Re: [MBZ] Fwd: OT Virus

2020-02-14 Thread Craig via Mercedes
On Fri, 14 Feb 2020 16:58:23 + (UTC) Max Dillon via Mercedes wrote: > One of the articles I read said that so far, each person has infected 3 > other people, on average. In nuclear devices, fission is accomplished by each split atom giving off two neutrons. A long time ago, I saw a movie

Re: [MBZ] Fwd: OT Virus

2020-02-14 Thread Floyd Thursby via Mercedes
And here we go https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/health/what-it-was-like-for-doctors-and-nurses-at-an-everett-hospital-to-treat-the-nations-first-novel-coronavirus-patient/#comments --FT On 2/14/20 3:30 PM, Rick Knoble via Mercedes wrote: It will probably be a disaster in cities with

Re: [MBZ] Fwd: OT Virus

2020-02-14 Thread Andrew Strasfogel via Mercedes
Great stuff - better than any news source that I have come across. Thanks! On Fri, Feb 14, 2020 at 4:11 PM Craig via Mercedes wrote: > On Fri, 14 Feb 2020 12:59:43 -0800 Karl Wittnebel via Mercedes > wrote: > > > The superspreader refers to spread before the source is symptomatic; > > they

Re: [MBZ] Fwd: OT Virus

2020-02-14 Thread Craig via Mercedes
On Fri, 14 Feb 2020 12:59:43 -0800 Karl Wittnebel via Mercedes wrote: > The superspreader refers to spread before the source is symptomatic; > they might have had a simple cold or no symptoms at all before falling > ill later and being diagnosed. There seems to be a prodromal mild phase >

Re: [MBZ] Fwd: OT Virus

2020-02-14 Thread Karl Wittnebel via Mercedes
It's a respiratory virus. The reason the cases went up was because they included diagnoses established by CT scan, rather than just the antibody test (could be DNA but ELISA is more common for screening). Anyway it is causing pulmonary findings on CT scan, aka pneumonia often enough to bump the

Re: [MBZ] Fwd: OT Virus

2020-02-14 Thread Andrew Strasfogel via Mercedes
Some guy stopped over in Singapore, Vienna and other cities on the way back from Wuhan and apparently was a supercarrier, infecting casual contacts as he went. On Fri, Feb 14, 2020 at 3:31 PM Rick Knoble via Mercedes < mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: > >But what is the mechanism? > > Indications

Re: [MBZ] Fwd: OT Virus

2020-02-14 Thread Rick Knoble via Mercedes
>But what is the mechanism? Indications are intimate contact and feces. In third world countries where proper bathroom hygiene doesn't exist (you know, like toilet paper and running water) this will be a disaster. It will probably be a disaster in cities with massive homeless populations

Re: [MBZ] Fwd: OT Virus

2020-02-14 Thread Andrew Strasfogel via Mercedes
But what is the mechanism? There is an ongoing measles outbreak that is far deadlier in Congo right now due to ease of contagion and poor vaccination penetration (57%). On Fri, Feb 14, 2020 at 11:59 AM Max Dillon via Mercedes < mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: > > One of the articles I read said

Re: [MBZ] Fwd: OT Virus

2020-02-14 Thread Max Dillon via Mercedes
One of the articles I read said that so far, each person has infected 3 other people, on average. Max Dillon Charleston SC Feb 14, 2020 11:52:28 AM Karl Wittnebel via Mercedes : > Yeah. They dont call them computer "viruses" for nothing :-/ > > > > On Fri, Feb 14, 2020, 8:30 AM G Mann via

Re: [MBZ] Fwd: OT Virus

2020-02-14 Thread Karl Wittnebel via Mercedes
Yeah. They dont call them computer "viruses" for nothing :-/ On Fri, Feb 14, 2020, 8:30 AM G Mann via Mercedes wrote: > A simple but viable human model of transmission is available in the > computer world. > Look at how quickly a computer virus spreads from a single infection... > sent

Re: [MBZ] Fwd: OT Virus

2020-02-14 Thread G Mann via Mercedes
A simple but viable human model of transmission is available in the computer world. Look at how quickly a computer virus spreads from a single infection... sent unknown to everyone on your email short list... who then sends it to all their "special friends"... [ie personal contact]... Within a