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Watch Contagion (2011) Full Movie Online free in HD,As an epidemic of a lethal airborne
virus – that kills within days – rapidly grows, the worldwide medical community races to find
a cure and control the panic that spreads faster than the virus itself. This film Contagion is the No.1 movie
in our psyches, in that a film made by Steven Soderburgh in 2011 should eerily prefigure the latest coronavirus pandemic. The film did not end well. The Matt Damon and Gwyneth Paltrow movie depicted a global epidemic, showing the virus originated with a bat in China, as the coronavirus did. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UrulIOKhijI
This is a virus, everyone will get it, there is no cure. Conspiracy Theorists state that is made in a lab to manage global health care cost and limit green house emissions (via Bill Gates twisted mindset) and probably will destroy the global economy. While 80% that is inflicted, will not have severe symptoms to require a hospital stay, it will hospitalize 20% of the people and kill 3% of ailing people. Distancing simply flattens infection rate. Those with other conditions, lung, breathing and heart conditions are at extreme risk of death.
The problem is that most people cling to their fears, because they believe it’s a part of who
they are. If you aren’t ready to face your fears, you probably won’t transcend them.
And there’s nothing wrong in that. Everything happens in its own time.
CBS News medical contributors Dr. David Agus and Dr. Tara Narula and CBS News business analyst Jill Schlesinger — to answer questions from viewers around the country who want to know how the coronavirus affects their health and their finances.
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America’s fear the worst to come ‘weeks from now’ for COVID-19 cases.
As they erect a Make Shift New York’s Central Park coronavirus field hospital !!!
ANALYSIS: Nearly every person dying from the coronavirus likely has these three things in common!!!
It’s interesting to me that cancer in the United States is a Pandemic also.
However, nobody fears that as much as Coronavirus (Covid-19).
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CORONAVIRUS: Why flattening the curve is so vitally important!!
Rather than letting the virus quickly rampage through the population and burn itself out fast, the idea is to spread all those infections out over a longer period of time. Flattening the curve is another way of saying buying more time. Yes, it would potentially prolong the epidemic. But in doing so, public health agencies and the health care infrastructure gain invaluable time to respond to the crisis. There are many myths swirling around on the internet at the moment about COVID-19, more commonly known as the coronavirus. To ensure that we all stay informed with the accurate information, the World Health Organization (WHO) has put together a “myth busters” page, highlighting the truth about some of the
most popular misconceptions out there.
Coronavirus expert says he knows when the virus ‘will burn itself out,’ according to leaked analysis!!! With the overall death toll climbing each day, but the daily death toll showing signs of subsiding, fear and uncertainty have spread farther and farther around the globe as the novel coronavirus continues to captivate the world’s attention. However, John Nicholls, a pathology professor at the University of Hong Kong, says he knows
when the virus will become inactive.
In a private conference call organized last week by CLSA, a brokerage firm based in Hong Kong, investment analysts had a chance to ask Nicholls, one of the world’s foremost experts on the topic, questions about the novel coronavirus. In the days since the call took place, details of Nicholls’ analysis have surfaced on social media and elsewhere online, including a transcript of the call.
Nicholls responded to emailed questions from AccuWeather on Wednesday and confirmed his participation in the discussion, but emphasized that his remarks were made in “a personal capacity” and meant to remain “private.” He said the call was recorded “without my knowledge or consent” and then leaked on social media. When asked by AccuWeather, Nicholls did not dispute any of quotes attributed to him in the leaked transcript. CLSA has not responded to AccuWeather’s request for a comment on the conference call.
The transcript of the call showed Nicholls believes weather conditions will be a key factor in the demise of the novel coronavirus. Referencing the SARS outbreak from 2002 and 2003, Nicholls said he thinks similar weather will shut down the spread of the novel coronavirus.
