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Rest in Peace 🕊️ Dr. Li.
#OnThisDay 4 yrs ago on 7 February 2020, Dr. Li Wenliang,
who first blew the whistle on the #coronavirus outbreak in December 2019, died of the infection as he warned the public about the new disease.
#WHO later named this new illness as #COVID19 on 11 February 2020. On 11 March 2020, WHO declared the novel coronavirus outbreak a global epidemic.
-https://asiatimes.com/2020/02/the-death-of-a-chinese-whistleblower/
-https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Li_Wenliang
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Coronavirus: Rumours, Definition, Origin, Symptoms, Treatments, And Prevention
Coronavirus, or medically known as Covid-19 or novel coronavirus, is spreading across the globe and people have their own ideas about its development, causes, safety, and care.
Before we start this exploration, let’s see what are the highlights that you will be discovering here today.
Rumours About OriginWhat Is Coronavirus?Origin Of Covid-19How Does It Work?Incubation Period And…
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The convention celebrates the Indian diaspora around the world and commemorates the contribution of the overseas Indian population towards India’s progress, according to a statement.
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Omusawo Tintah Show : Continue The Hustle
Omusawo Tintah Show : Continue The Hustle
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चीन में कोविड रिटर्न के बाद 13 शहरों में फुल लॉकडाउन, 5 करोड़ लोग घरों में कैद
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बीजिंग. चीन में पिछले तीन दिनों से कोरोना संक्रमण (Coronavirus Pandemic) तेजी से बढ़ रहा है. पिछले 24 घंटे में देश में 5,280 नए मामले दर्ज हुए हैं, जिनमें 3,507 घरेलू केस हैं. महामारी की वुहान से हुई शुरुआत के बाद से दूसरी बार ये सर्वाधिक मामले हैं. बढ़ते मामलों को देखते हुए चीन के 13 शहरों और काउंटियों में लॉकडाउन लगा दिया गया है. जानकारी के मुताबिक वायरस के ओमिक्रॉन वेरिएंट (Omicron Variant) का…
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Calls grow for British Prime Minister Boris Johnson to quit over ‘partygate’ scandal
Calls grow for British Prime Minister Boris Johnson to quit over ‘partygate’ scandal
Boris Johnson faces a drip-drip of Conservative MPs calling on him to resign, as former Attorney General Jeremy Wright said Monday the so-called “partygate” scandal had done “lasting damage” to the government.
The prime minister had been hoping that with Parliament on holiday to mark Queen Elizabeth II’s 70 years on the throne, Tory rebels would be keeping relatively quiet back in their…
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Four years ago today (March 13th), then President Donald Trump got around to declaring a national state of emergency for the COVID-19 pandemic. The administration had been downplaying the danger to the United States for 51 days since the first US infection was confirmed on January 22nd.
From an ABC News article dated 25 February 2020...
CDC warns Americans of 'significant disruption' from coronavirus
Until now, health officials said they'd hoped to prevent community spread in the United States. But following community transmissions in Italy, Iran and South Korea, health officials believe the virus may not be able to be contained at the border and that Americans should prepare for a "significant disruption."
This comes in contrast to statements from the Trump administration. Acting Department of Homeland Security Secretary Chad Wolf said Tuesday the threat to the United States from coronavirus "remains low," despite the White House seeking $1.25 billion in emergency funding to combat the virus. Larry Kudlow, director of the National Economic Council, told CNBC’s Kelly Evans on “The Exchange” Tuesday evening, "We have contained the virus very well here in the U.S."
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House Speaker Nancy Pelosi called the request "long overdue and completely inadequate to the scale of this emergency." She also accused President Trump of leaving "critical positions in charge of managing pandemics at the National Security Council and the Department of Homeland Security vacant."
"The president's most recent budget called for slashing funding for the Centers for Disease Control, which is on the front lines of this emergency. And now, he is compounding our vulnerabilities by seeking to ransack funds still needed to keep Ebola in check," Pelosi said in a statement Tuesday morning. "Our state and local governments need serious funding to be ready to respond effectively to any outbreak in the United States. The president should not be raiding money that Congress has appropriated for other life-or-death public health priorities."
She added that lawmakers in the House of Representatives "will swiftly advance a strong, strategic funding package that fully addresses the scale and seriousness of this public health crisis."
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer also called the Trump administration's request "too little too late."
"That President Trump is trying to steal funds dedicated to fight Ebola -- which is still considered an epidemic in the Democratic Republic of the Congo -- is indicative of his towering incompetence and further proof that he and his administration aren't taking the coronavirus crisis as seriously as they need to be," Schumer said in a statement.
A reminder that Trump had been leaving many positions vacant – part of a Republican strategy to undermine the federal government.
Here's a picture from that ABC piece from a nearly empty restaurant in San Francisco's Chinatown. The screen displays a Trump tweet still downplaying COVID-19 with him seeming more concerned about the effect of the Dow Jones on his re-election bid.
