OT: Cancelling the Tokyo Olympics?
IOC Member: 2020 Tokyo Olympics Could Be Canceled Amid Coronavirus Outbreak
The 2020 Tokyo Olympics are more likely to be canceled than moved or rescheduled if by late May the coronavirus outbreak is deemed too dangerous to go ahead with the original schedule, according to International Olympic Committee member Dick Pound.
Speaking to Stephen Wade of the Associated Press, veteran IOC member Pound said "you're probably looking at a cancellation" if the authorities decide Tokyo 2020 cannot go ahead as scheduled from July 24 to August 9.
Pound, 77, is the IOC's longest-serving member. He first joined in 1978.
Per Wade, the Canadian former swimming champion explained why May could be the latest the call can be made:
A number of sporting events have already been impacted by the coronavirus outbreak, which has infected more than 80,000 people around the world
https://bleacherreport.com/articles/2877947-ioc-member-2020-tokyo-olympics-could-be-canceled-amid-coronavirus-outbreak?utm_source=cnn.com&utm_campaign=editorial&utm_medium=referral
Hurry-up Vikings, we ain't getting any younger!
they shouldn't cancel, they should switch from NBC to Twitch and roll with this:
Nintendo of Japan is standing by...
@"BarrNone55" said: It will clear up by April.I sure hope you're right, but some US officials are preaching a different religion..
'This might be bad': Health officials warn Americans to prepare for coronavirus outbreaks"It's not so much of a question of if this will happen anymore but rather more of a question of exactly when," a CDC official said.
The coronavirus almost certainly will begin spreading in communities in the United States, and Americans should begin preparations now, officials at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Tuesday.“It’s not so much of a question of if this will happen anymore but rather more of a question of exactly when this will happen,” Dr. Nancy Messonnier, director of the National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases, said in a news briefing.
The news caps weeks of fear that the coronavirus spreading from China may become a pandemic, disrupting the global economy and political landscape in ways that are difficult to forecast.
Iran, South Korea and Italy are now grappling with clusters of infection, even as the epidemic in China’s Hubei province seems to be slowing. In the United States, stocks tumbled Monday as the dimensions of the outbreak became clearer.
Officials at the CDC said they did not know whether the spread of the disease to the United States would be mild or severe. But Americans should be ready for a significant disruption to their daily lives, she added.
“We are asking the American public to prepare for the expectation that this might be bad,” Messonnier said.
In Washington, the secretary of health and human services told a Senate panel that federal and local health departments will need as many as 300 million masks for health care workers and additional ventilators for hospitals to prepare for an outbreak of coronavirus in the U.S.
“This is an unprecedented potentially severe health challenge globally,” Alex Azar, the health and human services secretary, told a Senate subcommittee.
But lawmakers from both parties made it clear they were unconvinced the Trump administration was prepared for the outbreak that the CDC is forecasting.
As Sen. John Kennedy, R-La., pressed for an exact number of people expected to be infected, the acting secretary of the Homeland Security Department, Chad Wolf, could not answer.
“I’m all for committees and task forces, but you’re the secretary,” Kennedy responded. “I think you ought to know that answer.”
Trump administration officials overseeing the response to a potential coronavirus outbreak told lawmakers that the initial amount of money requested by the White House — $1.25 billion in new funds and $1.25 billion taken from other programs — would likely be just a first round.
“We’re really learning day by day and week by week of the contours of this disease,” Azar said.
Lawmakers listening to Azar’s requests appeared startled.
Sen. Patty Murray asked the health secretary whether he thought the United States currently had enough health masks in stock.
“Of course not,” he responded, “or else we wouldn’t be asking for more.”
Azar said that officials currently had 30 million N95 masks in the nation’s emergency stockpile, which typically cost less than $1.
Azar said he was alarmed by the human-to-human transmission of the virus in other parts of the world without an identifiable connection to confirmed cases and what that could mean for how the virus may hit the United States in the coming months.
“We cannot hermetically seal off the United States to a virus,” Azar said. “And we need to be realistic about that.”
Messonnier said that she had sat down with her children and told them, “we as a family need to preparing for significant disruption of our lives.”
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=8n1Bn4F1wds
i am thinking they should be trying limes... it kills the taste of a corona beer enough to drink one, it might be able to knock out a virus?
Biotech company Moderna says its coronavirus vaccine is ready for first tests
London (CNN Business) — US biotech firm Moderna has shipped an experimental coronavirus vaccine to US government researchers just six weeks after it started working on the immunization.
Initial trials of the potential vaccine could begin in April, but the process of testing and approvals would last at least a year.
Health officials and pharmaceutical companies around the world are working at a breakneck pace to identify treatments or a vaccine to help fight the coronavirus, which has infected more than 80,000 people around the world.
