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U.S. President Donald Trump and his White House coronavirus task force will meet with drug company executives on Monday.

The White House did not say which pharmaceutical makers would be at the Monday afternoon meeting but executives from Sanofi SA, Johnson & Johnson and Pfizer Inc will attend, according to representatives for the companies.

Trump, in an early morning tweet, said they would discuss “progress on a vaccine and cure.” Top U.S. health officials have said any vaccine is at least a year from hitting the market, and there is no treatment, although patients can receive supportive care.

Trump gave no other details, and the White House did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

Trump to meet with drugmakers as U.S. sees more coronavirus cases
 
More than half the passengers and crew infected with the new coronavirus on the Diamond Princess cruise ship showed no symptoms, underlining just how difficult the virus is to detect and how many people may have contracted the infection without knowing it.

Out of 705 people who tested positive on the quarantined cruise ship, nearly 400 showed no symptoms, Japanese government officials said Monday. Those people would never have been tested unless they had been on the ship.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2020/03/02/coronavirus-live-updates/

 
Q&A: What's next for the Tokyo Olympics as virus spreads?

Tokyo 2020 CEO Toshiro Muto is holding a teleconference on Wednesday with the IOC executive board in Switzerland. The 14-member board along with Bach made the big decisions.

There could be changes to the torch relay, which is set to open March 26 in Fukushima prefecture, northeast of Tokyo. The event is heavily sponsored by Coca-Cola and Toyota. It might face crowd limits the way Sunday’s Tokyo Marathon did.

Preseason baseball games are being played in empty stadiums, soccer’s J-League has suspended play, and a large Sumo event will be held without fans.

Training for Tokyo’s 80,000 unpaid volunteers has been postponed until at least May.

A month ago, Muto said he was “seriously worried” by the spread of the virus. He has become more cautious with his words since then.

There are 18 remaining test events. Many are small and involve only Japanese athletes, a chance for organizers to test venues and logistics. Two in the next several weeks are planned to have non-Japanese attending: Paralympic wheelchair rugby on March 12-15, and a gymnastics meet on April 4-6. They’ll be watched to see if non-Japanese athletes compete.

Crowd restrictions could be put in place, although many don’t call for fans in the first place.

Officials announced on Monday that an Olympic baseball qualifying event was postponed from April to June. It will be held in Taiwan as scheduled, but on June 17-21 instead of April 1-5. The World Baseball Softball Conference said it was because of “player, personnel and spectator health and safety measures against the spread of the coronavirus.”

Olympic qualifiers have been moved from China. Bach said that many Chinese teams and athletes are out of China and training elsewhere: the table tennis team is in Qatar, the women’s basketball team is in Croatia, and wrestlers are in Serbia.

“We have managed to move qualification competitions and tournaments within weeks from China to other countries where the safety of the athletes could be ensured,” Bach said.
 
gregjrichards said:
More than half the passengers and crew infected with the new coronavirus on the Diamond Princess cruise ship showed no symptoms, underlining just how difficult the virus is to detect and how many people may have contracted the infection without knowing it.

Out of 705 people who tested positive on the quarantined cruise ship, nearly 400 showed no symptoms, Japanese government officials said Monday. Those people would never have been tested unless they had been on the ship.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2020/03/02/coronavirus-live-updates/
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This is a fascinating statistic. It means two things: the folks self-quarantining may curb the spread but with the majority of affected going about their normal lives, this thing will run its course anyhow.
And two, the mortality rate must be far, far below the posted rate where they only tested symptomatic people.
 
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It gives me hope when I read of labs around the world working towards a vaccine for this.

Here's an article from Canada:

A made-in-Canada solution to the coronavirus outbreak? - Macleans.ca

Excerpts from the article:

"Michel Chrétien has a long-standing connection to high-level scientists in China..."

"Chrétien and Mbikay, researchers at the Clinical Research Institute of Montreal (IRCM), began testing their idea that a derivative of quercetin, a plant compound known to help lower cholesterol and treat inflammatory disease—and common, at low doses, in over-the-counter medication—was a “broad spectrum” antiviral drug that could fight a range of viruses."

"They believed the drug might work on COVID-19, which has infected nearly 80,000 people and killed 2,600, according to the World Health Organization. They knew a Swiss drug manufacturer, Quercegen Pharmaceuticals, could rapidly produce doses of the treatment in the hundreds of thousands."

"Quercetin isn’t the only possible treatment for COVID-19; Nature reported that 80 clinical trials on potential treatments are underway in China."

"Last week, they invited Chrétien’s team to start clinical trials in China. The plan: send samples of quercetin to the Chinese Academy of Sciences in Wuhan. The Canadian and Chinese scientists would collaborate on the trials, which would include about 1,000 test patients."
 
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STARTING NOW: New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, Mayor Bill de Blasio, and hospital officials hold news conference on confirmed New York coronavirus case. ABC News @ABC
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Incorrect info #1 - You have to have contact with + with prolonged exposure to get it.

Nope, can be from fomites, and if + person coughs on you.... you can get etc.
 
JerseyGirl said:
Q&A: What's next for the Tokyo Olympics as virus spreads?

Tokyo 2020 CEO Toshiro Muto is holding a teleconference on Wednesday with the IOC executive board in Switzerland. The 14-member board along with Bach made the big decisions.

There could be changes to the torch relay, which is set to open March 26 in Fukushima prefecture, northeast of Tokyo. The event is heavily sponsored by Coca-Cola and Toyota. It might face crowd limits the way Sunday’s Tokyo Marathon did.

Preseason baseball games are being played in empty stadiums, soccer’s J-League has suspended play, and a large Sumo event will be held without fans.

Training for Tokyo’s 80,000 unpaid volunteers has been postponed until at least May.

A month ago, Muto said he was “seriously worried” by the spread of the virus. He has become more cautious with his words since then.

There are 18 remaining test events. Many are small and involve only Japanese athletes, a chance for organizers to test venues and logistics. Two in the next several weeks are planned to have non-Japanese attending: Paralympic wheelchair rugby on March 12-15, and a gymnastics meet on April 4-6. They’ll be watched to see if non-Japanese athletes compete.

Crowd restrictions could be put in place, although many don’t call for fans in the first place.

Officials announced on Monday that an Olympic baseball qualifying event was postponed from April to June. It will be held in Taiwan as scheduled, but on June 17-21 instead of April 1-5. The World Baseball Softball Conference said it was because of “player, personnel and spectator health and safety measures against the spread of the coronavirus.”

Olympic qualifiers have been moved from China. Bach said that many Chinese teams and athletes are out of China and training elsewhere: the table tennis team is in Qatar, the women’s basketball team is in Croatia, and wrestlers are in Serbia.

“We have managed to move qualification competitions and tournaments within weeks from China to other countries where the safety of the athletes could be ensured,” Bach said.
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There is a lot of talk today in the U.K press of the Olympics going ahead to empty stadiums. I just can’t picture it winning a gold, silver, bronze medal and nobody cheering you on and no opening and closing ceremony. It would be better to postpone it a year, that’s if things are better in a year.
 
dixiegirl1035 said:
Incorrect info #1 - You have to have contact with + with prolonged exposure to get it.

Nope, can be from fomites, and if + person coughs on you.... you can get etc.
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Wow, at my age, I hardly ever have to look up a definition:

fomites: objects or materials which are likely to carry infection, such as clothes, utensils, and furniture.
 
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