Originally Posted by wazu:
CNN says they just launched construction of a new 1,000 bed hospital in Wuhan and plan to have it ready by February 3rd. Holy shit.
My Chinese colleagues told me about this on Thursday. The reaction of the Chinese government tells me they are taking the threat very seriously. [Reply]
According to Face the Nation, (I know, it was on when I walked into the room), another 2000 confirmed cases with 2600 more suspected cases in China. [Reply]
Originally Posted by GloucesterChief:
Virus is confirmed to be communicable in asymptomatic persons.
I'll believe that when we hear it from a more trusted source than the Chinese government, who are trying to enforce a massive quarantine. It sounds like they haven't shared their data with anybody. [Reply]
On one of my business trips I was taken to a restaurant in Guangzhou and stacked up on the outside of all the restaurants on this one street were cages and aquariums filled with every imaginable animal, many I've never seen before.
