Coronavirus.. outlook

[flylowgethigh]

RMS always burns up my recs with his stuff, and so I done run out. Instead let me drop this one I was saving for when Mr. Ringodoggy tells us he is on his way to the sunny babe infested beaches of SoCal... LOL https://youtu.be/3ohBUYQJflU

Thank you. It's so sad when people allow words to speak louder than actions.



I like you. When I am King and ruler of this planet, I will allow you to be one of my palace slaves.








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[Medfinder]

12 miles way...from me 1 patent positive coronavirus...

 

[Medfinder]

Los Angeles and Orange County health officials are dealing with their first cases of a patient with the new strain of coronavirus. But they are stressing that there is no evidence the virus has been spread beyond the two patients


https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.latimes.com/california/story/2020-01-26/coronavirus-outbreak-orange-county-spread%3f_amp=true


3d printed Mosel printed yesterday. ..

An tsa agent from John Wayne lives with my community. ...

Looks like John Wayne could be where Travers from what have been coming in since December to go to Disneyland Anaheim socal 13 miles away. John Wayne

Ironically I had 3d printed out a Corona virus molecular copy...here's the image..[/QUOTE]

 

[flylowgethigh]

Wow, and I do mean wow at how orderly that video looks

Wow, and I do mean wow at how orderly that video looks

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That is NOT a big city in the USofA because:

1. Despite being under a complete travel lock-down there is food available by strolling into the (normal looking to me) market, and

2. There was complete freedom of movement, and

3. Despite a complete absence of any police/guv types trying to act in control...

4. There was only one visible crime, and that was what looked like 5 people trying to get into what he said was a pharmacy.

Compare to Baltimore

 

[flylowgethigh]

Media only knows about Kobe Bryant death with some impeachment for variety. Great place to keep conspiracies going is Zero hedge. I hope you guys got the masks I told ya about before the scalpers. Drywall masks are sometimes N95.

https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/third-us-coronavirus-case-confirmed-orange-county

 

[Rocky Mtn Squid]

Bill Gates Foundation

Bill Gates Foundation

Bill Gates Foundation Predicted 65 million deaths via Coronavirus in a simulation ran just three months ago.

In late 2019, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation co-hosted a pandemic exercise that simulated a global coronavirus outbreak. The findings are extremely disturbing in light of the current Coronavirus outbreak that started in Wuhan China last month.

The simulation, titled “Event 201” pandemic, the pandemic exercise “dropped participants right in the midst of an uncontrolled coronavirus outbreak that was spreading like wildfire out of South America to wreak worldwide havoc.” In the simulation, the CAPS (the coronavirus) resulted in a death toll of 65 million people within 18 months,” according to John Hopkins University.

Scientist and scholar Eric Toner, who helped run the simulation said in an interview on Friday with the business-news channel CNBC, that China’s efforts to contain the current outbreak of a fast-moving upper-respiratory illness are “unlikely to be effective.”

Toner told Business Insider during an interview that he hasn’t completed research on the current strain of the Wuhan coronavirus, known as 2019-nCoV, but claimed that the death toll could run in the millions if the virus were resistant to modern vaccines and was as easy to catch as the common flu.

Beyond the deaths, the simulation was focused on how society could collapse.

Toner said that his coronavirus simulation “was not [focused primarily on] the number of deaths; it was to point out that there could be societal and economic consequences from a severe pandemic, not just health consequences.”

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***This video was posted on YouTube on NOVEMBER 04/2019, and Event 201 took place on OCTOBER/2019 ***


Just last week, the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security, The World Economic Forum, and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation called for joint action and said that “The next severe pandemic will not only cause great illness and loss of life but could also trigger major cascading economic and societal consequences that could contribute greatly to global impact and suffering.”

The organizations jointly proposed the following:

Governments, international organizations, and businesses should plan now for how essential corporate capabilities will be utilized during a large-scale pandemic.

