Reuters reports Nearly 200 Americans Repatriated from China Placed Under Quarantine.
“We are preparing as if this is the next pandemic, but we are hoping that is not the case,” said Nancy Messonnier, director of National Center For Immunization and Respiratory Diseases, in a telephone interview from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control.
The CDC announced the 14-day quarantine order, which applies to 195 repatriated individuals, a day after the U.S. State Department issued its strongest warning against travel to China due to an epidemic of the new virus, which has claimed more than 200 lives.
CDC officials said they were waiting for test results to determine if any of the individuals had the virus but had issued the quarantine order, the agency’s first in 50 years, out of an abundance of caution.
China Chide “Mean” US
In the ridiculous comment of the day, China Chides ‘Mean’ U.S. for Travel Warning as Virus Impact Spreads.
“Do not travel to China due to the novel coronavirus first identified in Wuhan,” the U.S. State Department said, raising the warning for China to the same level as Afghanistan and Iraq.
“The World Health Organization urged countries to avoid travel restrictions, but very soon after that, the United States did the opposite,” Chinese Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Hua Chunying said. “It’s truly mean.”
WHO director-general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus reiterated in a series of tweets on Friday that his organisation had confidence in China’s capacity to control the 2019-nCoV virus.
My Comment on the WHO Yesterday
Given the repeated asinine comments today, I believe F WHO is spot on.
The best way to stop the spread of a pandemic is to not let it get started in the first place. That means travel bans and quarantines.
China proves what happens when you get behind the curve.
Mike “Mish” Shedlock
The Mayor of New York announced our first possible case where there is a strong suspicion of Coronavirus. In his announcement he said it can only be contracted by close contact (living with someone for example). His advisors completely dropped the ball here. He said it doesn’t live on hard surfaces. Many other experts disagree. The only reason to wash your hands before you eat is to avoid consuming things you pick up when you touch them. I am baffled and completely dumbfounded by this but I think his people must have confused the criteria for high index of suspicion and actual bona fide transmission routes.
Jan 2, 41 patients were sick enough to be admitted to the hospital in China. As of Jan 22, 2020, 28 (68%) of 41 patients have been discharged and six (15%) patients have died.
Other reports indicate ~20% of cases are considered “severe” and require hospitalization. So 15% of the 20% that are hospitalized means about 3% mortality once you get the virus.
That makes me feel much less anxious – other than the thought that the virus is going to pretty much infect everyone.
4 more days for Mish’s prediction of 100000 infected…, oh, we don’t have real facts anywhere, so it could be 1000000 as well.
To be clear – I did not “predict” that number of cases, nor did Bianco. Rather, we stated that was the track, IF the rate of progression did not change.
Market close until Tuesday now.
Have Happy Superbowl.
So solly.
Turn out vilus 100% fatal. All die.
China be all ghost by 2022.
Amelicans have to learn make things for self by then if still alive.
So solly.
No idea why when it comes to China, all the commenters gone shrill, like blaming H1n1 on China as well
Pandemic H1N1 2009 Overview
Cases of pH1N1 2009 influenza were first identified in mid-April 2009 in California and soon thereafter in Texas and Mexico (CDC 2009: Swine influenza A [H1N1] infection in two children—southern California, March-April 2009; CDC 2009:Update: swine influenza A [H1N1] infections—California and Texas). The earliest recognized case occurred in Mexico with illness onset on Mar 17, 2009 (CDC 2009: Outbreak of swine-origin influenza A (H1N1) virus infection—Mexico, March-April 2009).
By Josh Beckerman
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What’s torquing my jaw about this quarantine is that it was a quarantine all along, they just refused to call it that. Go read any of the news stories about it since they landed and it’s all minced words. As soon as one of the 195 decided to exercise their “right” to leave the base, then they decided to call it what it really was, a quarantine. This is not a good way to get off on the right foot with the American people, lying to us as usual, mincing words, and the usual BS. Why can’t the US Government just cut the crap for once and treat us like adults? I’m now taking every single thing they say about this nCoV with a grain of salt, just like I do with China.
If someone wants out, they should be allowed to leave, albeit back in China.
There is no way to stop this thing.
India is next. Then Africa then Europe then South America working its way up though Mexico.
