Covid19 detected early

[frankfurter + 562]

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0300891620974755

US Patent No.:  US 7,220,852 B1
Date of Patent:  May 22, 2007

The patent proves the covid originated in USA. The journal proves covid was in our environment before the Wuhan outbreak, and corroborates studies performed elsewhere independently by other researchers.

 

 

[Ward Smith + 6,615]

I've still got this dipstick blocked, but I can read the title and enough to see he's up to his usual wumaodang mischief. 

I'd recommend you all read This discussion and do yourself a favor and block @frankfurter

 

[frankfurter + 562]

4 hours ago, Ward Smith said:

I've still got this dipstick blocked, but I can read the title and enough to see he's up to his usual wumaodang mischief. 

I'd recommend you all read This discussion and do yourself a favor and block @frankfurter

 

you continue to deny facts and independent reports?  good recipe to bake a dumbshit.

[Boat + 1,323]

https://covidtracking.com/data/charts/us-all-key-metrics

Great chart showing the timeline of COVID.

[Tomasz + 1,608]

https://www.rbc.ru/society/17/11/2020/5fb24f2a9a7947609ed9ff5e?from=column_6&fbclid=IwAR19mx0lU-8g6Gcyu5utL0e5FSTm80sXS9rzcFZjuGwHJ4aUpHjOJ5ZMD1M

