COVID* STANDFORD MASK STUDY---Elsevier journal to retract widely debunked masks study whose author claimed a Stanford affiliation p345

Japan

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Japan in Early Stage of Coronavirus Outbreak

Tokyo, Feb. 16 (Jiji Press)--Infectious disease and other experts have agreed that Japan is in the early stage of a coronavirus outbreak, health minister Katsunobu Kato said Sunday.
At an experts' meeting on the coronavirus crisis, participants said there have been COVID-19 cases whose virus transmission routes will unlikely be identified, Kato told a news conference.
"It is necessary to take measures now, in preparation for an increase in patients," Kato quoted a specialist as saying.

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Man under medical observation after admitting to Peace Bridge officers he was recently in China

BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) — A man who was detained at the Peace Bridge because of an outstanding warrant then taken to the Erie County Holding Center in Buffalo is now under medical observation because of his recent visit to China.

This is due to the novel coronavirus and the worldwide concern it has caused.

Kevin Qiu is a Brooklyn resident who is assessed as a “medium risk” individual for the virus, according to the Erie County Sheriff’s Office, which emphasizes that Qiu is not symptomatic. The sheriff’s office states that precautions are in place until either his release or a decision on extradition is made.

Qiu, 42, tried to enter the United States on Wednesday, and at that time, a health screening was performed on him after he told customs officers about his visit to China, which is the epicenter of the virus outbreak.

One can only shake head and laugh at the insanity. Imagine how many may be crossing our Southern boarder.

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No mahjong, no card games: Hubei province in full lockdown as China battles coronavirus

58 million people – including 24 million rural residents – told to stay home until further notice

Hubei province, the epicentre of the deadly coronavirus outbreak [1]
, announced Sunday that it will impose tough new travel restrictions on all residents in the province to stop the spread of the disease.

Under the new rules, all businesses will close and the province’s 58 million people will not be able to leave their residential community or village.

No vehicles or visitors should be allowed into any residential community or villages unless “necessary”.

Hubei has also banned all vehicles from the road with the exception of police cars, ambulances, those transporting essential goods, and other authorised vehicles.

Crowd numbers will be limited in stores that are allowed to remain open and there will be “collective coordination” of people permitted to leave their homes to buy necessities.

“Disease control of the province has entered an important and difficult period,” the provincial government said in its announcement. “The situation is still grim and to cut transmission effectively and deter the trend of contagion … here are the new requirements.”

[snip]

The government called on all “unnecessary” stores in the province to close down and all public events to be cancelled. It also now requires all pharmacies to record details – including their real names, phone number, ID and address – of customers who buy medicines for a cold, cough or fever.

Any village, community or office building that has a confirmed case of the virus, will be quarantined for 14 days.

Factories and companies require special approval to resume business operations.





I guess this answers if the recent reduction in numbers means we've reached a turning point.

So, Hubei's closed, I guess.

But it’s just the flu. My gawd how stupid is this.

This story was published around midnight Sunday night in China. Those people are going to wake up to this news. And, I would suspect troops in the streets.

What would you do if you woke up Monday morning to this kind of order in your comfy little world? (rhetorical question)

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There is something about this we are not being told - tightly guarded - the Chinese government shut their military installations in Wuhan in early January, and informed the US Military about the same time. Since then, it's been a snowball rolling down a slow incline but getting bigger everyday. Why would China close everything down over even a 5% death rate? Gut says there is much more to this, and the shoe will drop eventually.

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10:28 pm Feb 16

Fang Cang makeshift hospitals in epicenter #Wuhan will offer 13,001 more beds in the next 3 days. The city has established 11 Fang Cang hospitals, with 20,461 beds planned to treat coronvairus patients.

10:27 pm Feb 16

An average of 7 hours has been spent in watching TV per day for each household between Jan 25 and Feb 9 amid COVID19 outbreak, up 41.7% month-on-month: statistics from China’s National Radio and Television Administration

Comment: I'm guessing the number of November/December births will skyrocket.

10:11 pm Feb 16

Set the target for the next 3 days! Wuhan govt vows to put ALL confirmed patients infected with COVID19 into treatment, finish nucleic acid tests with ALL suspected patients, perform proper tests to ALL patients with fever and put ALL close contacts in quarantine.

9:33 pm Feb 16

Fapilavir, the first domestically developed drug with potential effect for treating COVID19, has received approval for sale. Fapilavir is one of the three medicines that show good effect in clinical trials: reports

8:53 pm Feb 16

Pathologists at Wuhan Jinyintan Hospital have concluded autopsies on the first and second COVID19 victims, with the consent of the relatives of the dead. Their findings and results have been submitted for examination by the relevant authorities

7:08 pm Feb 16

10 cities in Central China's Hubei Province suspended selling medicines for fever and cough amid the COVID-19 outbreak, urging people who have such symptoms to go to hospital as soon as possible.

