Thank you and welcome to this oasis for support and sharing. Though I followed for several years I only recently joined. I have found it to a very special place and people here.
Thank you so much for this information! It is so helpful to have easy access to an actual statistics readerboard for those who are concerned about the spread of this virus to get quick updates without caring and concerned members having to keep reporting updates here.
Love to you @lovendures with thanks for all your personally involved hard work trying to provide so much investigative information on so many places. We keep your family and your daughter and her college family in our thoughts and prayers that all will be well ? Love to you wonderful wonderful lady ?
It's incredibly important to be aware and informed. We have so many empathic and very sensitive as well as sensitized readers here who take news of outbreaks personally when risks in their area are low.
Treading the waters of informational statistics and being aware of spreading panic during these times will become ever more important in the changing times so this is great to know about!
Thank you so much Sistermoon. We appreciate your input on this site and I feel badly that there was a bit of mix up as threads were merged that we couldn't find your posts right off to welcome and reply to you.
Welcome welcome welcome! I am so truly happy to have you here as a member of our often very human but deeply caring tribe. ???
I bookmarked @sistermoons link to the Coronavirus: Operation Dashboard https://gisanddata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/opsdashboard/index.html#/bda7594740fd40299423467b48e9ecf6
And each time I visit it I will send love, light, and prayers globally to all affected as well as include them in my hearts meditation for a higher state of health and healing for all. Love you all ?
And the same goes out to you with welcome and appreciation!
We are all so glad you did register and are sharing your voice, gifts, and treasure of a heart with all of us ?
This story keeps breaking my heart.
As the stranded Pakistani students in China continue to cry for help amid the coronavirus scare, Pakistan's Ambassador to China Naghmana Hashmi on Sunday said that their students should not be evacuated from the virus-hit Chinese city of Wuhan as "medical facilities in Pakistan do not meet the standards" required to treat a patient diagnosed with novel virus.
Dashing the hopes of the several Pakistani citizens stuck in coronavirus-hit Wuhan, Pakistan's ambassador to China, on Sunday told Pakistan-based Geo News that no evacuation is possible because of lack of medical facilities in Pakistan.
According to a report by Geo News, Naghmana Hashmi in an interview shared that China has the best medical facilities to handle the patients suffering from the disease.
There was video taken of Pakistani students watching their counter parts from India being evacuated by their government. They were begging Pakistan to fly them home too. Heartbreaking. 4 students have already contracted the virus in China.
In contrast, Dr. Janjua Usman , a Pakistani doctor and teacher at a Medical College in China is the first foreign doctor who volunteered to treat infected people in Wuhan.
The news said the epidemic area is now the lack of medical staff, I am a doctor, I love China, I would like to go to the Wuhan, epidemic area to help the doctor!" Seeing the media continuously broadcast the outbreak of pneumonia caused by the new coronavirus in China, on January 27th, Usman formally applied to the foreign experts service office of Hunan science and technology department, hoping that he could go to the Wuhan epidemic area for medical assistance.
Dr Janjua, in an interview with Chinese media, said that China was like a second home for him as he had completed his education for there.
“My heart beats with my Chinese brothers. If I can offer my services in Wuhan in this difficult hour, it would be a moment of pride for me and my country – Pakistan,” said Janjua.
Pakistani students stuck in Wuhan are hailing him as a hero for volunteering So are Chinese citizens.
A Very Brave Man. In many ways.
An ophthalmologist in Wuhan, believed to be one of eight whistleblowers of the coronavirus outbreak punished by local police for "rumor - mongering" when they attempted to sound the alarm about the virus in December, weeks before officials admitted the seriousness of the outbreak. has been vindicated by China’s top court. Suspected to have been infected after treating a patient, he says that he will return to the front lines and continue fighting the virus once he recovers.
On Dec. 30,Dr. Li Wenliang sent a message in his medical school alumni WeChat group, warning that the ophthalmology department in his hospital had put seven patients from a local seafood market who were diagnosed with severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) into isolation wards.
Li told Caixin that he had been worried the hospital would punish him for “spreading rumors” but felt relieved after the top court publicly criticized the police. “I think there should be more than one voice in a healthy society, and I don’t approve of using public power for excessive interference,” said Li.