How much more dangerous COVID-19 can be than flu. Facts and figures
 

Quote

The world spends almost the entire year amid the COVID-19 pandemic. The symptoms of the disease are very similar to those of the flu. How can a new virus be more insidious than usual infections and why experts recommend enhanced protection measures - in the material of RBC
A year with COVID-19: how everything was and what changed forever - in a special project of RBC
According to an online poll by the Higher School of Economics, conducted on September 5-7, 43.4% of Russians turned out to be coronasceptics. These include those who believe that there is no epidemic (and that this is the invention of those concerned), and those who believe that the danger of the disease is exaggerated. On March 19, the share of those who expressed such an opinion was significantly lower - 26.3%. And the minimum was noted during the survey on April 20: then 20.9% of respondents doubted the danger of coronavirus and the presence of an epidemic.
Some skeptics, both in Russia and abroad, compare the coronavirus with another respiratory disease - influenza, saying that COVID-19 is no more dangerous than a seasonal virus. Before the new coronavirus in the last 100 years, it was influenza that caused pandemics - this happened when humanity was faced with a previously unknown strain to which people do not have initial immunity.
When could the world's first case of COVID-19 be detected?
It still remains a mystery how and when a new type of coronavirus appeared among humans. The Chinese authorities announced the discovery of a cluster of cases on December 31  - from that date, the timeline of the pandemic is being kept on the WHO website. The organization clarified that the symptoms of the disease in the first patients occurred between December 8, 2019 and January 2, 2020.
One of the earliest probable dates for the first case is November 17 . The South China Morning Post, citing government data in March, reported that a 55-year-old man from Hubei province fell ill in China on November 17. It also said that by December 20, there were already 60 confirmed cases. This publication drew attention to the newspaper The Guardian and other world media.
Another date that differs from the official version is December 1 . The medical journal The Lancet published a report from doctors at Jinyintan Hospital in Wuhan, which treated some of the earliest patients. In the calculations of specialists, the date is indicated on December 1.
Dr. Zhang Jixian was one of the first doctors to report the new danger to the Chinese health system. It is December 27 on the images of light a few patients with flu-like symptoms of the disease saw features inherent SARS.
On December 30, another doctor, Li Wenliang, reported seven cases of SARS in Wuhan to WeChat groups . At this time, he did not yet know that the pathogen was a new virus. The people in China were alarmed by the news, and the next day, Li Wenliang and other doctors who had spoken about the new threat online were called to the Wuhan police. They were warned and threatened with criminal punishment for false statements (the very next day, China reported to the WHO about an outbreak of unknown pneumonia in this city. - RBC ). A month later, reports emerged that Dr. Li Wenliang died from the effects of the coronavirus.
There were also versions that it is "quite possible" the first cases of the disease occurred in September. Researchers at the University of Cambridge came to this conclusion after analyzing the mutations of the virus. According to their calculations, the outbreak of COVID-19 could have begun between September 13 and December 7, 2019 
If we analyze the data on the number of deaths from pandemics over the past 100 years, calculating how many people died on average per month with each of them, the most deadly will be the Spanish flu - the so-called Spanish flu - that began in the spring of 1918 and lasted two years. According to various estimates, from 17.4 million to 100 million people died from it, that is, up to 6.3 million people died every month. The scale of the disaster complicated the post-war years and the lower level of medicine.
The next influenza pandemics in terms of the number of victims turned out to be much smaller in scale, and to some extent they can be correlated with each other. The latest before COVID-19 was the swine flu pandemic. The influenza A (H1N1) virus was first detected in April 2009 in Mexico, and within a few weeks it spread throughout the world. According to official WHO data, the pandemic claimed the lives of 18.5 thousand people. However, then the data was recalculated and came to the conclusion that there are much more victims - from 152 thousand to 575 thousand.
Thus, according to the maximum estimate, this virus killed an average of 70 thousand people per month. In August 2010, WHO announced the transition of the disease to the post-pandemic stage. Thus, the pandemic lasted 15 months.
The COVID-19 pandemic has been going on for eight months (since the announcement of the WHO), and no one can predict how long it will last. More people have died during this time than during the 2009–2010 swine flu wave.
The most affected countries from COVID-19 in terms of the total number of deaths were the United States, Brazil and India. Italy, Spain and France - the European countries that were among the first to meet the pandemic, are also stable in the top ten.
The list of countries with the most deaths per 1 million people looks similar, but the countries in it are distributed differently.
Russia, which is in the list of the first 15 countries in terms of the total number of deaths, when calculating the number of victims of COVID-19 per 1 million people is in 54th place (32 thousand deaths). At the same time, apparently, WHO is guided by the data of the operational headquarters for the fight against coronavirus. At the same time, Rosstat shows much more deaths, relying on death certificates from the registry office: according to the latest data provided, from April to September , more than 55 thousand Russians died with COVID-19.
At-risk groups
Influenza and COVID-19 have different age risk groups. In the first case, according to WHO , the disease poses a danger to children, pregnant women and the elderly. As for the coronavirus, the elderly (and people of any age with chronic diseases, the same applies to influenza - RBC ) are at risk here .
In the article Age-specific mortality and immunity patterns of SARS-CoV-2, published in the journal Nature in November, the researchers collected confirmed data on the age distribution of deaths in 45 countries. RBC selected from this study 14 countries in Europe and Latin America with a total population of 627 million people and calculated the percentage of deaths in each age category (the sample is based on the comparability of the age ranges considered in the study for these countries). It turned out that COVID-19 is the most dangerous for the elderly over 70 years old. This segment accounts for nearly two thirds of all deaths.
The disease is most easily tolerated by children. The 20-40 age group accounts for 2% of deaths. But people in these age groups who carry a mild infection can contribute to the spread of the disease.
Despite the fact that more age categories are attributed to risk groups for influenza, with COVID-19 there are more cases of the disease in a severe form, scientists say . This is because, in the case of influenza, exposure to past seasonal infections and mass vaccinations can limit the number of infections. But all people are potentially susceptible to the virus that causes COVID-19 due to its novelty.
When and for how long the patient is contagious
Another insidious feature of the coronavirus is the incubation period. The time from the moment of infection to the onset of symptoms with COVID-19 is on average five to six days, but it can go up to 14 days. With influenza, the incubation period lasts an average of two days, but may be four. That is, with COVID-19, a person can potentially not feel the illness longer.
Recent studies also indicate that carriers of COVID-19 remain infectious for longer. According to Rospotrebnadzor, with influenza, the patient becomes so one day before the onset of clinical manifestations of the disease. The maximum period when a patient is contagious is three days of illness.
According to the WHO , those infected with the new type of coronavirus are most infectious two days before the onset of symptoms and at an early stage of the disease. Those who develop severe disease may spread COVID-19 for longer.
The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) indicates that mild to moderate COVID-19 patients are contagious within ten days, and immunocompromised patients up to 20 days after symptoms appear.
Containment measures and use of masks
To contain the spread of coronavirus, WHO recommends using a set of measures: in addition to wearing a mask, these include keeping distance, as well as frequent washing and disinfection of hands. The effectiveness of the widespread use of masks has not been proven, but experts point out the need for their use in crowded places, for example, in public transport and shops (such requirements have been introduced by Rospotrebnadzor throughout Russia since October 28).
Demonstrations have taken place in Europe against measures taken by states, including the requirement to use personal protective equipment. And in Russia, a petition appeared against the mandatory wearing of masks (by November 15, it was signed by a little more than 13 thousand people). The appeal, among other things, indicates the risks of self-infection due to improper or too long use of the mask (WHO also indicates that masks must be used carefully). And also that the mask can be useful precisely in terms of "reducing the potential risk of infection in contact with a sick person during the period of the disease preceding the onset of symptoms." This is what draws attention to WHO in its recommendations: "The mask can act as a barrier to contain the spread of virus-infected respiratory droplets of an infected person."
According to Rospotrebnadzor, wearing masks reduces the likelihood of contracting all sorts of respiratory infections by 1.8 times, the use of gloves by 1.3 times.
In one of the latest studies, Japanese scientists came to the conclusion that a cloth mask retains 17% of virus particles, a three-layer surgical mask - 47%, and an N95 type mask protects by 79%.

