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2020-02-18 -Obits-

Head of Wuhan hospital who caught coronavirus is 'still having treatment' say health officials - after Chinese media reported he

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Posted by Skidmark 2020-02-18 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11127 views ] Top

#1 Another thing that we don't know is why, with a respiratory-borne illness, are there virtually no children getting infected. I mean, there are no cases of kids less than 15 years old. Does that mean for some strange reason they're not getting infected, or the illness is so mild in children that we're not noticing it? It's very clear the median age is 56 or 59.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2020-02-18 02:11|| 2020-02-18 02:11|| Front Page Top

#2 ^ Maybe teens in China like OFCs and Starfucks more than traditional chinese fare ? ☺

Posted by Dron66046 2020-02-18 02:31|| 2020-02-18 02:31|| Front Page Top

#3 ^ from engrish.com?

I rove that site!

Posted by Lex 2020-02-18 03:00|| 2020-02-18 03:00|| Front Page Top

#4 In ancient Cathay thrived a cakery
That mimicked, with typical fakery,
The taste of the West!
But its name? Not the best,
Cuz they called it, "Saliva: The Bakery."

Name and recipe adjusted for scansion and available adulterants.

Posted by Hupang Platypus6423 2020-02-18 03:46|| 2020-02-18 03:46|| Front Page Top

#5 ^ And market price of cute little critters.

Posted by Hupang Platypus6423 2020-02-18 03:50|| 2020-02-18 03:50|| Front Page Top

#6 #1 Another thing that we don't know is why, with a respiratory-borne illness, are there virtually no children getting infected. I mean, there are no cases of kids less than 15 years old. Does that mean for some strange reason they're not getting infected, or the illness is so mild in children that we're not noticing it? It's very clear the median age is 56 or 59.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2020-02-18 02:11

Grom,

I've been thinking for a while now that this thing was specifically engineered to be used on Hong Kong. I mean, as satisfying as it would be for the CCP to go in there guns blazing, they can't - the world wouldn't likely tolerate another Tien An Men Square. But if the place is down sick and they go in with medical supplies to take care of people (with the odd arrest here and there), they'd get nothing but praise.

Mike

Posted by Mike Kozlowski 2020-02-18 04:46|| 2020-02-18 04:46|| Front Page Top

#7 Mike, I am guessing different. I think Japan at the Olympics.

Posted by 3dc 2020-02-18 05:22|| 2020-02-18 05:22|| Front Page Top

#8 One 0f the infected American evacuees is a child

Posted by Frank G 2020-02-18 05:25|| 2020-02-18 05:25|| Front Page Top

#9 Frank

Fauci (the interview at the link) didn't say kids are resistant - he said severity of the disease depends on age.

So for me, since I've a 14 years old son, that's the most important news.

Mike, 3dc

I too wondered why a government would engineer a biological weapon against their own population:
angiotensin-converting enzyme 2 (ACE2) form the virus binds to is 5 times as frequent in east Asian populations (e.g. Chinese) the current estimates are* EastAsians, Japanese, and Han Chinese are the most likely people to become severely sick by the coronavirus with a chance of more than 90% when exposed. Europeans only rank in the 50%, Africans in the 60% range

But then I've noticed It's very clear the median age is 56 or 59.. Come-on: "A totalitarian government seeking to get rid of old - 'economically nonproductive people'" is a cliche in SF.

*Hasty results are not very reliable.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2020-02-18 07:37|| 2020-02-18 07:37|| Front Page Top

#10 It seems to me that if lung damage is more likely to result in the deep lung pneumonia that’s the actual killer in the approximately 25% of patients who end up with it, it would be more common in older men, who are more likely to have engaged in decades of physical labour while breathing heavily polluted air, and also to have been heavy cigarette smokers.

Posted by trailing wife 2020-02-18 07:49|| 2020-02-18 07:49|| Front Page Top

#11 @Mike

Yeah - I keep telling my friends/family that the outbreak was successful as you don't hear about the Hong Kong protesters anymore.

Posted by mossomo 2020-02-18 09:08|| 2020-02-18 09:08|| Front Page Top

#12 In the same ward as Generalissimo Franco?

Posted by Glenmore 2020-02-18 10:05|| 2020-02-18 10:05|| Front Page Top

#13 Taiwan anyone?

Posted by NoMoreBS 2020-02-18 10:30|| 2020-02-18 10:30|| Front Page Top

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