We will all be infected.
I wonder what the long term problems associated with this thing are? Could it end up being HIV like that you never actually clear it?
We will all figure out together.
That is a freaky thought – has anybody infected cleared themselves of virus completely ?
You mention HIV and I guess that it is because you read the ZH article containing a serious but not peer reviewed study that suggests the virus contains HIV sequence, if so making it most probably human engineered.
I’ll open the conspiracy chapter and then close it .
If ascertained as human engineered due to signatures, then we are looking at :
It escaped from a Wuhan lab.
It was released by a rogue employee.
[Both of those mean the extent of infection is haphazard]
It was released by western sources in China knowing that their own country’s circumstance or ability to deal with was better. This could include for domestic authoritarian motives or even commercial profit.
It was released by elite globalists with agenda of population control.
It was released by Chinese or aligned government.
…..
Those last three are deep end, and some might wonder why I would include Chinese release. Consider that if it is military or elite release it will follow a highly unlikely and asymmetric strategy, no matter who released it. For example, China could have released a current milder version, once there is international lockdown and it is quarantined as a country, it could release a more lethal version abroad.
Etc.
So I close that chapter there for my part because it heads into speculation for which we have no answers, based on data which is so far not confirmed.
ZH was just banned on twitter, apparently for simply mentioning the name of Peng Zhou (who studied mechanisms that allowed bats to be permanent carriers without symptoms, amongst other). Would have been interesting to know if twitter came under pressure and from who (outside of those who fronted a complaint) .
I don’t discount any of your theories. Unlikely be certainly plausible.
Release was approximately 6 weeks before the largest yearly migration on the planet. This virus is about the only thing that can correct the extreme imbalances in the financial system without the creators of the problem having to take responsibility.
Nothing seems crazy these days.
Thailand, Singapore, Japan, and S. Korea appear to be the next countries that will see major growth. Those four countries started the day with 41 combined cases, and added another 22, an average 54% increase, which is where China was a few days ago. China is now reporting only a 16% a day increase, but I am skeptical.
You are certainly correct it will infect Southern Asia next. I was most likely wrong in my prediction of land bridge spread. We have flying tubes that will transmit this virus near the speed of sound across the globe. But even if all planes were grounded tomorrow I still don’t think it can be stopped. This virus is a better version of an invader than we are at this point. Find a host and slowly kill it while spreading your seed. Sounds like me and the earth.
Just saw the local news interviewing a local doctor that said this was like the common cold and it will never get hear. Bold call for a virus that has been studied for a little over a month.
It is a lot easier to control the news than the people.
What happens in China…
does not stay in China.
There is no way all this is happening because 200 + people died of a new flu virus over a 2 week time frame, during flu season, in a nation of 1 billion.
The mortality rate must be terrifying to get this kind of reaction.
This is definitely gonna cause some supply line disruptions. China makes or has a hand in the making of almost everything. China makes something like 90% of the worlds tires. In 10-15 months life will be a little different.
I’m calling it, THIS IS A BLACK SWAN EVENT. A WUHAN SWAN!!
I was thinking Black Death Swan
Now there is maybe a first of infection travelling between countries outside of China. A german picked up the virus in germany and is now under observation in Spain with a confirmed infection. They managed to track him from his having contact with another patient in Germany, later this won’t be very possible if there are many cases, even now there is no way to tell if they missed contacts or cannot find them.
The mortality rate is 3%. If 100 million people in the US get it, it is 3million dead. The time to contain it is NOW while the numbers are small.
Behind the scenes preparations are ramping up here in the states regardless of the propaganda on the mainstream news. Trump needs to halt flights out of “hot” areas ASAP!
This will impact the economy. My wife’s company has a facility in China that is closed for at least two more weeks and likely longer. Orders might not get fulfilled and they have to pay the workers for hiding in their homes.
A worker there says it is worse than the government is letting on. I have a student whose aunt just returned from China and she said it is 10 times worse than what the government is saying.
Meanwhile, I have coworkers who think it is xenophobic to want to shut down travel between China and the world.
totally believable
“Thousands sick and many deaths”
“Abundance of caution”.
There’s an abundance alright, but caution isn’t the right word.