Update On The Coronavirus

[ancianita]

From Facebook -- Slashdot's Post

hackingbear writes: A group of 27 prominent public health scientists from outside China, who have studied SARS-CoV-2 and "overwhelmingly conclude that this coronavirus originated in wildlife" just like many other viruses that have recently emerged in humans, is pushing back against a steady stream of stories and even a scientific paper suggesting a laboratory in Wuhan, China, may be the origin of the outbreak of COVID-19.

"The rapid, open, and transparent sharing of data on this outbreak is now being threatened by rumors and misinformation around its origins," the scientists, from nine countries, write in a statement published online by The Lancet .

Many posts on social media have singled out the Wuhan Institute of Virology for intense scrutiny because it has a laboratory at the highest security level -- biosafety level 4 -- and its researchers study coronaviruses from bats; speculations have included the possibility that the virus was bioengineered in the lab or that a lab worker was infected while handling a bat.

Researchers from the institute have insisted there is no link between the outbreak and their laboratory. Peter Daszak, president of the EcoHealth Alliance and a cosignatory of the statement, has collaborated with researchers at the Wuhan institute who study bat coronaviruses. "We're in the midst of the social media misinformation age, and these rumors and conspiracy theories have real consequences, including threats of violence that have occurred to our colleagues in China.

https://science.slashdot.org/story/20/02/21/2257228/scientists-condemn-conspiracy-theories-about-origin-of-coronavirus-outbreak?utm_source=feedburnerFaceBook&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Slashdot%2Fslashdot+%28Slashdot%29&utm_content=FaceBook&fbclid=IwAR1Z1Zz_dmbSEkuemOYxGSw9QnkvCuJNLTczndsXBYJ5D8wVWI-vmVyR8iw

Wikipedia's update

Additionally, on February 21, five US nationals evacuated from the Diamond Princess to Travis Air Force Base in California tested positive, bring the total number of cases in the US to 35 as of February 21, 2020.

[43]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020_coronavirus_outbreak_in_the_United_States

Red = confirmed cases Blue = suspected cases

[tblue37]

1. K&R for visibility. nt

[dalton99a]

2. "Genomic evidence does not support the idea that SARS-CoV-2 is a laboratory construct"

[nilram]

3. Shading an entire state for a very few cases seems misleading.

All of Texas for three cases in San Antonio? Interesting to have a graphic, but too bad that Wikipedia is choosing this one.

Thanks for the update. This is another good site for updates:

https://www.worldometers.info/

https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/

[ancianita]

4. Maybe the states also stand as systems limits for the confirmed cases within them. States do

have responsibilities for contagions within them, not just the feds. Thank god, since do-nothing
IF45 and his do-nothing party don't care.

Thank you for the awesome worldometer link!

[RAB910]

5. Thank you for disputing this nonsensical rumor

[ancianita]

6. Just passing on info I thought we could all use. Science is more credible than media speculations.