SARS Pt. 2 - Wuhan Boogaloo

[Speaker to Animals]

It definitely does not seem likely the Olympics are going to happen this year.

[Montegriffo]

The CEO of the Tokyo 2020 Olympics and Paralympics committee Toshiro Muto on Wednesday said organisers and the International Olympic Committee (IOC) were going ahead with the Games as planned.
Tokyo Olympic organisers and the Japanese government went on the offensive Wednesday after a senior IOC member said the 2020 Games were being threatened by the spread of a viral outbreak, with their fate probably decided in the next three months.
Tokyo organising committee CEO Toshiro Muto abruptly called a news conference late Wednesday afternoon to address comments from former International Olympic Committee vice president Dick Pound in an interview with The Associated Press. "Our basic thoughts are that we will go ahead with the Olympic and Paralympic Games as scheduled," Muto said, speaking in Japanese.
"For the time being, the situation of the coronavirus infection is, admittedly, difficult to predict, but we will take measures such that we'll have a safe Olympic and Paralympic Games."
The viral outbreak that began in China has infected more than 80,000 people and killed more than 2,700 globally. China has reported 2,715 deaths among 78,064 cases on the mainland.
Japan has 870 confirmed viral cases, including 691 from a cruise ship docked in Yokohama, and five deaths.

As the games draw near, Pound said: "A lot of things have to start happening. You've got to start ramping up your security, your food, the Olympic Village, the hotels. The media folks will be in their building their studios."
Muto declined to speculate about the future condition of the virus.
"I don't think I can talk based on presumptions over what might happen months ahead," Muto said.
"The Prime Minister has announced measures to be taken over the next two weeks and so we, too, are taking that into consideration. The biggest problem would be if this novel coronavirus infections spreads far and wide, so the most important thing to do is to take measures to prevent that from happening."
He also said the torch relay would go ahead. It is to start in Japan on March 26 in Fukushima prefecture, located 250 kilometres northeast of Tokyo.
"We absolutely do not think of cancelling (the torch relay)," Muto said.
"We'd like to think about how to implement it while preventing the spread of infection, including scaling down, or other ways."
Olympics Minister Seiko Hashimoto, speaking in parliament on Wednesday, said "we believe it is necessary to make a worst case scenario in order to improve our operation to achieve success."
She added plans were being made "so that we can safely hold the Tokyo Olympics."

https://www.9news.com.au/world/tokyo-ol ... 2893c50a9a

[TheReal_ND]

It's like playing plague inc on easy mode

[SuburbanFarmer]

It's like playing plague inc on easy mode

This.

[PartyOf5]

Other news coming out of Japan today: All schools are closed for a month.

[Penner]

Didn't China also tried to cover up SARS(the first time around)?

[Penner]

https://youtu.be/IkdPFCStA38

[Penner]

A team of academic and industry researchers is reporting new findings about how exactly an investigational antiviral drug stops coronaviruses. Their paper was published the same day that the National Institutes of Health announced that the drug in question, remdesivir, is being used in the nation's first clinical trial of an experimental treatment for COVID-19, the illness caused by the SARS-CoV-2 virus.

Previous research in cell cultures and animal models has shown that remdesivir can block replication of a variety of coronaviruses, but until now it hasn't been clear how it does so. The research team, which studied the drug's effects on the coronavirus that causes Middle East Respiratory Syndrome, reports that remdesivir blocks a particular enzyme that is required for viral replication. Their work was published in the Journal of Biological Chemistry.

https://www.sciencecodex.com/study-shed ... rks-641824

[TheReal_ND]

A team of academic and industry researchers is reporting new findings about how exactly an investigational antiviral drug stops coronaviruses. Their paper was published the same day that the National Institutes of Health announced that the drug in question, remdesivir, is being used in the nation's first clinical trial of an experimental treatment for COVID-19, the illness caused by the SARS-CoV-2 virus.

Previous research in cell cultures and animal models has shown that remdesivir can block replication of a variety of coronaviruses, but until now it hasn't been clear how it does so. The research team, which studied the drug's effects on the coronavirus that causes Middle East Respiratory Syndrome, reports that remdesivir blocks a particular enzyme that is required for viral replication. Their work was published in the Journal of Biological Chemistry.

https://www.sciencecodex.com/study-shed ... rks-641824

Whew. That was close. All right everyone let's que up and take numbers.

[SuburbanFarmer]

Gonna be a whole lot of ‘hopeful’ announcements this year. All grabbing at the funding that’ll be dumped into biomed research.