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[umbertino]

Coronavirus: tests on vaccine in 2-3 months-Fauci

Collaboration with other agencies, NIAID director tells ANSA

Rome

11 February 202012:05 News

 

 

Anthony Fauci

ALL RIGHTS RESERVED © Copyright ANSA/EPA

 

 

https://www.ansa.it/english/news/2020/02/11/coronavirus-tests-on-vaccine-in-2-3-months-fauci_e65e2341-f955-480b-8914-905ebb24d1a5.html

[umbertino]

Coronavirus: US evacuee mistakenly released from hospital

 

• Patient had been discharged from San Diego hospital on Monday
• CDC said further testing revealed patient tested positive

 

Edward Helmore

Tue 11 Feb 2020 13.52 GMT Last modified on Tue 11 Feb 2020 13.54 GMT

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/feb/11/coronavirus-san-diego-us-citizen-mistakenly-released-hospital

[Jim1cor13]

14 hours ago, gregp said:

I worked at Dugway. The inside of the new test facility is amazing. I was part of the conversion team. We helped shut down the old lab and move the scientists into the new lab. I can’t talk directly about the labs, but I was given one piece of advice from the old boys. They told us to watch the pigeons. They nest under cover at the entrance to the storage huts. If the pigeons are laying on the ground.....RUN UPWIND!!!  There’s a leak!!!!
This virus thing is a baby compared to what’s really out there. 

 

We had extensive training. I went from there to decontaminating nuclear waste at the Clive facility.  
 

Nasty Shiite!!!!

 

Thanks Greg for sharing your experience. great advice to watch those pigeons!

 

[MyLadiesDaddy]

 

[MyLadiesDaddy]

Why do they need guns to round up the sick? What's really going on in China?

 

 

[umbertino]

What China’s empty new coronavirus hospitals say about its secretive system

 

Even after declaring a crisis, government seemed focused on managing its image as well as the outbreak

 

Emma Graham-Harrison

Wed 12 Feb 2020 16.50 GMT

 

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/feb/12/what-chinas-empty-new-coronavirus-hospitals-say-about-its-secretive-system

[umbertino]

False rumours on coronavirus could cost lives, say researchers

 

Study finds people who believe online scare stories are more likely to ignore health advice

• Coronavirus – latest updates
• London patient went to hospital in Uber

 

Sarah Boseley Health editor

Fri 14 Feb 2020 00.01 GMT

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/feb/14/coronavirus-false-rumours-cost-lives-researchers

 

Edited February 14, 2020 by umbertino

[umbertino]

One Wuhan family’s tale of quarantine, followed by infection … and tragedy

 

Liu Mengdi could only look on as her relatives were ravaged by the virus. Now she has been warned to stop posting about their trauma

 

Lily Kuo

Sat 15 Feb 2020 12.05 GMT Last modified on Sat 15 Feb 2020 15.19 GMT

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/feb/15/coronavirus-outbreak-wuhan-china

[umbertino]

Coronavirus: US to evacuate Americans onboard cruise ship

 

Diamond Princess evacuations to begin as China announces death toll in country up to 1.665

 

Justin McCurry in Tokyo and Rebecca Ratcliffe

Sun 16 Feb 2020 14.59 GMT

 

 

A police car drives past the Diamond Princess cruise ship in Yokohama port on Sunday

Photograph: Behrouz Mehri/AFP via Getty Images

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/feb/16/coronavirus-us-to-evacuate-americans-onboard-cruise-ship-diamond-princess

 

[umbertino]

As Wuhan’s desperate and sick beg for help, China shuts them down

 

Doctors are told not to cause alarm over coronavirus, social media posts are deleted and vital information is dismissed as rumour

 

 

Mon 17 Feb 2020 16.02 GMT Last modified on Mon 17 Feb 2020 16.06 GMT

Anonymous ( Chinese writer living in north America )

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/feb/17/wuhan-china-doctors-coronavirus

[Shabibilicious]

Sen. Tom Cotton Still Pitching Debunked Theory About Coronavirus

Mary Papenfuss  HuffPost•February 17, 2020

 

Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.) continues to push a debunked conspiracy theory that the coronavirus is linked to a biological lab in China.

