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[COVID-19 Virus] The PRC Situation Thread

Leongsam

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Yes, you are correct. :frown:
The difference will be if healthcare workers die as well.

Young healthy doctors do not routinely die from influenza. But they did when it came to SARs. So far nothing like that has been reported about the Wuhan virus. I think there is a 60+ year old chinese doctor who died.

That's not because the infection is more dangerous to the worldwide population it's because, being a new mutation, nobody has any residual immunity health workers included.

For all the established strains health care workers have built up some immunity.

While I feel for the victims of any death you have to acknowledge that deaths in the line of duty is not unique in medicine. Firefighters lose their lives at work. So too do police officers etc.

A new virus should not be the reason to bring life to a standstill especially if it causes less deaths than diseases that are already out there.

If the authorities want to be tough measles vaccinations should be made compulsory the world over. I had a friend who lost his baby to measles all because of the antivax terrorists.
 

Devil Within

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Wuhan people need to raise and fight the CCP just like how wuhan once raise up to fight the Qing gov in the late 1800s.

 

nayr69sg

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That's not because the infection is more dangerous to the worldwide population it's because, being a new mutation, nobody has any residual immunity health workers included.

For all the established strains health care workers have built up some immunity.

While I feel for the victims of any death you have to acknowledge that deaths in the line of duty is not unique in medicine. Firefighters lose their lives at work. So too do police officers etc.

A new virus should not be the reason to bring life to a standstill especially if it causes less deaths than diseases that are already out there.

If the authorities want to be tough measles vaccinations should be made compulsory the world over. I had a friend who lost his baby to measles all because of the antivax terrorists.
Deaths from infectious diseases in healthcare workers is preventable.

Proper equipment and safety protocols.

The hospital should be a controlled environment. Not the same as a Forrest on fire or criminals trying to shoot you.

Singapore had way too many healthcare workers die from SARS. Speaks to how well they were equipped to deal with the virus. Particularly telling is the deaths in SGH which was totally the Ministry of Health's doing.
 

shiokalingam

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bobby

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No scared....Pinky already guaranteed and double confirmed no problems.

After Sars, S'pore better prepared to handle virus outbreak: PM Lee

After Sars, S'pore better prepared to handle virus outbreak: PM Lee


As Singapore sees its first confirmed case of the Wuhan virus, Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong's assessment is that the country is much better prepared than it was during the Sars outbreak of 2003.

There is no need to panic, he added, in an interview yesterday with The Straits Times at the World Economic Forum's (WEF) annual meeting.

Speaking shortly before the case was confirmed, and a day after a multi-ministry task force to fight the disease was set up, Mr Lee said it was a matter of time before Singapore had a case.

"It is bound to happen because there is such intense coming and going between Singapore and China. Even if it were... between Singapore and the other cities in the world, one way or the other, the bug is going to reach us," he said.

PM Lee noted that Singapore has been prepared for a viral outbreak since 2003, when Sars - severe acute respiratory syndrome - infected 238 people in the country, 33 of whom died, and took three months to contain. The tourism and retail sectors were also badly hit.

CURVEBALL

The new virus was a talking point at the sidelines of the WEF meeting, with CNBC reporting business leaders saying the spread of the virus was a curveball that could hurt economies, as Sars did in 2003.

After that episode, Singapore did a thorough review of its medical facilities and infrastructure, including isolation wards as well as scientific testing and capabilities, PM Lee noted.

"I think we are much better prepared now. We have a new Communicable Diseases Centre at Tan Tock Seng," he said.

"Science has made a lot of progress since Sars, so this time with a new coronavirus, the scientists have been able to identify and sequence it much faster than with Sars and share the information with other countries in a much more expeditious way," he added.

He said it looked like the current coronavirus is not as lethal as Sars, but it could mutate.

"We have to be as prepared as we can," PM Lee added.

This, he said, was why the task force was set up to pull together agencies and grassroots groups, as well as the private and healthcare sectors, to respond to an outbreak in a coordinated way.

"People can see we are doing what we need to do, and we can go about our lives, take the precautions we need to but no need to panic," he added.
 

eatshitndie

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and hospitals at wuhan had to recycle goggles and masks as supplies ran out. shit, if they can spend trillions on obor they can spend 69 cents on making a pair of new goggles and masks combined. obviously their priorities are fucked upside down.
 

whoami

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and hospitals at wuhan had to recycle goggles and masks as supplies ran out. shit, if they can spend trillions on obor they can spend 69 cents on making a pair of new goggles and masks combined. obviously their priorities are fucked upside down.

Fret not lah. Corona virus wont last long. cos its made in China. :sneaky:
 

knowwhatyouwantinlife

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The virus wont survive long at humid temperatures like se Asia so the spread will be contained...its spreading in china mostly becos most of the hospitals do not have negative pressure rooms and also it is deep winter which encourages the virus to thrive...imagine now you sneeze on the floor in sg probably 32 degrees virus will die within a few mins as compared to sneezing on a floor which measures 10 degrees
 

eatshitndie

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The virus wont survive long at humid temperatures like se Asia so the spread will be contained...its spreading in china mostly becos most of the hospitals do not have negative pressure rooms and also it is deep winter which encourages the virus to thrive...imagine now you sneeze on the floor in sg probably 32 degrees virus will die within a few mins as compared to sneezing on a floor which measures 10 degrees
it's not the humidity. it's the heat and ultraviolet light from the sun. at least 36.9 degrees c to kill it, but this is not referring to your body temperature ok. it's ambient temperature of your environment.
 
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