Cebu City (CNN Philippines, February 13) — Dozens of Filipinos who arrived from Taiwan were placed in quarantine on Thursday after 10 hours at the...
As people do not die the same day they are identified as infected, the death toll is bound to rise as time goes on - it will decline some days...
In the UK NCP is a Car Park Company. Many diseases have no clue in them as to what they are: Ebola, Marburg, Chikungunya (a favourite name of...
That is what I was hinting at :)
Whilst a name is not important if you catch a disease (only so the health professionals can talk among themselves with a common language), the new...
I still think that the virus (now officially named by WHO as Covid-19, avoiding any geographical connotations) is more likely to get into the...
To be fair to the girl, I think she was probably just repeating the mantra she was taught - and that is partly because rote learning is the method...
But if the virus particles are carried within a droplet (most likely scenario) then a mask may reduce the chance of the droplet passing through,...
I am not a trained or skilled tradesman but when painting my own houses in the past I guess it took about 8 hours for a room about 4m x 4m x 3m...
Same for many other assets - a painting by a sought-after artist can go for $80 million one year and $40 million a few years later - or the...
I have found that when I see a property for sale and then work out the land cost (at what I can best find out is the local price per sq m) and the...
So, really, they don't know what the eventual outcome will be - and why should they be able to when this is a new virus and they have had little...
Even I cannot add what my mind wants to! :)
OR: People (all animals) are hard wired to fear the unknown - it is what protects them from danger and so it is better that system is working than...
Are you sure it was not a FOLDING shovel? :)
Obviously some who write on here are scientists (current or retired), some may be virologists who may even have worked in virus centres. Is that...
Yes - RANDOM locations. So why is the infection seemingly centered on the market? Is it possible that one person brought the virus from the lab,...
It is very interesting to speculate on the origin of the virus, but it is like speculating on the direction a bullet came from - if it hits you in...
So I guess, like me, sometimes you don't start either! :smile:
I have read that the Wuhan Virus Laboratory is 21 km (or miles, as sources differ) from the food market - so if the first cases were not in people...