WHO Coronavirus Meeting UPDATE [LIVE] 2/20/2020 (Begins 10:00 am EST)

Will they say pandemic yet?

Or spew platitudes for China,and ask for 680 million more in cash(two weeks ago they where only asking for 360 mil,they got it now it MOOOAR we need MOOOAR).

Thanks for the link I do not have to try and find it.

Who mumbled the exhaustive "sh:t"
Lol
Then audio went mute for a sec

I can barely hear it now

It is that glass room upstairs that we want a mic and camera in!

Gotta turn it way up. Camera guy for this feed is irritable.

Starting now.

New feed.

-74,675 cases in China

-2021 Deaths

-Data continues to improve but no time for complacency

-Outside Chine 1075 cases with 7 deaths

-Iran has 5 cases

-Outside China, more than half of the cases are from Diamond Princess

-Passengers are release

-Japan recommends passengers to self-quarantine for another 14 days


-Team investigating transmissability

-Online network for sharing anonymous data has been created

-The earlier patients are treated the better the results

-Two clinical trials underway,

-One trial is a combinations of two HIV drugs

-Other is antiviral drug

-In contact with faith-based organizations to advise in ways to minimize transmission.

-30 countries are taking travel restriction measures

-81 percent have mild symptoms, 14 percent severe and 5 percent are critically ill.

-Cases in South Korea are linked to known clusters.

-South Korea has 104 cases

-At this moment there are NO proven therapeutics for treating virus

-Japanese priority was to contain cases on ship, not to prevent introduction into the mainland.

-Patients have been taken to hospitals.

-Patients released from ship if no symptoms, negative PCR test, and no contact with infected patients within past 14 days.

-WHO doesn't trust the conspiracy theories

-WHO needs 675 million dollars

-WHO is not satisfied with international funding

-Lancet questions:

-A: Concern in public health community about WHO not acting fast enough

-WHO has asked social media to help fight conspiracies

-WHO can't specify which Asian countries are most at risk, doesn't want to "name names"