Hot News

Coronavirus patients dance to song about red flowers @ 2020-02-13T12: Back Hot News
Keyword:in Wuhan Coronavirus patients
Concept:
MANY EXPERTS ARE SKEPTICAL THAT ISOLATING THOUSANDS OF PATIENTS IN SHELTERS CAN STANCH THE SPREAD OF THE CORONAVIRUS. THERE ARE MORE THAN 40,000 CASES IN CHINA NOW, IN EVERY PROVINCE, ALTHOUGH THE WIDE MAJORITY ARE IN HUBEI PROVINCE.
SHE FLEW TO THE BASE ON FEBRUARY 5 ON A US DEPARTMENT OF STATE FLIGHT EVACUATING AMERICANS FROM WUHAN, CHINA. THE NEXT DAY, SHE STARTED EXPERIENCING SYMPTOMS OF THE NOVEL CORONAVIRUS AND WAS TAKEN TO UC SAN DIEGO HEALTH. THREE OTHER PEOPLE EXHIBITING SYMPTOMS WERE ALSO TRANSPORTED TO THE HOSPITAL.
ONE OF THOSE PATIENTS WAS PLACED IN A SURGICAL WARD BECAUSE THEY ONLY SHOWED ABDOMINAL SYMPTOMS, SO DOCTORS DIDN'T SUSPECT THE NEW CORONAVIRUS. THAT PATIENT THEN TRANSMITTED THE VIRUS TO AT LEAST 10 HEALTHCARE WORKERS AND FOUR OTHER PATIENTS IN THE WARD. (IF YOU THINK YOU MIGHT HAVE THE CORONAVIRUS, CALL YOUR DOCTOR BEFORE LEAVING THE HOUSE.)
THE INCIDENT WAS A CHILLING REMINDER OF THE 「SUPER-SPREADERS」 IN OUTBREAKS OF OTHER CORONAVIRUS DISEASES, SARS AND MERS — PATIENTS WHO INFECTED HUGE NUMBERS OF OTHER PEOPLE, SOMETIMES DOZENS. THE PHENOMENON IS POORLY UNDERSTOOD AND UNPREDICTABLE, AN EPIDEMIOLOGIST』S NIGHTMARE. SUPER-SPREADERS LED TO CONSIDERABLE TRANSMISSION OF MERS AND SARS INSIDE HOSPITALS.
THE CHANGES TO THE CLASSIFICATION OF ASYMPTOMATIC CORONAVIRUS CASES EMERGED ON JAN. 29, IN A SET OF GUIDANCE FROM CHINA』S NATIONAL HEALTH COMMISSION. THE AGENCY SAID THAT IT WOULD NO LONGER COUNT PATIENTS WHO HAD TESTED POSITIVE FOR THE CORONAVIRUS BUT DID NOT DISPLAY SYMPTOMS AS 「CONFIRMED CASES.」 INSTEAD, THOSE PATIENTS WOULD BE COUNTED SEPARATELY, AS 「POSITIVE DIAGNOSIS」 PATIENTS, AND WOULD BECOME CONFIRMED ONLY IF THEY BEGAN SHOWING SYMPTOMS.
A REPORT PUBLISHED ON FRIDAY ON 138 CORONAVIRUS PATIENTS IN WUHAN HAS DISTURBING DETAILS ABOUT THE ILLNESS AND HOW IT SPREADS. MANY OF THE PATIENTS — 41 PERCENT — WERE PRESUMED TO HAVE BEEN INFECTED IN A WUHAN HOSPITAL, INCLUDING 17 PEOPLE WHO WERE ALREADY HOSPITALIZED FOR OTHER ILLNESSES, AND 40 HEALTH CARE WORKERS.
"I THINK IT IS A STRAIN FOR EVERY DOCTOR AND EVERY NURSE IN WUHAN, BOTH PHYSICALLY AND MENTALLY," A BEIJING-BASED THERAPIST NAMED CANDICE QIN TOLD THE WASHINGTON POST. "WE KNOW THAT PATIENTS ARE WORRIED, BUT WE SHOULD BEAR IN MIND THAT DOCTORS ARE JUST AS HUMAN AS WELL."
CHINA』S HEALTH CARE SYSTEM IS STRUGGLING TO COPE WITH THE SURGING NUMBER OF PATIENTS INFECTED BY THE DEADLY CORONAVIRUS DESPITE THAT CHINESE PRESIDENT XI JINGPING HAS RE-EMERGED IN PUBLIC TO CALL FOR GREATER CONFIDENCE IN HIS GOVERNMENT.
