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Pretty serious stuff!

artappraiser — Mon, 27 Jan 2020 07:49:31 +0000

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Pretty serious stuff!

BREAKING: Shanghai's authorities order that businesses should not resume work before midday on the 9th of February, while all schools and universities should remain closed until the 17th of February.
— The Spectator Index (@spectatorindex) January 27, 2020

This just screams opening

artappraiser — Sun, 26 Jan 2020 06:36:03 +0000

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This just screams opening-credits explainer to an apocalyptic plague film. https://t.co/aBrVVtwITJ
— Antonio García Martínez (@antoniogm) January 26, 2020

Race begins to build Chinese

artappraiser — Sat, 25 Jan 2020 07:20:57 +0000

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Race begins to build Chinese coronavirus hospital in 10 days – video

A.P. via TheGuardian.com, Jan. 25

A huge fleet of diggers has been deployed in the Chinese city of Wuhan, the centre of the coronavirus outbreak, to begin the ambitious task of building a 1,000-bed hospital by 3 February to treat victims of the epidemic

China expands coronavirus

artappraiser — Sat, 25 Jan 2020 07:13:18 +0000

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China expands coronavirus outbreak lockdown to 56 million people

Number of confirmed cases climbs sharply to more than 1,321 worldwide, with 41 deaths reported in China as of Saturday.

@ AlJazeera.com, an hour ago

Good news: Scientists are

artappraiser — Sat, 25 Jan 2020 06:14:33 +0000

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Good news: Scientists are unraveling the Chinese coronavirus with unprecedented speed and openness https://t.co/o23h2RTtrZ #science #GoodNews
— Rhiannon Fionn-Bowman (@RhiFionn) January 24, 2020

#Coronavirus symptoms

artappraiser — Sat, 25 Jan 2020 05:39:25 +0000

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#Coronavirus symptoms

Know what to look for pic.twitter.com/wJ8ghpEJMk
— Coronavirus News (@Coronavirus_Now) January 25, 2020

Liang Wudong, a surgeon who

artappraiser — Sat, 25 Jan 2020 05:36:28 +0000

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Liang Wudong, a surgeon who was treating patients in Wuhan, just become the first doctor to die from the new Coronavirus.

A reminder that while everyone else is trying to avoid it, frontline medical staff are risking their lives to cure it + save others.#CoronavirusOutbreak pic.twitter.com/khAP1kdp1C
— Muhammad Lila (@MuhammadLila) January 25, 2020

I do understand his last

artappraiser — Sat, 25 Jan 2020 05:33:36 +0000

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I do understand his last tweet, it's for us history geeks, a comparison to 1918:

10\ ... possibly an unchecked pandemic that the world has not seen since the 1918 Spanish Influenza. Let’s hope it doesn’t reach that level but we now live in the modern world with faster than 1918. @WHO and @CDCgov needs to declare public health emergency ASAP!
— Dr. Eric Feigl-Ding (@DrEricDing) January 25, 2020

Don't know much of the lingo

artappraiser — Sat, 25 Jan 2020 05:27:50 +0000

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Don't know much of the lingo here but recognize some swear words. Dr. Eric Feigl-Ding Public health scientist/ Epidemiologist / Health Economist / Science advocacy / ex-Harvard faculty (still @ Harvard) / NYT featured whistleblower scholar.harvard.edu/ericding sez:

HOLY MOTHER OF GOD - the new coronavirus is a 3.8!!! How bad is that reproductive R0 value? It is thermonuclear pandemic level bad - never seen an actual virality coefficient outside of Twitter in my entire career. I’m not exaggerating... #WuhanCoronovirus #CoronavirusOutbreak pic.twitter.com/6mmxIHL9Ue
— Dr. Eric Feigl-Ding (@DrEricDing) January 25, 2020

It's a whole thread of 10 tweets. Obviously he just got some data to look at a few hours ago.

a lot of Asian countries with

artappraiser — Sat, 25 Jan 2020 03:47:50 +0000

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a lot of Asian countries with confirmed cases now! also France, Australia & U.S.:

Confirmed coronavirus cases:

- China
- US
- France
- Japan
- South Korea
- Taiwan
- Singapore
- Thailand
- Australia
- Nepal
- Vietnam
- Hong Kong
- Macau
- Malaysia
— The Spectator Index (@spectatorindex) January 25, 2020