In this Friday, Jan. 24, 2020, photo released by China's Xinhua News Agency, a medical worker attends to a patient in the intensive care unit at Zhongnan Hospital of Wuhan University in Wuhan in central China's Hubei Province.
Meanwhile, Australia announced its first case Saturday, a Chinese man in his 50s who last week returned from China. France said that three people had fallen ill with the virus — the disease’s first appearance in Europe. And the United States reported its second case, involving a Chicago woman in her 60s who was hospitalized in isolation after returning from China.
Hospitals in Wuhan grappled with a flood of patients and a lack of supplies. Videos circulating online showed throngs of frantic people in masks lined up for examinations, and some complained that family members had been turned away at hospitals that were at capacity. But it is not clear just how lethal this coronavirus is, or even whether it is as dangerous as ordinary flu, which kills tens of thousands of people every year in the U.S. alone. Scientists say it is also not clear if it spreads as easily as SARS, its genetic cousin, which also originated in China and killed about 800 people.
In France, Health Minister Agnes Buzyn said that two infected patients had traveled in China and that France should brace for more such cases. A third case was announced in a statement from her ministry about three hours later. Still, “CDC believes that the immediate risk to the American public continues to be low at this time, but the situation continues to evolve rapidly,” said the agency’s Dr. Nancy Messonnier.
Damn Chinese government needs to lock down the airport! Don't let anyone get out of their country! Don't send that outside of your country. Stop eating all them weird animals!
Oh yeah, because it makes total sense to quarantine 50 million people in 18 cities b/c of 1,300 cases and 41 deaths. GTFOH. The flu has killed over 10k in the USA since December and its barley even talked about.
Hey China govt., I’m all about some culture. Maybe it’s time to adapt, quit chopping up live animals in wet markets on the street? Also- concentration camps aren’t cool, thought we had that figured out after the 40’s.
Wtffffffffffffuck
Im gonna tell u this if there locking city downs and flying chemical over populated areas death tolls are already in the thousands
HarmlessYardDog Please send all American journalists and international bankers there immediately.
Someone’s got a vaccine to sell 🤔
Believe the -China man....not hardly
Holy shit
Uhh the regular flu is a way deadlier problem than this. Get journalism 🤡🤡🤡
there was a doctor died because of the virus
Anyone asking China what the fuck they did to create this?
Pushing 1300 now, that’s a big jump in one day. Again these are the knowns. It’s now in Washington state and Illinois. What’s going to kill everybody is the unknown knowns. That hospital of a 1000 beds the Chinese are building is not big enough for what’s coming.
😂 every time. I swear every time this shit gets people off the rails. It’s hysterical the panic created by the media to just get hits.
Wow. But keep in mind that over 6000 people have died in the USA from this seasons flu.
Thanos can't do it, the virus does
The real problem is: too late for Europe and America?
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