2019-nCoV

cael said:

thank u china please share ur boomer bomb w/ us so we can get the same benefits !!

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With every week its economic disintegration is not reversed, China is triggering the most massive supply chain "shock" the world has seen since the last financial crisis, now spreading from East to West.

The next impact won't just be Europe, which we've already mentioned the closure of a Fiat Chrysler Automobiles plant in Serbia, but will be America and could first be in the form of drug and medical supply shortages.

The FDA warns, "we are keenly aware that the outbreak will likely impact the medical product supply chain, including potential disruptions to supply or shortages of critical medical products in the U.S."

A shortage of medical products from China would be disastrous for America's aging population and fragile economy.

The agency said it has spoken with global regulators and has added additional resources to surveil for "potential disruptions or shortages."

The good news:

"It's worth noting that there are no vaccines, gene therapies, or blood derivatives licensed by the FDA that are manufactured in China," FDA Commissioner Stephen Hahn said in a statement.

The bad news:

"Raw materials used in manufacturing do come from China and other locations in Southeast Asia and we are in contact with biologics manufacturers to gauge any supply concerns regarding raw materials," Hahn said.

If a potential shortage is identified of medical products, the agency said it would act "swiftly and mitigate the impact to U.S. patients and health care professionals."
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bowl of blood said:

my god man. they closed a fiat chrysler automotive plant in serbia. the world economy can't handle much more than this.

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bowl of blood said:

listen up cal and you other koolaid drinking msm boomers. i have been in a chinese language crash course for the past week and i am now assembling a crack team of on the ground journalist chinese to english subtitlers. we will be working around the clock 24/7 captioning every video off of chinese twitter, bililbili, youku, etc

skills required:
- at least one week chinese language education
- at least 10 years online journalism reading experience (zerohedge, drudge, etc)
- around 20pb server space for ripping videos before the chinese govt takes them down

anyway get back to me if you know anyone qualified we start working asap

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A British couple on board a cruise ship quarantined off the coast of Japan with 542 cases of coronavirus on board say they believe their positive test for the illness is a hoax.

David Abel and his wife Sally are stuck on the Diamond Princess, which has been moored near Yokohama since 3 February.

The couple from Oxfordshire have been posting regular Facebook and YouTube updates from the ship.

In a Facebook update on Tuesday, Mr Abel posted: “There is going to be a time of quiet. We have been proved positive and leaving for hospital soon. Blessings all xxx”.

However, a short time later he expressed doubts that the couple have coronavirus, officially called Covid-19.

He wrote: “Frankly I think this is a setup! We are NOT being taken to a hospital but a hostel.
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When asked by a Facebook user about the test, he replied: “I doubt it was positive. If it was, we would be in hospital.”
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samUwell said:

I know, right? It's just the flu.

Everyone needs to stop trippin.

Eat the bat soup, bigot.

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An experiment that created a hybrid version of a bat coronavirus — one related to the virus that causes SARS (severe acute respiratory syndrome) — has triggered renewed debate over whether engineering lab variants of viruses with possible pandemic potential is worth the risks.

In an article published in Nature Medicine1 on 9 November, scientists investigated a virus called SHC014, which is found in horseshoe bats in China. The researchers created a chimaeric virus, made up of a surface protein of SHC014 and the backbone of a SARS virus that had been adapted to grow in mice and to mimic human disease. The chimaera infected human airway cells — proving that the surface protein of SHC014 has the necessary structure to bind to a key receptor on the cells and to infect them. It also caused disease in mice, but did not kill them.

Although almost all coronaviruses isolated from bats have not been able to bind to the key human receptor, SHC014 is not the first that can do so. In 2013, researchers reported this ability for the first time in a different coronavirus isolated from the same bat population2.

The findings reinforce suspicions that bat coronaviruses capable of directly infecting humans (rather than first needing to evolve in an intermediate animal host) may be more common than previously thought, the researchers say.

But other virologists question whether the information gleaned from the experiment justifies the potential risk. Although the extent of any risk is difficult to assess, Simon Wain-Hobson, a virologist at the Pasteur Institute in Paris, points out that the researchers have created a novel virus that “grows remarkably well” in human cells. “If the virus escaped, nobody could predict the trajectory,” he says.

Creation of a chimaera

The argument is essentially a rerun of the debate over whether to allow lab research that increases the virulence, ease of spread or host range of dangerous pathogens — what is known as ‘gain-of-function’ research. In October 2014, the US government imposed a moratorium on federal funding of such research on the viruses that cause SARS, influenza and MERS (Middle East respiratory syndrome, a deadly disease caused by a virus that sporadically jumps from camels to people).

The latest study was already under way before the US moratorium began, and the US National Institutes of Health (NIH) allowed it to proceed while it was under review by the agency, says Ralph Baric, an infectious-disease researcher at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, a co-author of the study. The NIH eventually concluded that the work was not so risky as to fall under the moratorium, he says.
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