Hong Kong researchers have already developed a vaccine for the deadly Wuhan coronavirus – but need time to test it, according to infectious diseases expert Professor Yuen Kwok-yung.
Scientists in mainland China and the United States were also separately racing to produce a vaccine for the new coronavirus, which has killed more than 100 people and infected thousands.
Yuen, chair of infectious diseases at the University of Hong Kong, revealed that his team was working on the vaccine and had isolated the previously unknown virus from the city’s first imported case.
(CNN)A chartered flight with about 210 Americans aboard arrived in Alaska to refuel on its first US stop since leaving the epicenter of the coronavirus outbreak in China.
The fast-moving coronavirus has killed 130 people and infected 6,000 others in China -- most of them in the hardest-hit city of Wuhan. Five cases of the disease have been confirmed in the United States.
The flight chartered by the State Department left Wuhan on Wednesday local time, and stopped to in Anchorage, Alaska, according to a live signal from CNN affiliate KTUU.
From there, it will head to the March Air Reserve Base near Riverside, California, where it'll arrive early Wednesday. The flight was originally planned to land at the civilian Ontario International Airport -- about 35 miles from Los Angeles.
It's not immediately clear why the itinerary was changed from the civilian airport to a military base. Curt Hagman, a San Bernardino County commissioner who is on the board of the Ontario airport, said they were informed Tuesday night that the plane will not land there.
Apparently the airport in Alaska has an area designed for this, according to my radio. Not sure what that means lol. Um, don't forget to hose down that airplane.
Talking to a buddy in my art class today, old dude, he's a retired physicist at Los Alomos. He compared it to bacteria in a jar. It doubles every once in a while, but when you get to the thirtieth minute you've got a hour, then two hours, then four hours. That jar fills up fast in the worst case scenario. China seems kind of fucked. I'm not freaking out yet, are you? It's interesting, for sure.
Talking to a buddy in my art class today, old dude, he's a retired physicist at Los Alomos. He compared it to bacteria in a jar. It doubles every once in a while, but when you get to the thirtieth minute you've got a hour, then two hours, then four hours. That jar fills up fast in the worst case scenario. China seems kind of fucked. I'm not freaking out yet, are you? It's interesting, for sure.
There's a good chance that something I don't expect is going to kill me. It might be this, but I don't worry about it. Very little I can do. I worry more about my kids.
Talking to a buddy in my art class today, old dude, he's a retired physicist at Los Alomos. He compared it to bacteria in a jar. It doubles every once in a while, but when you get to the thirtieth minute you've got a hour, then two hours, then four hours. That jar fills up fast in the worst case scenario. China seems kind of fucked. I'm not freaking out yet, are you? It's interesting, for sure.
fucking around in Excel. If the trendline is linear, there will be 900 deaths by April 24th (90 days). I couldn't figure out how to produce an exponential trend line.
You may not want to toast to this. According to recent Internet search results, some people are apparently confusing coronavirus — a pneumonia-like illness that has sickened around 6,000 and killed more than 130 — with Corona, the light Mexican pale lager. As seen in a Google Trends graph first shared by BoingBoing, there has been a major spike in searches for “Corona beer virus” in North America, Brazil, Australia and parts of Asia and Europe, suggesting people are concerned about whether or not the beverage is to blame for the recent viral outbreak.