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2020-03-20 -Signs, Portents, and the Weather-
Coronavirus Update: Chloroquine Study Show 100% Cure Rate for Patients Infected with the Coronavirus
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Posted by Fred 2020-03-20 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11131 views ]  Top

#1 >Japanese Man Dies After Alleged Attempt to Spread Chinese Coronavirus

He managed to infect only ONE person and he was trying hard...

Still not adding up.
Posted by Bright Pebbles 2020-03-20 04:55||   2020-03-20 04:55|| Front Page Top

#2 Still not adding up.

The people he exposed to the Chinese virus but failed to infect should be tested for the presence of antibodies, not only for viral RNA.
Posted by Elmerert Hupens2660 2020-03-20 05:56||   2020-03-20 05:56|| Front Page Top

#3 Virus-Free Zone
Posted by g(r)omgoru 2020-03-20 07:20||   2020-03-20 07:20|| Front Page Top

#4 the quinine drug is available now under the compassionate use protocol

by end of next week we should have lots more data on this

if it is a promising as the Rigano study, the crisis is over in two weeks
Posted by lord garth 2020-03-20 08:29||   2020-03-20 08:29|| Front Page Top

#5 Mandatory Gin and Tonics? Going to have to teach a whole generation how to play Cribbage.
Posted by swksvolFF 2020-03-20 12:12||   2020-03-20 12:12|| Front Page Top

#6 Why the exponential $#it is wrong.

The logical fallacy involves the hidden caveat "if all things remain the same". When I learned this 50 years ago the example was the breeding rate of termites. It was exponential which meant that in a year(?) the ball of termites would be the size of the earth. But all things WON'T remain the same so the growth curve is unknown but probably no where near the catastrophe people are kvetching about.

Answer me this, why didn't almost everyone on the Diamond Princess die?
Posted by AlanC 2020-03-20 12:25||   2020-03-20 12:25|| Front Page Top

#7 no comment
Posted by Lex 2020-03-20 12:40||   2020-03-20 12:40|| Front Page Top

#8 1. I love gin and tonic
2. I also love cribbage
3.

Israel has reported for 20 March. 700+ infections, still zero deaths.
Posted by lord garth 2020-03-20 13:13||   2020-03-20 13:13|| Front Page Top

#9 another bad day for Italy

March 20 update

6k new infections, total 41k

600 new deaths, total 4k
Posted by lord garth 2020-03-20 13:31||   2020-03-20 13:31|| Front Page Top

#10 another bad day for Spain

about 1500 new infections, over 20k in total

about 200 new deaths, over 1000 in total
Posted by lord garth 2020-03-20 13:37||   2020-03-20 13:37|| Front Page Top

#11 Italy to use army to enforce coronavirus lockdown in worst-hit region
Posted by g(r)omgoru 2020-03-20 14:50||   2020-03-20 14:50|| Front Page Top

#12 March 20 data in for the UK

a bad (though not as bad as Italy) day

another 300+ infections to about 4000 total

another 30+ deaths to 177 total
Posted by lord garth 2020-03-20 15:06||   2020-03-20 15:06|| Front Page Top

#13 USA report in for March 20 (as of noon EDT)

~700 new infections to about 12.7k total

~ 8 more deaths to 180 total

If these numbers were for a full day and the same numbers tomorrow, it would mean the worst was over; however, I think the reporting period has skewed the numbers. Let's see what the weekend and the beginning of the week look like.

Posted by lord garth 2020-03-20 15:14||   2020-03-20 15:14|| Front Page Top

#14 More test kits coming available will result in a big jump in the numbers unrelated to a change in actual infections for a bit.
Posted by trailing wife 2020-03-20 16:22||   2020-03-20 16:22|| Front Page Top

#15 Hang in there Lex.

?Why are test kits such a big deal if you can't cure it and everybody around you has already been exposed before you show symptoms?

Pandering to the public fanticists?
Posted by Skidmark 2020-03-20 17:51||   2020-03-20 17:51|| Front Page Top

#16 TW@#14 is absolutely right; be prepared for much burning hair though.
Posted by swksvolFF 2020-03-20 17:54||   2020-03-20 17:54|| Front Page Top

#17 skid

because a little of one of the quinine compounds might cure it
Posted by lord garth 2020-03-20 18:02||   2020-03-20 18:02|| Front Page Top

#18 In NYC, 22 people in the five boroughs died

Howzat compare to the totals in Chicago? Maybe a month's worth?
Posted by Bobby 2020-03-20 18:25||   2020-03-20 18:25|| Front Page Top

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