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Coronavirus Wreaking Havoc on Your Travel Plans?

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Latest if you are flying on a commercial air plane do not drink their tap water if could fill with harmful parasites and do not touch those dirty germs magazine they are never sanitizer.
 

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Some interesting things in today's WSJ in an article "what we know about the coronavirus":

How dangerous is the new coronavirus?
It appears to be less deadly than a related pathogen—severe acute respiratory syndrome, or SARS, which erupted in China in 2002 and spread globally in 2003. SARS killed about 10% of the people it infected, while about 2% of the people confirmed to be infected with this new coronavirus have died, according to the World Health Organization. Many of those who have died are elderly or have other illnesses such as diabetes.

But the new virus spreads from one person to another more easily than SARS, some disease modeling and case studies suggest.



How worried should I be?
Most people who are infected may become only mildly ill, data suggest. Of 17,000 cases in China, 82% had mild symptoms, 15% were severely ill, and 3% were critically ill, according to the WHO, citing Chinese authorities. Public-health officials are trying to determine how many people have been infected, including those who didn’t get sick at all. They are concerned and want to contain the virus because its effects aren’t fully known. In addition, new viruses can mutate, possibly becoming more virulent as they work their way through a population.


How easily does the new virus spread?
Disease-modeling experts have estimated that on average, each infected person has transmitted the virus to about 2.6 others, though the range is between 1.5 and 3.5. Those rates are higher than for some influenza viruses, some are lower than SARS, and they are far lower than measles, in which one infected person can transmit the virus to 12 to 18 other people.

Could goods imported from China carry the virus?
That is unlikely, the CDC says. Coronaviruses generally don’t survive long on inanimate surfaces, according to the agency.
 

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Cruise ship Norwegian Jewel is placed into lockdown in Sydney Harbour as a passenger is
tested for the deadly coronavirus after falling ill.


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Coronavirus Hitting South Florida Lobster Industry Hard




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Latest if you are flying on a commercial air plane do not drink their tap water if could fill with harmful parasites and do not touch those dirty germs magazine they are never sanitizer.
Then don't drink the coffee either. Guess what it's made with? Absolutely wipe down the tray table with a wet-nap, and keep your hands away from your mouth.
 

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Cruise Ship Passengers Disembark After Being Stranded At Sea Over Virus Fears.


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Yet another reason for darn good travel insurance. Getting a last-minute flight home from Cambodia's gotta be expensive!
 

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Looks like there is a vaccine for corona virus. INO is the stock. Pretty cheap right now.


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Coronovirus: Bill Gates warns of 10 million deaths as virus spreads to Africa.




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Now the only continent that has been infected by this virus is South America. I agree with Bill Gates this virus has the pretentious to kill over 10 millions in Africa.

If anyone have every visited Cairo, Egypt in good times IMHO, this is one dirty city.
 
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Looks like there is a vaccine for corona virus. INO is the stock. Pretty cheap right now.


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I hope China and the United States can agree to help one another and save some lives.IMO.
 

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I read in another report why there have not been reported cases in Africa and South America is that cases are not being tested as they lack the capability/kits to test. Scary.
 

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Coronovirus: Bill Gates warns of 10 million deaths as virus spreads to Africa.
The guy has a way of putting his money whee his mouth is. Even though The Telegraph misspells the illness- never mind Covid-19. I'm thinking it might be a good thing if Earth doesn't become just a floating-in-space repository of viruses that no other species would colonize. (just kidding). In time, whether a treatment, or vaccine is developed, or if the disease is just part of the background of viruses- like common cold, Influenza, or Aids, that variously infect humankind, only the future knows.

Hope for the best!

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I tend to believe there are ten of thousands if not more people that have it then we know. Thus statistically percentages of those who have passed is low. We will never know the real number in China infected/recovered vs deaths. It is possible there are carriers that also never get real sick.

From what I read it is just a matter of time until it is global in masses like the flu. There is a vaccine in the works. One of the articles I read said 18 months to the masses but hopefully much sooner, months, which I believe will happen. All the precautions now are to delay the onset to the mass globally so more can be learned and the vaccine is ready. Can it disappear tomorrow and the experts are wrong, yes but unlikely.

Unless I lock myself in my home with a stockpile and have no contact with anyone, no deliveries including mail I am at risk as I am with any other sickness, as with the flu.

Meanwhile I am living each day as there is nothing much I can do. Initially I was afraid, now just concerned as those older that I love are more In risk if it hits here. But then Thinking of it logically they are more at risk for the flu too which they got this year badly and survived.
 

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Now in Los Angeles, several days too late for our friends' Chinese student, they are supposed to be testing all people presenting with flu symptoms for corona virus. BTW, one of the students is from Hong Kong, one from near Beijing. I don't know which one was sick.
 

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I feel China is under reporting the seriousness of the virus in mainland China for economic reason.
 
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