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Will the "Corona Virus" turn into a worldwide epidemic or fizzle out?

  • Yes

    Votes: 37 49.3%

  • No

    Votes: 9 12.0%

  • Bigger than SARS, but not worldwide epidemic (Black Death/bubonic plague)

    Votes: 25 33.3%

  • Undecided

    Votes: 4 5.3%
  • Total voters
    75
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qldfrog said:
That will determine if hospital system collapses as in Wuhan or not
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Good point if the contagion gets out of hand to a point to overwhelm the systems to care for those infected then the mortality rates may well rise.

The numbers coming out of China in no way reflects reality which is quite worrying.
 
a semi sensible ABC article (written in their annoying style)
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-02...-in-australia-the-different-diseases/11950358

I hope it can shed some light for people to get an understanding:
the question remains: with thousands of Australians dying every year from influenza, and no coronavirus deaths reported in Australia, why are we still so worried about it?
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"We all have very little immunity with coronavirus, which means it will run through a population. The virus has all the tools to spread wildly."
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In Australia, patients would be isolated in a single room and with their own toilet, which would not be the case in China where hospitals and medical professionals had been swamped.

Dr Mackay said his understanding was about 20-25 per cent of coronavirus cases in China were considered severe. He said in the hundreds of cases outside China, the severity was "mild to very mild", and there were more resources put into treating the affected patients.
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Wednesday - 12th Feb 2020 AM Update

Total confirmed - 43,144
Total Died - 1,018
Total Recovered - 4,347
 
The World Health Organisation has admitted a vaccine for the coronavirus won’t be ready for 18 months, as it renames the disease Covid-19.

As the death toll in China climbed to over 1,000, and confirmed cases more than 42,000 worldwide, WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said it would take time to develop an effective vaccine.

”The development of vaccines and therapeutic is one important part of the research agenda but it’s only one part. They will take time to develop,” said Mr Tedros.
 
This is really serious with the flu season approaching here at home, is got me wondering how they are going to market a general flu vaccine with this Corona virus floating around!. It really bothers me that both Labor and Liberal politicians are going on about Chinese racism and people not going to their resteraunts which is a concern but this is Australia "not China" and they should be more focused on how to protect us. In reality here at home all the polices are concerned with is how to protect their on going money supply generated by Chinese wealth down under, not surprising seeing they have sold us out like many similar western country's years ago!. Scomo should really look at more travel restrictions right now, the Corona virus could easily get into Australia via the back door from Bali. I won't be going to a Chinese resteraunt Scomo or on a Quantas plane anytime soon!.
 
From the WHO chief yesterday
"If the world doesn't want to wake up and consider this enemy virus as public enemy number 1, I don't think we will learn from our lessons."
And this is now the COVID-19
Maybe need to rename the thread
 
Anyone going to Bali?

1.7 mil Chinese visit every year the Indos are terrible at covering up bad news
 
DB008 said:
Wednesday - 12th Feb 2020 AM Update

Total confirmed - 43,144
Total Died - 1,018
Total Recovered - 4,347
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WHO arrives in China and more real numbers start to come out. Shows how the Chinese were lying all along, there might even be some more towns which have been trying to cover up the real toll.

Friday 14th Feb
Total confirmed - 60,363
Total Died - 1,370
Total Recovered - 6,293

If the title can be changed to COVID-19 l'm more than happy for Joe to change it.
 
Dona Ferentes said:
New Hubei governor moving in. Out with the old and you get a new set of numbers (no diff to CEO change here, really) .
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The cover up started from Beijing so I expect the old governor to be found guilty of corruption wheeled out the back and shot
 
Knobby22 said:
I was going to mention we all at work went to a Chinese dumpling restaurant on Friday for lunch.
Only half full.
No Chinese eating there.
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The newspapers are suggesting people stop being "racist" and return to their local chinese takeaway, I also noticed that there were no Chinese people there in the photo
 
When your feed news is not ABC but your wechat familly friends and colleagues in China, you have a pretty good understanding of the issue and WTF would you risk it going to any restaurant, chinese or not.
This is only racist for the ABC, now racism wise, i wonder what will happen in the muslim concentration camps, imagine once it starts there....
 
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