OF 102 CONFIRMED CASES IN THE CITY, AT LEAST 33 PATIENTS WORKED OR SHOPPED AT A DEPARTMENT STORE IN THE BAODI DISTRICT, OR HAD CLOSE CONTACT WITH EMPLOYEES OR CUSTOMERS, ACCORDING TO THE TIANJIN HEALTH AUTHORITIES. MANY OF THEM HAD NO HISTORY OF TRAVEL TO WUHAN, THE CITY WHERE THE OUTBREAK EMERGED. OFFICIALS ESTIMATED THAT 11,700 CUSTOMERS HAD VISITED THE SHOPPING COMPLEX DURING A PERIOD IN LATE JANUARY. THE AUTHORITIES SAID THAT THOSE CUSTOMERS WOULD BE QUARANTINED, AND THAT THE STORE ITSELF, WHICH THEY DID NOT IDENTIFY, HAD BEEN SEALED AND DISINFECTED.
WUHAN (REUTERS) - WITH ELABORATE HAND MOVEMENTS AND SWINGING STEPS, MEDICAL STAFF IN FULL PROTECTIVE BODY SUITS, GLOVES AND MASKS LED CORONAVIRUS PATIENTS AT A MAKESHIFT HOSPITAL IN THE CENTRAL CHINESE CITY OF WUHAN IN A DANCE EARLIER THIS WEEK TO ENTERTAIN THEM AND KEEP THEIR SPIRITS UP.
SOLDIERS WEAR PROTECTIVE SUITS DURING THE ARRIVAL OF BRAZILIANS REPATRIATED FROM WUHAN, CHINA, THE EPICENTER OF THE CORONAVIRUS, AT THE ANNAPOLIS AIR FORCE BASE, IN ANAPOLIS CITY, GOIAS STATE, BRAZIL, SUNDAY, FEB. 9, 2020. DOZENS OF BRAZILIANS LANDED EARLY SUNDAY MORNING AT THE AIRBASE IN THE BRAZILIAN STATE OF GOIAS, WHERE THEY WILL SPEND THE NEXT 18 DAYS IN QUARANTINE.
WUHAN OFFICIALS HAVE ADMITTED THEIR DELAY IN DISCLOSING INFORMATION ON THE OUTBREAK. THEY HAVE ALSO ACKNOWLEDGED THE LACK OF MEDICAL RESOURCES TO DEAL WITH THE INFLUX OF FEVERISH PATIENTS, AND PLEDGED TO OFFER MORE SUPPORT TO OVERFLOWING HOSPITALS WHILE NEW ONES ARE BEING BUILT.
IN THE MEANTIME, THE WUHAN INSTITUTE OF VIROLOGY HAS APPLIED FOR A PATENT IN CHINA TO USE REMDESIVIR TO TREAT THE CORONAVIRUS, ACCORDING TO A STATEMENT ON THE INSTITUTE』S WEBSITE.
THE AVERAGE AGE OF THE 41 PATIENTS STUDIED WAS 49, MOST OF THEM HAVING VISITED WUHAN MARKET, IDENTIFIED AS THE SOURCE OF THE OUTBREAK. NEARLY A THIRD OF THEM HAD SERIOUS BREATHING DIFFICULTIES AND SIX OF THEM DIED.
AFTER TESTING MORE THAN 1,000 SAMPLES FROM WILD ANIMALS, SCIENTISTS AT THE SOUTH CHINA AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY FOUND THE GENOME SEQUENCES OF VIRUSES IN PANGOLINS TO BE 99 PERCENT IDENTICAL TO THOSE ON CORONAVIRUS PATIENTS, THE OFFICIAL XINHUA NEWS AGENCY REPORTED.
IN A PHOTO TWEETED BY NEW YORK TIMES JOURNALIST AMY QIN, PATIENTS CAN BE SEEN SITTING ON THE PAVEMENT OUTSIDE A WUHAN HOSPITAL GETTING IV DRIPS WHILE SITTING ON LEDGES AND IN THEIR CARS.
THE RESPECTIVE MORTALITY RATES FOR SARS AND MERS PATIENTS WAS 9.5 AND 34.5 PERCENT, FAR HIGHER THAT FOR THE NEW CORONAVIRUS, WHICH FRENCH HEALTH MINISTER AGNES BUZYN PUT AT "LESS THAN FIVE PERCENT".
BEFORE HE BECAME ILL, HE HAD MET IN MUNICH ON JAN. 20 AND JAN. 21 WITH A CHINESE BUSINESS PARTNER. A RESIDENT OF SHANGHAI, SHE HAD BEEN IN GERMANY FROM JAN. 19 TO JAN. 22. THE REPORT SAID THAT SHE WAS HEALTHY DURING HER STAY BUT GOT SICK DURING HER FLIGHT BACK TO CHINA. SHE TESTED POSITIVE FOR INFECTION WITH THE WUHAN CORONAVIRUS ON JAN. 26.

 

88iv | Home |  Login
Mobile | Full
Forum rule | About Us | Contact Info | Terms & Conditions | Privacy Statment | Disclaimer
Copyright (C) 2025
Suntek Computer Systems Limited.
All rights reserved