Industry, national governments, and international organizations should work together to enhance internationally held stockpiles of medical countermeasures (MCMs) to enable rapid and equitable distribution during a severe pandemic.

Countries, international organizations, and global transportation companies should work together to maintain travel and trade during severe pandemics.

Governments should provide more resources and support for the development and surge manufacturing of vaccines, therapeutics, and diagnostics that will be needed during a severe pandemic.

Global business should recognize the economic burden of pandemics and fight for stronger preparedness.

International organizations should prioritize reducing economic impacts of epidemics and pandemics.

Governments and the private sector should assign a greater priority to developing methods to combat mis- and disinformation prior to the next pandemic response.


Source: https://offgridsurvival.com/bill-gates-coronavirus-in-a-simulation-ran-just-three-months-ago/


And just to cover their ass, and not to look overly culpable or guilty of anything, John Hopkins has issued this public statement:

Statement about nCoV and our pandemic exercise

In October 2019, the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security hosted a pandemic tabletop exercise called Event 201 with partners, the World Economic Forum and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Recently, the Center for Health Security has received questions about whether that pandemic exercise predicted the current novel coronavirus outbreak in China. To be clear, the Center for Health Security and partners did not make a prediction during our tabletop exercise. For the scenario, we modeled a fictional coronavirus pandemic, but we explicitly stated that it was not a prediction. Instead, the exercise served to highlight preparedness and response challenges that would likely arise in a very severe pandemic. We are not now predicting that the nCoV-2019 outbreak will kill 65 million people. Although our tabletop exercise included a mock novel coronavirus, the inputs we used for modeling the potential impact of that fictional virus are not similar to nCoV-2019.


Source: https://www.centerforhealthsecurity...1-24-Statement-of-Clarification-Event201.html


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[Rocky Mtn Squid]

nCov Cases in China Jump to 4659 - 1975 Confirmed & 2684 Suspect

nCov Cases in China Jump to 4659 - 1975 Confirmed & 2684 Suspect

According to Henry Niman, PhD:

Update on pneumonia of new coronavirus infection as of 24:00 on January 25
Release time: 2020-01-26Source : Health Emergency Office

　　At 04:00 on January 25, 2020, 29 provinces (autonomous regions and municipalities) reported 688 new confirmed cases, 87 new severe cases, and 15 new deaths (13 in Hubei Province and 1 in Shanghai). 1 case in Henan Province), 11 new cases were cured and discharged, and 1309 new cases were suspected.

　　As of 24:00 on January 25th, the National Health Commission had received a total of 1975 confirmed cases in 30 provinces (autonomous regions and municipalities) and 324 severe cases. A total of 56 deaths and 49 cases were cured and discharged. There are 2684 suspected cases.

　　At present, 23,431 close contacts have been tracked, 325 medical observations have been lifted on the same day, and 21,556 people are currently undergoing medical observations.

　　A total of 5 confirmed cases were reported from Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan: 5 in the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, 2 in the Macau Special Administrative Region, and 3 in Taiwan, China.

　　In addition, a total of confirmed cases notified abroad: 4 cases in Thailand (2 cases have been cured), 2 cases in Japan (1 case has been cured), 2 cases in Korea, 2 cases in the United States, 2 cases in Vietnam, 3 cases in Singapore, and 3 cases in Malaysia One case was in Nepal, three in France, and one in Australia.

Source: https://recombinomics.co/topic/4520-ncov-cases-in-china-jump-to-4659-1975-confirmed-2684-suspect/?tab=comments#comment-15176

Recombinomics, Inc. Founder and President, Henry L Niman earned a PhD at the University of Southern California in 1978. His dissertation focused on feline retroviral expression in tumors in domestic cats.

He took a postdoctoral position at Scripps Clinic and Research Foundation where he developed monoclonal antibody technology. He fused monoclonal antibody and synthetic peptide technologies and accepted a staff position at Scripps.

