CDC warned that Americans must prepare for rapid COVID-19 spread after the disease showed explosive growth in Iran, Italy, and South Korea. CDC asked, “folks in every sector as well as within their families to start planning for this.”
“We really want to prepare the American public for the possibility that their lives will be disrupted because of this pandemic,” advised Dr. Nancy Messonnier, director of the CDC’s National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases.
South Korea reports 977 sickened and 10 fatalities. Italy reports 277 sickened and 6 fatalities. Austria, Croatia, Switzerland, and Algeria reported their first cases of infection. Iran officially reports 61 infected and 12 deaths.
Iranian reports are broadly seen as unreliable and their containment efforts appear to have failed. Iran’s Deputy Minister of Health, the top Iranian official combatting the virus has been diagnosed as infected and has self-quarantined himself.
CDC advised parents to talk to their children’s schools about contingency education and childcare plans and teleworking options at work if the community spread accelerates in the US.
The Trump Administration has requested $2.5 billion to address the novel coronavirus epidemic.
America, just shut the borders and protect the citizenry.
Saw a cellphone video of a young Chinese woman eating a cooked bat. Bats are carriers of the corona virus and a lot of other bad stuff. Their immune system is among some of the most powerful of all warm-blooded creatures.
If I was a mad scientist developing a biological weapon, I surely would want to know how to develop and grow a supply of an antidote first. Rather than start from scratch, I would choose a virus that already makes people sick, has a long incubation period before symptoms appear, can infect others during the incubation period, is not easily destroyed when exposed to inside or outside environment, and can transmit between humans easily by multiple means. Next, I would use a technology such as CRSPR to weaponize it into a killer. A good starter virus is the corona virus.
Yes, there is the possibility that this virus got out of a biological weapon lab before it was ready. How it originated is not relevant now because it is out, spreading quickly and killing people. We have to find a way to contain its spread and come up with a way to stop it before it does a lot more than reduce the surplus population.
Oh, and I just read this morning that that particular person has since succumbed to the “virus”… The first one in the state of Washington to die from it, or so I believe was mentioned.
And I read this morning that a second passed away in Chicago, this AM…
I’m not sure I want to believe anything this Dr. Nancy Messonnier the director of CDC’s National center for immunization and Respiratory Diseases has to say. Shre id the sister of the infamous lying Rob Rosenstein.
I’m not sure I want to believe anything this Dr. Nancy Messonnier the director of CDC’s National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases has to say. She is the sister of one of the filthiest swamp rats in DC, the infamous lying Rod Rosenstein.
This is becoming more annoying than the Russia hoax and the Bloomberg advertisements.
Look at the sanitation conditions of those countries where this virus had “exploded”.
If America sees an “explosion” it will be centered in cities like San Francisco and L.A.
Eat healthy; get plenty of exercise; and avoid crowds, Makes me glad I’m a country boy!!!
Also keep in mind that much of china is semi-tropical. In warm, moist climate bacteria and viruses thrive.
Hmmmmmm, first we are told this is no problem. Then we are told it’s like a stronger flu like virus but still no problem. We are told not to go out and buy N95 face masks but now stores are sold out. I bet Every Congressman/ senator and they’re families have them. Just wait,watch and see. Also all the News network staff will have them. Oh I just remembered we are dispensable/ disposable. While they are irreplaceable.
The fact that the Chinese know how the virus is spread, what it does, how fast it mutates, the levels of illness caused by the virus as it mutates, etc. suggests to me that the Chinese created/militarized this particular virus. Was it released on purpose or was it an “oops” of lethal proportions? Who knows. This is what conspiracy theories are made of. It would make a great novel, some day.
Better safe than sorry. My granddaughter’s school already has a contingency plan.
If we haven’t thought about preparing for the Corona virus, let alone any virus that comes down the ‘pike then ya’ reap what we sow. Just because there’s no overt hue and cry for preparation it would seem one would want to take some basic precautions, at least, more if necessary. You know, prepare for the worst, hope for the best.
Why wait to be told. Dayum… Common sense.
Every airport in the world closed to Nigerian Ebola….EXCEPT OBAMA’s
CDC America. 4 outbreaks in Obama’s America. Nobody flying IN to Nigeria sooo nobody flying out. We’ve never had a militant, racist President who hated white people before Obama.
I remember. Obama was not our friend. Not at all.
He was a plant, by Soros, Elected by the color of his skin AND he let those that elected him down. He is an evil Sunni Muslim, member of the Muslim Brotherhood. AND he was not born in Hawaii!
That’s funny, that isn’t what they said at the 6:00pm news conference.
I’ve been listening to this hype since the news broke about it. But then again, I’m in Washington State and one of the first “carriers” of the bug to our country (that we’ve been made aware of ) deplaned from a Chinese airline’s flight from China to Seattle back when all of this was nothing more than a news blip. The local medical folks around my neck of the woods (at least) suggested we bone up on our preventive medicines (shots, etc.) “just in case”.
Now it’s all about “hurry up and wait”.
IMHO #