“Everything is settled now. It’s finally confirmed,” Li wrote on Weibo, delivering news that angered yet more Chinese. He wrote in another post: “I have seen a lot of support and encouragement for me online, which has really helped my emotional state. Thank you everyone.”
The total number of confirmed Wuhan coronavirus cases in mainland China stands at 17,205, the country's National Health Commission said Sunday,
That figure is up 2,829 from the previous day.
361 have died in China, surpassing the total number from China who died form SARS. One other died outside of China.
California added a 9th case and now has 4 from California. It is unrelated to other cases in California.
It becomes almost too much to bare reading these news reports and facing the truth of all that is happening now. The brave and the suffering, the outcast and unrecognized or those totally unreported. But oh my also the brave and the good. Such blessings and such warriors in all ways.
Heartbreaking beyond words or emotions to take the place of words. They are in my every thought and heartbeat as all the love, all the pain, fear, and suffering escalates.
Bless you ur own dear heart warrior for holding them up to the light of our attention.
Add 2 more cases for the US now totaling 11.
A husband and wife in California. The Husband had been to China on Business but the wife did not travel. That appears to me to be a case of transfer in the US now.
Vietnam adds 3 more cases to bring their total to 8.
China Stocks
Trading in a whole range of commodities has been suspended in China after losses quickly exceeded the daily limit today.The maximum level of losses, known as limit-down in trading parlance, was reached for iron ore, nickel, copper, eggs, palm oil, crude oil and other produce.
Stocks in Shanghai have fallen 8.7% at the opening.
The maximum allowed before trading is suspended for the day is 10%.
It is the beginning of the swarms of locusts and all that follows. Hurts my heart but my heart knows it is still part of all that for future reasons needs to be. I just find it so hard to know as a wife, a mother, and a grandmother that this pain and all the losses and suffers is my pain as part of them all as well.
It hurts so deeply and has only just barely begun. I pray for the good of all and mercy for the horrible suffering now and to come.
Bless you. Stay strong and let each of us carry the light as torchbearers and honor guards and surround them all with love and remembrance.
My husband told me about the locus today. It is pretty catastrophic. Did you know about the swarms or were you just making a "locus is the next step" type of comment?
I am going to find ways to help. I have to do something positive. This is going to be horrific. I have been in Arizona fro 2 grasshopper invasions and that was really gross. They were everywhere you stepped, covering cars and hitting you when you walked. This is so much worse. No comparison. WHEN THEY INVADE, THEY EAT EVERYTHING.
Locust swarms of biblical proportions are threatening crops across a wide swath of Africa and southwest Asia—spurring alarm among top international officials.
A major concern is famine. The United Nations is warning that mass swarms of desert locusts are endangering food supplies in eastern Africa. In response, officials in Rome mobilized an emergency briefing yesterday in a bid to raise money—noting the situation has a high potential to devolve into a full-blown crisis.
U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres took to Twitter yesterday in an effort to draw global attention to the worsening outbreak. The swarms are now threatening farms in parts of Ethiopia, Kenya and Somalia but are expected to spread to neighboring countries soon.
No, it just came to me and I said it. Didn't know it was happening. This sounds horrific!
I am sorry. I wasn't sure if I should have mentioned it.
Tonight I morn for my brothers and sisters in Africa and China.
I think that people who get really terrified about these pandemics need to understand that this one is not like in the movie Contagion. I've lived through several pandemics as have most of you. In this article by Business Insider, they compare some of the events in Contagion to the new Corona virus. Here are some highlights:
1. By day 29 of the pandemic in the movie, 26 million people worldwide were dead. Thursday was day 29 of the coronavirus outbreak, and only 210 people had died.
2. The virus in the movie affects everyone equally. But a study of 41 Wuhan coronavirus cases reported that the median age of those who have died is around 75. Many of those individuals had other health issues like high blood pressure, diabetes, and Parkinson's disease. A second study of 99 coronavirus cases, published Thursday in the journal The Lancet, revealed that the average age of infected patients was 55.5.
3. No infected patients in "Contagion" recover from the disease. But so far, 486 people in China, Japan, and Australia have recovered from the coronavirus. According to Todd Ellerin, a doctor and contributing writer at Harvard Health Publishing, "many people recover within a few days" from the coronavirus.
