Chernobyl? I think you’re overreacting a bit there duderino. I don’t recall Madrid or Barcelona being evacuated in 1918, or people avoiding those cities for “an entire generation.”
the amount of disinformation out there is incredible basically resigned to just checking the CDC/WHO and Johns Hopkins map
I think that this would be a great opportunity to re-examine our work structure and encourage more work from home opportunities, will be interesting to see if a prolonged quarantine could encourage technological innovation about schooling, more push for virtual visits and emedicine, and maybe even retool the religious/worship experience if faced with a new pandemic in this country.
While this is still true, turns out I was a wee bit too hasty on this. The jump in cases in north Italy is concerning to say the least. I imagine this piece of information won't matter to too may Italians, sadly: "But authorities admitted they were seeing cases, including two in Venice, that had no apparent connection to Chinese travelers or the closed-off Italian hot spots, which are mostly concentrated toward the south of Milan."
If anything, the lack of info and cloud of uncertainty would lead to more fear, IMO. Dude, Pripyat turned into a ghost town and your flesh melted off your bones if you got too close to the reactor. People fear nuclear catastrophe more than they do SARS or the bird flue. C’mon.
I subscribed to Caixin Globals daily email update on it. It's very good, just bullet point developments. Here's an example. Sorry for lack of spoiler dunno how to do that on mobile • Confirmed cases in China climbed to 75,572 as of Friday evening. The official death toll reached 2,239. • Outside China, 1,224 confirmed cases and 11 deaths were reported in 26 countries. • At least five of China’s prisons confirmed 512 cases of Covid-19 infections by Friday, stoking fears that the country’s penitentiaries risk becoming incubators of a virus that appears to run rampant in close quarters. An official of the Prison Administration of the Ministry of Justice along with provincial officials confirmed figures in online announcements and at a Friday press conference (link in Chinese). • Hubei provincial party committee secretary Ying Yong is moving to ban and reverse (link in Chinese) the retroactive deduction of confirmed Covid-19 cases from official data as the province’s drastic changes to epidemic accounting methods in recent days drew criticism. Cases that have already been removed must be added back, and data must be publicized in a transparent and accurate manner, he said Friday at a press conference. • Reports of a series of new infections in Beijing sparked fears over the capital’s exposure to mounting risks of the deadly coronavirus and have led to large-scale quarantines in at least two downtown hospitals. • Exemptions to a 14-day quarantine are being made for certain foreigners returning to Beijing, as China slowly resumes work following the extended Lunar New Year holiday to slow the spread of the virus. The European Union Chamber of Commerce in China said Friday it received updated quarantine rules from the Beijing Covid-19 Prevention and Control Office. • South Korea: The country’s Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported 48 more cases Friday afternoon, bringing South Korea’s total to 204 cases. The country also announced its second death. The South Korean government designated the southeastern city of Daegu and the nearby town of Cheongdo as “special management zones” after dozens of cases and a possible “super-spreader” were found in the cities, elevating the country’s infections to the third-highest in the world. • Japan: Two children, who are brothers, along with an adult in Japan’s northern island of Hokkaido were diagnosed with Covid-19, local media reported Friday afternoon. This is the first time a person under the age of 10 has been infected in Japan. As of Friday evening, Japan had 737 infections. Meanwhile, more sports events have been modified or canceled, fueling fears that the Tokyo 2020 Summer Olympics could be affected. • U.S.: The first American to be diagnosed with Covid-19 has recovered, local authorities said Thursday (link in Chinese). • Iran: Iran confirmed 13 more Covid-19 cases and two more deaths Friday, bringing totals to 18 cases and four deaths, Reuters reported, citing Health Ministry spokesman Kianush Jahanpur. • Ukraine: Buses carrying Ukrainian evacuees were attacked en route to quarantine in a small town in the Eastern European country, the BBC reported. Some 45 Ukrainians and 27 foreign nationals were evacuated Thursday from Wuhan, according to the report. Ukraine has not reported any Covid-19 cases. • Australia: Two Australians evacuated from the Diamond Princess cruise ship in Japan tested positive for Covid-19 upon landing in their home country, local health officials said Friday, bringing Australia’s total to 17. • Thousands of Covid-19 cases may have gone undiagnosed in the early stages of the epidemic because of an overemphasis on patients’ contacts with the South China Seafood Market in Wuhan, according to doctors fighting the deadly coronavirus outbreak. • A central government office led by Premier Li Keqiang called for steady resumption of business activities after nearly a month of disruption due to the outbreak. The office called on