7:02 pm Feb 16

The island of Taiwan reported its first death from COVID-19 infection on Sunday: a 61-year-old man who also suffered from diabetes and hepatitis B died from the coronavirus: media reports

6:10 pm Feb 16

The real inflection point [of the COVID19 outbreak] has come. Over the past 5 days, the number of fever cases has dropped. It is like a downward slope. It's not coming back, I'm confident: head of Leishenshan Hospital specializing in treating COVID19 patients in Wuhan said to media

6:08 pm Feb 16

4 new infected cases with COVID2019 were confirmed in Tokyo on Sunday, among whom two are close contacts of the taxi driver who was confirmed with the infection on Thursday: All-Nippon News Network

4:49 pm Feb 16

Yokohama, Japan announced on Sat that a man from the city's fire department who rescued infected patients from the Diamond Princess cruise ship has been infected with NCP, raising concerns in the city as the man was wearing a protective suit: Yomiuri Shimbun

h/t crofsblog

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Coronavirus: UK headteachers told to stay calm and keep schools open

Schools and nurseries do not need to close or send pupils home in the event of contact with someone suspected of having the coronavirus, according to new guidelines to be issued to schools across the UK this week.

In the face of confusion over what the correct response should be, Public Health England and the Department for Education are to issue headteachers and childcare providers with fresh guidance on Monday .

Some schools in Brighton and Hove have told parents they can choose to keep their children off school as “authorised absences”, after five people from the area were diagnosed with the virus, also known as Covid-19.
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But a department spokeswoman said: “We are aware that some schools have said that parents can keep their children at home – this is not the advice. For those who are in contact with a suspected case in a childcare or educational setting, no restrictions or special control measures are required while laboratory test results for Covid-19 are awaited.

“There is no need to close the setting or send other learners or staff home. Therefore, until the outcome of test results is known, there is no action that staff members need to take. People who test negative for Covid-19 will be advised individually about their return to education.”

She said it was helpful for schools to approach the virus like any other infectious disease. “Therefore, it is not advised that the whole school is notified that an individual is undergoing testing. Rather, communications to contacts would be circulated if a case is confirmed,” she added.

"We want to ask the public to avoid non-urgent, non-essential gatherings. We want elderly and those with pre-existing conditions to avoid crowded places." - Katsunobu Kato, Japan's Health Minister



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Japan Health Minister Urges Public to Avoid Non-essential Gatherings, Stay away from Crowds & Trains

Tokyo: Japan's health minister on Sunday urged the public to avoid crowds and "non-essential gatherings", including notoriously packed commuter trains, to prevent the new coronavirus from spreading in the country.

Katsunobu Kato warned the nation was "entering a new phase" in the outbreak of the virus, which has infected nearly 60 people in Japan so far.

"We want to ask the public to avoid non-urgent, non-essential gatherings. We want elderly and those with pre-existing conditions to avoid crowded places," Kato said after a meeting of a panel of experts.

[snip]

Japan has been pushing Tokyo residents to try telecommuting or avoid rush hour commutes to ease traffic congestion during the summer Tokyo Olympic Games.

Kato said the government will reiterate its calls on people to try those measures to ease spread of the virus.

[snip]

Most infected individuals seem to experience mild conditions similar to the common cold and may not realise that they have the disease, risking possibly spreading it to others, said Takaji Wakita, chief of the National Institute of Infectious Diseases who headed the expert panel.

h/t coston

Here's the full Hubei Order. Worth a read. Gov't release not subject to 50% rule. Sorry for the wall of text. And I'm not going to highlight anything, just read it when you get a chance. And if you quote it, please cut it down to the relevant parts. Thanks.

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[Hubei] Announcement of the People's Government of Hubei Province on Further Strengthening the Prevention and Control of the Epidemic Situation of the New Crown Pneumonia

Release Time: 2020-02-16

At present, the prevention and control of the epidemic situation in the whole Province has entered the most challenging critical stage, the situation of the epidemic situation is still severe, and in order to effectively cut off the source of infection, block the channels of transmission, and curb the spread and spread of the epidemic situation, in accordance with the Emergency Response Law of the People's Republic of China, the Law of the People's Republic of China on the Prevention and Control of Infectious Diseases, the Public Security Administration Punishments Law of the People's Republic of China, the Regulation on Responding to Public Health Emergencies, the Decision of the Standing Committee of Hubei Province on Providing Powerful Legal Guarantee for Winning the Battle against the Prevention and Control of New Coronavirus Epidemic Situation, the Prevention and the Prevention and Prevention of Pneumonia and the relevant laws and regulations, and the provisions, and the provisions, and the provisions of the relevant laws and the provisions, the provisions, the relevant laws and the provisions, the provisions, the relevant

