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You are here: Home / Healthcare / COVID-19 Coronavirus / COVID-19 Coronavirus Update – Sunday/Monday 2/23-2/24

COVID-19 Coronavirus Update – Sunday/Monday 2/23-2/24

by Anne Laurie|  February 24, 20204:03 am| 23 Comments

This post is in: COVID-19 Coronavirus, Foreign Affairs, Healthcare

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China's Feb 23 #Covid19 numbers are out. +409 cases & +150 deaths.
The totals there are now listed as 77,150 cases & 2592 deaths.
Report is here: https://t.co/wGoN5m7n9Q pic.twitter.com/nQwL4uAW5D

— Helen Branswell (@HelenBranswell) February 24, 2020

Welcome to the new “normal”. “Global health lawyer”:

It’s time for a Pandemic thread for #COVID19

(prompted by questions from the excellent @MackayIM & @onisillos – thank-you)

🌏What is a pandemic?
🌍Are we in a pandemic?
🌎How do pandemic and PHEIC declarations differ?
🌏What is the impact of declaring a pandemic?

(1/?)

— Dr Alexandra Phelan (@alexandraphelan) February 23, 2020

2. A pandemic refers to the spread of a disease worldwide or over a significant proportion of the world, generally considered to be two or more continents. “Pandemic” is a descriptive term, not a legal term, and specifically describes spread, not severity, of a disease.

— Dr Alexandra Phelan (@alexandraphelan) February 23, 2020

7b. What is the impact of a pandemic declaration?
(national law – varies country to country)
📚 regulatory and funding agencies may have laws that depend on a pandemic declaration.
📚Some contracts (e.g. insurance especially) may have clauses trigger on a pandemic.

— Dr Alexandra Phelan (@alexandraphelan) February 23, 2020

8. Are we in a pandemic? I think we are incredibly close:
🔺more than incidental local transmission in Asia (China, South Korea, Japan, Singapore, Hong Kong, Iran) & Europe (Italy).
🔺 assume some undetected spread occurring globally.

But, I think we are still on the cusp. pic.twitter.com/JR5LuMSeaH

— Dr Alexandra Phelan (@alexandraphelan) February 23, 2020

I wrote this piece with @mlipsitch about how reporters can help cover the #Covid_19 pandemic better. It’s also targeted at the general public, to help understand the different sorts of knowledge we can talk about. Many thanks to @sciam for hosting! https://t.co/krxSbwv7HG

— Bill Hanage (@BillHanage) February 23, 2020


Thread on how much #Covid19 testing is being done in the US (spoiler alert: not enough). https://t.co/OJKzOu6TJA

— Helen Branswell (@HelenBranswell) February 23, 2020

An infographic summary of the biggest #COVID19 case analysis to date, and a reminder of how to name the disease (COVID-19) and the virus that infects us to cause it (SARS-CoV-2), with references. https://t.co/FhcjU3h6NM

— ɪᴀɴ ᴍ ᴍᴀᴄᴋᴀʏ, ᴘʜᴅ 🦠🤧🧬🥼🦟 (@MackayIM) February 23, 2020

A seafood market in Wuhan might have boosted circulation of the deadly #coronavirus, but may not have ben where it originated, according to a new study. https://t.co/KijQiHGPeG pic.twitter.com/lkwCHWRApW

— SCMP News (@SCMPNews) February 24, 2020

Virus-hit China set to postpone its annual parliament session for the first time since the Cultural Revolution https://t.co/NW2JQRwHhK#coronavirus pic.twitter.com/sSur8oC8gu

— AFP news agency (@AFP) February 24, 2020


(It was due to begin on March 5th.)

#Breaking Afghanistan confirms the first case of #coronavirus: agencies (File Photo) pic.twitter.com/58IwsFt445

— Global Times (@globaltimesnews) February 24, 2020

Oil and Asia stocks slump as coronavirus spreads outside China https://t.co/KwmGOo8P3c

— Financial Times (@FinancialTimes) February 24, 2020

U.S. national and local officials are, predictably, handling the whole situation sub-optimally…

#BREAKING: The city of Costa Mesa is seeking to block the transfer of up to 70 confirmed coronavirus patients from near Sacramento to the former Fairview Development Center https://t.co/r2aB9iXf5O pic.twitter.com/uSG767VhpH

— CBS Los Angeles (@CBSLA) February 22, 2020

… At a press conference, officials including Mayor Katrina Foley gathered to answer questions about the injunction filed to block the CDC and the U.S. Department of Health from transferring as many as 50 patients who have tested positive for coronavirus from Sacramento to the city’s Fairview Developmental Center….

