually , due to a wider outbreak.

]]> By: Ian C. https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/an-update-on-the-new-virus-outbreak-originating-from-china/#comment-1075696 Wed, 22 Jan 2020 23:36:12 +0000 https://behindtheblack.com/?p=63155#comment-1075696 It’s way too early to make statements about its reach and impact. It still can mutate (multiple times). Which can change everything. Different incubation times, indicators (symptoms), lethality. Makes it harder to create new antidotes and mass produce them. Might require different containment and treatment policies and infrastructures. Most outbreaks produce less fatalities than the seasonal influenza, but we shouldn’t underestimate them. We need to be right every time, the outbreak needs to be right only once.

]]> By: F16 Guy https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/an-update-on-the-new-virus-outbreak-originating-from-china/#comment-1075687 Wed, 22 Jan 2020 20:53:56 +0000 https://behindtheblack.com/?p=63155#comment-1075687 Worth watching: (I was in Wuhan last year !)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VLp8CHeKQkI&feature=em-uploademail

The coronavirus in China is spreading, and largely could have been prevented. A town 7 km from where the virus was discovered in Wuhan had a state run banquet with 100,000 people eating off of the same dishes. This was 2 days after 49 cases were confirmed in Wuhan, China. The Chinese government is trying to save face, and now it is backfiring.

]]> By: jay https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/an-update-on-the-new-virus-outbreak-originating-from-china/#comment-1075683 Wed, 22 Jan 2020 18:53:23 +0000 https://behindtheblack.com/?p=63155#comment-1075683 Gordon Chang saying that the reporting is inaccurate. Cremation before diagnosis and misreporting of diagnosis. Hardly surprising the communists would do so.

]]> By: Gary https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/an-update-on-the-new-virus-outbreak-originating-from-china/#comment-1075676 Wed, 22 Jan 2020 16:26:41 +0000 https://behindtheblack.com/?p=63155#comment-1075676 The early detection and actions to contain it are quite impressive. Good work by those charged with the task.

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