“Three things the virus does not like:
1. Sunlight, 2. Temperature, and 3. Humidity,”
Nicholls said in response to a question about when he thinks confirmed cases will peak. “Sunlight will cut the virus’ ability to grow in half so the half-life will be 2.5 minutes and in the dark it’s about 13 to 20 [minutes],” Nicholls said. “Sunlight is really good at killing viruses.”
For that reason, he also added that he doesn’t expect areas such as Australia, Africa and the Southern hemisphere to see high rates of infection because they are in the middle of summer. Regarding temperatures, Nicholls said the warmer the better for stopping the spread of the virus, according to the transcript of the conference call. “The virus can remain intact at 4°degrees (39° degrees Fahrenheit) or 10° degrees (50° F) for a longer period of time,” Nicholls said, referring to Celsius measurements, according to the transcript. “But at 30° degrees (86° degrees F) then you get inactivation. And high humidity — the virus doesn’t like it either,” he added, the transcript of the call showed.
However, Nicholls also said that he doesn’t consider SARS or MERS, a Middle Eastern novel virus that spread in 2012, to be an accurate comparison for this year’s outbreak. Rather, the novel coronavirus most closely relates to a severe case of the common cold. “Compared to SARS and MERS, we are talking about a coronavirus that has a mortality rate of eight to 10 times less deadly to SARS to MERS,” Nicholls said. “So, a correct comparison is not SARS or MERS but a severe cold. Basically, this is a severe form of the cold.”
Similar to a common cold, the surrounding environment of the outbreak plays an important role in determining the survivability and spreadability of the virus, he continued. Because of the impending shift in seasons, Nicholls said he expects the spread of the virus to be curbed in a matter of months. “I think it will burn itself out in about six months,” Nicholls said.
According to the transcript, Nicholls elaborated on exactly when he expects the novel coronavirus to subside as investment analysts posed more questions. “The environment is a crucial factor. The environment will be unfavorable for growth around May,” Nicholls said. “The evidence is to look at the common cold — it’s always during winter. So the natural environment will not be favorable in Asia in about May.” Average temperatures typically reach as high as 86° F in Wuhan, the outbreak’s epicenter, on June 17. The AccuWeather forecast calls for temperatures ranging from a high in the low 60s F to a low of below 30 F over the next seven days.
When asked about the probability of the novel coronavirus becoming endemic, Nicholls responded, “If it is like SARS it will not be endemic. It most likely will be a hit and run just like SARS.” Outside of China, Nicholls added to AccuWeather that he would expect the impacts of the virus to be varied in places such as Singapore, Indonesia and Malaysia. Singapore, Nicholls said, may potentially see the virus linger for longer due to an abundance of large public spaces with indoor air-conditioning, such as malls, where people congregate and temperatures and humidity remain lowered.
AccuWeather Founder and CEO Joel Myers speculated earlier this month that spring may be a pivotal time for the fate of the coronavirus. In response to Nicholls analysis, Myers said, “By mid-April we should know” whether the virus is on the decline because of the changing weather. Experts that AccuWeather has spoken to previously have stopped short of linking weather to the spread of the virus. Earlier this month, Andrew Pekosz, Ph.D. professor and vice chair of the W. Harry Feinstone Department of Molecular Microbiology & Immunology at Johns Hopkins University, told AccuWeather cooler weather provides more favorable conditions for the spread of most respiratory viruses.
“Many respiratory viruses transmit better at low temperature and humidity, but we have no data on how this might affect 2019-nCoV transmission,” Pekosz said in an email to AccuWeather on Feb. 4. “Respiratory coronaviruses do appear more frequently in cooler months (late fall, winter). Since we don’t know how this virus was also transmitted within its natural host, it’s difficult to predict if it will have the same pattern as human respiratory coronaviruses,” Pekosz said at the time. Nicholls’ comments, while made privately, represent the most definitive tie to the weather a health expert has made yet.