In 1982, he developed the flu monoclonal antibody, which is widely used throughout the pharmaceutical, biotech, and research industries in epitope tagging techniques. He also produced a broad panel of monoclonal antibodies against synthetic peptides of oncogenes and growth factors. These monoclonal antibodies were distributed worldwide to researchers by the National Cancer Institute. The antibodies identified novel related proteins which correlated with clinical parameters.

This technology was used to form ProgenX, a cancer diagnostic company that became Ligand Pharmaceuticals. Dr Niman subsequently identified protein expression patterns at the University of Pittsburgh. More recently, he became interested in infectious diseases while at Harvard Medical School. He then founded Recombinomics and discovered how viruses rapidly evolve. These latest findings are the subject of recent patent filings.


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[Rocky Mtn Squid]

China Coronavirus

China Coronavirus

China coronavirus: Wuhan leaders blamed for outbreak spread as death toll rises, hospitals beg for supplies

**Doctor blasts slow response by local officials while state media reporter calls for ‘immediate’ removal of city leaders

**Smaller hospitals in Hubei province launch public appeals for medical gowns, goggles and other basic equipment

Pressure is mounting for local leaders to be held accountable for their response to the Wuhan coronavirus outbreak, in the central Chinese province of Hubei, which has so far killed 56 and infected more than 1,900 people in the country.

Doctors in Wuhan have been among those calling for health officials to be held to account and, in an unusually blunt statement on social media platform Weibo, a senior reporter from the province’s official Communist Party newspaper, Hubei Daily, said the city’s leaders should be removed “immediately”.

“Like many people, I used to believe that a temporary decision to replace leaders with those less familiar with the situation would not be good for pushing through the [antivirus] work, but based on the worsening situation that is getting increasingly severe, those currently in the role have no capability of leadership,” reporter Zhang Ouya wrote on Friday.

“For Wuhan, please change the leadership immediately,” he said in the post, which was later removed.

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It is particularly rare in China – where any criticism or scepticism is closely controlled under the country’s strict media censorship policy – for a journalist with a state-owned media outlet to make such a call publicly.


Hours after the post was published, Hubei Daily released a statement, apologising to the city government and leaders for “making negative publicity” and confirming it had ordered Zhang to remove the post.

The statement, which was widely circulated online, urged local reporters to “spread positive spirit” and said Zhang’s comments did not represent the newspaper “but still made a negative impact”. Neither the newspaper nor Zhang responded immediately to inquiries from the South China Morning Post.

In a public letter to China’s top health authority, the National Health Commission, a doctor who claimed to be from a top hospital in Wuhan laid the blame for the serious nature of the coronavirus outbreak on the slow response by local health officials.

The doctor, who did not give his name, said the numbers of patients infected with the disease had been growing since January 12 but the local health authority had failed to report new cases.
“These patients were not given proper quarantine nor medical treatment and they could travel in every corner of the city,” he wrote.

“Later, when we warned patients and the public to wear masks and avoid crowded areas, they didn’t take it seriously and thought we were exaggerating, and even some medical staff, including surgeons didn’t believe it and were not willing to take basic precautions.”

In an attempt to stop the spread of the disease, the local authority in Wuhan issued a travel ban in and out of the city on Thursday. Similar measures were quickly taken up by other parts of the province, with public transport suspended and residents advised to avoid visiting friends and relatives during the Lunar New Year holiday which started on Friday.

“Later, when we warned patients and the public to wear masks and avoid crowded areas, they didn’t take it seriously and thought we were exaggerating, and even some medical staff, including surgeons didn’t believe it and were not willing to take basic precautions.”


In an attempt to stop the spread of the disease, the local authority in Wuhan issued a travel ban in and out of the city on Thursday. Similar measures were quickly taken up by other parts of the province, with public transport suspended and residents advised to avoid visiting friends and relatives during the Lunar New Year holiday which started on Friday.

