Coronavirus likely to stay in U.S. 'beyond this season, beyond this year,' CDC warns

[Dennis Donovan]

https://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/ny-coronavirus-likely-to-stay-beyond-this-season-cdc-warns-20200214-rdnk7nqcsngqxnfhgi3n5base4-story.html

By NELSON OLIVEIRA

NEW YORK DAILY NEWS

FEB 14, 2020 | 2:10 PM

As China struggles to contain a highly contagious coronavirus that has killed nearly 1,400 people in that country, American health officials are preparing for a potential outbreak within the U.S. and warning that the illness may still be around well after the flu season is over.

“This new virus represents an unprecedented public health threat,” Dr. Nancy Messonnier, of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, said in a news briefing Friday afternoon.

The pneumonia-like illness, which this week was officially named COVID-19 — has sickened more than 60,000 people in central China’s Hubei province, where the virus was first discovered in late December, and continues to spread to other countries through human contact.

In the U.S., only 15 people have been diagnosed with the disease, with most of them having traveled to China. The only two U.S. patients who hadn’t recently been to China contracted the virus from their spouses.

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Um...

[SWBTATTReg]

1. With a two week period of being inactive after infecting a person (no one knows about it), that ...

person could conceivable infect numerous others before anyone is aware of the one person being infected. Dangerous indeed. And possible probably that this could mutate, like others do and have in the past.

[dalton99a]

2. A statistic that was overlooked: "1,716 medical workers contracted the virus and six died"

0.35% fatality risk

(granted medical workers generally don't have co-morbidities/age-related illnesses like their patients)

[Dennis Donovan]

3. "Pshaw - it's just SARS by another name."

Remember those replies from 2 weeks ago?

[NickB79]

4. Hopefully we'll have a vaccine by next winter

[ffr]

5. 63,000 detected cases and growing.

It's bound to spread to more.

[Kerrycrat]

6. Underreported

Some say that it's just like any other flu season, where a certain number of compromised people die each year.

But I have a friend who was evacuated from China who tells me that the truth about the crisis is being underreported in China.

[Dennis Donovan]

7. Welcome to DU!

It's tough to gauge due to China's natural tendency to downplay internal crises. But, I'm seeing the same kinds of stories elsewhere.

This likely won't be a 1918 flu, but it will make a significant mark.

[Kerrycrat]

8. Thanks!

And yep

[Beantighe]

9. Here is the CDC update

For anyone interested, here is the video from Tuesday.


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