The C0VID-19 Epidemic
Behind The Scenes: State Department And CDC Waged Battle Over Flying Americans With Coronavirus Home – KHN
The CDC didn’t want to fly the 14 cruise ship passengers who had tested positive for coronavirus home on the same flight as the other (300) Americans. But the State Department won the argument.
“It was like the worst nightmare,” said a senior U.S. official involved in the decision. “Quite frankly, the alternative could have been pulling grandma out in the pouring rain.”
Evacuation of Diamond Princess Set Off Race for U.S. Hospital Beds – WSJ
The doctors evaluated passengers’ possible symptoms and ability to endure a 10-hour flight to the U.S. on chartered cargo jets, he said.
The pair of physicians lacked time and equipment to seek coronavirus tests for all disembarking Americans, said Dr. Lawler, an infectious disease physician. who works with Nebraska Medicine, a network of hospitals and clinics affiliated with the University of Nebraska Medical Center, where he is co-director of the Global Center for Health Security. “It wasn’t an option,” he said.
They finished evaluations shortly before buses left for the airport, he said, leaving them to decontaminate their gear before jumping in a cab that defied one-way roads to deliver the doctors in time to fly.
The patients that were evaluated but not tested because there was not enough time and equipment were the ones brought back to the U.S.
Hundreds more coronavirus cases diagnosed in Chinese prisons and hospitals – SBS
Seven guards and 200 inmates tested positive for the virus at Rencheng prison in eastern Shandong province. Eight officials were fired over the issue.
In Hubei, 230 cases were reported at the Wuhan Women’s Prison, whose warden was also dismissed, and 41 others at a penitentiary in Shayan county. One infection was found at a juvenile detention centre.
Another 34 cases have been found at Shilifeng prison in eastern Zhejiang province, leading to the ouster of its director and another official.
In Beijing, health officials said 36 people, including medical staff, patients and their families, have now tested positive for the virus at Fuxing hospital, which has been under partial lockdown since January 31.
At Peking University People’s Hospital, a patient became infected after a visit from two relatives who tested positive for the virus.
Chinese medical expert warns recovered coronavirus patients may still be contagious – SCMP
A Chinese respiratory expert at the frontline of the battle against Covid-19 has warned that recovered patients may still be able pass on the coronavirus that causes the disease.
Zhao Jianping, head of a team working to contain the outbreak in Hubei, said there had been cases where patients still tested positive after they had recovered.
“This is dangerous. Where do you put those patients? You cannot send them home because they might infect others, but you cannot put them in hospital as resources are stretched,” Zhao told Southern People Weekly on Thursday.
I wrote about it on 02/04/2020 here, The 2019-nCoV Can Still Spread from A Patient After the Sickness
Wuhan Pneumonia “Hundreds of thousands discharged from Hubei? First-line doctors reveal the inside story of “lying up to standards” – LTN.com.
This is a long quote. If you want to read it, open the link with Chrome, then translate.
According to comprehensive media reports, China has recently announced that the number of newly diagnosed cases has dropped and Hubei has cured and discharged tens of thousands of cases.
However, a Wuhan physician recently published an article saying that the official so-called “cured discharge figures” is actually a political lie. This article, “I am in the front line of epidemic prevention, we are treating diseases under the premise of political correctness,” was published in “Lilac Garden Forum”.
The author’s account is shown as a physician, and the account location is in Wuhan City, Hubei Province.
The article mentioned that in order to increase the bed turnover, the confirmed patients were hospitalized for more than 10 days without risk of their lives. If they meet the discharge standards stipulated in the document, they will be discharged …
Some of the patients in the hospital were still breathing oxygen before walking and struggling to walk, will be discharged the next moment, because the discharge standards specified in the document have been met.
The official discharge criteria include: improved symptoms, earlier chest CT absorption, and two negative nucleic acid tests.
In addition to being discharged from hospitals that meet official standards, patients who do not meet the standards are also “lied to meet the standards” and forcibly discharged after being forged medical conclusions.
The doctor also broke the news that during the treatment process, patients were required to be treated with Chinese medicine regardless of their priorities, and some people drank Chinese medicine in the hospital and even had abnormal liver function.
He bluntly stated that a series of behaviors in pursuit of “political correctness” led to “the symptoms of discharged patients are more severe than those of newly admitted patients.”
Bangladeshi national with COVID-19 in very critical state: Bangladesh High Commission – CNA
SINGAPORE: A 39-year-old Bangladeshi national warded here is in a very critical state, the Bangladesh High Commission confirmed on Thursday (Feb 20).