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But the extreme measures have prompted anxiety and anger as worried residents rushed to local hospitals only to find themselves without aid because of shortages of everything from beds to testing kits and a lack of available medical staff.

A nurse from a hospital in the city of Huangshi, about 100km (62 miles) from Wuhan, said the shortage of medical equipment in the province’s smaller cities could be even more severe.
“We don’t even have enough masks. Each department is handed five masks every day, while doctors and nurses have to be on standby for 24 hours,” said the nurse, who preferred to remain anonymous.

“All public transport has been closed and no taxis are willing to pick up those working in the hospital,” she said. “I just hope I can have a car to take my colleagues to work and back home.”
Wuhan residents describe ‘doomsday’ scenes as patients overwhelm hospitals


In a rare appeal, at least 24 hospitals in Wuhan and other, smaller cities across the province have put out calls since Thursday for public donations of supplies including face masks, goggles, and medical gowns, especially for the doctors and nurses with a higher risk of exposure to the virus.

Jingshan Union Hospital, a 90-minute drive from Wuhan, posted on social media on Thursday that its frontline staff were faced with a dwindling supply of equipment.

“Goggles are greatly needed and we are asking for public donations so that we can better treat the patients,” it said.

Hu Xijin, editor-in-chief of Global Times, a nationalist newspaper affiliated with People’s Daily, said China should have been better prepared for the outbreak and taken preventive measures at an earlier stage.

“We have had the experience of Sars, and this outbreak is similar to Sars,” he said on Weibo.

“This outbreak should not have happened in China which has advanced medical standards and social organisation capability. I personally believe the Wuhan city and national health care authorities should be responsible.”

Hu said the media’s role in scrutinising the government had been weakened over the years by various local authorities, which restricted journalists from following up on the virus outbreak.

Source: https://www.scmp.com/news/china/society/article/3047651/wuhan-officials-blamed-spread-china-coronavirus-hospitals-beg


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[Medfinder]

Chinese officials state that 5 million persons of Huber province have travelled in China on other country's since dec 20 2019....


Modeling by foreign scientists is producing disturbing results—250,000 or more infected inside Wuhan and large outbreaks elsewhere, with 60 percent or more of possible transmissions needing to be blocked to contain the outbreak. [The authors of the original paper have since revised their estimations of the transmission rate down, though have not yet produced new outcomes

https://foreignpolicy.com/2020/01/25/how-to-tell-whats-really-happening-with-the-wuhan-virus/

 

[Medfinder]

Local's outside hubei provedence.. using dump truck's and earth movers to block roads out of the Chinese quarantined areas..

 

[mexcurandero420]

Heartbreaking Voice message from a Medical staff in #Wuhan

"More than 100,000 infected. The government provides no medical supplies...People are dying right in front of our eyes... We are on our own."

https://twitter.com/Terrence_STR

 

[coconutcurry]

Brave man locked in Wuhan asks for help overseas
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mb3KtOu9rM0

The guy says 'Wuhan City is hell right now' and that it's worse than SARS and that you can infected just over your eyes, what means this virus is very contagious. And he says that already one month before chinese new year, about one or two million chinese left Wuhan due to the celebrations and spread the disease over the country. Incubation time is up to 14 days and the people are contagious all the time.

And it seems he is not speaking well on the chinese government. But why?

Another man living in Wuhan. He not just uses a mask, but additionally goggles when leaving his flat:

Inside Wuhan: Daily life in China's coronavirus quarantine zone
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=luztqxUBvZo

 

[watts]

The year of the bat? Wow.

 

[St. Phatty]

I'm afraid the US response is comparable to California's approach to wildfires.

In both cases preparing aggressively is the best medicine.

California could be taking advantage of the winter months, and staging large controlled burns in Northwest Sonoma County, the most vulnerable part ... hasn't had a significant fire for 3 or 4 generations.

Because they're not doing those things, you know it's going to be a bad year for California wildfire wise. Bad or worse.

