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01-27-2020, 01:47 PM
Zap Rowsdower
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I doubt the Coronavirus situation is going to help anyone dealing with China, first if it goes south and kills the planet, if they do finally contain it and all the commerce/shipping backed up, delays caused by it, deaths of factory workers, etc. Who knows what is going to happen in China as of this exact moment.
I was beginning to get worried about this outbreak news as well. Every day the number of millions of Chinese under quarantine keeps jumping, it seems. So I read a couple of articles to see what information I could find out. This is a non-expert evaluation based on some news stories I read...
https://www.sciencenews.org/article/...inst-sars-mers
The so-called "coronavirus" isn't a proper noun, nor is it a name for the specific virus we're talking about. It's really a category of virus with thousands of members, including the common cold. This particular one has been designated “2019 Novel Coronavirus" (or 2019-nCoV for short). The CDC doesn't like to name illnesses after the places that they first occurred, but screw that. I'm calling this sucker the "Wuhan Flu."
From what I'm reading, it's supposedly less virulent than SARS is/was and WAY less virulent than MERS. But it's still a bit early to tell since we're getting Chinese state-media reports for the main infection site, and since the number of infected individuals is still relatively low (especially elsewhere in the world). With that said, the mortality rate so far in China has been around 4% (4% of confirmed infections, not 4% of the population) but I imagine we'll be getting a much larger sample size soon enough as the disease spreads.
If it helps to calm anyone's nerves, the common cold is frequently caused by another coronavirus, just a different one. It's not like coronavirus infections are a new thing, it's just that this one particular virus normally only infects animals and has crossed over from another species (current reports are snakes, but historically most coronavirus crossovers have come from bats, apparently) into humans. This particular coronavirus sinks in deeper into lung tissue than the ones we usually see for the common cold, so you end up with lung tissue damage rather than just some sniffles. Some people who have this coronavirus apparently aren't even symptomatic until the shortness of breath occurs around 7-10 days after infection, which is the frustrating part. For some people, they'll be contagious but asymptomatic.
Infected patients in the US are reportedly being given antivirals that helped fight MERS to see if that helps with this particular virus, and if that fails then the usual step is to copy antibodies from people who had the infection and fought it off (which is where the antibodies for SARS came from, for example). Bottom line, this doesn't look like an extinction situation like in the movie
Outbreak
at this point. If things shift dramatically, that will change the calculus. For now, however, no cause for panic. Just stay away from sick people and wash your hands. Even if you do catch it, the odds are so far about a 96% chance that you'll survive.
https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-...e/faq-20057907
Like most viral infections, this one is expected to spread most readily through droplets of cough/sneeze suspended in air (which can remain infectious for hours) or by direct contact with infected peoples' stuff they've touched or coughed/sneezed on (most viruses only survive 30-60 minutes or so on surfaces, shorter times on absorbent surfaces because they need moist environments to survive). If you're worried, stay away from crowds, wear a dust mask and goggles when you do have to go into crowds (Remember all of the photos from Asia during SARS? That wasn't a fashion statement.), and wash your hands thoroughly before touching your face or any broken skin and before eating, drinking, smoking, etc. Basic rules of sanitation apply.
Again, this is my layman's assessment based on what I've read. Take it with however many grains of salt you wish!
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