Authors
Anastasia Antipova, Dada Lindell, Daria Minko, Julia Krigan

 

[Ward Smith + 6,615]

5 hours ago, Tomasz said:

https://www.rbc.ru/society/17/11/2020/5fb24f2a9a7947609ed9ff5e?from=column_6&fbclid=IwAR19mx0lU-8g6Gcyu5utL0e5FSTm80sXS9rzcFZjuGwHJ4aUpHjOJ5ZMD1M

How much more dangerous COVID-19 can be than flu. Facts and figures
 

 

Can't read Cyrillic, but I'm not seeing China in those graphs. I call BS.  There's no way this virus doesn't kill Chinese, they're just not reporting. 

[frankfurter + 562]

23 hours ago, Ward Smith said:

Can't read Cyrillic, but I'm not seeing China in those graphs. I call BS.  There's no way this virus doesn't kill Chinese, they're just not reporting. 

re China. In round numbers... 92500 cases, of which app 10,000 are 'imports'; 87,300 recovered; 4750 deaths.  China tests entire cities (eg 10mm in 5 days) and quarantines all inbound passengers. Currently, new cases are caused by contaminated inbound freight and suitcases. The virus is now proven to be present and dormant on all surfaces, thereby infecting all who touch the infected areas. Measures are now in place to disinfect all surfaces. The question now is whether covid19 will be spread by insects, fowl, animals.

The facts are very clear. The China govt has incurred extreme measures and costs to protect all its citizens. This is in stark contrast to the situation in the USA: 12mm cases, 250k deaths, and no public healthcare. You and others here criticise China for lack of human rights: yet the proven opposite is the truth. China considers each citizen has the basic right to life, and protection and treatment against covid and other threats: clearly, you and the US govt do not consider this a human right.

You and others persist in your belief the virus was created in Wuhan, solely. Yet, the patent and scientific reports prove otherwise.

You are not present in China, so you know nothing of the measures taken by the govt and the people: nor do you wish to know. You live in a different reality and deny all facts for the true reality. This is the hallmark of schizophrenia.