https://twitter.com/NCOVNEWS/status/1223970622864158720/photo/1 #Wuhan Coronavirus Looks Increasingly Like a Pandemic, Experts Say Rapidly rising caseloads alarm researchers, who fear the virus may make its way across the globe. But scientists cannot yet predict how many deaths may result. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/02/health/coronavirus-pandemic-china.html The Wuhan coronavirus spreading from China is now likely to become a pandemic that circles the globe, according to many of the world’s leading infectious disease experts. The prospect is daunting. A pandemic — an ongoing epidemic on two or more continents — may well have global consequences, despite the extraordinary travel restrictions and quarantines now imposed by China and other countries, including the United States. “It’s very, very transmissible, and it almost certainly is going to be a pandemic,” said Dr. Anthony S. Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease. ...But various epidemiological models estimate that the real number of cases is 100,000 or even more.... ...It is “increasingly UNlikely that the virus can be contained,” said Dr. Thomas R. Frieden, a former director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention... ....“It is therefore likely that it will spread, as flu and other organisms do, but we still don’t know how far, wide or deadly it will be.”... ....An accurate estimate of the virus’s lethality will not be possible until certain kinds of studies can be done: blood tests to see how many people have antibodies, household studies to learn how often it infects family members, and genetic sequencing to determine whether some strains are more dangerous than others. **Closing borders to highly infectious pathogens never succeeds completely, experts said**, because all frontiers are somewhat porous. Nonetheless, closings and rigorous screening may slow the spread, which will buy time for the development of drug treatments and vaccines. Other important unknowns include who is most at risk, whether coughing or contaminated surfaces are more likely to transmit the virus, how fast the virus can mutate and whether it will fade out when the weather warms..... ....**At the moment, it seems unlikely that the virus will spread widely in countries with vigorous, alert public health systems, said Dr. William Schaffner, a preventive medicine specialist at Vanderbilt University Medical Center.** **“Every doctor in the U.S. has this top of mind,” he said. “Any patient with fever or respiratory problems will get two questions. ‘Have you been to China? Have you had contact with anyone who has?’ If the answer is yes, they’ll be put in isolation right away.”**.... ---- They estimate that Wuhan has probably over 100,000 cases. Now think about the new hospital they just built for only 1000 cases. Do the math. ---- #Coronavirus Outbreak Tests World’s Dependence on China https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/29/business/china-coronavirus-economy.html?action=click&module=RelatedLinks&pgtype=Article ---- Authors of a recent study have rejected the hypothesis that 1029-nCoV originated from random natural mutations. #This new #Coronavirus has unprecedented virologic features that suggest genetic engineering may have been involved in its creation. https://www.theepochtimes.com/scientific-puzzles-surrounding-the-wuhan-novel-coronavirus_3225405.html **HIV virus put into it deliberately (not naturally occurring):** The authors found 4 insertions in the spike glycoprotein (S) which are unique to the 2019-nCoV and are not present in other coronaviruses. “Importantly, amino acid residues in all 4 inserts have identity or similarity to those of HIV-1 gp120 or HIV-1 Gag. Interestingly, despite the inserts being discontinuous on the primary amino acid sequence, 3D-modelling of the 2019-nCoV suggests that they converge to constitute the receptor binding site. The finding of 4 unique inserts in the 2019-nCoV, all of which have identity/similarity to amino acid residues in key structural proteins of HIV-1 is unlikely to be fortuitous in nature.” (emphasis added) author. ---- Its mutating FAST: https://twitter.com/SCMPNews/status/1224369637443457030 Evidence emerging that the new #coronavirus 🦠 seems to mutate rather fast. Authors say “Close monitoring of the virus’s mutation, evolution, and adaptation is needed”. In a family of 6 infected people, 2 ‘nonsynonymous’ mutations occurred during human-to-human transmission. 🤔 What this basically means is that the original strand of the virus went through significant changes (genetically) as it passed through various family members. It means they can change behaviour, it usually results in more resistant strains of the virus or bacteria that can bypass human immune system and common treatments Translation? Its hard to find a cure for a moving target. ---- #Bad news for the U.S.A.: Scott Gottlieb, MD THREAD: A brief review of Catch-22 when it comes to #Coronavirus and need for more diagnostic screening capability. Hospitals can roll out RT-PCR based test CDC developed. https://twitter.com/ScottGottliebMD/status/1224042220665307137 ---- Someone points out the Elephant in the Room: https://twitter.com/IndoPac_Info/status/1224298839584071680 #Dr. Francis Boyle Creator Of BioWeapons Act Says Coronavirus Is Biological Warfare Weapon & WHO knows about it Dr. Boyle believes the virus escaped from the Biosafety Level 4 laboratory in #Wuhan https://poal.co/s/QStorm/142713