The patient, who already suffered from respiratory and kidney problems, and pneumonia before being infected with COVID-19, has been in the Intensive Care Unit for 14 days as of Thursday, the High Commission said.
Italy’s virus cases more than quadruple as cluster emerges – AP
CODOGNO, Italy (AP) — The number of people in Italy infected with the new virus from China more than quadrupled Friday due to an emerging cluster of cases in the country’s north that prompted officials to order schools, restaurants and businesses to close.
Many of the 14 new cases represented the first infections in Italy acquired through secondary contagion and brought the country’s total to 17. The cluster was located in a handful of tiny towns southeast of Milan in the Lombardy region, said Lombardy regional health chief Giulio Gallera.
Virus cases swell in South Korea as outbreak shifts, spreads – AP
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — Schools were shuttered, churches told worshipers to stay away and some mass gatherings were banned as cases of a new virus swelled Friday in South Korea, the newest front in a widening global outbreak.
The country said two people have died and 204 have been infected with the virus, quadruple the number of cases it had two days earlier, as a crisis centered in China has begun strongly reverberating elsewhere
Coronavirus: Iran says disease has spread to several cities, reports two new deaths – The Straits Times
DUBAI (REUTERS) – The coronavirus has spread to several Iranian cities, a health ministry official said on Friday (Feb 21), as an outbreak that the authorities say began in the holy city of Qom caused two more deaths.
Iran confirmed 13 new coronavirus cases, bringing the total in the country to 18, with four of the total having died.
“Based on existing reports, the spread of coronavirus started in Qom and… has now reached several cities in the country, including Teheran, Babol, Arak, Isfahan, Rasht and other cities,” health ministry official Minou Mohrez said, according to the official Irna news agency.
Wuhan Pneumonia “Another Country Lost! Lebanon’s first patient to enter Iran – LTN
According to a comprehensive foreign media report, Lebanese Minister of Health Hamad Hassan confirmed that a 45-year-old woman returning from the country of Qom in Iran had a positive result after quarantine and was diagnosed with Wuhan pneumonia. She is currently in a Beirut The hospital was isolated and in good condition.
WHO Chief Warns “Window Of Opportunity Is Narrowing” As Coronavirus Spreads To Lebanon, Iran & Israel; China Orders Millions Back To Work – Zerohedge
Update (1020ET): Epoch Times’ Jennifer Zeng is reporting that in parts of China, the government has signaled to workers that they will be “punished” if they don’t report back to work.
And for everyone who gets infected, don’t expect your employer to deal with it, Zeng adds. “if you get infected, it is not a work-related injury. You are on your own.”
WHO Director General Dr. Tedros said the new wave of outbreaks suggests that the world is at a “tipping point.”
“The window of opportunity is narrowing,” Dr. Tedros said, and humanity is running out of time to stop this virus before things get much, much worse.
SIT steps up precautionary measures after student tests positive for COVID-19 – CNA
The Singapore Institute of Technology (SIT) has stepped up its precautionary measures against COVID-19 after one of its students tested positive for the disease.
The Ministry of Health on Friday (Feb 21) announced that an SIT student was Singapore’s 86th case of the novel coronavirus.
Six coronavirus cases in Italy’s Lombardy region, first known local transmission – The Straits Times
MILAN (REUTERS) – Six Italians have tested positive for the coronavirus in the northern Italian region of Lombardy, a local official said on Friday (Feb 21), in the first known cases of local transmission in Italy of the potentially deadly illness.
“We have got six cases of coronavirus,” Lombardy councillor Giulio Gallera told a news conference, adding that hundreds of people who had been in contact with the patients were being tested to see if they had been infected.
The first person confirmed to have contracted the virus was believed to have fallen ill after meeting a friend who had recently returned from China.
Why treat people exposed to Virus in Omaha? Why not?
Earlier this year, the University of Nebraska Medical Center opened a 20-unit quarantine center within a block of the biocontainment unit, built at a cost of nearly $20 million. It’s this center that is now housing a dozen people who were removed from the Diamond Princess cruise ship and flown back to the U.S.
Iran reports 2 more deaths, 13 new cases of new coronavirus – AP
The spokesman of the health ministry, Kianoush Jahanpour, said the newly detected cases are all linked with city of Qom where the first two elderly patients died on Wednesday. Jahanpour said the new cases were either from Qom or had visited the city recently. He said four of them have been hospitalized in the capital, Tehran, and two in northern province of Gilan.