I. Strengthening territorial prevention and control responsibilities.

All cities (prefectures, directly administered cities, Shennongjia forest areas), counties (cities, districts), towns (sub-districts) shall further compress the compaction responsibilities, make overall planning and integration of forces, and strengthen community (village) joint prevention and joint control and mass prevention and joint control. Communities (villages) shall, in light of the actual circumstances, improve the interaction mechanisms such as door-to-door contact, personnel verification and community management.

2. Strengthening the closed management of urban and rural communities (villages).

All village groups, communities, communities and residential areas in urban and rural areas shall be subject to the strictest closed management for 24 hours.

Foreign vehicles shall be strictly controlled, and they shall not enter or exit unless necessary. strictly control the non-local personnel; It shall be strictly controlled that the residents go out, and drugs and necessary living things may be purchased and distributed in a centralized way; strictly manage stores, regulate temperature testing, and control the flow of people; The illegal acts shall be strictly controlled, and compulsory measures shall be taken according to law for those who do not comply with the relevant provisions on the response to Grade I major public health emergencies.

3. Strengthening vehicle passage control.

We shall comprehensively strengthen traffic control in all cities (prefectures, directly administered cities, and Shennongjia forest areas), and take temporary traffic control measures to reduce the travel of motor vehicles. Except for anti-epidemic vehicles, vehicles for official use, public transport, vehicles for medical and health workers, vehicles for transportation of life necessities, and special vehicles such as rescue vehicles, fire fighting, emergency rescue, environmental sanitation, police cars, etc., all other vehicles shall be prohibited from passing.


4. Strengthening the administration of key regions.

All non-essential public places shall be closed, and all mass activities shall be stopped. Supermarkets, pharmacies and other necessary open places shall rationally arrange business hours, strictly control the flow of people, and do a good job in guiding people and detecting body temperature. A drug purchase registration system shall be implemented in retail drug stores.

Persons who purchase drugs such as cold drugs, fever cough drugs, and antipyretics must truthfully fill in the information on their names, contact information, identity card numbers, addresses, body temperature, etc., and the information must be completely entered into the computer system to purchase the drugs and strengthen risk control. Community (village), community, residential area, residential area, building, work place and other basic-level units with diagnosed (including clinical diagnosis) cases of new Coronary Pneumonia shall be firmly isolated for 14 days.

5. Strengthening comprehensive health checks for residents.

We shall carry out the dynamic network-pulling and rolling screening for all residents, so as to ensure that "there is no missing household, no falling person, and one day" and ensure full coverage and no blind area. In order to strengthen the epidemiological investigation of the "four categories of persons", the units and individuals involved must cooperate unconditionally according to law, and shall not conceal the history of medical diseases or the history of close contact, nor may they evade the observation of isolated medicine.

If it refuses to cooperate, the public security organ shall take compulsory measures according to law. Residents who have fever, cough or other symptoms must report to the community (village) at the first time. The community (village) shall carefully check the health information reported by the fever patients, and transfer the confirmed fever patients to the fever clinic nearby for treatment.

6. Strengthening the management and services of key groups.

All close contacts with all suspected or diagnosed (including clinical diagnosis) cases of New Coronary Pneumonia and fever patients who cannot be explicitly excluded from New Coronary Pneumonia must be placed in a single person at the centralized isolated point for observation, and shall not be placed in isolation at home. Townships (sub-districts) shall set up special classes to do a good job in the medical treatment, living services, health management, psychological counseling, humane care and other work of the isolated persons.

It is necessary to strengthen the allocation of police force, maintain the order of diagnosis and treatment, and prevent secondary events. Where the construction of the separation point is not in place and the raising of beds is not in place, thus causing the "four categories of personnel" to be unable to be collected, treated and isolated in a timely manner, the secondary incidents caused by the failure to provide adequate safeguards for the medical personnel, living materials, safety protection, etc. of the separation point shall be seriously dealt with. Communities (villages) shall strengthen their care for the elderly, the young and the weak, the family members of medical personnel and other groups, and do a good job in providing service guarantee.