But it involves, sort of like, dousing a fire that you can't even see.


It's sort of the same with the Corona-virus. Each infected person is infecting about 3 (R0=2.5, the low estimate, i.e. it will be revised upwards) other people during a 9 day (1 to 14 day) period.

So the 2 people in California that are infected, unless they went on a one-person yoga retreat the minute they came home from China, walked around spreading the virus in all public places.

If California was smart, they would start the prophylaxis NOW (Monday Jan 27). Which means everybody wears a cheap mask, on mass transit and at work.

The cheap masks don't protect you from getting it. They slow down the spread rate from persons already infected.

Of course you have to cover the eyes too, so people could end up looking like Darth Vader.

The other people who have probably been infected by the patients in Chicago, Washington, California, and Arizona, are currently walking around infecting OTHER people.

Just like with a fire, the easiest time to control an un-controlled burn is when it's very small.


The Wuhan Coronavirus will not go well for the US.

It is sort of a Typhoid Mary situation. All those people crammed in on mass transit in the SF Bay Area. Coughing in each other's faces etc.

in the US - number of cases
Jan 27 -- 5
Feb 5 -- 15
Feb 14 -- 45
Feb 23 -- 135 cases
March 3 -- 405 cases
March 12 -- 1215 cases - 35 deaths.

etc.

Rough estimate of the mortality rate - 80 deaths in 2800 cases.

2.8% mortality rate, based on official China numbers.

 

[Rocky Mtn Squid]

Today's update from the China CDC indicated that the number of PCR confirmed cases (8,538), which represent a jump of 3,879 cases over yesterday's total, exceeded the total for confirmed cases in the SARS 2002/2003 outbreak , which lasted 6 months.

The exponential growth went largely unnoticed.

Media reports focused on confirmed cases, which are those that test positive twice. The first test is done locally at regional centers. The positives are then sent to the National Lab, in Wuhan, for confirmation. Confirmations have showed a steady rise in the past three days (1287-->1975-->2794). In contrast, the rise is suspect (presumptive positive) cases has been much more dramatic (1965-->2684-->5794) to generate alarming totals for lab confirmed (1X) cases (3252-->4659-->8538).

The above numbers are also published by WHO in their situation reports, which lag China CDC updates by a day.

This epic failure to communication the significance of the increases in the suspect cases by these two organizations (and reporters who theoretically read them) remains remarkable.

https://www.chinacdc.cn/jkzt/crb/zl/szkb_11803/jszl_11809/202001/t20200127_211470.html

Update on pneumonia of new coronavirus infection as of 24:00 on January 26

2020-01-27

　 At 02:00 on January 26, 30 provinces (autonomous regions and municipalities) reported 769 new confirmed cases, 137 severe cases, 24 new deaths (24 cases in Hubei Province), and new cured cases. 2 cases, 3806 suspected cases were newly added.

　　As of 24:00 on January 26, the National Health and Health Commission had received a total of 2,744 confirmed cases in 30 provinces (autonomous regions and municipalities), 461 cases of severe cases, 80 cases of deaths, and 51 cases of hospitalized cures. There are 5794 suspected cases.

　　At present, 32,799 close contacts have been traced, 583 people were released from medical observation on the same day, and 30,453 people are currently receiving medical observation.

　　A total of confirmed cases were reported from Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan: 8 cases from Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, 5 cases from Macao Special Administrative Region, and 4 cases from Taiwan.

　　In addition, accumulative confirmed cases were reported from abroad: 7 in Thailand, 3 in Japan, 3 in South Korea, 3 in the United States, 2 in Vietnam, 4 in Singapore, 3 in Malaysia, 1 in Nepal, 3 in France, and 4 in Australia.


Source: https://recombinomics.co/topic/4537-lab-confirmed-ncov-cases-exceed-sars/?tab=comments#comment-15243


Allegedly, the virus can infect you in the air through your eyes. Smart people are wearing goggles to prevent this.

