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Spallanzani's doctors have isolated the coronavirus

The announcement was made by the Minister of Health, Roberto Speranza: "Many more chances to understand and study". The results will be shared with the international community
Coronavirus has been isolated from Spallanzani. The news was given by the Minister of Health, Roberto Speranza, speaking precisely in the institute for infectious diseases in the capital where the two Chinese tourists who are currently the only people tested positive for the virus on Italian soil are hospitalized.

Italy is the first country in Europe to do so. This is the result obtained by virologists less than 48 hours after the diagnosis of positivity for the first two patients in Italy. "It is a fundamental step" explain the researchers "that will allow us to refine existing diagnostic methods and set up new ones""Isolating the virus will allow us to improve the response to the coronavirus emergency, to learn more about the mechanisms of the epidemic and to prepare the most appropriate measures" said the scientific director of the Spallanzani hospital, Giuseppe Ippolito.

The availability in the laboratories of the new pathogen, moreover, "will allow to study the mechanism of the disease for the development of treatments and the development of the vaccine. The partial sequence of the virus isolated in the Spallanzani laboratories, called 2019-nCoV / Italy- INMI1 has already been deposited in the GenBank database, and soon the virus will also be made available to the international scientific community ".

https://www.agi.it/cronaca/spallanzani_isolato_coronavirus-6993578/news/2020-02-02/

You forgot the killer bees and Anthrax

With the first one you can no longer be sure of doing the only thing that was already difficult, with the other you cannot touch and breathe ... tell me what you can do without getting sick of a deadly virus?

Ah, simpler times with big hair bands and 2-stroke engines...

It looks like we have bats and ourselves of course to thank for this round.

https://www.thestar.com/news/gta/2020/02/02/coronavirus-outbreak-shows-the-risk-in-ignoring-human-activitys-impact-on-nature.html

The Center for Disease Control posted a map of the current infections here:
https://gisanddata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/opsdashboard/index.html#/bda7594740fd40299423467b48e9ecf6

Katherine Hepburn went to Africa to film the African Queen with Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall, who came along for fun.

Nearly everyone became ill from something in the water, but Bogart & Bacall didn’t. Supposedly because they were drunk the entire time.

I suggest we all get hammered, and stay hammered for the duration. It’s the only way to be safe.

What sticky said.^^
61,000 (sixty one THOUSAND) flu deaths in the US alone last year, and it's business as usual, with anti-vaxxers not slacking up a bit.

A couple hundred corona virus deaths, while tragic for the victims and families, is a rounding error. So far, novocorona virus has a fatality rate of about 3%, and that is in vulnerable population categories.

Totally unconcerned about Corona Virus. Right now, my immediate concern is Norovirus. My seven year old woke up about 44 hours ago vomiting... Vomiting continued for several hours and was accompanied by diarrhea. Now he’s totally fine - it’s like nothing happened! The incubation period for Norovirus is around 24-48 hours. So far my wife and I are fine. I bleached the life out of my bedding, clothing, and house today. Hand sanitizer does nothing to Norovirus; nor do most cleaning products (including Lysol wipes and even many hospital-grade cleaners). Rigorous hand washing and bleach are the most effective cleaners for humans and surfaces. In any event, my fate should be known my morning.

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(Alas, the attribution is apocryphal.)

Just say no to water! Extreme boycott to water. One bacterium is one too many.

..but you can drink, I don't have a pancreas ....

My wife and I made it through the night without getting Norovirus symptoms. I don’t think we are totally in the clear yet, but it’s been over 48 hours since I shared a some pasta and a bowl of ice cream with the little guy (4 hours before he woke up vomiting violently). Maybe now I’ll start freaking out about Corona Virus - there is a case 2 hours away in Boston, MA - but I’m really too busy to perseverate on something that is not a present threat. And I’d drink some Corona beer, but I’m not a fan of it... If only the virus was named New England IPA virus...

The nickname is often the site of origin.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wq33oZdQ-R4

... but Corona beer is produced in Mexico ... or not?

tortoise ... there are no italian subtitles ...

Might try utilizing an online translator for the key point text?

Full transcript MAY eventually be linked in news releases?

congrats! but if you do get it, i'd just think of it as a great 2-day weight loss program, no?

More like a 14-day weight loss program

Apparently in Singapore there is a prostitute from Wuhan who has the virus so now all her recent clients also have to go into quarantine, which might prove embarrassing.

Funny if it is true though

Poetic ... a kind of customer loyalty tribute, you get HIV and you also pay for the coronavirus; it is precisely the society of mass consumption.

A contextual data point - here in Tennessee, we are up to 9 children that have died from the flu this season.

Here the flu vaccines are free, for anyone who wants to do them.
Paid by the National Health Service.

99.9 % of insurance pays for them. If not they are only $10 at most pharmacies and free at lots of them.

The real problem is to make it clear that getting vaccinated is safe and useful, there are still prejudices.

My wife will not get one.

Obviously there is free choice, i don't quite understand why your wife won't have one ... she doesn't want or can't?

My mother just died from pneumonia. Apparently one can get vaccinated against that.

Hard headed Thinks she'll get the flu from the shot.

Think there are two you can get now too. Who know there were different type of pneumonia.

As you may have read earlier, about two years ago i (and my mother too) got vaccinated against pneumonia.

Vaccinated against pneumonia is not 100% certainty you will not contract it as my doctor told me. Each year I get the flu shot and every now and then I get the flu. Like the flu pneumonia comes in many forms both bacterial and viral.

Kim Jong Un had better hope the virus doesn't make its way to North Korea. Would probably wipe the whole country out.

Of course we'd never know until the crickets drowned out the loudspeakers at the DMZ.

Update resources:

Centers for Disease Control

World Health Organization

Tracking statistics . . worldometer

Dr. Roger Seheult video commentary . . MedCram

Media reports . . Associated Press . . CNBC

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I am just going to voluntarily eject myself from this thread.

My wife, despite working in a hospital environment, for years and years never got one and didn’t get the flu. The past few years its been made mandatory by the employer that the staff either gets the shot or has to wear a mask while in a patients room or speaking to any family member, etc. So she, and everyone in her department got the shot this year and every one of them got the flu. I guess the CDC guessed wrong to his year. ( It comes out that the flu shot given this year only started out at 60% effective and as of a week ago was listed at 20% effective)

... even only 20% is better than nothing ...

20% better but that's not exactly a good batting average. Looks like a lot of eggs may have sacrificed themselves for nothing this year. I'm not anti flu shot but I do think we are coddling our children too much and that may contribute to the huge uptick in severe allergies we've seen in the last few decades. A peanut is still a peanut. It's the children that have changed.