7. Strengthening the guarantee of the living necessities of residents.

All localities shall adapt measures to local conditions, adopt various flexible methods, and guarantee the supply of materials necessary for the daily life of the people after closed management. We shall expand community distribution services, vigorously develop e-commerce, strengthen the guarantee for connection between supply and marketing, carry out "e-commerce + chain distribution", promote non-contact distribution services, promote on line group purchase in residential areas (village groups), and purchase by wrong means.

8. Strengthening the guarantee of medical protection materials.

All the products of the key medical and health care material production enterprises throughout the province shall be uniformly distributed by the provincial people's government. We will give full support to key medical care and material production enterprises in expanding their production capacity, and support the transformation of technology into production by qualified enterprises. We shall strengthen the protection of medical and protective materials for frontline staff members in the prevention and control of epidemic situation.

9. Strengthening environmental sanitation management.

We shall implement the system of environmental disinfection, and conduct regular ventilation and preventive disinfection in key places. All the consumer wastes and medical wastes of the communities (villages), hospitals and isolation sites must be collected and disposed of in a classified manner, so as to effectively clean up the daily production.

10. Strengthening the responsibilities of entities.

The enterprise shall be subject to the system of enterprise's return for rehabilitation, and the enterprise shall not resume its production without the approval of the headquarters for prevention and control of epidemic situation at the county (city, district) level. The enterprises that have been approved to resume their operations and to resume their operations shall comprehensively implement the measures for the prevention and control of epidemic situation. The offices, parks, buildings, and enterprises for the resumption of production and rehabilitation of state organs and public institutions shall strengthen the monitoring of body temperature, carefully screen the heat-generating personnel, and report any abnormality in a timely manner.

11. Strengthening the work responsibilities of party members and cadres in communities (villages) that have been sunk.

Party and government organs and party members of public institutions must go to the village groups and communities nearby to participate in the prevention and control of the epidemic situation, and accept the management and dispatch of towns (sub-districts). Those who do not report to the department on their own initiative or do not obey the deployment shall be resolutely and seriously dealt with, and the major persons in charge of the units to which they belong shall be held accountable. All entities shall properly manage their own people, keep an eye on their own departments, establish a list of the circumstances of the villages and communities where their party-member cadres sink, and report it to the headquarters for prevention and control of epidemic situation at all levels for archival purposes.

12. Strengthening individual legal responsibilities.

All residents shall consciously abide by all provisions on the prevention and control of epidemic situation. They shall strictly abide by the provisions on wearing face masks in public places, and shall not go out unless necessary, nor participate in gatherings and collective activities. Where any entity violates the Class I response and management measures for major public health emergencies and impedes the prevention and control of epidemic situation, the public security organ shall take compulsory measures according to law.

13. Strengthening demonstration and driving.

All Party members and cadres, deputies to the people's congresses at all levels and members of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC) National Committee shall play a leading role in encouraging family members and neighborhood neighbors to consciously abide by all provisions on the prevention and control of the epidemic situation. All Party-member cadres and residents must obey unified leadership and control and actively participate in the work of epidemic prevention.

14. Strengthening work discipline.

For those who fail to undertake the task of preventing and controlling the epidemic situation, fail to take any action or act slowly, delay the handling of such cases, delay the handling of such cases, delay the handling of such cases, delay the handling of such cases, delay the handling of such cases, conduct strict investigation and hold accountable those who fail to comply with the unified dispatching and affect the implementation of the measures for preventing and controlling the epidemic situation. If serious consequences are caused, the accountability system shall be "raised to a higher level".

15. Strengthening supervision over complaints.

All regions shall make known to the general public the hotline for the prevention and control of local epidemic situation and the on line service window, accept the consultation, complaint, tip-off and help from the general public, respond to the complaints in a timely manner, and report the handling results. We issued a policy of rewarding tip-offs, and the public could report such issues as the failure to report fever patients in a timely manner, the failure to effectively isolate the "four categories of personnel" from receiving and treating them, and the failure to take measures to prevent and control the epidemic situation through the "12345" hotline, the Hubei Office of the State Administration of Foreign Exchange, the APP epidemic prevention and control special zone, and other channels.

We hope that the broad masses of the people will continue to understand, cooperate with and actively participate in the prevention and control of the epidemic situation, support the frontline personnel in carrying out their work, stand by and help each other, work together in the same boat, and overcome the current difficulties, so as to resolutely win the people's war, the overall war, and the resistance war against the epidemic situation throughout the province.

The final paragraph makes me very angry. You cannot even try to contain it, if you don't know about it.

Their Army can not contain this many people. It’s just not possible. Eventually the Chinese will get tired of staying home and they will riot.

