Coronavirus - Is this the killer flu that will wipe us out?

[Erik997]

eharding said:

The point being that you rounded off your account of dinner with this chap with his apparent firm belief that he was going to run at the Tokyo marathon, hence giving weight to the earlier statements you claimed he made.

That, obviously, isn't going to happen.

Either he was - as an apparent medical expert - genuinely being mistakenly optimistic about it happening, or he wasn't being completely truthful with you. Either way, it puts a certain context on your other assertions about what he said, and his competency in the matter.

Not that it matters in the least, unless you're planning another "eat 'n' post" dinner in the near future.

Erm... ok

[eharding]

Erik997 said:

eharding said:

The point being that you rounded off your account of dinner with this chap with his apparent firm belief that he was going to run at the Tokyo marathon, hence giving weight to the earlier statements you claimed he made.

That, obviously, isn't going to happen.

Either he was - as an apparent medical expert - genuinely being mistakenly optimistic about it happening, or he wasn't being completely truthful with you. Either way, it puts a certain context on your other assertions about what he said, and his competency in the matter.

Not that it matters in the least, unless you're planning another "eat 'n' post" dinner in the near future.

Erm... ok

Exactly what I was thinking when you first posted your account of dinner with this chap.

[anonymous-user]

This thread has bought out the characters, it actually takes your mind of the impending doom.

[eharding]

Thesprucegoose said:

This thread has bought out the characters, it actually takes your mind off the impending doom.

FTFY. You know you wanted me to.

[Ridgemont]

Ridgemont said:

Latest

Globally

51 857 laboratory-confirmed (1278 new)

China

51 174 laboratory-confirmed (1121 new)
1666 deaths (142 new) †

Outside of China

683 laboratory-confirmed (157 new)
25 countries
3 deaths (1 new)

Slowing down in China.
Picking up outside of China.

Globally
71 429 confirmed (2162 new)

China
70 635 confirmed (2051 new)
1772 deaths (106 new) †

Outside of China
794 confirmed (111 new) 25 countries
3 deaths

Observations on day whatever.

1) looks like the WHO has now wrapped in the Chinese data correction with a 20k jump
2) lab confirmed therefore appears to have been removed as a qualifier
3) Chinese infected numbers heavily up. Deaths down. Are they now getting to test non hospital people as the critical cases decline?
4) outside China numbers stable. No new countries announcing. Which given Africa sounds... odd.

[Ridgemont]

Latest report here:
https://www.who.int/docs/default-source/coronaviru...

Looking at the intra China numbers it is very odd how this is now 2 months out from the cases hitting the Wuhan hospitals and the lack of serious contagion in the rest of the provinces.

Without the tinfoil theories I wonder if the Chinese extreme reaction got hold of this.

[WyrleyD]

Straits Times Singapore in the last hour reported that the death toll is now 1868.

https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/corona...

[Joedarkness]

matrignano said:

I’m off to Tokyo on Friday. Not running though!

It's fine here .. just a little more people wearing face masks .. thats it

[anonymous-user]

eharding said:

Erik997 said:

eharding said:

But as an apparent medical authority on all things Wuflu, he didn't think that it was likely? Or even a possibility?

If he didn't, what do the Japanese authorities know that he doesn't?

If he did, then was he being entirely candid with you?

You have totally lost me.

He booked a flight months ago for the marathon. If it was on he would be running. Its not on so he is still going to watch.

Not sure what your point is

The point being that you rounded off your account of dinner with this chap with his apparent firm belief that he was going to run at the Tokyo marathon, hence giving weight to the earlier statements you claimed he made.

That, obviously, isn't going to happen.

Either he was - as an apparent medical expert - genuinely being mistakenly optimistic about it happening, or he wasn't being completely truthful with you. Either way, it puts a certain context on your other assertions about what he said, and his competency in the matter.

Not that it matters in the least, unless you're planning another "eat 'n' post" dinner in the near future.

Christ on a bike.

[anonymous-user]

Erik997 said:

Erm... ok

Exactly. You’d better give times and dates next time in case he needs to visit to verify.

Unbelievable

[Erik997]

V6 Pushfit said:

Exactly. You’d better give times and dates next time in case he needs to visit to verify.

Unbelievable

You and I finally agree on something!

[MaxFromage]

Figures from the John Hopkins tracker WITHOUT Hubei Province:

Confirmed cases: 13,346
Deaths: 84
Recovered: 4,940

In comparison to yesterday, 181 less confirmed cases (reclassification?), 5 more deaths and an increase of 422 in recovered patients.

[nffcforever]

“No significant disparities in ACE2 gene expression were found between racial groups (Asian vs Caucasian)”

But smokers may be more at risk.

https://www.preprints.org/manuscript/202002.0051/v...

[anonymous-user]

MaxFromage said:

Figures from the John Hopkins tracker WITHOUT Hubei Province:

Confirmed cases: 13,346
Deaths: 84
Recovered: 4,940

In comparison to yesterday, 181 less confirmed cases (reclassification?), 5 more deaths and an increase of 422 in recovered patients.

That’s a bit more like it at 1.6% albeit weighted to better healthcare on smaller groups.

The naive method would give 0.06% but that’s bks.

[Exige77]

V6 Pushfit said:

Erik997 said:

Erm... ok

Exactly. You’d better give times and dates next time in case he needs to visit to verify.

Unbelievable

That was a bit strange.

I guess we all have to be accountable for what we post.

Maybe like China, we could have a citizen score.

A low score will not allow you to post in high risk forums on PH ?

It’s for your own good

[anonymous-user]

Exige77 said:

V6 Pushfit said:

Erik997 said:

Erm... ok

Exactly. You’d better give times and dates next time in case he needs to visit to verify.

Unbelievable

That was a bit strange.

I guess we all have to be accountable for what we post.

Maybe like China, we could have a citizen score.

A low score will not allow you to post in high risk forums on PH ?

It’s for your own good

Good idea that. I’ll give it a think.

[nffcforever]

Really sad news - David Abel and his wife Sally on the cruise ship have tested positive.

[poo at Paul's]

nffcforever said:

Really sad news - David Abel and his wife Sally on the cruise ship have tested positive.

They've been having a big push to try to get out in the last few days, wonder if he suspected?

[nffcforever]

poo at Paul's said:

nffcforever said:

Really sad news - David Abel and his wife Sally on the cruise ship have tested positive.

They've been having a big push to try to get out in the last few days, wonder if he suspected?

Yeah maybe. They’ve both been looking more weary recently, but that could just be because they have been stuck in a cabin for weeks. Sally was coughing and rubbing her nose in their final vid before the test result so maybe they had been suspecting they had it, especially with the amount of new infection every day.

UK Gov’t finally today announce they are going to put on a flight...but maybe too late for David and Sally. Not sure if they would have to go to the Japanese hospital first or if the UK flight will take them even though they are positive, like the US flight did.

[bradders]

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/16/world/asia/coro...

Crikey!!!