Fauci previously told CNN that researchers could expedite the approval process for a vaccine following a successful Phase 1 trial in an attempt to halt the spread of the virus.
But even when proceeding at an "emergency speed," a vaccine would not be available for use for at least a year or 18 months, he said Tuesday.
Moderna is not the only drug company hoping to find an immunization for the virus.
Pharma giants Johnson & Johnson (JNJ) and GlaxoSmithKline (GLAXF) are working on vaccines, as are government scientists including some at NIAID.Shares in Gilead (GILD) gained nearly 5% on Monday after the World Health Organization said that one of its drugs, remdesivir, is showing signs of helping to treat the coronavirus. While the experimental vaccine developed by Moderna remains unproven, the speed at which it was created represents a breakthrough.
According to Moderna, the vaccine was developed within 42 days of the company obtaining genetic information on the coronavirus.
By comparison, it took researchers about 20 months to start human tests of the vaccine for SARS, an older coronavirus, according to a journal paper written by Fauci
https://www.cnn.com/2020/02/25/business/moderna-coronavirus-vaccine/index.html
The earliest a vaccine would be ready is one year.
Between now and then a lot of things will be cancelled.
@"BarrNone55" said: It's just the common cold.
The media can't afford to let a juicy crisis go to waste.
Its my understanding that as we enter spring/summer the addition heat and solar radiation should substantuly help slow down any out break for the olympics.
@"AGRforever" said: Its my understanding that as we enter spring/summer the addition heat and solar radiation should substantuly help slow down any out break for the olympics.that seems to be the way the flu bugs typically work, when it gets cooler/colder it comes on and when it warms up it becomes a non topic, however who knows how this particular strain will react for sure.
@"JimmyinSD" said:@"AGRforever" said: Its my understanding that as we enter spring/summer the addition heat and solar radiation should substantuly help slow down any out break for the olympics. that seems to be the way the flu bugs typically work, when it gets cooler/colder it comes on and when it warms up it becomes a non topic, however who knows how this particular strain will react for sure.Here's the sars timeline from last time. Corona is a sars variation.
https://www.cdc.gov/about/history/sars/timeline.htm
(I'm going to grab a few dates rather then post the whole timeline or it'll be pretty long, feel free to look yourself if you want to read the whole thing)
November 16 (2002): The first case of atypical pneumonia is reported in the Guangdong province in southern China.March 15 (2003): CDC issues first health alert and hosts
media telebriefing about an atypical pneumonia that has been named
Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS). CDC issues interim guidelines
for state and local health departments on SARS.CDC issues a “Health Alert Notice” for travelers to the United States from Hong Kong, Guangdong Province (China)March 28: The SARs outbreak is more widespread. CDC begins utilizing pandemic planning for SARS.April 4: The number of suspected U.S. SARS cases was
115; reported from 29 states. There were no deaths among these suspect
cases of SARS in the United States.July 3: CDC removed the travel alert for mainland China.July 5: WHO announced that the global SARS outbreak was contained.
@"JimmyinSD" said:i also think that Things like this spread more in winter, when more people are inside together staying warm. Have their heaters on etc.@"AGRforever" said: Its my understanding that as we enter spring/summer the addition heat and solar radiation should substantuly help slow down any out break for the olympics. that seems to be the way the flu bugs typically work, when it gets cooler/colder it comes on and when it warms up it becomes a non topic, however who knows how this particular strain will react for sure.
@"NorthernCalVike" said:thats always been a theory, but at the same time people are less mobile in the winter and are more prone to stay home and not be out and about spreading the crud. at least up here on the frozen tundra.@"JimmyinSD" said:i also think that Things like this spread more in winter, when more people are inside together staying warm. Have their heaters on etc.@"AGRforever" said: Its my understanding that as we enter spring/summer the addition heat and solar radiation should substantuly help slow down any out break for the olympics. that seems to be the way the flu bugs typically work, when it gets cooler/colder it comes on and when it warms up it becomes a non topic, however who knows how this particular strain will react for sure.
Wall street has it's own take
wet markets.
fucking disgusting and breeding grounds for the next human extinction.
this planet will be fine without us, it and the other species are pushing back in their own way for the atrocities done
@"Skodin" said: wet markets.fucking disgusting and breeding grounds for the next human extinction.
this planet will be fine without us, it and the other species are pushing back in their own way for the atrocities done
@"Skodin" said: wet markets.fucking disgusting and breeding grounds for the next human extinction.
this planet will be fine without us, it and the other species are pushing back in their own way for the atrocities done
Corona virus isnt going to kill us. Its running at 2% deaths and thats if theyre finding all the cases. Corona beer kills more people then corona virus. Have you ever tasted that shit?
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