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-Signs, Portents, and the Weather-
Coronavirus roundup: First dose to be delivered Monday in clinical trial for potential COVID-19 vaccine
2020-03-16


Coronavirus: Over 300 American soldiers quarantined after returning from Afghanistan
[KhaamaPress] More than 300 American soldiers have been quarantined after returning from Afghanistan amid ongoing efforts to prevent the further outbreak of coronavirus
...the twenty first century equivalent of bubonic plague, only instead of killing off a third of the population of Europe it kills 3.4 percent of those who notice they have it. It seems to be fond of the elderly, especially Iranian politicians and holy men...
. The 82nd Airborne Division in a statement said more than 300 paratroopers of the divisons will undergo health monitoring and medical treatment at Fort Bragg in North Carolina after completing a 9-month rotation in suport of the U.S.-led Resolute Support Mission and returning home.

Maj. Gen. James Mingus, 82nd Airborne Division commander said "My No. 1 priority is the protection of our Paratroopers, their families, our community, and the prevention of the spread of the COVID-19."

"We are taking proactive steps to protect and prevent spread," he was quoted as saying in a report by Stripes.

This comes as the Afghan officials have so far reported more than 10 positive cases of coronavirus across the country so far. The Ministry of Public Health said four new positive cases of coronavirus have been recorded in western Herat
...a venerable old Persian-speaking city in western Afghanistan, populated mostly by Tadjiks, which is why it's not as blood-soaked as areas controlled by Pashtuns...
 province, increasing the number of positive cases to 9. The Ministry also added that the authorities in central Daikundi province have also recorded a positive of coronavirus in the province. Earlier, the officials in northern Samangan province reported that they have recorded three positive cases of coronavirus in this province.



NYC tops 300 coronavirus cases, marks fifth death
[NYPOST] Five New York City residents have now died of the coronavirus
...the twenty first century equivalent of bubonic plague, only instead of killing off a third of the population of Europe it kills 3.4 percent of those who notice they have it. It seems to be fond of the elderly, especially Iranian politicians and holy men...
, as the number of Big Apple cases blew past 300, Mayor Bill de Blasio
...cryptocommie mayor of New York and for some reason a Dem candidate for president in 2020. Corrupt and incompetent, his qualifications for office seem to consist of being married to a black woman, with whom he honeymooned in Cuba. He has a preppy-looking son named Dante, whose Divine Comedy involved getting his back hair up when a police car drove past him slowly. New Yorkers voted for him, so they deserve him...
 announced on Sunday.
De Blasio announced three new deaths in an afternoon press briefing at City Hall.

The newly deceased were identified as a 78-year-old man, a 56-year-old man and a 53-year-old woman.

That’s in addition to an 82-year-old woman who died late Friday and a 79-year-old woman who succumbed early Sunday.

Each of the five victims had at least one underlying health condition ‐ including diabetes and heart disease ‐ that undermined their health battles.

"I am very, very concerned that what we see [now] is the rapid spread of this disease," said de Blasio. "We’ve never been through anything like this. We’re all trying to make sense of this."

A total of 329 cases have now been confirmed across the five boroughs, representing nearly half of the 729 cases statewide.


Courtesy of lord garth:
In SKOR the Worst May Be Over in the Wuhan Virus Epidemic
[Yahoo] A total of 120 patients were released from hospitals and for the third day in a row the daily number of those recovered exceeded that of new confirmed cases since South Korea's first case was confirmed on Jan. 20.

"The number of infected patients have been decreasing the past week, and a daily infection has dropped from the previous week's 500 to 100," health minister Park Neung-hoo told reporters on Sunday.
Total new cases last few days are:
8 March 248
9 March 131
10 March 242
11 March 114
12 March 110
13 March 107
14 March 76

They also have tested a lot of people and keep pretty decent records as noted on the Wikipedia website about this
Posted by:trailing wife

#3  Meanwhile, the number of cases outside China now exceed the reported cases in China.
Posted by: Bobby   2020-03-16 16:48  

#2  Maggie of Atlanta commenting on DM's "lockdown" article: "Your grandparents were called to war. You are being called to sit on your couch. You can do this."
Posted by: Squinty Uneack9858   2020-03-16 16:32  

#1  "The COVID-19 virus cannot be cured and it is proving difficult to contain."

Guess firebombing population clusters is off the table.
Posted by: Skidmark   2020-03-16 13:39  

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