Live updates: CDC confirms possible community spread of coronavirus

[riversedge]

Source: axios


Updated 7 hours ago - Health







The CDC reported on Wednesday the first case of the novel coronavirus in a person in the U.S. who did not recently return from a foreign country or have contact with a confirmed case.

The big picture: COVID-19 has killed more than 2,700 people and infected over 81,000 others. By Wednesday morning, South Korea had the most cases outside China, with 1,261 infections. Europe's biggest outbreak is in Italy, where 374 cases have been confirmed.


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....................U.S. cases: There are now 60 confirmed cases in the U.S., the CDC said Wednesday.

The latest is a person in California with no previous history of association with the virus. ........................


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FROM THE ARTICLE:


Confirmed cases of COVID-19
As of Feb. 26, 9:45 am EST
Total cases


81,193
Deaths
2,768

China 78,064
South Korea 1,261
Diamond Princess 705
Italy 322
Japan 178
Iran 139
Singapore 91
Hong Kong 89
U.S. 57
Thailand 40
Taiwan 32
Bahrain 23
Australia 22
Malaysia 22
Germany 18
Vietnam 16
France 14
U.K. 13
UAE 13
Canada 11
Kuwait 11
Macao 10
Spain 9
Iraq 5
Others with < 5 cases 28
Data: The Center for Systems Science and Engineering at Johns Hopkins, the CDC, and China's Health Ministry. Note: China numbers are for the mainland only and U.S. numbers include repatriated citizens.

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[soryang]

1. South Korea confirmed covid 19 cases is now 1595 nt

[LaurenOlimina]

5. They are aggressively testing.

We are not.

[soryang]

13. that's true but the weird cult doing everything wrong helped too.

bring your wuhan chapter home late in game, conceal that for a few weeks, have them mix with thousands of members in church and elsewhere, tell them their immune because they are believers, don't wear masks because you don't need them, etc., etc.

[Baitball Blogger]

15. +1

[kiri]

2. get it again?

If you survive a first attack, do you gain an immunity?

Can't find any info on the Net. This is an important factor in a spreading epidemic, because people can be reinfected or not.

Some strains of flu leave immuno-bodies that protect, but some strains allow the virus to recur.

[LaurenOlimina]

7. Yes, you can get it again and it is possibly more dangerous the second time.

They have found cases among those "cleared" of the virus.
[link:https://nypost.com/2020/02/19/whistleblower-doctors-say-coronavirus-reinfection-even-deadlier/|
https://nypost.com/2020/02/19/whistleblower-doctors-say-coronavirus-reinfection-even-deadlier/]

"The whistleblowing physicians working to fight the virus in Wuhan, the epicenter of the outbreak, revealed that medically cleared patients have been getting reinfected, the Taiwan News reported.

“It’s highly possible to get infected a second time,” one of the doctors, who declined to be identified, told the outlet.

The physician said that medication used to treat the virus can have negative side effects on patients’ heart tissue, making them more susceptible to cardiac arrest.

“A few people recovered from the first time by their own immune system, but the meds they use are damaging their heart tissue, and when they get it the second time, the antibody doesn’t help but makes it worse, and they die a sudden death from heart failure,” the doctor said."

[Kablooie]

3. I think I may postpone my trip to Disneyland.

[yaesu]

4. But Richard Engel tweeted that everything is going to be all right so no worries

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[SergeStorms]

9. So from now on....

don't age, and avoid hospitals at all costs. Got it.

[VMA131Marine]

11. 2% of the world's population...

Is about 160 million. That would be a lot of dead 💀 people.

[Hassin Bin Sober]

18. I think he's saying 98% won't need medical care. Which sounds about right.

I just had the flu type A. I wouldn’t have known it but my partner works in the medical field. He called in sick one day and went in the next and got checked out. He tested positive for type A influenza. I came down with it the next day.

Had I not known I would have thought it was a bad cold. Though it did come on quick and started in the chest versus sniffles.

It’s the first time I’ve ever taken tamiflu. We probably could have skipped it but since we had the diagnosis it made sense.

Like a dummy I procrastinated and didn’t get vaccinated this year. My partner has to for work.