At the University of Hong Kong, Nicholls has spent the past 25 years studying coronavirus and he served as a key member of the team that characterized SARS. The Hong Kong University Faculty of Medicine’s Clinical Research Centre also created the world’s first lab-grown copy of novel coronavirus, according to CNN correspondent Kristie Lu Stout, giving researchers a major breakthrough in understanding the behavior of the virus.
However, in an interview with Lu Stout, Nicholls said there is one key difference between prior outbreaks and the current spread of the novel coronavirus. Unlike previous versions of coronavirus, the novel coronavirus has been able to be spread before symptoms present themselves in patients. But despite that frightening trait, Nicholls’ long-term optimism hasn’t changed in other public remarks that he’s made recently. “My feeling is that this is going to be just like SARS, that the world is going to get a very bad cold for about five months,” Nicholls told CNN last week.
“Of course the weather and climate will be crucial,” Myers said of the virus’ capacity to spread as the seasons change. “Where spring comes early with above-normal temps and more sunshine, the virus spread will slow faster than where clouds diminish the sunshine and temperatures and humidities are slow to rise.” The World Health Organization (WHO) officially designated the virus COVID-19 on Tuesday, adding that the first vaccine could be available in 18 months, according to Reuters. Source https://news.yahoo.
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Age is not the only risk for severe coronavirus disease !!!
WASHINGTON — Older people remain most at risk of dying as the new coronavirus continues its rampage around the globe, but they’re far from the only ones vulnerable. One of many mysteries: Men seem to be faring worse than women. And as cases skyrocket in the U.S. and Europe, it’s becoming more clear that how healthy you were before the pandemic began plays a key role in how you fare regardless of how old you are. The majority of people who get COVID-19 have mild or moderate symptoms. But “majority” doesn’t mean “all,” and that raises an important question: Who should worry most that they’ll be among the seriously ill? While it will be months before scientists have enough data to say for sure who is most at risk and why, preliminary numbers from early cases around the world are starting to offer hints.
NOT JUST THE OLD WHO GET SICK
Senior citizens undoubtedly are the hardest hit by COVID-19. In China, 80% of deaths were among people in their 60s or older, and that general trend is playing out elsewhere. The graying of the population means some countries face particular risk. Italy has the world’s second oldest population after Japan. While death rates fluctuate wildly early in an outbreak, Italy has reported more than 80% of deaths so far were among those 70 or older. But, “the idea that this is purely a disease that causes death in older people we need to be very, very careful with,” Dr. Mike Ryan, the World Health Organization’s emergencies chief, warned. As much as 10% to 15% of people under 50 have moderate to severe infection, he said Friday. Even if they survive, the middle-aged can spend weeks in the hospital. In France, more than half of the first 300 people admitted to intensive care units were under 60. “Young people are not invincible,” WHO’s Maria Van Kerkhove added, saying more information is needed about the disease in all age groups. Italy reported that a quarter of its cases so far were among people ages 19 to 50. In Spain, a third are under age 44. In the U.S., the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s first snapshot of cases found 29% were ages 20 to 44.
Then there’s the puzzle of children,
who have made up a small fraction of the world’s case counts to date. But while most appear only mildly ill, in the journal Pediatrics researchers traced 2,100 infected children in China and noted one death, a 14-year-old, and that nearly 6% were seriously ill. Another question is what role kids have in spreading the virus: “There is an urgent need for further investigation of the role children have in the chain of transmission,” researchers at Canada’s Dalhousie University wrote in The Lancet Infectious Diseases.
THE RISKIEST HEALTH CONDITIONS
Put aside age: Underlying health plays a big role. In China, 40% of people who required critical care had other chronic health problems. And there, deaths were highest among people who had heart disease, diabetes or chronic lung diseases before they got COVID-19. Preexisting health problems also can increase risk of infection, such as people who have weak immune systems including from cancer treatment. Other countries now are seeing how pre-pandemic health plays a role, and more such threats are likely to be discovered. Italy reported that of the first nine people younger than 40 who died of COVID-19, seven were confirmed to have “grave pathologies” such as heart disease. The more health problems, the worse they fare. Italy also reports about half of people who died with COVID-19 had three or more underlying conditions, while just 2% of deaths were in people with no preexisting ailments. Heart disease is a very broad term, but so far it looks like those most at risk have significant cardiovascular diseases such as congestive heart failure or severely stiffened and clogged arteries, said Dr. Trish Perl, infectious disease chief at UT Southwestern Medical Center.