Freaky ass shit. The world has become absolutely insane, as if it wasn't bad enough already.


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[Medfinder]

China'"'s stock market closed...workers not going to work...
China ccp tells world 5 million Chinese persons have travelled... before lockdown...

Us...do down 400 points...invester's moving toward Gold and silver...

No vaccine yet...

 

[St. Phatty]

https://www.peakprosperity.com/challenging-the-chinese-coronavirus-data/

Chris Martenson Sunday update, fresh analysis of Saturday's data.

 

[mexcurandero420]

I'm afraid the US response is comparable to California's approach to wildfires.

In both cases preparing aggressively is the best medicine.

California could be taking advantage of the winter months, and staging large controlled burns in Northwest Sonoma County, the most vulnerable part ... hasn't had a significant fire for 3 or 4 generations.

Because they're not doing those things, you know it's going to be a bad year for California wildfire wise. Bad or worse.

But it involves, sort of like, dousing a fire that you can't even see.


It's sort of the same with the Corona-virus. Each infected person is infecting about 3 (R0=2.5, the low estimate, i.e. it will be revised upwards) other people during a 9 day (1 to 14 day) period.

So the 2 people in California that are infected, unless they went on a one-person yoga retreat the minute they came home from China, walked around spreading the virus in all public places.

If California was smart, they would start the prophylaxis NOW (Monday Jan 27). Which means everybody wears a cheap mask, on mass transit and at work.

The cheap masks don't protect you from getting it. They slow down the spread rate from persons already infected.

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Of course you have to cover the eyes too, so people could end up looking like Darth Vader.

The other people who have probably been infected by the patients in Chicago, Washington, California, and Arizona, are currently walking around infecting OTHER people.

Just like with a fire, the easiest time to control an un-controlled burn is when it's very small.


The Wuhan Coronavirus will not go well for the US.

It is sort of a Typhoid Mary situation. All those people crammed in on mass transit in the SF Bay Area. Coughing in each other's faces etc.

in the US - number of cases
Jan 27 -- 5
Feb 5 -- 15
Feb 14 -- 45
Feb 23 -- 135 cases
March 3 -- 405 cases
March 12 -- 1215 cases - 35 deaths.

etc.

Rough estimate of the mortality rate - 80 deaths in 2800 cases.

2.8% mortality rate, based on official China numbers.

This is the right mask you need

 

[BadTicket]

Zerohedge article is talking about the same thing, that the RO is about 3.8

In Wuhan you've btw a biosafety lab 4 since 2015.

I'm not disputing the stats or what he retweeted and/or copy/pasted from others.

It's just when a guy who claims to be a doctor and a former Harvard teacher describes something to be "thermonuclear pandemic level bad" and for the readers to be "super worried about this", well that's not very eloquent or doctor like.

And he claims to be a scientist and a science advocate. Then he starts a tweet with "HOLY MOTHER OF GOD"..
That's not very sciency, if you ask me.

Biosafety lab since 2015..?
Okay. A lot of good that did for em?

Busta Rhymes had Woohah in check since 1996, he did a better job.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z7hJ4VzA0Yk

 

[Rocky Mtn Squid]

Scientist who simulated the global impact of a coronavirus outbreak says ‘ the cat’s already out of the bag’ and calls China’s efforts to contain the disease ‘unlikely to be effective’


Toner’s team ran a simulation of the impact of a hypothetical coronavirus that was resistant to vaccine and easily transmittable

Scientist and scholar Eric Toner, quoted above in an excerpt from a Friday interview with the business-news channel CNBC, explained that China’s efforts to contain the current outbreak of a fast-moving upper-respiratory illness are “unlikely to be effective.”

Cases of the illness, which is related to SARS, or severe acute respiratory syndrome, and MERS, Middle East respirator syndrome, have now turned up in a number of countries beyond China, where the illness originated in Wuhan City.

