www.scmp.com/news/china/society/article/3047066/what-do-you-need-know-about-new-coronavirus-chinaLatest graphic always at above link. Usually updated several times a day.
Graphic updated after 1 Mar, 3:18PM Hong Kong time (same time on graphic but new data):
www.jecarter.us/files/coronavirus-stats-scmp-1Mar1723EST.jpgHong Kong is 13 hours ahead of EST.
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Short and (not) sweet excerpts from a few items on foxnews.com:
www.foxnews.com/media/marco-rubio-coronavirus-china-world-risk"The way you deal with a global pandemic is, you become transparent and you share information beginning with the actual virus," Rubio told "Sunday Morning Futures."
"You share the virus because researchers around the world can start working on the bases of that and developing treatments and vaccines... they didn't do that," he added.
"The Communist Party of China is more interested in protecting their global image than they are in containing this," he said. "That’s really the fundamental challenge here. They've even intimidated the World Health Organization which... came out with these glowing reviews of the way they have responded to it."
"Not only is 80 percent [of medications] coming from outside the country and a significant percentage of those active ingredients from China, but they actually come, a lot of it is from that very province that was the origin of this crisis," he said, referring to the Wuhan province of China, which is where the virus is believed to have originated.
"The result of it now is that there is invariably going to be supply chain issues and disruptions," Rubio added.
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www.foxnews.com/health/fda-announces-coronavirus-related-drug-shortage-usThe U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced the first coronavirus-related drug shortage in the U.S., but did not reveal which product is being affected and said there are alternatives currently available to patients.
“We are working with the manufacturer as well as other manufacturers to mitigate the shortage,” the FDA said in a statement, according to Reuters. “We will do everything possible to mitigate the shortage.”
The drug was among a list of 20 that the FDA had previously identified as possibly being impacted by the coronavirus outbreak in China due to ingredients or production location. So far, the agency said there are no reported shortages of medical devices in the U.S. due to the COVID-19 outbreak.
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(Also part of the baove article.)
The outbreak has been linked to at least 2,866 deaths, and while the majority of fatalities have occurred in mainland China, Iran has now surpassed South Korea and Japan. As of Friday, the country has reported at least 34 deaths as suspicions about when the virus first entered the country, and why the fatality rate is so high begin to mount.
However, Iranian leaders were quick to dismiss worries over the virus and even accused the U.S. of trying to spread fear.
“We have no plan to quarantine any district or any city,” the country’s president, Hassan Rouhani, said, according to BBC News. “If an individual has early symptoms, that person must be quarantined.”
His comments come as the country’s health minister and Masoumeh Ebtekar, vice president for women and family affairs, were both diagnosed with the virus.
“We must not let America add a new virus to the coronavirus by halting our social activities by spreading tremendous fear,” Rouhani said, according to Reuters.
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www.foxnews.com/media/dr-anthony-fauci-coronavirus-spread-usDr. Anthony Fauci, a member of the White House coronavirus task force, said Sunday that “community spread” cases of the virus, which cannot be directly traced to anyone, are becoming more prevalent in the United States.
The term “community spread” is used when a person becomes infected with no known original source or index case, in contrast to earlier travel-related cases which were clearer in how and where the infections originated, Fauci told “Fox & Friends Weekend” in a Sunday morning interview.
While this makes it more challenging for officials to trace a point of origin for the infectious disease and contain it, Fauci said the development did not come as a surprise to health officials.
“This was something that was entirely expected when you have diffuse infections throughout the world – as you’ve just mentioned, South Korea, Iran, Italy, in places like that – sooner or later there are going to be cases in your country that you can’t directly trace to anyone,” Fauci said. “That becomes much more challenging about identifying the source.”
These types of cases, which have been reported in Washington state and Oregon, require officials to do “much more intensive contact tracing in addition to the isolation,” he said.
Fauci, who is also director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, went on to address whether it is appropriate to compare the coronavirus with the seasonal flu.
“Yes and no,” Fauci said, cautioning that the comparison is suitable in some respects, but not in others.
“It clearly is much more lethal, if you want to call it that, than the typical seasonal flu,” he said.
The seasonal flu mortality rate is about 0.1 percent, while information thus far, particularly from China, indicates the coronavirus mortality rate is around 2 to 2.3 percent, Fauci said, adding that the number might be a little lower if all cases around the world were counted.
He said that like the flu, coronavirus will most commonly afflict older people with underlying health problems, while infections in young, healthy individuals can still occur, although be more unusual.
In a projection of the outbreak in the coming weeks, Fauci said “the American people really need to realize” that more cases will pop up in communities in which there is no identified source.
“It’s unrealistic to think it’s not going to happen,” Fauci said. “It is how we handle it that’s important.”
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I think the last statement above confirmed that the hammer has been pulled back for an SHTF event, at least in some areas of the US, and we're just waiting for the trigger to be touched.
There is more, but this is enough bad news for one post. This next one some may see as karma.
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www.foxnews.com/entertainment/oprah-winfrey-falls-onstage-balance-during-tourEven Oprah Winfrey takes a tumble from time to time.
During an engagement for her Oprah's 2020 Vision: Your Life on Focus Tour, the 66-year-old tripped and fell on stage while discussing achieving balance in her life.
One fan captured a video of the incident and shared it on Twitter.
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