Coronavirus pandemic

[Bruce]

[Original title: First U.S. case of Wuhan coronavirus confirmed]

And at my local hospital no less.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2020/01/21/coronavirus-us-case/

[ozarkman417]

A second case has been confirmed and the stocks are having a bad time as a result.

[kevinb1994]

Also, they are now thoroughly screening for this coronavirus at twenty airports nationwide.


https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.usatoday.com/amp/4596689002

[bing101]

https://abc7chicago.com/health/coronavirus-diagnosed-in-chicago-woman;-2nd-case-in-us/5875738/


Another Case of the CoronaVirus is reported in the Chicago area.

[kevinb1994]

Three more coronavirus cases confirmed; one in Orange County CA, one in Los Angeles County, and one in Maricopa County aka the Phoenix area.


https://www.cnbc.com/2020/01/26/third-us-case-of-coronavirus-confirmed-in-california-health-officials-say.html

[bing101]

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/26/world/china-coronavirus.html


Update 56 people reported dead by the CoronaVirus.

[US71]

A second case has been confirmed and the stocks are having a bad time as a result.

Why do stocks matter? Only people wealthy enough to afford stocks care about the stock market..

[bing101]

https://www.wmur.com/article/2-people-in-nh-isolated-undergoing-testing-for-coronavirus/30680624
Now New Hampshire is reported to get hit with Coronavirus.

[CNGL-Leudimin]

Meanwhile the coronavirus (which would be of unknown origin if I mentioned it on Twitter due to reasons known to everyone) hasn't reached Spain yet. We have had a few suspect cases, though, all of which turned out to be something else. However in the country that lies just across the Pyrenees (France) there are 3 confirmed cases, and another one in Germany.

[SectorZ]

A second case has been confirmed and the stocks are having a bad time as a result.

Why do stocks matter? Only people wealthy enough to afford stocks care about the stock market..

Not to get off topic here, but I guess you don't know how 401(k) systems work?

[bing101]

https://kesq.com/news/national-world/2020/01/28/death-toll-from-wuhan-coronavirus-tops-100-as-infection-rate-accelerates/


100 people reported dead by the Coronavirus.

[kphoger]

Why do stocks matter? Only people wealthy enough to afford stocks care about the stock market..

Waiting for . . .

[US71]

https://kesq.com/news/national-world/2020/01/28/death-toll-from-wuhan-coronavirus-tops-100-as-infection-rate-accelerates/


100 people reported dead by the Coronavirus.

That's it! I'll have to stop drinking Corona

[vdeane]

A second case has been confirmed and the stocks are having a bad time as a result.

Why do stocks matter? Only people wealthy enough to afford stocks care about the stock market..

Not to get off topic here, but I guess you don't know how 401(k) systems work?

You put your money into index funds or managed funds (whichever your company offers... index funds are better if you can get them because they don't include fees) with your approximate retirement timeframe and then don't panic until you get close to retirement (by which point most of your funds should be bonds anyways).  Does anyone really try to individually manage everything?

[nexus73]

Captain Trips and "The Stand" anyone?  So far we are not at that stage or even the 1918 Spanish Flu pandemic, which killed my maternal grandmother's mother and set events in motion that led to how our family came about. 

The real stress test is not the disease as much as the societal strain that the People's Republic Of China is undergoing.  There are enough glowing embers in the Celestial Kingdom that it seems like at any time some surprising developments will take place. 

Rick

[kevinb1994]

Wuhan Virus now a urgent situation as per the World Health Organization https://www.who.int/news-room/detail/30-01-2020-statement-on-the-second-meeting-of-the-international-health-regulations-(2005)-emergency-committee-regarding-the-outbreak-of-novel-coronavirus-(2019-ncov)

[kphoger]

8200 = Deaths due to influenza in the USA alone since September 29, as of last week.
213 = Deaths due to the Wuhan coronavirus worldwide since December 1, as of today.

Forgive me if I'm not panicking.

[kevinb1994]

8200 = Deaths due to influenza in the USA alone since September 29, as of last week.
213 = Deaths due to the Wuhan coronavirus worldwide since December 1, as of today.

Forgive me if I'm not panicking.

Yeah but it helps to have knowledge of other countries' ongoing health crises you know.

[webny99]

8200 = Deaths due to influenza in the USA alone since September 29, as of last week.
213 = Deaths due to the Wuhan coronavirus worldwide since December 1, as of today.

Forgive me if I'm not panicking.

I was going to add in the numbers of cases of each to give some more context, but that information proved to not be a quick and easy find. Needless to say, it becomes more worrisome when you consider the ratio of cases to deaths.

[CNGL-Leudimin]

Aaaaand the coronavirus has made it to Spain. But fortunately not to the Peninsula, but to the Canary Islands, to La Gomera island. A German tourist who had been in contact with one confirmed case back in Germany.

[MNHighwayMan]

A second case has been confirmed and the stocks are having a bad time as a result.

Why do stocks matter? Only people wealthy enough to afford stocks care about the stock market..

Because the stock market still greatly affects the economy at large. Ever hear about the stock market crash of 1929 and the Great Depression?

[Rothman]

A second case has been confirmed and the stocks are having a bad time as a result.

Why do stocks matter? Only people wealthy enough to afford stocks care about the stock market..

Because the stock market still greatly affects the economy at large. Ever hear about the stock market crash of 1929 and the Great Depression?

Right.  What's interesting there is that it wasn't broad public ownership of stocks causing personal bankruptcies that contributed to the Depression, but rather corporate ownership using stocks as bank accounts.

[vdeane]

8200 = Deaths due to influenza in the USA alone since September 29, as of last week.
213 = Deaths due to the Wuhan coronavirus worldwide since December 1, as of today.

Forgive me if I'm not panicking.

I was going to add in the numbers of cases of each to give some more context, but that information proved to not be a quick and easy find. Needless to say, it becomes more worrisome when you consider the ratio of cases to deaths.

On ABC News tonight they quoted 9700 cases and 213 deaths, at least in China.  That's a 2.2% death rate for those infected.

[bing101]

https://abc7news.com/5895060/


Now there is a report of a patient Coronavirus in the San Jose area


https://abc7.com/health/us-quarantines-american-evacuees-from-china-at-riverside-military-base/5895001/


And here is another one at the Riverside military base.

[kevinb1994]

https://abc7news.com/5895060/


Now there is a report of a patient Coronavirus in the San Jose area


https://abc7.com/health/us-quarantines-american-evacuees-from-china-at-riverside-military-base/5895001/


And here is another one at the Riverside military base.

What I find amusing about that is that both Riverside and San Jose are both named streets here and lead to their eponymous neighborhoods that were once not part of the old city limits until 1967-1968. Also they are on opposite sides of the river here and Riverside is not far from the naval air station down river on US 17.