Federal court papers filed Friday state that the federal government planned to transfer the patients from Travis Air Force Base on Sunday or Monday. Thursday night, Costa Mesa city officials began hearing of the plan to move between 30 and 50 patients to the state-owned land…

The California Health and Human Services Agency released a statement Saturday regarding the possible transfer of coronavirus patients to Costa Mesa.

“The federal quarantine of former Diamond Princess cruise ship passengers at Travis Air Force Base remains a federal operation,” the statement said. “California has been working hard to support this federal effort in a way that ensures the public health and safety of our communities and the passengers themselves.”

According to the statement, the federal government has determined that anyone testing positive for coronavirus cannot stay at Travis Air Force Base, and the Fairview Developmental Center is one of the locations under consideration to quarantine the patients until the infection has cleared.

“If Fairview were chosen, the federal government would be responsible for providing health care – easing the burden on our hospitals during flu season – and for providing robust security to ensure the public safety and public health of the surrounding community,” the statement said…

As of Feb. 21, the CDC had only confirmed 35 cases of coronavirus in the U.S., with California’s confirmed total at 15.

Letting fear corrode our communities makes us all less resilient. If we do face tough times, we will need to get though it together. https://t.co/DHjll9pvnX

— Caitlin Rivers (@cmyeaton) February 24, 2020


Reuters:

The Trump administration has backed off plans to quarantine patients from the Diamond Princess cruise ship stricken with coronavirus at a federal facility in Alabama, the state’s governor and a U.S. senator said on Sunday…

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services said on Saturday that it would house American passengers evacuated from the Diamond Princess cruise ship who had tested positive for coronavirus at a former Army base in Anniston, Alabama.

It was unclear where those patients would be quarantined if the plan to house them in Alabama had been scrapped…

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  1. 1.

    NotMax

    February 24, 2020 at 4:14 am

    it would house American passengers … in … Alabama

    Cruel and unusual punishment.

  2. 2.

    The Dangerman

    February 24, 2020 at 4:24 am

    Costa Mesa? See what happens when the Orange (County) Curtain comes down?

  3. 3.

    opiejeanne

    February 24, 2020 at 5:08 am

    @The Dangerman:  Bunch of cowards. The people being transferred wouldn’t come into contact with the good people of Alabama nor Costa Mesa, and they have to go somewhere.
    People are being idiots.

  4. 4.

    Chyron HR

    February 24, 2020 at 5:23 am

    @opiejeanne:

    “Can’t we just guillotine them?” – President-Elect Sanders

  5. 5.

    grandmaBear

    February 24, 2020 at 5:39 am

    I’m scheduled to go to China (not Hubei) in May with my Chinese class. Not looking too likely at the moment. A classmate was in China in January (not Hubei), said his temp was taken everywhere, but no testing other than that.  I suspect it’s already much more widespread here and in other countries than currently thought, it’s just no one is looking until they get the severest cases,

  6. 6.

    OzarkHillbilly

    February 24, 2020 at 5:44 am

    Coronavirus: 50 dead in Iranian city of Qom

    A staggering 50 people have died in the Iranian city of Qom from coronavirus this month, Iran’s semiofficial Ilna news agency reported on Monday.

    The new death toll is significantly higher than the latest number of confirmed cases of infections that Iranian officials had reported just a few hours earlier by and which stood at 12 deaths out of 47 cases, according to state TV.

    An official from Qom, Ahmad Amiriabadi Farahani, was quoted by Ilna saying that more than 250 people had been quarantined in the city, which is a popular place of religious study for Shia Muslims from across Iran and other countries.

  7. 7.

    MagdaInBlack

    February 24, 2020 at 5:52 am

    Im feeling so much safer since HR “panicked” over this  and sent all the shops a case of Purell for protection. Now if we only had sick days…

  8. 8.

    JPL

    February 24, 2020 at 6:01 am

    @OzarkHillbilly: That’s not good.    Maybe avoiding places of worship would be a good idea.

