W Ian Lipkin: "I think we are getting into semantics at this point. It's all over the world."

[Dennis Donovan]

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David Gura ✔ @davidgura

Asked by the @bbcworldservice's @raziaiqbal if we are at a "tipping point," when the #coronavirus outbreak becomes a pandemic, @Columbia "virus hunter" W. Ian Lipkin says, "I think we are getting into semantics at this point. It's all over the world."

9:21 AM - Feb 24, 2020

It's statements like these that get my attention.

[Javaman]

1. reading about the surge and rapid rise of cases in Italy, Iran and South Korea

scared the shit out of me last night.

also, I find it very interesting that russia still only reports 2 cases. they are right next to china and share a border.

[Baitball Blogger]

3. On top of everything that we have running against us in the U.S.,

will be the MAGA who will resist attempts to close down private areas, like churches, that might spread this quicker.

I wonder what that South Korean church was doing that it boomed in numbers so quickly. I texted my daughter to inform her of that development and commented, "It's a good thing that none of us attend church, because they're petri dishes." And she replied, "Amen to that."

[Dennis Donovan]

6. Richard Engel just tweeted about that:

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Richard Engel ✔@RichardEngel

Doctors I’m speaking to are asking how it’s possible countries neighboring or near to China (India/ Indonesia) have few or no reported virus cases when Italy is finding hundreds in tiny hilltop villages. Is it a case of don’t look for what you don’t want to find, they wonder.

11:37 AM - Feb 24, 2020

[Iliyah]

2. Yes, pretty much . . .

I'm confident that researchers/scientists all over the world (USA don't have many because Republicans don't believe in them) are working day and night for a cure, antibiotics, etc.

But 79,000 is pause for alarm and this number could be much higher, same with the deaths from this virus.

[Baitball Blogger]

4. I expect an effective solution coming from a country that values science.

[CaptYossarian]

5. It can be called the "Orange Plague".

pr*sident Swamp Thing fiddles while everybody dies.