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Old 01-24-2020, 09:34 AM
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Originally Posted by The Elkster View Post
Here is a comment I just read on Reddit. Appears to be verified but obviously based on a somewhat limited dataset. Not great news if at all accurate.

https://www.reddit.com/r/China_Flu/c...estimation_of/

Key findings

•We estimate the basic reproductive number of the infection (����0) to be significantly greater than one. We estimate it to be between 3.6 and 4.0, indicating that 72-75% of transmissions must be prevented by control measures for infections to stop increasing.


•We estimate that only 5.1% (95%CI, 4.8–5.5) of infections in Wuhan are identified, indicating a large number of infections in the community, and also reflecting the difficulty in detecting cases of this new disease. Surveillance for this novel pathogen has been launched very quickly by public health authorities in China, allowing for rapid assessment of the speed of increase of cases in Wuhan and other areas.


•If no change in control or transmission happens, then we expect further outbreaks to occur in other Chinese cities, and that infections will continue to be exported to international destinations at an increasing rate. In 14 days’ time (4 February 2020), our model predicts the number of infected people in Wuhan to be greater than 250 thousand (prediction interval, 164,602 to 351,396). We predict the cities with the largest outbreaks elsewhere in China to be Shanghai, Beijing, Guangzhou, Chongqing and Chengdu. We also predict that by 4 Feb 2020, the countries or special administrative regions at greatest risk of importing infections through air travel are Thailand, Japan, Taiwan, Hong Kong, and South Korea.


•Our model suggests that travel restrictions from and to Wuhan city are unlikely to be effective in halting transmission across China; with a 99% effective reduction in travel, the size of the epidemic outside of Wuhan may only be reduced by 24.9% on 4 February
This is what I've been trying to get across this whole time. I was (am) a scientist. I've studied bacteria and viruses, DNA replication and mutations. I've been following the trends and numbers. This is bad! Your excerpt actually has me more concerned, which I already was, if true. Bad news for sure. Those numbers are much worse than I had expected.

I'm not a doomsday prepper tinfoil hat type, just know what this will turn into. Those numbers are extremely exponential. And then mutations kick in with that, and it becomes even worse as the virus gets stronger. An R of 3.6-4 is huge. For every person infected, they infect four others....

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