(Bloomberg) – Gilead Sciences Inc. shares gained Monday after a senior World Health Organization official said the company’s experimental drug may be the best bet to find a treatment for the new coronavirus spreading around the globe.
Gilead’s compound, remdesivir, has been rushed into a clinical trial in China, where the illness has infected tens of thousands of people. WHO officials have said results could be available within weeks.
Any1 bought GILD 23 days ago when it is made known that their drug is effective in eliminating the symptoms of those infected Americans?
A recent study by Harvard University’s Centre for Communicable Disease Dynamics found that Singapore is identifying three times more cases than other countries due to its disease surveillance and contact-tracing capacity.
For other nations, multiply by three their confirmed cases to get the real number of cases.
…there are common traits of coronaviruses that are already known. For example, a coronavirus will generally burn itself out because it is an unstable virus, said Phua, adding that Sars burned itself out in eight months.
In other words, is a distant memory after Jul even if we do nothing.
Another key trait Phua highlighted was how coronaviruses are manufactured mostly in temperate countries, which means a temperature cooler than room temperature is needed to “maintain” the live virus.
Phua cited how one of the measures Singapore adopted after learning the properties of coronaviruses was to stop air conditioners in the Tan Tock Seng Hospital, and install a suction system to suck the virus into a hot and humid environment.
“We also had outdoor waiting areas. Instead of having [potential patients] sit in enclosed air-conditioned rooms and pass germs, we took them outside,” Phua said.
If coronavirus would flame out after a few months, the same strain won’t be seen again after it burns itself out. The next coronavirus would be a new strain. So whatever diagnostic tests/ cure/ vaccine developed for previous strains won’t be effective against the new strain.
WHO, CDCs and the Health industry has to devise a new approach as the current approach is reactive. Current approach responds when a new strain appears by starting to develop a vaccine/ cure which would take months to be approved for consumers use which by then the strain would have flamed out and damage done.
Have we even hit 100,000 cases WW yet? This is getting ridiculous.
Now the US health and human services secretary wants $2.5B when there’s only 53 cases in the US. 36 of the cases are from the cruise ship in Japan. Only 2 cases are from person-to-person contact in the US. How is there panic over 53 cases with a disease that’s not even easily to transit person-to-person?
Now the IOC says they may have to cancel the olympics.
My sense is the coronavirus is going to go ahead and spread. Seems like the best bet is to figure out treatment and try to slow it down so that hospitals aren’t overwhelmed.
West Nile Virus was also a concern. As far as I can tell, it’s also here to stay–but like everythign else affects the elderly more.
Probably based on the report by the two CDC specialists in the 25 members WHO team that has concluded their mission in China. Below is a Dr recommendation learn from China mistakes,
WHO implied that many nations are under reporting the number of cases because of insufficient thoroughness in tracing and diagnostic tests. If that is true, there are more than 100 unidentified infected people in America continuing to spread the virus.
Most of the infected medical workers are in Hubei, many of them part of the initial response in Wuhan, when shortages of protective gear, understaffed hospitals, and transportation shutdowns collided with an overwhelming number of patients.
Healthcare workers are infected and some die of over work and lack of protective gears.
The numbers outside of China are tiny. 53 US cases and only 2 of those are from person-to-person transmission. All we’re learning is China does a horrible job of keeping sewage water separate to keep people safe.
Btw, Director-General WHO said China did a good job and received a petition signed by 400,000 signatures to resign. These people can’t accept the truth is not what they would expect. Suspect some1 here might be a signature of the petition.
Shockingly Italy, an advanced economy, has the same fatality rate as China. Iran, well, guess they just don’t have proper facility and money after so many years of wars. Surprisingly only 0.58% in Diamond Princess, coincidentally about the same as in Japan, so coincident.
What a joke. One is probably more likely to get a disease in LA than China.
New events:
The poop throw
Bum fighting
The Illegal Jump
Shopping cart races
Speed street defecation
Timed Dumpster diving
Who smells the worst
With the rise of social media, perhaps the freedom of expression law should be modified. Otherwise, conspiracy theories and misinformation would spread like wild fires causing more harm than the noble goal of freedom of expression.
“Yesterday, the number of new cases reported outside China exceeded the number of new cases in China for the first time,” the head of the World Health Organization said Wednesday in an update on the coronavirus disease COVID-19.
I read the detailed data, I think he meant inside China outside Hubei is lower.
Edit: Websites were now updated. New cases outside China is more than inside China because of huge jump in new cases from South Korea and Italy.
Despite the worrying rise of cases at the international level, Tedros again rejected calls Wednesday for the WHO to declare a pandemic, saying it’s not an accurate label for a virus he still views as containable. He has also recently noted that the virus’s fatality rate outside of Hubei province is less than 1%.
Anyone know why the recovery rate is so high for Singapore? 2/3 of their cases are recovered vs 38% in China and so on. If there is no treatment it just has to run it’s course. Perhaps they are following the cases more closely versus others?
The medical system is overburdened to the point of near collapse in Wuhan. They are not shipping the patients out to other provinces where there are plenty of empty hospital beds. Doctors go into Wuhan on a volunteering basis, and I don’t think even the army’s medics helped in any significant way.
Like the flu it’s mostly your body doing the fighting. You just have to provide medical support so the patients don’t die of other complications, and be alive long enough for the immune system to mount a comeback. Death rate in all the first world countries are extremely low, not just at Singapore.
Give credit when credit is due. Check HK and Italy.
For those people who has ok immune system, can kill these weak viruses easy. The problem is those with screwup immune system, instead of killing those viruses, it span the body with cytokines leading to antibodies killing even the good cells and eventually kill the humans.
Looking at the site that Hanera started this thread with SG and HK have roughly the same number of cases (90), but SG has 62 recovered vs 18 recovered in HK. That’s the discrepancy I’m referring to. It seems like SG could just be more on top of their stuff. RE in SG here I come!!!
I think SG medical system is better than HK in general. Its government is much more effective and organized. SG has had zero new cases in the last few days I believe but HK is still racking up new cases.
Italy is a laughing stock. Not sure why people still think it’s first world.
By the way Italy has three recessions in the last 10 years. Surely another one is on its way.
immune system, can kill these weak viruses easy. The problem is those with screwup immune system, instead of killing those viruses, it span the body with cytokines leading to antibodies killing even the good cells and eventually kill the humans.