Coronavirus - International stories and thoughts

France closes all restaurants, shops ..
France closes shops, restaurants, tells people to stay home

 

Here is a link to China's "ghost weddings", a superstitious practice wherein relatives in rural China hold wedding ceremonies for recently deceased people. It goes to show how superstitious people in China are (especially rural areas), and that extends to traditional Chinese medicine, which is at the heart of the Coronavirus problem.

The deadly price of China's ghost weddings

 

We need to use their data, in part, because we have so little of our own data. By an affirmative decision made by Donald Trump.

 

The bats sh!t on a plant. Another animal eats said plant or an ant that ate the plant. Human eats said animal or ingests its grinded up scales to help get an erection. (That is not a joke moderators.) Or stews the meat of a different animal that eats said plant with snake meat to cure insomnia.
It is my understanding that the virus in the anteater is 99% identical to the one killing people.
How did the US army give it to them? Ingenious though knowing the chinese used it for ED. (That was an attempted joke)
It is my understanding that both SARS and coronavirus are zoonotic. That is the first time I have read most.

 

Positive coronavirus test of newborn baby ‘raises concerns about transmission’

Something this report raises is what little knowledge we have on the potential impact of maternal infection on fetal development.

 

A 9 month old in Malaysia also test positive

 

that changes things ...

 

That’s not at all surprising if the parents have it. If you are a parent you know how much fluid is traded between parent and infant child.

 

Practice Advisory: Novel Coronavirus 2019 (COVID-19) - ACOG

Current information on corona and pregnancy, primarily the same advice on prevention of infection, little else at this point

 

This was supposed to be respiratory spread only though.

Even if you received blood from an infected person, they were under the impression it would not spread (though the person I saw making that claim also said there wasn't exactly any study on that yet, as this is a brand new virus).

 

UK wants more ventilators, hospital beds as coronavirus spreads

Britain told manufacturers to ramp up the country’s production of ventilators and ordered private hospitals to prepare for an overspill of patients from the public health service as the death toll from coronavirus grew on Saturday.

The Sunday Telegraph said companies including Rolls-Royce (RR.L) had been asked by Johnson to transform their production lines to produce ventilators as part of a “national effort.”

 

Britain’s health ministry said the number of confirmed positive tests for coronavirus in the country rose to 1,140 on Saturday, a 43% increase from the figure of 798 given on Friday.

 

Do we have any data on ventilator patients recovering from this thing?

 

Four more African nations confirm coronavirus, new controls put in place

 

Playgrounds taped off, streets deserted as Spain's coronavirus death toll doubles

 

Not good news:

Coronavirus death toll in Spain more than doubles in a day as cases near 8,000

Spain’s death toll from coronavirus has more than doubled in 24 hours to 288 since the country entered a partial lockdown.

The nation’s health ministry said the total number of confirmed cases had risen to 7,753, up from 5,700 on Saturday, with around half concentrated in the capital of Madrid.

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The only thing I've seen is a very small sample (12 patients) from China, with 3 of them having diminished lung capacity after recovery, and 9 of the 9 tested having an unidentified lung condition. Unknown if those things will get better with time. One of the problems of a novel virus. We'll know much more in a year.

 

Iran's death toll from coronavirus reaches 724, says health official