Wuhan Corona Virus Coming Soon? (Now Here)

[kander]

Of course im being sarcastic. But you have to kinda look at it from the officials perspective. You cant see it, you cant smell it, but when you start seeing statistics locally the gravity sets in. This will change how they handle things here. I suspect there are more, the scanner has had multiple runs with people showing pneumonia type symptoms over the past few days. Some of them could be more than just the normal aging population health issues on the island.

[Chunkster]

HNL reports that three of the four new cases today are travel related with one on Maui undetermined. That would make ours travel related. Probably just a matter of time until we get community transmission. No word on if our case is Hilo or Kona side.

[Obie]

Hawaii Island now has it's first confirmed case of coronavirus, confirms Mayor Harry Kim.

Kim told KITV4 that the virus was confirmed in a woman visiting from out-of-state, and test results came back positive.

The woman is in self-quarantine at a hotel in Hilo.

https://www.kitv.com/story/41907345/1st-...big-island

[HereOnThePrimalEdge]

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[HereOnThePrimalEdge]

I just received this from FedEx:

COVID-19: Delivery Signature Update
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[Guest]

This (may be) encouraging. The same results we originally reported or SARS, but here is one directly for COVID-19

From: https://www.yahoo.com/news/study-says-hi...34915.html

New study says 'high temperature and high relative humidity significantly reduce' spread of COVID-19

According to the researchers' findings, "High temperature and high relative humidity significantly reduce the transmission of COVID-19." An increase of just one degree Celsius and 1% relative humidity increase substantially lower the virus's transmission, according to the data analyzed by the researchers.

The study is the latest in a limited but growing body of research, not all of which has been peer-reviewed, that examines the effect of weather on the spread of the SARS-Cov-2 virus, which causes the COVID-19 illness.

The researchers studied 100 different Chinese cities that each had more than 40 cases of COVID-19 from Jan. 21 to 23. According to AccuWeather Senior Weather Editor and Meteorologist Jesse Ferrell, the decision to study transmission on those dates was critical because that time period was before China intervened on Jan. 24 to stop the spread of the virus. Analyzing that timeframe allowed researchers to observe the natural spread of the virus before public health measures, which have since helped reduce the spread drastically in China, were implemented.

That step was one of several sound methods taken by authors Jingyuan Wang, Kai Feng, Weifeng Lv of Beihang University, and Ke Tang from Tsinghua University, according to Ferrell. He also commended the authors' accounting for GDP per capita, which normalized the differences in health care facilities, and the normalizations for population density.

The paper showed that the direct impacts of air temperatures and humidity levels could be seen plainly in the severity of outbreaks during the earlier stages of the virus spread.

The full story is at the link above...

[Chunkster]

OK, so maybe we should wish for even more hot and humid weather than usual.

[twofeet]

Wonder if the businesses that stay open, if keeping the air conditioner off and the doors open would help. People could stand it on this side, but would be hard to do on Kona side.

[PaulW]

It's summer in Australia, plenty of cases there.

[HereOnThePrimalEdge]

2,000+ new cases today. Total U.S. coronavirus tally at the end of each Wednesday:
• Jan 15 — 0
• Jan 22 — 1
• Jan 29 — 5
• Feb 5 — 12
• Feb 12 — 14
• Feb 19 — 25
• Feb 26 — 60
• Mar 4 — 160
• Mar 11 — 1,262
• Mar 18 — 8,264
Hawaii has 16 cases on March 18th

https://twitter.com/ByMikeBaker/status/1...0876184576