 

The bogus claim, which has been circulating in right-wing publications and elsewhere on the internet, also suggests the virus may have started as an unleashed biological weapon. 

Scientists say the virus may have begun with animal-to-human transmission at a Wuhan seafood and wildlife market. But Cotton disagrees.

“We don’t know where it originated,” Cotton said on Fox News on Sunday. “But we do know we have to get to the bottom of that. We also know that just a few miles away from that food market is China’s only biosafety level 4 super laboratory that researches human infectious diseases.”

Cotton admitted there was no evidence to suggest the disease actually originated at the Wuhan National Biosafety Laboratory, but then complained about China’s “duplicity and dishonesty.” 

Cui Tiankai, Chinese ambassador to the U.S., denounced Cotton’s misinformation on “Face The Nation” earlier this month.

“It’s very harmful, it’s very dangerous to stir up suspicion, rumors and spread them among the people,” Cui said. “For one thing, this will create panic. Another thing is that it will fan up racial discrimination, xenophobia, all these things that will really harm our joint efforts to combat the virus.”

Vipin Narang, an associate professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, told The Washington Post that “we don’t have any evidence” that the general population was exposed to a virus through an accident at a lab. He called Cotton’s speculation a conspiracy theory that was borderline irresponsible.

“Cotton should spend more time funding the agencies in the United States that can help contain and combat the virus rather than trying to assign blame,” Narang said.

Richard Ebright, a professor of chemical biology at Rutgers University, told the Post that there was nothing in the genome sequence of the coronavirus that indicated it had been engineered.

“The possibility this was a deliberately released bioweapon can be firmly excluded,” Ebright added.

The coronavirus, know as COVID-19, has killed at least 1,666 people and infected more than 68,500 people globally, the vast majority in mainland China.

 

https://news.yahoo.com/tom-cotton-china-biolab-coronavirus-090109496.html

 

GO RV, then BV

Edited February 17, 2020 by Shabibilicious

[Karsten]

I guess the lame Stream media isn't going to cover this.

 

 

Karsten

[coorslite21]

Some acquaintances in Hong Kong offer an interesting option......

 

Prior to the outbreak Hong Kong was ground zero for the independence move for the Chinese.....

 

The movement was growing.....hundreds of thousands protesting......Xi had moved large numbers of troops in the vicinity to prevent the advance of the Independence movement....

 

And what squashed the movement......the Corona  Virus.......perhaps a coincidence.......perhaps not..

At the very least......very convenient....food for thought.

CL

[umbertino]

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Prior to the outbreak Hong Kong was ground zero for the independence move for the Chinese.....

The movement was growing.....hundreds of thousands protesting......Xi had moved large numbers of troops in the vicinity to prevent the advance of the Independence movement....

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That's absolutely true and I was and still am siding with them....Of course I am

 

 

 

 

 

 

[md11fr8dawg]

Make NO mistake people, China is friend to NO ONE!! Except the Chinese.

[Artitech]

This is real threat to you and your family, I know people have seen my warnings over the years. I will repeat it one more time! Have a plan and a plan to act! As a disaster repair specialist for 35 years! I can assure you the government cannot protect or save you! This is a fact! I’m a eyewitness to this fact! It really does matter if you believe me or not, the truth is the truth! This is just natural disasters, hurricane tornadoes flooding & earthquakes! Now we are looking at biological weapons that are in play now! Someone in this thread was calling out Senator Tom Cotton for reporting the truth! Calling it some right wing conspiracy! I still talk to ex members of what the Air Force calls Security Forces now! When I was in it was called Security Police! These guys have a new mission as compared to when I was in! The two people I have spoken to believe this is a biological weapon that was released on purpose! It really makes no difference if on  purpose or an accident! As of this date over 1800 people are dead and counting, the damage is done! The virus is in the U.S like or not this virus could careless about a boarder! My suggestion is to be prepared to Quarantine in your home. I really think this is going to get a lot worse before it gets better! Be prepared! God Bless everybody and their families here on DV! I am praying for all our safety and health! JMHO 🤠!

