Thread: Corona Virus

Originally Posted by V8Ian

So you didn't have to go far, then?

No its not South,its,ummm,North for a long while,from here.

I think

Originally Posted by scarry

No its not South,its,ummm,North for a long while,from here.

I think

Argh, pirate country?

Getting back on track , new outbreak of the CV in Beijing , gone into lockdown .

Originally Posted by Fatso

Getting back on track , new outbreak of the CV in Beijing , gone into lockdown .

The recent data has it mutating as its moving around the globe.

This is going to be a tricky bug to squash.

And a new positive at a southern Sydney school.
This one could be serious, the school is closed for a minimum two weeks and everyone at the school, all pupils and staff have been told to isolate.
NSW Health and the Education Dept have moved with haste on this,.it potentially could be a breakout as the positive had close contact with everyone.

Until the end of last week NSW didn't have a local transmission case for nearly two weeks.
It shows, like the Beijing outbreak it can be still be circulating at a low level in the community.

Originally Posted by Fatso

Getting back on track , new outbreak of the CV in Beijing , gone into lockdown .

Yes , a more virulent form of the virus, believed to have started in a wholesale food market, found on chopping boards. This was after a month of no new community transmitted cases of COVID 19.

A mutated strain circulating thru Europe and the USA has up to 5 times more functional ' spikes ' making it better at binding.

Parts of Beijing in lockdown after outbreak out meat market

The virus in the developing World, from the NYT

The virus in the developing world

During the initial phase of the coronavirus pandemic, an apparent anomaly was puzzling health experts around the world: Why was the virus pummeling rich countries, but seemed to leave many poorer nations relatively untouched?

Theories abounded. Some speculated that developing nations were insulated from the worst effects of the virus because they had younger populations, lower rates of diabetes or warmer climates.

Now, things have changed. The virus is poised to explode across the developing world and is already surging in Latin America, the Middle East, South Asia and Africa — areas much less equipped to fight it. In the Central African Republic, for example, there are only three ventilators for a population of five million. In some countries, there are none at all.

However, our colleague Nicholas Kristof, an Opinion columnist who writes about health and global affairs, told us that there was a “misfocus” in the United States on the direct medical effects of the virus in poorer countries. The real damages, he said, are the unseen effects that the virus — and the economic disaster that follows it — could have on nutrition, child mortality, vaccination rates and education.

Nick noted that those problems would disproportionately affect one group in particular: girls and young women.

“We know that when families don’t have enough food, they sometimes feed their sons while starving their daughters, or they marry off their daughters as child brides,” he said. “So I’m guessing we’ll see more girls go hungry, more girls pulled out of school permanently, and more girls married in their early teens.”

The fallout from the virus will also linger long after the pandemic ends, Nick said.

“The brains of children who are malnourished often don’t develop properly,” he told us. “So, 50 years from now, there will be adults whose cognitive capacity will be diminished because in 2020 they were malnourished.”

Of course, wealthier countries are facing their own crises and may not have the resources — or desire — to help poorer countries when the virus takes hold. But when it comes to helping the developing world, Nick told us, it’s not just our values at stake, but also our interests.

“With an infectious disease, the world is only as safe as the weakest link,” he said. “People will travel and the virus will travel, and so it’s going to be important that we address it globally.”

Texas, Florida and California reported their highest daily tallies of new virus cases , as the US continues reopening.

Texas, Florida and California all recently reported their highest daily tallies of new virus cases, a concerning sign as the U.S. continues reopening.

Friday, June 12, 2020 2:00 PM EST

The rise in cases helps explain why the nation continues to record more than20,000 new cases a day even as some of the original hot spots, including NewYork, have seen dramatic declines. While some officials in states seeingincreases attribute the rise to increased testing, and the number of cases percapita in Texas and Florida remains low, some health experts see worrying signsthat the virus continues to make inroads.

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