People were not buying Trump's claims but they were buying PPE.
I took this picture at CVS on February 26th that year.
The stock market which Trump in his February tweet claimed looked "very good" was tanking on March 12th – the day before his state of emergency declaration.
Trump succeeded in sending the US economy into recession much faster than George W. Bush did at the end of his term – quite a feat!. (As an aside, every recession in the US since 1981 has been triggered by Republican presidents.)
Of course Trump never stopped trying to downplay the pandemic nor did he ever take responsibility for it. The US ended up with the highest per capita death rate of any technologically advanced country.
Precious time was lost while Trump dawdled. Orange on this map indicates COVID infections while red indicates COVID deaths. At the time Trump declared a state of emergency, the virus had already spread to 49 states.
The United States could have done far better and it had the tools to do so.
The Obama administration had limited the number of US cases of Ebola to under one dozen during that pandemic in the 2010s. Based on their success, they compiled a guide on how the federal government could limit future pandemics.
Obama team left pandemic playbook for Trump administration, officials confirm
Of course Trump ignored it.
Unlike those boxes of nuclear secrets in Trump's bathroom, the Obama pandemic limitation document is not classified. Anybody can read it – even if Trump didn't. This copy comes from the Stanford University Libraries.
TOWARDS EPIDEMIC PREDICTION: FEDERAL EFFORTS AND OPPORTUNITIES IN OUTBREAK MODELING
Feel free to share this post with anybody who still feels nostalgic about the Trump White House years!
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By: Liam Mannix
Published: Aug 2, 2022
Since the emergence of COVID-19, a question has obsessed many: where did it come from?
That question – and the fact the virus was first detected in the city of Wuhan, home of the Wuhan Institute of Virology – has sparked geopolitical convulsions and a fracturing of faith in science, not to mention a thousand anonymous Twitter-sleuth accounts.
People love a conspiracy theory, especially one playing out in real time on social media.
Meanwhile, a group of scientists has been working on their own parallel investigative effort. With a pair of articles published in Science last week (you can read them here and here), they say they are at the end of their search.
The virus almost-certainly jumped from wildlife into humans in the Huanan Seafood Wholesale Market in Wuhan, the papers argue. The authors have even found the most likely section of the market. They have old photos of caged raccoon dogs – known carriers of COVID-19 – being sold there.
[ Thread: https://twitter.com/angie_rasmussen/status/1551937826580824070 ]
“The siren has definitely sounded on the lab leak theory,” says Professor Edward Holmes, a world-leading viral evolution expert based at the University of Sydney and co-author on both the papers. “In terms of what we can reasonably do, with the available science and the science we’ll get in the foreseeable future, I think we’re at the end of the road frankly. There’s not a lot more to mine.”
Professor Dominic Dwyer, director of public health pathology in NSW and a member of the World Health Organisation (WHO) team that travelled to Wuhan last year to investigate the origins of the virus, agrees.
“That’s what we thought originally back when we did the first report. This is yet another brick added to the wall of information around zoonotic infection.”
Twin strains
When COVID-19 first emerged in Wuhan, two distinct viral lineages were spotted, separated by two small changes in genetic code. They were detected a week apart in late December 2019.
The team behind the Science papers used computers to simulate the most likely sequence of events that would produce two viruses circulating at the same time.
They found it is exceedingly unlikely that a single virus would jump into humans and quickly split into two distinct variants.
Far more likely, was that the virus had been circulating in animals for long enough to split into multiple variants, two of which then jumped separately into humans. Multi-virus jumps have been seen when COVID-19 jumped from minks on Dutch farms to humans, and when SARS and MERS also jumped into humans.
If the COVID-19 virus originated in a lab, as some conspiracy theories suggest, you’d expect a single introduction into humans – rather than two distinct viral lineages. And both strains were found in samples taken from Huanan market. “That, I think, is pretty good evidence,” says Dwyer.
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The Huanan Market
Our story now moves to the Huanan Seafood Wholesale Market; two-thirds of early hospitalised cases had a link to the market.
Lab-leak advocates argue that Huanan is a perfect super-spreader site. Maybe a scientist from the Wuhan Institute of Virology shopped there and spread the bug?
The Science papers show that 155 COVID cases in December 2019 were strongly clustered in the suburbs around the market – including cases with no known link to the market.
If the virus emerged from the Wuhan Institute of Virology, wouldn’t early cases cluster around there? Wouldn’t an infected scientist have passed on the virus while walking to work? “You wouldn’t expect to find the virus around a not-very-well-visited animal market in a different part of the city,” says Holmes.
And the papers show Huanan is hardly the perfect superspreader site that some suggest.
It turns out the market is a small and relatively obscure shopping spot. By reviewing social media check-in data, the team deduced that 70 other markets in Wuhan had more visitors than Huanan. Of 430 identified possible super-spreader sites in Wuhan, such as shopping malls, supermarkets and schools, the Huanan market was among the least visited.
