Coronavirus (non political)

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Is anyone starting to get a little worried?

- China quarantines 46 Million people (2/3/20)

https://www.businessinsider.com/quar...ckdowns-2020-1

- Italy, virus surges to 400 infected (2/26/20)
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-51645902


- Japan closes all of its schools for 1 month (2/27/20)
https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsan...ls-for-a-month

- Iran VP has coronavirus .. he was the spokes person during the US Embassy hostage seizing, fuck him (2/27/20)
https://thehill.com/policy/healthcar...ate-media-says

- California monitoring 8,400 people for coronavirus, awaiting test kits

California Governor Gavin Newsom said on Thursday that health officials are monitoring 8,400 people for coronavirus symptoms after they arrived in the state from domestic commercial flights.

The state currently has only about 200 test kits, an "inadequate" number, but has been in "constant contact with federal agencies" that will be sending a significant number of new test kits in coming days, Newsom said.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2020/...235731205.html

- World Wide, currently, 82,784 infections; 2,817 deaths (as of 2/27/20)
https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/

- USA, currently below

COVID-19 Cases in the United States

As of February 23, 14 COVID-19 cases had been diagnosed in the following six states: Arizona (one case), California (eight), Illinois (two), Massachusetts (one), Washington (one), and Wisconsin (one). Twelve of these 14 cases were related to travel to China, and two cases occurred through person-to-person transmission to close household contacts of a person with confirmed COVID-19. An additional 39 cases were reported among repatriated U.S. citizens, residents, and their families returning from Hubei province, China (three), and from the Diamond Princess cruise ship that was docked in Yokohama, Japan (36). Thus, there have been 53 cases within the United States. No deaths have been reported in the United States.

https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/69/wr/mm6908e1.htm

- How does it spread

Person-to-person spread

The virus is thought to spread mainly from person-to-person.

Between people who are in close contact with one another (within about 6 feet)
Via respiratory droplets produced when an infected person coughs or sneezes.
These droplets can land in the mouths or noses of people who are nearby or possibly be inhaled into the lungs.

Spread from contact with infected surfaces or objects

It may be possible that a person can get COVID-19 by touching a surface or object that has the virus on it and then touching their own mouth, nose, or possibly their eyes, but this is not thought to be the main way the virus spreads.

https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019...nsmission.html