Not sure I mentioned this. Death in Taiwan. Locally acquired case. Older male.

h/t coston

Here's the full Hubei Order


Surely, you all are thinking same as me? You don’t go full “retard”, no disrespect, over something that’s being equated to bad flu. How are people not seeing this? I have friends and coworkers that are mimicking MSM talking points. No critical thinking? You don’t lockdown over bad flu or I’ve never heard it in my 51 years.

Helen Branswell
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Think this paper means you cannot rule out #COVID19 just because a suspect case tested positive for another respiratory pathogen. 6% of 2746 Covid-19 positive cases were co-infected with other viruses.

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Marion Koopmans
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Nice diagnostic preprint paper, showing distribution of co-infections in patient with COVID-19. Impressive amount of Chinese papers on preprint services

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Interpretation : Clinical testing methods for 2019-n CoV require improvement. Importantly, 5.8% of 2019-nCo V infected and 18.4% of non-2019-nCoV-infected patients had other pathogen infections. It is important to treat combined infections and perform rapid screening to avoid cross-contamination of patients. A test that quickly and simultaneously screens as many pathogens as possible is needed.

Hasn't happened in over 50 years.


Normalcy Bias and poor risk communications from the government.

There are many things that We are not aware of in this ongoing incident..

This is so stupid it makes me feel like your avatar, Nawty.

On the other hand, what are they going to do? There's no stopping this thing, with the inability to do fast testing, the false negatives, asymptomatic carriers and possible co-infections leading to lack of testing.

It's going to fall apart - the center will not hold.

CDC hiding #coronavirus cases in New York? This voicemail message was left for Dr. Paul Cottrell and later posted on his YouTube channel.

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Most days the ER wait time at Cornwall is 3 to 5 hours. They are understaffed at the best of times. They would have to airlift the sick to Ottawa. The Nav Can centre is also right next to a very large seniors care home.

SO..ON A SCALE OF 1 TO 10...WE R @ 8.9 TO 9.1?..ISH?

I just found the full interview. Very alarming.

I've been noticing lots of photos with medical personnel in masks, but no goggles and keep thinking, it was already mentioned eyes need to be covered and possibly ear canals. Lots of photos in China with only masks on.....

The sick ones are staying in japan. I watched a Facebook video posted here by a woman whose sick with cv companion was being taken to fuku of all places. I had to think about why fuku and then I got why.

Singapore

h/t treyfish

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3 new COVID-19 cases in Singapore, including SAF serviceman linked to Grace Assembly of God cluster

SINGAPORE: The Ministry of Health (MOH) on Sunday (Feb 16) confirmed three new COVID-19 cases, including a Singapore Armed Forces (SAF) regular serviceman linked to a cluster at the Grace Assembly of God church.

The serviceman was one of two new cases linked to the church. The third case is a family member of another patient.

All the new cases have no recent travel history to China. This brings the total number of cases in Singapore to 75.

[snip]

Case 73 is a 43-year-old regular in the Singapore Armed Forces. He works at Building 613 of Tengah Air Base, but has not been at work since Feb 6, said the Ministry of Defence (MINDEF).

According to the health ministry, he reported the onset of symptoms on Feb 9 and sought treatment at a GP clinic a day later.

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Chicago Coronavirus Patients Released From Home Isolation Following Recovery

The two Chicago residents who contracted COVID-19, a disease stemming from a new form of coronavirus, were released from home isolation Friday following their recovery, according to the Chicago Department of Public Health.

The two patients — a husband and wife, both in their 60s — were released from AMITA Health St. Alexius Medical Center in Hoffman Estates approximately a week earlier.

The woman was the second person diagnosed with the virus in the U.S., health officials announced on Jan. 24. She returned from Wuhan, China —the epicenter of a recent outbreak — on Jan. 13 and was later hospitalized, a state epidemiologist with the Illinois Department of Public Health said in announcing the diagnosis last month.

"They have now had multiple rounds of negative testing for the virus and are clinically well," Dr. Allison Arwady, CDPH commissioner, said in a news release issued Saturday. "They do not need to wear masks, and neither does anyone interacting with them. They have been cleared.”

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The #COVID19 case in Egypt has no symptoms & was only detected because he/she was a contact of a person from China who tested positive after returning from a business trip to Cairo.
Makes one wonder: How many cases are being missed?

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The confirmed case in Egypt is asymptomatic and was identified through contact screening of an Index case who travelled to Cairo between 21 January and 4 February on a business trip and tested positive for COVID-19 on 11 February in China. The confirmed case in Egypt is currently isolated in a referral hospital. Other contacts of the confirmed case are being traced, and so far, all have tested negative, but will be actively followed up on for 14 days. WHO is coordinating with national IHR focal points in China and Egypt in order to support the investigation in Egypt.