[OFF TOPIC] Coronavirus Pandemic

[heywoodu 15,333]

  On 2/11/2020 at 10:24 PM, Dnl said:

fyi:Coronavirus has got a new name: COVID 19  

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Not entirely. It has been named 2019-nCoV since late December/early January (although media keeps calling it 'the coronavirus', but there's tons of coronavirusses, SARS is one as well). 

 

The virus is still named 2019-nCoV, what's new is that the WHO has given a name to the disease now and that is Covid-19.

 

Covid --> Coronavirus disease

 

Still a rather mediocre name.

[dcro 10,210]

15k new corona cases confirmed today.

 

 

Edited February 13, 2020 by dcro

[heywoodu 15,333]

  On 2/13/2020 at 9:40 AM, dcro said:

15k new corona cases confirmed today.

 

 

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With a little sidenote being that this includes a whole lot of 'suspected' cases. Most of these are not actually confirmed (in a laboratory) but are 'clinically diagnosed': you have symptoms, you're counted. That's why there is this extreme rise from 2100 or something yesterday to 15k today. Good chance this is a one time thing to 'correct' the numbers to the new way of counting.

[Agger 1,664]

What @heywoodu said

 

 

[Dnl 691]

  On 2/13/2020 at 9:40 AM, dcro said:

15k new corona cases confirmed today.

 

 

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key word is confirmed since no one really know how many people are actually dead or got infected China is managing the information that come and go a thing that makes world wide Uncertainty

[heywoodu 15,333]

Bye Olympics.

 

 

[Agger 1,664]

  On 2/13/2020 at 1:13 PM, heywoodu said:

Bye Olympics.

 

 

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Oh how I love your optimistic posts ...

[Dnl 691]

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-7994747/amp/Mysterious-new-virus-unknown-origin-emerges-lake-Brazil-leaving-scientists-puzzled.html

 

Apparently diseases are coming at the same time or not at all...

[heywoodu 15,333]

  On 2/15/2020 at 11:53 AM, Dnl said:

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-7994747/amp/Mysterious-new-virus-unknown-origin-emerges-lake-Brazil-leaving-scientists-puzzled.html

 

Apparently diseases are coming at the same time or not at all...

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But this one attacks amoebas, single-celled organisms. Now, there do seem to be certain single-celled human individuals living in the world if one reads the things that are being said, but I doubt this'll affect them  

[Dnl 691]

  On 2/15/2020 at 11:59 AM, heywoodu said:

 

But this one attacks amoebas, single-celled organisms. Now, there do seem to be certain single-celled human individuals living in the world if one reads the things that are being said, but I doubt this'll affect them  

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Well as long as this will not be from those “started as a virus between animals/amoebas and then somehow found its way to humans...”  So anyway coronavirus seems to create quite a mess...