  9. 9.

    opiejeanne

    February 24, 2020 at 6:15 am

    @JPL: Staying out of crowds of any type is a good idea, but remember the hoopla in the Catholic Churches over the communion cup because people were suddenly afraid of germs?

  10. 10.

    opiejeanne

    February 24, 2020 at 6:17 am

    @Chyron HR: That was the sentiment I was searching for, but I was distracted by the idea of abandoned military bases.

     

    Not very Christian of these people who undoubtedly consider themselves to be Christians.

  11. 11.

    OzarkHillbilly

    February 24, 2020 at 6:32 am

    @JPL:  I’ve been avoiding places of worship since I was 14.

  12. 12.

    OzarkHillbilly

    February 24, 2020 at 6:44 am

    In my email box this AM from Heirloom Solutions:

    Some Bad News

    The outbreak of the coronavirus is already affecting Chinese seed shipments of all kinds to the U.S. and the rest of the world. All markets and seed shipments are completely shut down. Many ports are closed until further government notice.

    Little known is that China ships around 20 million dollars in seeds at “wholesale” to the U.S.

    Here’s the important part: Of all the vegetable seed imports that come into the U.S. each year… 86% of it comes from China.

    Fact: Big seed companies import a staggering amount of vegetable seeds from China each year.

    This means potential shortages of some vegetable seeds (maybe all). Frankly, not sure how it will all play out. It’s in God’s hands I suppose.

  13. 13.

    JPL

    February 24, 2020 at 6:46 am

    @OzarkHillbilly: I had no idea.

     

    The dow apparently is going to open much lower today because of fears about the virus.

  14. 14.

    Sab

    February 24, 2020 at 6:49 am

    @grandmaBear: A relative of mine went to China during the SARS outbreak and the swine flu outbreak. She said that the airline froze everyone on the flight over, so they all arrived with hypothermia and thus passed the temperature test so no quarantine.

    Not exactly civic minded.

  15. 15.

    OzarkHillbilly

    February 24, 2020 at 6:54 am

    @JPL: Oh nooooooes… Whatever will donny dollhands brag about?

  16. 16.

    Sab

    February 24, 2020 at 6:55 am

    Banner ad for podiatrist in Ridgemont?? Why me? Perhaps I look at too many shoe ads.

  17. 17.

    snoey

    February 24, 2020 at 6:58 am

    @MagdaInBlack: Probably about par for an HR effort, but Purell isn’t an anti-viral.   Scrub up.

  18. 18.

    MagdaInBlack

    February 24, 2020 at 7:08 am

    @snoey:

    Ya, we pointed that out. Probably speaks to how most of our corporate masters will react.

    Dont get sick, and if you do, TFB.

  19. 19.

    marklar

    February 24, 2020 at 7:39 am

    @opiejeanne:

    “Not very Christian of these people”.

    You are reading the Bible wrong. They’re following Two Corinthians, where Jesus quarantined the Lepers  as far away from his as possible.

  20. 20.

    lee

    February 24, 2020 at 8:07 am

    According to the news, 11 new cases of coronavirus on China’s mainland, excluding Hubei province.

    Is no one questioning these numbers?

  21. 21.

    Kirk Spencer

    February 24, 2020 at 11:31 am

    So the question that came to mind overnight was about reinfection or relapse.  As in do we know anything yet?

  22. 22.

    Feathers

    February 24, 2020 at 12:12 pm

    What I have been reading is that there are both respiratory and fecal means of transmission. The focus so far has been entirely on the first. However, the second may last far longer. The study was linked at http://www.cidrap.umn.edu/news-perspective/2020/02/studies-show-covid-19-virus-likely-has-multiple-infection-routes, but it isn’t opening for me anymore. The quote that I felt compelled to tweet was: “but by day 5, 75% of anal swabs were positive for COVID-19 virual RNA, and only 50% of oral swabs were still positive.” This could lead to really horrible consequences. If people are not willing to use shared restrooms, the economic effects of self quarantining could become much larger. The travel questions on the earlier thread would have very different answers.

  23. 23.

    moops

    February 24, 2020 at 5:29 pm

    @Feathers:   how big is fecal transmission as issue in developed countries with functioning plumbing and waste treatment?  Feces is often pathogen loaded and we wash our hands when using bathrooms.

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