Coronavirus (COVID)

Pre-print on furin cleavage site in 2019-nCoV Spike gene' http://chinaxiv.org/abs/202002.00004

This has to be seen by people. Professor Kentaro Iwata an infectious disease specialist was supposed to board the Diamond Princess to lead a team to help these people. He arrived and was sent off on the same day and he's made a video to tell why. It's terrifying to hear what he has to say. He's now in self quarantine and fears for his and his families safety.

Antibody-dependent enhancement (ADE) occurs when antibodies facilitate viral entry into host cells and enhance viral infection in these cells (1, 2). ADE has been observed for a variety of viruses, most notably in flaviviruses (e.g., dengue virus) (3-6). Peer reviewed paper: https://www.docdroid.net/uVOql5p/jvi02015-19full.pdf So it is potentially far worse the second time you get it, which makes it an extremely worrying virus considering it's potential r0 value.

WHAT: Virtual Press Conference for journalists and live webcast.An audio file of the press conference will be distributed to journalists shortly after the conference ends. A transcript will follow.HOW: Journalists can dial in or attend the press conference in person.The virtual press conference will also be broadcast live on WHO Twitter account @WHOWHEN: Today, Tuesday 18 February 2020, at 16:30 Geneva timeWHERE: Journalists can dial-in or attend the press conference in person in SHOC

Hi Dr Niman Is the 2019--nCoV ever going to be spread by any than human to human besides contact- air/ surfaces / contaminated items. I mean transmitted by mosquitoes, birds ect. Like infected person to mosquitoes to birds back to mosquitoes then to human. Will it travel like bird flu / West Nile and others ? Worse Outbreak in my life time was Ukraine in 2009 until this. That is other than Ebola. Followed you old main page forever, (No longer update- for long time now). http://www.recombinomics.com/in_the_news.html Thank you

The 83-year-old American woman flew to Malaysia on Friday from Cambodia along with 144 others from the ship, said Malaysian health ministry, adding that her 85-year-old husband had tested negative. https://www.scmp.com/news/asia/southeast-asia/article/3050814/coronavirus-us-passenger-westerdam-cruise-ship-infected

Dr. Niman, If you feel this is too of-topic feel free to remove. Up till recently, I’ve poo-pooed the idea that the origin of Covid-19 might have come from Wuhan’s biolabs. I thought you might look at this article and comment: https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/sudden-militarization-wuhans-p4-lab-raises-new-questions-about-origin-deadly-covid-19 Zerohedge is a strange website with a lot of strange stuff, but occasionally it does have some gems. There have been many bio-lab accidents, near-accidents and intentional release of pathogens (anthrax in letters allegedly mailed by US Army researcher Bruce Ivins resulting in five deaths) around the wor…

"The sudden cases emerging all around the country have left the authorities scratching their heads as to who is Patient Zero in each of these clusters, as they rush to contain the spread of the virus. While the Health Ministry has said there was still no evidence of any community spread, domestic media have cited experts who say that a "stealth outbreak" could already have happened." https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/fears-of-stealth-outbreak-as-cases-emerge-across-japan

WHAT: Virtual Press Conference for journalists and live webcast.An audio file of the press conference will be distributed to journalists shortly after the conference ends. A transcript will follow.HOW: Journalists can dial-in or attend the press conference in personThe virtual press conference will also be broadcast live on WHO Twitter account @WHOWHEN: Today, Friday 14 February 2020, at 16:00 Geneva time

Abstract The novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV) is a recently emerged human pathogen that has spread widely since January 2020. Initially, the basic reproductive number, R0, was estimated to be 2.2 to 2.7. Here we provide a new estimate of this quantity. We collected extensive individual case reports and estimated key epidemiology parameters, including the incubation period. Integrating these estimates and high-resolution real-time human travel and infection data with mathematical models, we estimated that the number of infected individuals during early epidemic double every 2.4 days, and the R0 value is likely to be between 4.7 and 6.6. We further show that quarantine and…

two other coronavirus cases have been confirmed in Bavaria. There are currently 14 confirmed coronavirus cases in Bavaria (as of 6:00 p.m.). The two new cases are related to the company from the district of Starnberg, where most of the previously known cases are also employed. https://www.stmgp.bayern.de/presse/aktuelle-informationen-zur-coronavirus-lage-in-bayern-bayerisches-gesundheitsministerium-15/

More details are coming out on the nCoV super spreader who attended business conferences in Singapore and Les Contamines, France and is linked to 11 nCoV cases in France, Spain, and England https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-51459210

Cluster began with business associate from Shanghai at a meeting involving an auto parts supplier in Germany. The latest nCoV positive is the wife of one of the employees. This cluster also spread to the Canary Islands via an employee on vacation. Many of the nCoV positive cases are asymptomatic.

Genetic sequences of viruses isolated from the scaly animals are 99% similar to that of the circulating virus — but the work is yet to be formally published. https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-00364-2

Summary: Tencent has listed infection numbers vastly different than official numbers on repeated occasions. "...each time the screen with the large numbers appears, it shows a comparison with the previous day's data which demonstrates a "reasonable" incremental increase, much like comparisons of official numbers. This has led some netizens to speculate that Tencent has two sets of data, the real data and "processed" data" Article: Tencent may have accidentally leaked real data on Wuhan virus deaths; Tencent briefly lists 154,023 infections and 24,589 deaths from Wuhan coronavirus See https://www.taiwannews.com.tw/en/news/3871594 TAIPEI (Taiwan New…

Wife of nCoV confirmed employee and mother of two nCoV children is also nCoV confirmed increasing cluster to 13 spread over 3 countries and six cities in Germany (Stockdorf, Fürstenfeldbruck, Traustein, Munich), China (Shanghai), and Spain (La Gomera, Canary Islands)

WHO Emergency Committee Thursday January 30th

John Hopkins GIS Dashboard appears broken now for two days. It was a great source while it lasted. Does anyone know why it’s no longer working or are there alternatives with regular updates? https://gisanddata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/opsdashboard/index.html#/bda7594740fd40299423467b48e9ecf6 GIS Dashboard In response to this ongoing public health emergency, we developed an online dashboard (static snapshot shown below) to visualize and track the reported cases on a daily timescale; the complete set of data is downloadable as a google sheet. The case data visualized is collected from various sources, including WHO, U.S. CDC, ECDC China CDC (CCDC), NHC and…

Lot's of information on this page I've got no comment. https://www.globaltimes.cn//content/1177737.shtml

nCoV confirmed in another employee and another child of an employee, raising the number of confirmed cases in Germany to 10, which is additional to the associate in Shanghai,and the employee in the Canary islands https://www.stmgp.bayern.de/presse/aktuelle-informationen-zur-coronavirus-lage-in-bayern-bayerisches-gesundheitsministerium-10/

Confirmation of nCoV in a Webasto company employee, 33M, from Munich increases the cluster to 10 including a business associate in Shanghai, a child of one of the employees, and an employee/tourist in the Canary Islands. The 10 person cluster is spread over six cities (Shanghai, Stockdorf, Fürstenfeldbruck, Traustein, Munich, La Gomera) in three countries (China ,Germany, Spain) https://www.bild.de/news/inland/news-inland/coronavirus-usa-verhaengen-einreiseverbote-der-live-ticker-68532120.bild.html