South Korea is probably the best country to look at. First world with good healthcare and not likely to hide anything.
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Downeastnc
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The problem with that is they are responding to this way better than we are, I mean way way better.....SK also has drive thru testing facilities and a population base willing to self quarantine....we got folks that go to parties when they know they have it.
Webberweather53
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Up, up, & away we go.
I agree we are half assing it but in terms of true mortality rate they show what it could be.
Shaggy
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Amazing what happens when we finally start testing for it instead of downplaying it.
Shaggy
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This is what we are incapable of doing in the greatest nation on earth. A small cruise boat on the Nile has a former passenger test positive and they now test EVERYONE on the boat discovering 45 new cases. We are barely testing anyone. Disgraceful.
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Egypt says cruise ship quarantined over new virus cluster
A cruise ship on Egypt's Nile River with over 150 tourists and local crew was in quarantine Saturday in the southern city of Luxor, as 45 people on board tested positive for the new coronavirus, authorities said. A Taiwanese-American tourist who had previously been on the same ship tested...
Well, this isn't good.
GeorgiaGirl
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Day late, but interesting.
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Holy crap!
Shaggy
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Italy and Iran have really been horribly impacted. I can only imagine what's happening in NK.
Webberweather53
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A consequence of CoV-19 may be really low prices at the gas pump. A price war could plunge crude oil prices below $20/barrel for the first time since 2004 which is also the last time the average price at the pump was below $2/gal in the US. (Obviously inflation and gas taxes change this) but still this is kinda insane...
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We can test all we want but it is already everywhere. What good is testing at this point gonna do? Find out someone has it then go and test others to see who has it and don’t? Public just needs to be advised over and over what to look for and stay away from public if have symptoms. It’s going to do no good to test when they already show signs of having it.
whatalife
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One can only hope...
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Jon
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Wish all news reported new deaths like this.
That’s 98% of the new deaths today are considered seniors (or near senior) in age, or advanced age, with underlying health conditions.
If the news reported statistics on the mean age of those dying and the very sick, the world simply would not be panicking. I believe that.
Sharing mortality rates and just numbers without context leads to panic, and mainstream media doesn’t care...it keeps people glued to the TV.
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Downeastnc
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Seriously? Wow.....
Jon
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Makes you think....
www.scmp.com
The analysis indicated that case numbers rose in line with average temperatures up to a peak of 8.72 degrees Celsius and then declined.
“Temperature … has an impact on people’s living environments … [and] could play a significant role in public health in terms of epidemic development and control,” the study said.
It said also that climate may have played a part in why the virus broke out in Wuhan, the central China city where it was first detected.
Other experts, like Hassan Zaraket, an assistant director at the Centre for Infectious Diseases Research at the American University of Beirut, said it was possible that warmer, more humid weather would make the coronavirus less stable and thus less transmissible, as was the case with other viral pathogens.
“We are still learning about this virus, but based on what we know of other coronaviruses we can be hopeful,” he said.
“As temperatures are warming up, the stability of the virus could decrease … if the weather helps us reduce transmissibility and environmental stability of the virus, then maybe we can break the chain of transmission.”
Coronavirus ‘highly sensitive’ to high temperatures, Chinese study says
Pathogen appears to spread fastest at 8.72 degrees Celsius, so countries in colder climes should ‘adopt the strictest control measures’, according to researchers from Sun Yat-sen University in Guangdong province.
www.scmp.com
The analysis indicated that case numbers rose in line with average temperatures up to a peak of 8.72 degrees Celsius and then declined.
“Temperature … has an impact on people’s living environments … [and] could play a significant role in public health in terms of epidemic development and control,” the study said.
It said also that climate may have played a part in why the virus broke out in Wuhan, the central China city where it was first detected.
Other experts, like Hassan Zaraket, an assistant director at the Centre for Infectious Diseases Research at the American University of Beirut, said it was possible that warmer, more humid weather would make the coronavirus less stable and thus less transmissible, as was the case with other viral pathogens.
“We are still learning about this virus, but based on what we know of other coronaviruses we can be hopeful,” he said.
“As temperatures are warming up, the stability of the virus could decrease … if the weather helps us reduce transmissibility and environmental stability of the virus, then maybe we can break the chain of transmission.”
Time to hunker down
ColdCoreLow
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I believe so
Flurry
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I paid $1.99/gal Friday
Webberweather53
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Nice! First time since I've started living in Charlotte that I've seen gas below $2/gal here. The one positive takeaway from CoV is that storm chasing will be much cheaper/more affordable later this spring & summer.
Me too. Sheetz in Nashville, NC.
packfan98
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This was an interesting statistic showing that the state has only tested less than 70 people so far with 5 out of 67 testing positive. I’m not sure how to feel about this. Low percent of suspicious cases tested positive, or that it’s such a low number of tests given so far.
Dow futures are down -1000 points and the oil futures are down 25%.
Webberweather53
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Crude oil prices are absolutely cratering, in some instances losing over 25% just this weekend!. Prices at the pump are going to tumble big time the next several weeks
Dow futures down 4.1%. We have already lost over 3 trillion in value from the start of this disaster. That 4.1% represents around another trillion dollars
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