local authorities to put in place measures to support business resumption while maintaining control of the disease (link in Chinese). Medical updates / • New guidelines put an end to confirming cases through clinical diagnosis and require that Covid-19 be confirmed exclusively through lab tests, primarily nucleic acid tests (NATs). Chinese health experts were brought out this week to ease concerns about the accuracy of the main test used to confirm coronavirus cases. • Recent research again linked an endangered mammal, the pangolin, to the novel coronavirus as scientists work to determine the intermediate host of the deadly virus. Market and social impacts / • The impact of the coronavirus on China’s services economy has been huge, but it hasn’t been evenly spread. As consumers dine at home, by choice or not, the country’s restaurants are struggling while grocers are finding themselves short of staff in the face of a spike in demand. Some companies have decided to team up to address this issue, with out-of-work catering staff being reallocated to supermarkets. Check out our deep dive. • Offering discounts to shift unsold homes is nothing new in China’s real estate industry. But property giant China Evergrande Group’s announcement this week that it would slash prices on new apartments in 613 developments underscores the depth of the crisis that’s engulfed the industry as the coronavirus epidemic has brought large swathes of the economy to a halt. • Chinese airlines are targeting enterprises and local governments with chartered air services to bring back workers stranded by the Covid-19 outbreak, seeking to offset a sharp drop in domestic air travel that has weighed on their finances. • Shockwaves from the coronavirus outbreak have rattled China’s economy and financial markets, stirring debate within and outside the government over whether cutting benchmark deposit rates is an effective solution to enable banks to lower lending rates and help businesses survive the epidemic. • China’s Ministry of Commerce said (link in Chinese) it expected China’s consumer market to bottom out by March as business recovers. Catering, accommodation, tourism, culture and entertainment sectors have been worst hit by the outbreak, the ministry said. • Airlines warn of first global traffic drop since 2009 on virus • Foxconn allows Henan workers to return to its Zhengzhou complex • Korea trade data show virus disruption to China supply chain • Local governments assist filmmakers stricken by Covid-19
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Sounds like manufacturing capacity is only at about 20%, maybe even less. The central government and local governments are at odds with control of the factories and return of the migrant workers, so things could get real interesting on that side of things in the next month or two. Either way, the world is going to be hurting real quick.
Eleventy-one. I don’t know half of you half as well as I should like, and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve.
Great article about the sickest of the sick in Wuhan: https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanres/article/PIIS2213-2600(20)30079-5/fulltext tl:dr the people who were admitted to the ICU with covid pneumonia died more often than not but those who died were not surprisingly much older and sicker, had organs fail.
A potential (or likely) pandemic as a political football. It's all fun and games until it hits you at home, eh?
That's really what it was, or the trip just being kneecapped when they tell everyone to leave/flights get shut down which seems to be pending with Korea. South Korea going from fine to like 8 days later a CDC level 3 warning spooked me when Japan just got moved to 2. Wifes job also makes it a lot more complicated, constant contact with immunocompromised people and financial ramifications if she misses the week after our trip that would be tough to stomach. Just couldn't take the chance. Luckily Delta is cool as hell and rebooked us to October without blinking.
Delta has been awesome through all this, anecdotally. The suspended flights my family booked for late April have an open invitation for straight up refund. They even refunded my additional itinerary between DIA and MSP since I mentioned it was booked in the service of getting back to China despite being a separate itinerary. Granted, it was pennies for them, and they probably realized I travel to China a bunch, but still...they're the best in the U.S. and it's not close (it is also known, but always good to reaffirm). Have a feeling my flight to Incheon next weekend might not be happening. Might be for the best for my sanity. Things sound fairly...boring over there in China.
i'd wait in that case unless there's non-refundable things at play, my entire trip was refundable except flights (but deltas awesome) there's a chance it just never expands substantially and japan is fine by that point, its just my trip is coinciding with the expansion of cases and a whole lot of ????
It's realllly hard to figure out what to do. Fortunately, mostly financial and annoyance risk at this point. Hoping it stays that way, but these many outbreaks are really something.
International mortality rate 0.7%. Probably due to relatively healthy, younger people traveling and being infected compared to older patients in Wuhan