“It’s like going to Coles in Bendigo on a wet Wednesday afternoon. It’s not a thriving mass of humanity,” says Holmes.
Ground zero
Using Chinese and WHO data along with public online maps, business registries, photos and official reports, the scientists reconstructed a map of the Huanan market.
This map shows the west side of the market. Each black dot represents a human case. Triangles mark stalls selling live animals or unknown meat.
Coloured boxes mark the number of times Chinese investigators detected COVID-19 on environmental samples in late 2019 (by the time they arrived, the market had been shut down and disinfected, and there were no live animals left to test).
On the far left, marked by the dotted line, is the market’s wildlife section. The Chinese found COVID-19 all over it. Eight of the earliest human cases linked to the market worked nearby.
The red box marks a stall where COVID-19 was found on a metal cage, a machine for removing hair and feathers from animals, two carts used for moving cages, a nearby water drain and on the ground.
Ironically, Holmes had visited that same stall on a trip to Wuhan in 2014 – and snapped a photo of caged raccoon dogs stacked on top of caged birds. “We can’t prove it is this exact stall but the data is very suggestive,” he says.
We know now that COVID-19 moves easily among many species of animals, including raccoon dogs – but also badgers, hares, rats and foxes, all observed being sold live at the market in 2019.
Raccoon dogs were supplied to the market by a network of farms in western Hubei province, the Science papers note. Western Hubei is known for its extensive network of caves filled with Rhinolophus bats, which carry coronaviruses similar to the one that causes COVID-19.
“Raccoon dogs are a suspect,” says Holmes, but not the only one. “I think, strongly, there are a whole bunch of animals out there who have viruses like this that we have not sampled yet.”
Compare the theories
Theory one: Two closely related versions of a virus emerge at the same time in people who live near or work in a small market selling wildlife. The market sells animals known to both carry the virus and to be farmed near bats that carry similar viruses. We detect those viruses on cages in the market’s wildlife section.
We know from past experience viruses can jump from animals to humans at wildlife markets. And we don’t have any evidence of the virus spreading anywhere else in Wuhan before it was in the market.
Compare this to the lab-leak theory. No one has ever been able to prove COVID-19 – let alone a twin strain – was ever at the Wuhan Institute of Virology. There’s no epidemiological evidence that the virus was spreading near the institute.
“There’s no emails. There’s no evidence in any of the science. There’s absolutely nothing,” says Holmes.
Lab-leak proponents have now turned to trying to find malfeasance in the articles’ peer review process, of all places. Holmes doubts the conspiracy theorists will ever be convinced. “Even if the Chinese do let us in the lab, people would say ‘aha, but they’re covering it up’,” he says.
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Publications:
The Huanan Seafood Wholesale Market in Wuhan was the early epicenter of the COVID-19 pandemic
The molecular epidemiology of multiple zoonotic origins of SARS-CoV-2
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No amount of the evidence that they don’t understand will be enough for conspiracy theorists. All the way down to “iF YoU WeReN’T ThErE, hOw cAn yOu kNoW?”
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Here’s something interesting.
There was a monkeypox preparedness exercise held in March 2021.
Apparently, it “simulated” a start date of a pandemic, to be May 15, 2022.
The exercise “simulated” a vaccine-resistant monkeypox outbreak that was a biological warfare attack. Who were the participants? Same old people from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, China CDC, and so on.
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VIDEO. Winnie Nwagi Ashamed Swangz Avenue and Her Haters
VIDEO. Winnie Nwagi Ashamed Swangz Avenue and Her Haters
On Friday 9th September 2022, Winnie ‘Nwagi’ Nakanwagi will be holding her very first concert at Lugogo Cricket Oval, Kampala.
Having had quite an eventful career that has so far spanned over eight years, the Swangz Avenue-signed singer looks forward to filling up the Oval.
Together with KT Promotions as the organizer and Club Pilsener as the sponsor of the show, Nwagi dares to fill up one of the…
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The ED Sailed Smoothly in the Early COVID-19 Days
TOPLINE: There were few cases of SARS-CoV-2 infections among emergency department (ED) healthcare personnel and no substantial changes in the delivery of emergency medical care during the initial phase of the COVID-19 pandemic.
METHODOLOGY:
This multicenter prospective cohort study of US ED healthcare personnel called Project COVERED was conducted from May to December 2020 to evaluate the…
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China detects Omicron BA.2.3 variant for the first time
China detects Omicron BA.2.3 variant for the first time
As China battles the virus wave in Shanghai, state-run Global Times reported authorities had detected the Omicron’s BA.2 mutation – Omicron BA.2.3 for the first time.
The Omicron BA.2.3 mutation was detected in Yantai in Shandong province. The newspaper reported 16 cases were reported as Yantai reported 36 COVID-19 cases.
Also Read: COVID-19 continues to rock Shanghai as it reports 138 deaths…
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