Any sort of infection tends to make diabetes harder to control, but it’s not clear why diabetics appear to be at particular risk with COVID-19. Risks in the less healthy may have something to do with how they hold up if their immune systems overreact to the virus. Patients who die often seemed to have been improving after a week or so only to suddenly deteriorate — experiencing organ-damaging inflammation. As for preexisting lung problems, “this is really happening in people who have less lung capacity,” Perl said, because of diseases such as COPD — chronic obstructive pulmonary disease — or cystic fibrosis. Asthma also is on the worry list. No one really knows about the risk from very mild asthma, although even routine respiratory infections often leave patients using their inhalers more often and they’ll need monitoring with COVID-19, she said. What about a prior bout of pneumonia? Unless it was severe enough to put you on a ventilator, that alone shouldn’t have caused any significant lingering damage, she said.
THE GENDER MYSTERY
Perhaps the gender imbalance shouldn’t be a surprise: During previous outbreaks of SARS and MERS — cousins to COVID-19 — scientists noticed men seemed more susceptible than women. This time around, slightly more than half the COVID-19 deaths in China were among men. Other parts of Asia saw similar numbers. Then Europe, too, spotted what Dr. Deborah Birx, the White House coronavirus coordinator, labeled a concerning trend. In Italy, where men so far make up 58% of infections, male deaths are outpacing female deaths and the increased risk starts at age 50, according to a report from Italy’s COVID-19 surveillance group. The U.S. CDC hasn’t yet released details. But one report about the first nearly 200 British patients admitted to critical care found about two-thirds were male. One suspect: Globally, men are more likely to have smoked more heavily and for longer periods than women. The European Center for Disease Prevention and Control is urging research into smoking’s connection to COVID-19. Hormones may play a role, too. In 2017, University of Iowa researchers infected mice with SARS and, just like had happened in people, males were more likely to die. Estrogen seemed protective — when their ovaries were removed, deaths among female mice jumped,
the team reported in the Journal of Immunology.
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Country Singer Kalie Shorr Reveals She’s Contracted Coronavirus
By Meredith B. Kile
Country singer Kalie Shorr is the latest celeb to announce that she’s contracted COVID-19. The “Fight Like a Girl” singer shared her experience with the coronavirus on Twitter on Monday, writing that she has been quarantined for three weeks and is beginning to feel better.”Despite being quarantined (except for a handful of trips for groceries) for three weeks, I managed to contract COVID 19,” Shorr tweeted. “I’m feeling significantly better, but it’s proof how dangerous and contagious this is. It’s endlessly frustrating to see people not taking this seriously.”
“The first few days were absolutely miserable. I’ve never felt like that before,” she detailed.
“My entire body was in pain, and my fever was like riding a wave. I completely lost my sense
of taste and smell.” Despite her “miserable” symptoms, the 25-year-old singer shared in another tweet that she’d found a way to beat the quarantine blues — even if it had unexpected consequences. “Impulsively dying my hair purple during quarantine was all fun and games until my agent asked me to do a self tape for a really big movie and now
I have… purple hair,” she shared.
Shorr joins Tom Hanks, Rita Wilson, Idris Elba, Laura Bell Bundy and many others in her announcement that she suffered from the coronavirus during the ongoing global pandemic. Many others have shared accounts of family members and friends who have fallen ill or died. Like Joe Diffie from the flu-like virus, in an attempt to raise awareness and urge followers and fans to heed the advice of medical professionals to stay at home and avoid social contact in order to help slow the spread of the COVID-19 virus.
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