Coronavirus 2020 plague

[Óttar]

We have a potential case in Lakewood, CO. This is some scary stuff, man.

[Lemgrant]

We have nothing to worry about less than 100 died from 7 .5+ billion people which is nothing if people start to die in mass numbers im sure all countries government would act quickly to work together to create a vaccine.

https://www.businessinsider.com/how-...imeline-2020-1

A vaccine for Wuhan coronavirus could take years to develop, based on our experience trying to fight Zika and Ebola

One piece of that effort is enlisting biotechs to begin searching for an effective vaccine.

Several companies, including Moderna, Novavax and Inovio, have announced preliminary development plans. But a look back at recent history of other infectious diseases such as Ebola, Zika and severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) show these vaccines have faced a challenging and lengthy path.

Anthony Fauci, the longtime director of the NIH's National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, estimated the first clinical trials for a coronavirus vaccine could begin before this summer, in an interview with the industry publication Biocentury.

"We likely will be able, unless there are unanticipated roadblocks, to start a Phase 1 trial in about three months," he said.

The first Ebola vaccine emerged from roughly 20 years of research
The first Ebola vaccine was approved last month in the US after roughly two decades of research and four years of clinical testing in thousands of people. The National Institutes of Health is testing a range of vaccine candidates against Zika, a virus transmitted by mosquitoes that began spreading widely in 2015.

A 2003 outbreak of SARS led to a similar rush for developing vaccines. More than 15 years later, there is still no approved SARS vaccine. In part, that's because public health efforts helped halt the spread of the virus, leaving little need for a vaccine, according to Christopher Raymond, an analyst at Piper Sandler.

Part of the challenge is finding sources of funding that won't dwindle once an outbreak is over, Maria Elena Bottazzi, a co-director of Texas Children's Hospital Center for Vaccine Development, told Business Insider.

Bottazzi said the reactionary nature of this funding is one of her biggest concerns for future vaccine development. In the case of her team, they were developing a SARS vaccine when Middle East respiratory syndrome, or MERS, broke out.

That led to shift in funding to focus on MERS, at the expense of the continued development of their SARS candidate. Now, considering the new coronavirus outbreak, she said that will be the key challenge to watch for as some candidates move into clinical testing.

"The scientific hurdles are the lower of the hurdles," she said. "Scientifically, we can move quickly. It's the hurdles of how to then mobilize the resources, create the partnerships, and eventually who is going to bring it to the point where we can deliver it to the population."

It can take one to 3 years to develop a vaccine
Botazzi estimated that it can take one to three years to develop a vaccine and get it into people's hands.

Moderna, a $7 billion biotech based in Cambridge, Massachusetts, is one of these biotechs now in the early stages of producing an investigational vaccine. The company's CEO, Stephane Bancel, acknowledged some of the disease's unknowns are likely to create challenges in testing potential vaccines.

"We do not know the incubation time of the virus — 2 days or 2 weeks. We don't know how long people stay sick — a day or three weeks," Bancel said Thursday in an interview with Business Insider. "That has very big implications for the modeling you do."

Writing in the Journal of the American Medical Association, Fauci and two other scientists noted that we're getting better at developing vaccines, thanks in part to innovations from companies like Moderna. They said it took about 20 months to get to early human trials of a vaccine for SARS, but the timeline has since been compressed to the span of a few months.

[Dick]

We have a potential case in Lakewood, CO. This is some scary stuff, man.

Oh no someone in Colorado has the common cold. What are the odds

[1GiantLeapForMankind]

Im not scared at all, i mean its not like any retards are going to be spreading this shit all over the world on planes...

Remember those selfish nurses with ebola Im staying away from airports, i cant hold my breath for a whole flight.

[Ranger0075]

Eating bat

Expectation: New Batman
Reality: Coronavirus

[Salty Ears]

China coronavirus spread is accelerating, Xi Jinping warns

The spread of a deadly new virus is accelerating, Chinese President Xi Jinping warned, after holding a special government meeting on the Lunar New Year public holiday.

The country is facing a "grave situation" Mr Xi told senior officials, according to state television.

The coronavirus has killed at least 41 people and infected almost 1,300 since its discovery in the city of Wuhan.

Travel restrictions have already hit several affected cities.

And from Sunday, private vehicles will be banned from central districts of Wuhan, the source of the outbreak.

A second emergency hospital is to be built there within weeks to handle 1,300 new patients, and will be finished in half a month, state newspaper the People's Daily said. It is the second such rapid construction project: work on another 1,000-bed hospital has already begun.

Specialist military medical teams have also been flown into Hubei province, where Wuhan is located.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-51249208

What is the reason to build new hospitals in a week, just to show that government take care about the situation and to show that chineeese working like ants?
If epidemia is so serious any proper army can deploy military field hospitals in a day. You can bring medical equipment in schools and place people there. Seems like typical oriental and communist eyewash.

[Trouble]

[Zuh]

All countries should closed their borders for now while this stuff cools down. Funny how the virus started in China and now all Chinese are migrating to every fucking country spreading diseases.

[Teutone]

All countries should closed their borders for now while this stuff cools down. Funny how the virus started in China and now all Chinese are migrating to every fucking country spreading diseases.

Why? A common flu is more deadly than this.
You guys panic the same over and over again and nothing happens.

swine flu, ebola,ehec,bse etc

There are countless cases

[Creoda]