The number of infections of coronavirus, or CoV, in China has risen to nearly 3,000, according to the Wall Street Journal. On top of that, the official death toll has climbed to at least 80, including a doctor treating flu-stricken patients in Wuhan, from 56 as of Sunday. The Journal reported that the outbreak was overwhelming Wuhan-area resources and hospitals.

Beijing has shut down parts of the Great Wall, as well as more than a dozen cities, restricting the movement of some 50 million people, and canceling events related to the Lunar New Year, one of the busiest periods of travel and consumerism in the country.

The Journal on Saturday, citing people described as familiar with the situation, reported that a charter flight was being arranged by the U.S. government to evacuate U.S. citizens and diplomats from Wuhan.

CNBC reported that Hong Kong leader Carrie Lam has declared a virus emergency in the city of 7.3 million, extending school cancellations until Feb. 17 and barring visits to mainland China.

As of Sunday, there were five cases of the virus in the U.S., including one in Arizona, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Toner, an M.D. and researcher at the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security, took part in a simulation, undertaken in partnership with the World Economic Forum and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, that posited such a disease could kill 65 million people within 18 months under the right circumstances.

Coronaviruses, with SARS and MERS among that group, are infections of the respiratory tract that can lead to illnesses like pneumonia or the common cold.

Toner told Business insider during an interview that he hasn’t completed research on the current strain of the Wuhan coronavirus, known as 2019-nCoV, but said that the death toll could run in the millions if the influenza were resistant to modern vaccines and was as easy to catch as the common flu.

To be sure, an outbreak of SARS about 17 years ago claimed nearly 800 lives and infected more than 8,000 people around the world. However, the death toll from that 2002-03 disease was nowhere near a million.

To put things into further perspective, the most virulent pandemic, the 1918 influenza, also known as the Spanish flu, killed an estimated 20 million to 50 million people.

Toner said that his coronavirus simulation “was not [focused primarily on] the number of deaths; it was to point out that there could be societal and economic consequences from a severe pandemic, not just health consequences.” The simulation was also geared toward engendering international cooperation, making the case that governments and private companies alone can’t adequately respond to a pandemic.

One report estimates that a pandemic could cause an average annual economic loss of 0.7% of global GDP — or $570 billion.

Meanwhile, the World Health Organization late this week wasn’t sounding global alarm bells about the illness either, declaring the coronavirus an emergency in China on Thursday but falling short of calling the outbreak an international emergency. U.S. health officials also have said that the risk domestically from the illness is low.

However, the coronavirus was exacting a toll on the U.S. stock market. The Dow Jones Industrial Average DJIA, -1.60% on Friday lost 170 points, or 0.58%, closing just beneath 28,990 after having slipped as low as 28,843 in afternoon trading. Meanwhile, the S&P 500 SPX, -1.58% fell 30 points, or 0.9%, to 3,295. The Nasdaq Composite Index COMP, -1.97% declined by 87 points, or 0.93%, to finish the week at 9,315, after touching an intraday record high in early action.

Toner said the WHO may have made a mistake by not declaring 2019-nCoV an international emergency.

The Journal on Sunday reported that millions of residents from the outbreak’s epicenter, in Wuhan City, may have scattered around the country to visit family for the annual Lunar New Year holiday, before the lockdowns were put in place.

Zhou Xianwang, the Mayor of Wuhan, shared a similar view. He estimated that some 5 million people may have left the city before travel restrictions were imposed.

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carefully watch the very beginning of this interview, when the presstitute reporter asks Dr. Toner - eugenicist loving piece of shit - about the coronavirus. When he answers, oh so briefly.....he grins/smiles, then tries to look serious......


Source: https://www.marketwatch.com/story/scientist-who-simulated-the-global-impact-of-a-coronavirus-outbreak-says-the-cats-already-out-of-the-bag-and-chinas-efforts-to-contain-the-disease-unlikely-to-be-effective-2020-01-24



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