[umbertino]

2 hours ago, md11fr8dawg said:

Make NO mistake people, China is friend to NO ONE!! Except the Chinese.

 

China PTB are not even friends with the Chinese People most of the time infact.....

[whatsfordinar?]

this is an interesting read....

https://ufospotlight.wordpress.com/2020/02/13/chinese-intelligence-officer-reveals-true-magnitude-of-chinas-coronavirus-crisis/?fbclid=IwAR2Tsy2j55Pp0g49joqYVoC2P3ELO8KAmiD46pTOV4pUxrcb83uqWpMSltA

[Artitech]

On 2/18/2020 at 2:52 PM, whatsfordinar? said:

this is an interesting read....

https://ufospotlight.wordpress.com/2020/02/13/chinese-intelligence-officer-reveals-true-magnitude-of-chinas-coronavirus-crisis/?fbclid=IwAR2Tsy2j55Pp0g49joqYVoC2P3ELO8KAmiD46pTOV4pUxrcb83uqWpMSltA

Hey thanks for sharing this! This doesn’t surprise me! I think more is going to come out on comrade Bloomberg’s connection to China too! 🤠

[umbertino]

CDC is preparing for the 'likely' spread of coronavirus in the US, officials say

 

Doug Stanglin and Jayne O'Donnell USA TODAY

Published 12:55 AM EST Feb 22, 2020

 

 

 

https://eu.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2020/02/21/coronavirus-who-contain-outbreak-iran-deaths-south-korea-cases/4829278002/

[bostonangler]

 

With information from China scarce, U.S. spies enlisted to track coronavirus

WASHINGTON — As Chinese officials face allegations of locking down information about the spread of the coronavirus, U.S. intelligence agencies have been helping in governmentwide efforts to gather information about the disease’s global spread.

Already, some of the best information about the coronavirus and the Chinese government’s response to it is coming from military channels, according to two sources familiar with the matter.

“China’s behavior causes the intelligence community to get involved,” said one of those sources, a former intelligence official. “Because no data means spying.”

The former official indicated that the most important issue being tracked is the Chinese leadership plans for what is known as “continuity of operations,” meaning the ability for the government to maintain its basic functions during an unprecedented crisis, such as nuclear war or natural disaster. 

In China, this might involve senior leaders leaving the country or seeking safety in shelters, “like U.S. doomsday bunkers,” said the source. The intel community, said the source, is seeing some signs Chinese officials are making those kinds of contingency plans, indicating the potential level of concern within Beijing.

Tracking the coronavirus. (Photo illustration: Yahoo News; photos: AP [2], Getty Images)

The intelligence community’s involvement comes amid international frustrations with China’s reticence to accept international assistance. The World Health Organization, including American experts, was finally allowed to visit China on Monday to do field research on the disease but has been delayed and will not, as of now, be visiting the alleged location of the origin of the outbreak due to what Chinese officials described as a lack of time and resources to host international experts.

At least officially, however, the WHO has been complimentary of China's efforts. In a statement, the WHO told Yahoo News that “since the beginning of the outbreak, China [has] shared data in a transparent manner.” 

However, the organization, which receives funding from China, has come under fire for what many have called a delayed response to the outbreak and a failure to pressure Chinese leadership into further openness.

In the United States, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, the CIA’s Global Issues Mission Center and the Defense Intelligence Agency’s National Center for Medical Intelligence have all been supporting the White House Task Force on the coronavirus, according to three intelligence sources familiar with the matter. The task force is led by the Department of Health and Human Services and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

The National Center for Medical Intelligence is based in Fort Detrick, Md., and tracks disease outbreaks and potential danger to the U.S. military, as well as preparedness of foreign leaders to respond to pandemics or other related attacks. A military spokesman told Yahoo News the agency “is closely monitoring the coronavirus outbreak and the worldwide response to it.”

In this instance of the coronavirus, the intelligence community has to figure out a way to quickly gather information about a rapidly progressing potential pandemic without risking human sources’ lives, losing track of other threats or getting in the way of the CDC and WHO, which take primary responsibility for response and outreach.

Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, director general of the World Health Organization, at a press conference about the coronavirus on Feb. 10 in Geneva. (Salvatore Di Nolfi/Keystone via AP)

As of Thursday, the WHO reported over 75,000 confirmed cases of coronavirus disease globally, as well as 2,129 deaths, the majority in China, notifying travelers that the global risk assessment for the disease is “high.” Symptoms can range from a common cold to more severe respiratory symptoms, and is transmitted from person to person. 

A global pandemic has long been a concern to U.S. national security officials, and planning for such outbreaks has been a crucial part of government planning in previous administrations.

“Pandemic disease poses one of the greatest threats to global stability and security,” wrote Lisa Monaco, who served as President Barack Obama’s homeland security and counterterrorism adviser, in an op-ed on the LawFare, a national security blog. She also noted that the Trump White House no longer has a “dedicated unit to oversee preparedness for pandemics,” as there was under Obama during the West African Ebola crisis.

The U.S. and China have seen tensions rise over recent years as the U.S. cracks down on Chinese espionage and intellectual property theft amid an ongoing trade war, making it harder for U.S. officials to get complete information about the public health crisis.

While there are always channels available to communicate with China, it’s not always clear Chinese officials will make use of them or pick up the phone, said one national security official. The Communist Party and the broader bureaucracy are concerned about reporting bad news to President Xi Jinping, and also the disease’s potential impact on the global economy.

The situation with China “certainly makes it harder, I think more necessary and harder,” to get solid intelligence, said Greg Treverton, a professor at the University of Southern California and a former chairman of the National Intelligence Council, in an interview with Yahoo News.

Treverton, who has written extensively about transnational threats, recalled the government’s internal response to both the SARS epidemic in 2003, another instance of the coronavirus in China, as well as the gargantuan effort around responding to the West African Ebola epidemic between 2014 and 2016. He told Yahoo News that the intelligence community invested heavily in anticipatory tracking to follow Ebola’s path in Africa before cases surfaced in the U.S. and the issue became more domestic.

 “These are existential, serious issues,” continued Treverton. “Health is an enormous national security issue, particularly when the intelligence target” — i.e., China — “is not as helpful as it should be.”

 

https://www.yahoo.com/news/with-information-from-china-scarce-us-spies-enlisted-to-track-coronavirus-173612656.html

 

 

 

I'm not worried Trump said it would end with warm weather, and we all know he is smarter than his medical experts.....

 

B/A

[sandsoftime]

Don’t buy China’s story: The coronavirus may have leaked from a lab

 

Sorry if this is already posted...

[umbertino]

Coronavirus outbreak: special powers enacted in Italy after deaths (2 so far) – live news

 

Number of cases in north of the country jumps causing disruption to Milan fashion week and Serie A matches

 

Sarah Marsh

Sun 23 Feb 2020 11.31 GMT First published on Sun 23 Feb 2020 08.42 GMT

 

 

 

People wearing protective face masks shop at a supermarket in Casalpusterlengo, one the northern Italian towns placed under lockdown due to the new coronavirus outbreak

Photograph: Paolo Salmoirago/EPA

 

 

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Live feed

 

https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2020/feb/23/coronavirus-outbreak-woman-tests-positive-after-disembarking-diamond-princess-live-news

 

[umbertino]

Italy brings in draconian measures in effort to halt coronavirus spread

 

Measures include fines for anyone caught entering or leaving outbreak areas

 

Angela Giuffrida in Rome and Lauren Cochrane in Milan

Sun 23 Feb 2020 11.41 GMT

 

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/feb/23/italy-draconian-measures-effort-halt-coronavirus-outbreak-spread

[bostonangler]

10 minutes ago, umbertino said:

Italy brings in draconian measures in effort to halt coronavirus spread

 

Measures include fines for anyone caught entering or leaving outbreak areas

 

Angela Giuffrida in Rome and Lauren Cochrane in Milan

Sun 23 Feb 2020 11.41 GMT

 

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/feb/23/italy-draconian-measures-effort-halt-coronavirus-outbreak-spread

 

 

Umbertino, I read about the lock downs in Italy. Is this in your area?

 

B/A