Doctors Tried to Determine How Latest Patient Contracted the Coronavirus in South Korea
This is pretty concerning that doctors currently do not know how the latest Korean to contract the coronavirus became infected with it:
The 30th case of the new coronavirus in Korea was confirmed Monday as the wife of Patient No. 29, an 82-year-old Korean man who had been volunteering with low-income senior citizens and spent days visiting several medical clinics and pharmacies before his diagnosis.
Patient No. 30, a 68-year-old Korean woman, tested positive for the virus the previous day, according to the Korea Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (KCDC). Her husband, Patient No. 29, who had not traveled overseas in recent months nor come into contact with any known coronavirus patients, was confirmed as having tested positive for the new coronavirus earlier Sunday.
How the elderly couple, who are residents of Jongno District, central Seoul, contracted the virus is still unclear. Authorities are scrambling to trace all the people they came in contact with in the past two weeks amid heightened concerns of secondary and tertiary infections.
Patient No. 29 had a pre-existing heart condition and visited two different local clinics and two pharmacies prior to going to Korea University Anam Hospital’s emergency room in Seongbuk District, central Seoul, Saturday morning, with complaints of chest pains. The doctor there discovered through a CT scan that the man had symptoms of pneumonia and tested him for the coronavirus. The couple is being treated at Seoul National University Hospital in central Seoul, one of the state-designated facilities for the virus, officially called Covid-19, since Sunday, and they are both in a stable condition with mild fevers.
Joong Ang Ilbo
You can read more at the link, but if they cannot put this man in proximity of other coronavirus patients that likely means there are people infected in Seoul with the virus that don’t know it.
Of course undetected infected cases are roaming around Seoul and all of Korea, Korean leadership failed their country by failing to shut down all travel from China immediately. Now the idiot Seoul mayor is trying to have more infected chinese tourist visit Seoul.
It looks more and more like China created this virus as a biological weapon, but they accidentally leaked the virus onto themselves.
Dean Koontz… 1981… Wuhan-400…
https://www.amazon.com/Eyes-Darkness-Thriller-Dean-Koontz/dp/0425224864
Not The Greatest Story Ever Told; but has an interesting twist involving a man-made pathogen from Wuhan… Read alongside Andromeda Strain, I Am Legend, The Satan Bug, and The Stand.
Life imitating Art, as it were.
Great job Emperor Xi.
After talking to a lot of Koreans concerning their feelings over WuFlu, it seems if it gets a foothold in Korea… which would be a cultural-changing experience (think sidedish-sharing culture)… blame will be angrily given to those who failed to protect the country…
…this means leaders who sided with China’s demands over the safety of Koreans… those who insisted on maintaining air links, bringing in Chinese students (who will inevitably infect and kill a small percentage of Korean students), encouraged Chinese tourism, etc.
While they may not hang from light poles, they may find themselves in a cell next to former President Park… and may remain there long after she is out.
Sidenote:
Everybody is expecting this to burn out once the weather gets warm… as flu does. Makes sense, right? O.K., answer me this… if that is the case, why is it taking off in Singapore… a spotlessly clean and hygienic nation with summer weather all the time? Korea needs to consider this question very carefully… as it likely applies.
Bonus:
Smart people might have a couple months of food stored… not necessarily because of shortages… but because nobody wants to wait in line with a bunch of drippy snotty vectors.
First case found in Area IV.
454 on that cruise ship now have the coronavirus (it was 40 not very long ago at all, and they’ve been quarantined since).
Watching this stuff on the day to day kind of makes one (or at least me) forget how fast this has happened. Only about three weeks ago (January 25th) there were only 2,000 cases (well official numbers, which are probably bullcrap but surely there must be some statistical significance to them). Now almost that many have died, and the number is up to around 74,000.
Reports coming from America that states are hiding or covering up cases. Shrimp Zoo on youtube has some stories…he is a lttle frantic but maybe understandably so.
Given that the symptoms are the same as the common cold, normal flu, and 137+ other diseases–and given the shortages and unreliability of corona-virus test kits–I’m not gonna worry ’bout it.
Yes, people die from this. People die from the common cold every year, too. George Edward Stanhope Molyneux Herbert, 5th Earl of Carnarvon (the guy who financed the King Tut expedition) died from an infected mosquito bite. Koreans die (allegedly) from sleeping in the same room as an electric fan. Some people die from cancer before they lose their baby teeth.
We need to get over ourselves. There are more than 7 Billion other people out there. Everyone has a sad story. Pick yourself up. Dust yourself down. No one ever won a fight laying around whinging.
Live well. Do good to others. Be grateful.
we are talking mass death, no randomness of a mosquito bit in a cursed tomb here, we are talking about death of millions in the space of a very short time, end of nations, break down of societies. Take a view of the stuff coming out of China, There will be no living well and doing good for others, there will be every man for himself fight over scarce resources and the last uncontaminated scraps.
Flyingsword, there are 35 million abortions every year, worldwide. Sometimes the mother dies, too. That’s more dead than died from the Spanish Flu (estimated in 2018 to have killed 17 Million between January 1918 and December 1920).
There are many millions who, like John Wayne after having a cancerous lung removed, continue to smoke up to six packs of cigarettes a day (while filming “In Harm’s Way”). Or those who eat themselves into early graves through any number of heart or liver diseases. And millions more die from starvation or malnutrition.
Every war was over a dispute about resources. A prime example: Japan attacked Pearl Harbor to prevent the USA from interfering in their grabbing oil, rubber, and other resources from the Dutch East Indies, British Malaysia, and French Indochina. And I expect CH could make jokes about that.
We are ALL going to die of Something. It may not be glorious or brave or comfortable. But! There are always opportunities to do good before we die. We just need to look for them.
In a year or so, we’ll probably treat the current “Yellow Peril” with the same respect and disdain we now give Bubonic/Pneumonic Plague, Cholera, Yellow Fever, Typhoid, Typhus, Mumps, Measles, SARS, MERS, Ebola, and the Spanish Flu.
Or we’ll all be dead.
So stop worrying. Wash your hands. Avoid people sneezing or coughing in your face. And live your life. It’s the only one you get.
“grabbing oil, rubber, and other resources from the Dutch East Indies, British Malaysia, and French Indochina. And I expect CH could make jokes about that.”
I TOOK rubber to all three of those places.