The Diamond Princess cruise ship is the largest controlled COVID-19 coronavirus infected population outside of China; 20% of the ship were infected over three weeks. This suggests the rate of official reported infections is likely too low
Is it possible that all the Diamond Princess quarantine did was infect more people with Covid-19 and that the aftermath of the poorly-executed quarantine will spread the virus across the globe?
"As an increase in the number of cases poses a growing threat to the economy and public health," Japan plans to start trials of "HIV medications to treat coronavirus patients", the government’s top spokesman said on Tuesday.
"The quarantine process failed. I'd like to sugarcoat it and try to be diplomatic about it, but it failed. People were getting infected on that ship. Something went awry. I don't know what it was, but a lot of people got infected on that ship."
The PBoC cut interest rates for 1 year loans in an effort to support the baking sector while the Finance Minister promised that Beijing would roll out targeted tax and fee cuts.
The relative financial market optimism still seems to be based on the belief that central-bank liquidity supersedes virus transmissibility. That’s still quite optimistic given the uprise in uncertainty about the coronavirus.
"In summary, somebody was entangled with the evolution of 2019-nCoV coronavirus. In addition to origins of natural recombination and intermediate host, the killer coronavirus probably originated from a laboratory in Wuhan."
...the main draw of looking for a stranger online was a larger set of choices than when leveraging friends and family, which was especially useful when “searching for something unusual or hard‐to‐find.“
The CDC will roll out 5 labs, in Chicago, Los Angeles, New York, San Francisco and Seattle, to screen patients through the ominously sounding "national flu surveillance program";
Bloomberg leads with “New Virus Cases Slow”: No, they don’t! What we see is that under revised methodology the stock is higher and the flow of new daily cases are now double what they were before.
