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A new report finds that the incubation period for the coronavirus may be as long as 24 days, 10 days longer than previous expected.

That means that the potential size of “infected & contagious yet unaware” masses walking around (outside of China’s quarantine borders) could be substantially larger than feared.

On top of that, additional data from China’s hospitals in Wuhan show that once a patient is hospitalized, meaning their condition has become severe, the death rate is very high (~20%). More reinforcement that you want to avoid this virus if at all possible.

And yet, the stock market remains unconcerned to the pandemic threat. Another up day, despite a warning from the Council on Foreign on the fragility of the US economy’s dependence on Chinese supply chains.

Scary stat: 97% of all US antibiotics come from China. Meanwhile, many regions in China are extending their ‘return to work’ deadlines as efforts to fight the outbreak continue.

As we’ve been saying daily now, at some point, the markets are going to have to acknowledge the large and growing lack of economic production that is not occurring.

At a Chinese-run hospital in Zambia, some employees watched as people who recently returned from China showed up with coughs but were not placed in isolation. A doctor tending to those patients has stopped coming to work, and health workers have been ordered not to speak publicly about the new virus that has killed hundreds.

The virus that has spread through much of China has yet to be confirmed in Africa, but global health authorities are worried about the threat to the continent where an estimated 1 million Chinese now live, as some health workers on the ground warn they are not ready to handle an outbreak.

Countries are racing to take precautions as hundreds of travellers arrive from China every day. Safeguards include stronger surveillance at ports of entry and improved quarantine and testing measures across Africa, home to 1.2 billion people and some of the world’s weakest systems for detecting and treating disease.

But the effort has been complicated by a critical shortage of testing kits and numerous illnesses that display symptoms similar to the flu-like virus.

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Chinese billionaire Guo Wengui said Sunday, citing leaked information out of Wuhan, that the death toll could be as high as 50,000, as Chinese officials burn bodies to cover up the true extent of the crisis.

1.5 million chinese infected with #coronavirus.

50,000 cremated.pic.twitter.com/ckNPD1pyNX— Darren of Plymouth 🇬🇧 (@DarrenPlymouth) February 9, 2020

This isn’t the first time we’ve heard about the regime burning bodies, rather, it’s one of those ‘conspiracy theories’ that grows more credible every day.

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The four Chinese passengers whose feared coronavirus infection has kept a Royal Caribbean cruise ship moored at a dock off Bayonne have all tested negative for the virus, New Jersey officials announced Saturday night.

“All four passengers from the cruise ship docked in Bayonne tested negative for novel coronavirus,” Gov. Phil Murphy (D) tweeted.

“New Jersey currently has no confirmed cases of novel coronavirus and the risk to residents remains low.”

The four suspect passengers had been escorted off the Anthem of the Seas cruise liner by infectious disease experts from the Centers for Disease Control as soon as it docked on Friday.

But fears of a coronavirus outbreak onboard — sparked when one of the Chinese passengers contracted a fever — have proven ill-founded. The fever, which was caught by the three other passengers, turned out to be from the common flu, officials said.

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The symptoms for the flu and nCoV are the same. But for the grace of God, we dodged a bullet since the paramedics did not wear face masks and goggles. This time.

David DeGerolamo

There seems to be some confusion between bacteria (prokaryotes) and viruses in the comments and personal discussions. I do not want to spend time here on bacteria but I want to clarify that antibiotics are effective on bacteria, not viruses.

How are viruses different from bacteria?

Even though they can both make us sick, bacteria and viruses are very different at the biological level. Bacteria are small and single-celled, but they are living organisms that do not depend on a host cell to reproduce. Because of these differences, bacterial and viral infections are treated very differently. For instance, antibiotics are only helpful against bacteria, not viruses. Bacteria are also much bigger than viruses.

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Viral Types

There are 6 classes of viruses. The DNA viruses constitute classes I and II. The RNA viruses make up the remaining classes. Class III viruses have a double-stranded RNA genome. Class IV viruses have a positive single-stranded RNA genome, the genome itself acting as mRNA (messenger RNA. Class V viruses have a negative single-stranded RNA genome used as a template for mRNA synthesis. Class VI viruses have a positive single- stranded RNA genome but with a DNA intermediate not only in replication but also in mRNA synthesis.

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2019-nCoV Genetics

nCoV genetics In a recently published paper, viral sequences collected from the earliest patients recognized in the ongoing nCoV-2019 outbreak were assessed and compared to known viral sequences. Sequence analysis of 11 samples found that nCoV-2019 is in the same species as SARS-CoV; the 2 viruses are 94.6% similar in amino acid sequence (80% nucleotide sequence similarity) across the genome. However, other studies do not consider nCoV-2019 to be the same species as SARS-CoV, as it differs from SARS-CoV by more than 10% in the replicase genes. Further analysis demonstrated that nCoV-2019 was less than 75% homologous to nearly all strains of SARS-CoV in the spike protein. (emphasis added). A single isolate of a bat coronavirus, named BatCoV RaTG13, shared 96.7% sequence homology with nCoV2019, suggesting nCoV-2019 originated in bats and shares a common ancestor with SARS-CoV. Other teams found nCoV2019 had over 85% sequence homology with bat SARS-like CoVs.

nCoV-2019’s S protein is most closely related to bat coronaviruses. In addition to the typical coronavirus structural proteins and replicase genes, nCoV-2019 has several currently unidentified nonstructural open reading frames in its genome. nCoV-2019 can be differentiated from other coronaviruses, including SARSCoV, using PCR primers specific to a highly variable region of the spike protein, meaning a PCR diagnostic test can differentiate this virus from other coronaviruses. Phylogenetic analysis of 30 publicly available nCoV-2019 samples concluded that emergence of nCoV-2019 into the human population likely occurred in mid-November 2019. (emphasis added). The sequences have limited variability in consensus sequences, suggesting the outbreak was initiated from either a single introduction into humans or from a very few animal-to-human transmission events. The mutation rate has been estimated in various groups, ranging from about 1.05×10–3 to1.26×10–3 substitutions per site per year, which is similar to some estimates of MERS-CoV mutation rates. As more viral genomes are made publicly available, scientists will better be able to track viral evolution and mutation rates, so the exact estimates will vary.

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The 2019-nCoV is a single stranded, positive sense RNA virus. As stated above, antibiotics have no effect on it. Keep in mind that vaccines allow your body to produce antibodies to a bacteria or virus: it is not a cure once you are infected. The nCoV virus has a high mutation rate which renders a vaccine useless on a new RNA mutation.

The more information that you know concerning molecular biology, the more suspicious you will become concerning the origin of this “novel” virus.

David DeGerolamo

More information:

RNAi

CRISPR – terrorists are us

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Did you not wonder why there are no reported cases of 2019-nCoV in Africa? The answer is simple: they have not been testing anyone as the above picture shows. It takes 36-48 hours to get test results back for coronavirus at a minimum. The results from the cruise ship in Japan trickled in over a period of several days for some reason as the number of infected increases from their small sample size.

Did you not wonder why there are no reported cases of 2019-nCoV in South America?

I believe this will be the week that the truth will come out. At that point, the world’s economies will collapse faster than the price of gas. The price of gas in eastern Tennessee is $1.89 per gallon. And the new wrinkle is that is the cash price; credit is $1.95. The price last week was not predicated on the method of payment.

Hard currency always takes precedent in a crisis. Until it doesn’t. At that point, gold and silver will retake their proper place in a world where central banks have collapsed. If your wealth is in 1’s and 0’s, you make be waking up shortly to a brave new world.

David DeGerolamo