2019-nCoV Coronovirus (COVID-19]

The best way to solve coronavirus is to expose everybody to it. The weak will die, the strong will live, the living will hurdle and trample the dead.

 

Typical right wing sillyness to cherry pick one guy on your side and ignore the consensus.

Google what Pandemic means

 

we're on transition from on campus to online class formats. It ends after Spring Break and we have finals on campus - I think that's what it says...

 

Lmao Right wing..

 

My point is I suspect you don't know the meaning so your link confirms what you thought anyway.

What is a pandemic and does it change the approach to coronavirus?

What is a pandemic?
Declaring a pandemic has nothing to do with changes to the characteristics of a disease, but is instead associated with concerns over its geographic spread. According to the World Health Organization, a pandemic is declared when a new disease for which people do not have immunity spreads around the world beyond expectations.

How does the WHO decide whether to call it a pandemic?
Cases that involve travellers who have been infected in a foreign country and have then returned to their home country, or who have been infected by that traveller, known as the “index case”, do not count towards declaring a pandemic. There needs to be a second wave of infection from person to person throughout the community.

Once a pandemic is declared, it becomes more likely that community spread will eventually happen, and governments and health systems need to ensure they are prepared for that.

An epidemic, on the other hand, is a sudden increase in cases of an illness or disease that can be unique to one country or communit

When is a pandemic declared?

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Ultimately, the WHO gets the final say. There is no threshold, such as a certain number of deaths or infections, or number of countries affected, that needs to be met. For example, the Sars coronavirus, identified in 2003, was not declared a pandemic by the WHO despite affecting 26 countries. However, its spread was contained quickly, and only a handful of nations were significantly affected, including China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Singapore and Canada.

If declaring a pandemic triggers global panic, this can defeat the purpose of trying to raise awareness. Much has been written about whether the declaration of H1N1, colloquially known as “swine flu”, as a pandemic in 2009, caused unnecessary panic, overwhelming emergency departments and causing governments to overspend on antiviral medications. Coronavirus symptoms are generally mild and most people recover within six days.

Now the WHO has declared Covid-19 a pandemic, what will it mean for the way the outbreak is treated and prepared for?
The WHO has stressed that using the word “pandemic” does not signal a change in its advice. It is still urging countries to “detect, test, treat, isolate, trace and mobilise their people”.

Dr Nathalie MacDermott, National Institute for Health Research academic clinical lecturer King’s College London, says: “The change of term does not alter anything practically as the world has been advised for the last few weeks to prepare for a potential pandemic, which has hopefully been taken seriously by all countries.

“The use of this term however highlights the importance of countries throughout the world working cooperatively and openly with one another and coming together as a united front in our efforts to bring this situation under control.”

 

IF you want right wing and bat-shit crazy... Here you go..

IT’S OFFICIAL: THE GREAT CORONAVIRUS PANIC OF 2020 HAS BEGUN - FULL SHOW 3/11/20

 

Give a cold a name, everybody loses their mind.

That's basically it. Say you have the flu or cold nobody bat's an eye, give that flu or cold a name and everybody loses their mind.

It's called marketing. Someone out there is making a lot of money out of this.

 

My 401(k)...my poor, poor 401(k)...

 

they've closed Disneyland as well. I'm waiting for Insomniac to cancel EDC; because they should not because I have tickets, lol. I do not...

 

Melbourne grand prix is not open for spectators.
All the ODI cricket matches are spectator free too.
This virus is very real.

 

I'm surprised they haven't already. I thought I heard Ultra was cancelled, it was one of the first US events cancelled.

 

Something just doesn't sit right with me. You've got all these people who haven't even been to China, never had a connecting flight with China all have this sickness. It just doesn't make sense to me. How does one person eating a bat effect people on the other side of the world with no connections?

 

NBA--canceled. NCAA tournaments, men and women--canceled. Sabrina Ionescu came back to take care of business. She was the player of the year last year and was due the honor again, I'm sure. The Oregon women were soooo fun to watch and I believe that they were going all the way this year. I hope they can reschedule before school is out. Maybe "they"can get a handle on it, soon.

 

Melbourne GP is cancelled!

 

The world needs a good scare from time to time.

 

Lol pretty boy formula one teams can't race.

NASCAR: nah we're good.

 

No doubt you've heard of The Butterfly Effect, well this is the Bat effect...lol...

 

Ohio is closed....