- Hong Kong records at least eight positive test results.
- US military prepping for coronavirus pandemic.
- Healthcare workers, patients and international experts have accused China of under-reporting the number of coronavirus victims in the country as an epidemiologist at Imperial College London said that as few as 10% of
cases were being properly detected. That would put total infected people in China at 900,000+.
- Switzerland, Denmark, Georgia, Greece, Romania, Serbia, Singapore and Spain no longer accepting any letters or parcels addressed to China.
- Apple stopped sending engines to China for their next generation model.
just for the record, I think it is hitting China hard but not 900k hard, stupid CCP fiddling with the numbers wont help them or the world in fighting this thing.
I'm tending towards the optimistic that it might fizzle out, we're not seeing the crazy spreads outside China that we saw in the early days in Wuhan, Hubei.
The R_o is clearly being reduced substantially with the precautionary measures that have been taken so far, both within China and with international travel restrictions, quarantines, self-isolations and case trackings
Cases outside China are doubling every 6-7 days but the last week has been dominated by cases on board the floating petri dish Diamond Princess. (why haven't the cruise industry pitched in to get those people off the boat and into appropriate quarantine quarters? It is a slow burning dumpster fire catastrophe destroying their whole industry.)
The example of Singapore is probably as close to a realistic data set and case study for what might happen in a Western city if it takes hold there and that's not a given.
Let's see how much the bumblefuck British NHS socialised healthcarecan mess this up, already medical staff have managed to become the center of the epidemic and it only just arrived there in the UK. It will be a good case study of how badly it could go.
Don't understand why Switzerland wants to stop mail going to China? Shouldn't that be mail coming from China? Same with the Apple 'engines'?