Minoo Mohraz, an Iranian health ministry official, said the virus “possibly came from Chinese workers who work in Qom and traveled to China.” She did not elaborate. A Chinese company has been building a solar power plant in Qom.
Israel says cruise passenger flown home from Japan has virus – AP
JERUSALEM (AP) — One of the 11 Israelis who were flown home after being quarantined on a cruise ship in Japan has tested positive for the new virus that emerged in China late last year, the first case to be reported inside Israel, the Health Ministry said Friday.
The Israeli cruise ship passengers, who had all initially tested negative for the new coronavirus, arrived on a charter plane overnight. They were met by medics in protection suits and immediately taken to the Sheba Hospital near Tel Aviv, where they will be kept in quarantine.
Another four Israelis were hospitalized in Japan after testing positive for the virus.
Four Hong Kong officers at banquet with infected policeman show coronavirus symptoms, as female cop in separate case tested after lung scan – SCMP
Four police officers in Hong Kong who attended a banquet with a senior constable confirmed to be infected with the coronavirus have shown symptoms, while a policewoman in a separate case has been isolated after shadows were found in her lung scan.According to a police source earlier, 59 officers, who attended a farewell banquet at a seafood restaurant in Western district with the infected policeman on Tuesday, would be sent to a quarantine camp.
Ukrainians hurl stones at evacuees from China – AP
Ukraine’s effort to quarantine more than 70 people evacuated from China over the new virus outbreak plunged into chaos Thursday as local residents opposing the move hurled stones at the evacuees and clashed with police. Buses carrying evacuees were finally able to reach the designated place of quarantine after hours of clashes.
Demonstrators, some of whom appeared drunk, put up road blocks, burned tires and clashed with riot police who moved to clear access. One protester tried to ram police lines with his car.
Coronavirus: China’s Hubei province revises up toll, adds 220 cases after prison outbreak – The Straits Times
China’s central province of Hubei said on Friday (Feb 21) it has revised the number of new confirmed cases of coronavirus infections on Thursday upward to 631 from 411 after including cases in the province’s prison system.
The province’s health commission said in a statement that it now had a total of 62,662 cases as of Thursday, after including 220 cases in Hubei’s prison system.
The death toll in Hubei from the outbreak reached 2,144 as of the end of Thursday, up by 115 from the previous day.
Hundreds more coronavirus cases diagnosed in Chinese prisons and hospitals – SBS
An eruption of new coronavirus cases in South Korea, Iran and Chinese hospitals and prisons has rekindled concerns about the spread of a deadly disease that has killed more than 2,200 people.
China has pointed to official figures showing new cases slowing this week as evidence that its drastic containment measures are working, but fresh infections emerged at two Beijing hospitals, and more than 500 others were reported in prisons across the country.
Wuhan hospital doctor dies from coronavirus – The Straits Times
Dr Peng Yinhua, a doctor at a Wuhan hospital that receives patients infected with the coronavirus, died from the viral infection on Thursday (Feb 20) night, according to the local health bureau.
Dr Peng, 29, a respiratory acute care medical professional, became infected while working to combat the coronavirus at the First People’s Hospital of Jiangxia District of Wuhan. He was hospitalised on Jan 25 and transferred to Wuhan Jinyintan Hospital for treatment on Jan 30.
Coronavirus: South Korea cases jump to 204 as Daegu church infections spike – SCMP
South Korea confirmed 100 more cases of the novel coronavirus on Friday as the number of infections linked to a religious sect in Daegu spiked.
And the first two cases were confirmed in South Korea’s 600,000-member military, a navy sailor and an army officer who had both reportedly visited Daegu recently.
South Korea ups emergency response as viral cases surge – AP
South Korea’s government banned major rallies in its capital and declared a health emergency in its fourth largest city as 100 new virus cases were reported Friday, bringing the country’s total to 204.
In the capital, Seoul, officials banned major downtown rallies and shut down a big park to avoid mass public gatherings where the virus could spread. Workers in protective gear also sprayed disinfectant in the city’s subway.
Taiwan confirms two new coronavirus cases, bringing total to 26 – Taiwan News
Taiwan on Friday (Feb. 21) confirmed two new cases of Wuhan coronavirus (COVID-19), bringing the total to 26.
The two new patients were a daughter and granddaughter of the 24th case, the Central Epidemic Command Center (CECC) announced at a news conference.
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