[VMA131Marine]

21. He's wrong

Something like 15% of the people who get this strain of coronavirus are requiring medical intervention. It should make sense that more people will need treatment than will die, and probably a lot more. If you extrapolate the numbers, something like one billion people could need hospital treatment if this goes worldwide; why else do you think China has been building temporary hospitals in Wuhan?

[Warpy]

6. Shit. Here it comes. Time to start developing a few good habits

Wash your hands.
Avoid touching your face with your fingers. Assume they're contaminated unless you've just washed them.
Wash your hands.
Scratch itches on your face with the back of your wrist.
Wash your hands.
If you're ill, cough and sneeze into the crook of your elbow to avoid passing it on.
Wash your hands. Have I mentioned that?

The bug seems to be spread on contaminated surfaces and, unlike smallpox and HIV, it is viable for a week or so.

If you have a dry cough and a fever, stay home unless there is a place to go to to get tested for the virus. If you are also very short of breath, it's ER time. Fever means something in the 101.5F ballpark.

And if you're outside CA and some nitwit of a MAGAt says it's hitting the right place, mention that it didn't respect national borders and it's not going to respect state lines and he's next.

[SergeStorms]

10. They're not really sure how it's transmitted though.

It could be airborne. I refuse to stop breathing for anyone!

[Warpy]

16. Not really sure about that.

Remember the 57 passengers they released after a flight from China in cattle class with a coughing passenger. Were it efficiently transmitted through droplets, I'd expect a few people to have tested positive for it.

Onboard the Diamond Princess, patients were quarantined in their cabins and brought food on trays, ship personnel were wearing protective equipment like masks, face shields, and gloves. Yet the virus continued to spread . This is another reason I think it's likely surface contamination rather than droplet. That doesn't mean it's impossible, especially in close quarters. I just find it unlikely.

I hope to hell I'm right. You can avoid touching your face with your fingers until you do a good hand wash. You can't, as you said, avoid breathing and masks get soggy quickly and are very uncomfortable.

[Hassin Bin Sober]

19. My partner and I just had type A a couple weeks ago.

We probably wouldn’t have known it but he works in a clinic and got tested after taking one day off. I don’t know if they always test or if they are on high alert.

He was home sick and warned me not to drink out of his glass. I was like “I’m strong like bull. I’m invincible! “ — he went in to work the next day and came home that morning with the diagnosis. Doh! I got sick that night.


He had been vaccinated for type A but I procrastinated this year. I may have been a little worse off — or I’m a big baby when I’m sick. Which is true.

You are right about the fever and dry cough. Had I not known, I would have assumed a cold. But it did come on pretty quick without any sniffles.

He came home with Tamiflu and they called in a prescription for me.

[SergeStorms]

8. I'm glad Mike Pence is on top of this.

America's christo-fascists can pray COVID-19 away. You'll never know how safe and serene that makes me feel.

As if it's needed......

[ffr]

14. +1

The co-impeached conspirator apprentice. I wish nothing less than to see that man pay for what he's guilty of.

[ffr]

12. I was shaking my head weeks ago at cruise line stocks going up

Now they're dropping quickly.

705 cases from one cruise ship alone, is blowing my mind!

[deurbano]

17. This case seems to be someone from Solano being treated at UC Davis Medical Center.

https://www.politico.com/states/california/story/2020/02/26/california-coronavirus-patient-hospitalized-at-least-a-week-before-diagnosis-1263958

<<The patient was transferred to UC Davis Medical Center in Sacramento from another hospital in Northern California a week ago with a suspected viral condition... The patient had not yet been diagnosed, but UCD staff considered the patient as a possible coronavirus case and asked the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention for testing... However, the patient did not immediately get tested for coronavirus because they didn't fit the existing CDC criteria.

The CDC eventually ordered a test Sunday and confirmed Wednesday that the patient was infected... It was not the hospital's first coronavirus case, "and because of the precautions we have had in place since this patient's arrival, we believe there has been minimal potential for exposure here at UC Davis Medical Center," the email stated.>>

[riversedge]

20. Solano County is home to Travis AFB, where people were quarantined after travel from China or aboard

yes.

@washingtonpost
reports that the case is a resident in Solano County, in Northern California. Solano County is home to Travis AFB, where people were quarantined after travel from China or aboard the Diamond Princess cruise.

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