4. One of the biggest inaccuracies in the movie is that they developed a vaccine in 90 days. In reality it will take 9 months to develop a vaccine to the new coronavirus.
Here's another article this one from VOX on how the corona virus could go from here compared to other pandemics we've seen.
Just exactly what we needed said..
Bless you for chiming in and know that we all love you, value, appreciate and give thanks to you for all you do for so many.
You are in our thoughts and prayers and I hope you will give yourself the gift of loving perspective for taking care of yourself as you try so hard to care take here for us.
Heal well ???
20,438 cases.
426 recorded deaths
623 recovered.
According to an update from CNN, the death rate from the Wuhan coronavirus across mainland China remains at 2.1%, with 80% of the victims over 60 years of age, and 75% with underlying disease.
I also saw that doctors in the Philippines successfully treated the virus using a combo of HIV and flu medication. Maybe the coronavirus will have an unexpected benefit in the discovery of new treatment options for these viruses?
Below is a good article from The Guardian discussing the possible consequences of the Trump US response and restrictions stemming from the Coronavirus. The full article can be found at the link below.
The Trump administration’s decision to severely restrict travel from China to the US and to implement a mass quarantine, the first in the US in more than 50 years, could be an overreaction that causes unnecessary fear and weakens the global response, according to some legal scholars and health professionals. Although there is generally support for cautious policies to stop the spread of the virus, experts said they were worried the harsh approaches could waste limited resources on potentially ineffective tactics, needlessly limit civil liberties and even cause more harm than good.
“We should do the utmost to protect public health,” said Jennifer Nuzzo, the senior scholar at the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security. “But we have to make sure the measures we’re implementing aren’t worse than the virus itself.”
The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) announced Friday that 195 Americans who were evacuated from Wuhan, China, would be placed under a required 14-day quarantine at the March Air Reserve Base in Riverside, 60 miles east of Los Angeles. Trump also signed an ordertemporarily barring entry of foreign nationals who have traveled to China within the previous two weeks, making exceptions for immediate family of US citizens and permanent residents.
But several experts told the Guardian the restrictive policies could spread more fear and could inhibit the government’s response in the event of a large-scale outbreak.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/feb/04/coronavirus-us-quarantine-travel-ban-response
Business related news regarding the virus impacts
Disney said it is expecting to take a $175 million hit from the recent coronavirus outbreak if its Hong Kong and Shanghai Disney parks remain closed for two months.
Clorox, is making more of its bleach products in case there’s more customer demand amid the outbreak, CFO Kevin Jacobsen told analysts. However, officials from the World Health Organization said on a call earlier Tuesday that there was currently no evidence that bleach worked to protect against the virus.
Hyundai Motor Company, will suspend all domestic production this week because of a lack of parts due to the coronavirus outbreak in China, it said.
Macau will close all its casinos for two weeks because of the coronavirus, the leader of the semi-autonomous territry announced. Gaming forms the backbone of Macau's economy.
Royal Caribbean Cruises Ltd cancelled eight cruises out of China through March 4 in response to the coronavirus outbreak, the company said on Tuesday.
Most every airline flying in and out of China is impacted. Many are also canceling Hong Kong travel too. It is interesting to note that the passenger airlines also carry a lot of freight.
OPEC members and their ally Russia are discussing a further cut to crude oil output at a meeting in Vienna because of China's coronavirus epidemic, Iraq's oil ministry said Tuesday.
Crude prices have tumbled since the outbreak in the world's second-biggest economy, which is a huge consumer of crude.
Lates Numbers
-The global number of confirmed coronavirus cases currently stands at 24,324. There have been 490 confirmed deaths.
-Ten people on the Diamond Princess cruise ship moored in Yokohama Bay have been confirmed as having the Wuhan coronavirus, according to Japanese Health Ministry.
The 10 confirmed cases were from tests of 31 people. More than 273 samples from other passengers are still awaiting test results. Passengers and crew, total about 3,700 people, and remain on the ship. now officially in quarantine and are confined to their cabins
People who rely on medications are said to be running low.
This would be a bad time to have an inside cabin for sure. 14 days... nothing to do, no where to go no fresh air. I can't imagine.