Archive for the 'Health' Category
China Deploys 40 Mobile Incinerators to Wuhan
February 19th, 2020In other news: China’s Coronavirus Figures Don’t Add Up. ‘This Never Happens With Real Data’: A statistical analysis of China’s coronavirus casualty data shows a near-perfect prediction model that data analysts say isn’t likely to naturally occur, casting doubt over the reliability of the numbers being reported to the World Health Organization. … Barron’s re-created […]
Thousands of Frozen Meat Containers Pile Up at Chinese Ports
February 18th, 2020Via: Bloomberg: Thousands of containers of frozen pork, chicken and beef are piling up at some major Chinese ports as transport disruptions and labor shortages slow operations, people familiar with the matter said. Deliveries are mounting at ports including Tianjin, Shanghai and Ningbo because there aren’t enough truck drivers to collect containers due to travel […]
Coronavirus Could Impact 5 Million Companies Worldwide
February 18th, 2020Via: CNBC: The new coronavirus outbreak and subsequent shutdown of huge swathes of China could impact more than 5 million businesses worldwide, according to a new study. A special briefing issued by global data analytics firm Dun & Bradstreet analyzed the Chinese provinces most impacted by the virus, and found they are intricately linked to […]
Singapore Imposes Strict “Stay Home Notice” for Anyone Entering Country from China
February 18th, 2020Via: Straits Times: A new Stay-Home Notice will be introduced for Singapore residents and long-term pass holders returning from mainland China. They will be required to remain at home at all times for 14 days, National Development Minister Lawrence Wong told reporters on Monday (Feb 17). The new scheme will take effect from Feb 18 […]
Japanese Health Minister: Avoid Crowds and “Non-Essential Gatherings”
February 17th, 2020Via: AFP: Japan’s health minister on Sunday urged the public to avoid crowds and “non-essential gatherings”, including notoriously packed commuter trains, to prevent the new coronavirus from spreading in the country. Katsunobu Kato warned the nation was “entering a new phase” in the outbreak of the virus, which has infected nearly 60 people in Japan […]
Diamond Princess: Another 70 People Test Positive for Coronavirus on Ship in Japan
February 15th, 2020Via: Reuters: Another 70 people on board a quarantined cruise ship in Japan have tested positive for the coronavirus, bringing the total number of cases from the vessel to 355, Japanese health minister Katsunobu Kato said on Sunday. The Diamond Princess, owned by Carnival Corp, has been quarantined since arriving in Yokohama, southwest of Tokyo, […]
China Is Disintegrating: Steel Demand, Property Sales, Traffic All Approaching Zero
February 14th, 2020Via: ZeroHedge: In our ongoing attempts to glean some objective insight into what is actually happening “on the ground” in the notoriously opaque China, whose economy has been hammered by the Coronavirus epidemic, yesterday we showed several “alternative” economic indicators such as real-time measurements of air pollution (a proxy for industrial output), daily coal consumption […]
China: People Attempting to Spread Coronavirus by Spitting Everywhere [???]
February 14th, 2020[???] Via: Koreana Jones:
Novel Coronavirus and Infertility [???]
February 14th, 2020ACE2 Expression in Kidney and Testis May Cause Kidney and Testis Damage After 2019-nCoV Infection, Caibin Fan, Kai Li, Yanhong Ding, Wei Lu, Jianqing Wang Via: Medrxiv: In December 2019 and January 2020, novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV) – infected pneumonia (NCIP) occurred in Wuhan, and has already posed a serious threat to public health. ACE2 (Angiotensin […]
Don’t Worry, Everything Is Fine [???]
February 14th, 2020Don’t Worry, Everything is Fine..! #coronavirus pic.twitter.com/q8nAFdYi8v — Spiro (@o_rips) February 13, 2020
