Pandemic

The Majority Of Coronavirus Victims Are Men, And The Virus Is Hitting Adults Far Harder Than It Is Hitting Children

This coronavirus outbreak just keeps getting weirder.  With each passing day the number of confirmed cases and the number of deaths continue to rise, but not all demographic groups are being affected equally.  That seems very odd, but it may also give researchers important clues about how to fight this very deadly virus.  On Tuesday, global health officials finally gave this mysterious new coronavirus an official name.  From now on they will be calling it “COVID-19”, but I doubt that moniker will really catch on with the general public.  In any event, what everybody can agree on is the fact that this disease has the potential to rapidly spread all over the planet, and let us hope that the extreme measures that are being taken to prevent it from getting out of control will be enough. (Read More...)

Scientists Discover Coronavirus Has An Incubation Period Of Up To 24 Days And Can Survive For 9 Days On A Smooth Surface

The more we learn about this mysterious new coronavirus, the more alarming this outbreak becomes.  When the virus first began to spread, authorities insisted that it was very unlikely that human to human transmission was taking place.  Of course we soon found out that this virus spreads from person to person incredibly easily.  Initially we were also told that we shouldn’t be afraid to touch a surface that an infected person may have touched because the virus cannot be spread in that manner.  But as you will see below, scientists have now discovered that the virus can actually live for quite a few days on a smooth surface.  Based on what we now know, this outbreak is going to be exceedingly difficult to contain, and that has very serious implications for all of us. (Read More...)

China Is Literally Dragging People Out Of Their Homes And Sending Them To “Mass Quarantine Camps”

How would you like to be dragged out of your home and shipped off to a camp?  Sadly, that is what is happening to countless numbers of Chinese citizens right now.  Anyone that is sick or anyone that has been in contact with anyone that is sick is being rounded up and sent to a “mass quarantine camp”.  In some cases, people are literally being dragged out of their homes kicking and screaming.  If this virus was only about as dangerous as the common flu, China would not be resorting to such draconian measures.  Of course once someone gets sent to a camp where they are surrounded by hordes of others that are already infected, it is inevitable that person will become infected too.  So in a lot of cases, getting shipped off to one of these “mass quarantine camps” will essentially be a death sentence. (Read More...)

One AI-Powered Simulation Predicts That The Coronavirus Will Kill Up To 52 Million People

Could it be possible that we are right on the verge of one of the worst pandemics in human history?  For years, the experts have been warning us that one is coming.  In fact, Bill Gates has repeatedly warned that this is one of the greatest potential threats that humanity is facing.  We don’t know if this coronavirus outbreak will evolve into the sort of deadly pandemic that Gates was talking about, but without a doubt when the next great global pandemic strikes we could potentially see tens of millions of people die.  In fact, somewhere between 50 million and 100 million people died during the Spanish flu pandemic of 1918 when the population of the world was much smaller.  The following comes from Wikipedia… (Read More...)

The Shocking Truth About The Coronavirus Is Slowly But Surely Starting To Emerge

Initially, a lot of people were trying to convince us that this mysterious new coronavirus was not much of a threat.  Those people have now been proven wrong, and the number of cases continues to escalate at a staggering rate.  We should still hope that the measures that are being taken to reduce the spread of the virus will work, because nobody should want to see this develop into a full-blown worldwide pandemic.  But at this point it has become clear that this outbreak is not going to be easy to control.  The virus spreads very easily from person to person, it can survive for up to five days on surfaces, it has an incubation period of up to 14 days, and people can spread it even if they aren’t showing any symptoms at all.  That makes this an exceedingly dangerous virus, and we will be talking about this crisis for a long time to come. (Read More...)

Is This The Real Reason Why The Coronavirus Is Absolutely Devastating China?

Sometimes we overlook the obvious because we don’t like the implications.  Right now, China is being hit with plague after plague.  As I discussed earlier today, the epicenter for the worst coronavirus outbreak in modern human history is in China, the worst African Swine Fever pandemic ever recorded has wiped out “about two-thirds of China’s swine herd”, and now an outbreak of H5N1 bird flu threatens to decimate Chinese chicken production.  The attention of the entire planet is now keenly focused on China, and it appears that things are only going to get worse in the months ahead. (Read More...)

Fear Of The Coronavirus Is Spreading Like Wildfire All Over The Globe

We haven’t seen an outbreak like this in any of our lifetimes, and it is really starting to frighten a whole lot of people.  This virus has an incubation period of up to 14 days, it spreads very easily from person to person, and it also appears to be mutating very rapidly.  For now, the vast majority of the confirmed cases are still in China, but the virus continues to pop up in more locations around the globe.  In fact, on Friday we learned that the U.K. and Russia have both confirmed their very first cases.  This is obviously a very dangerous disease, and nobody is quite sure what is going to happen next.  But videos that are circulating on social media are fueling speculation that this could become a horrifying global pandemic of epic proportions.  In particular, a brand new video that shows a man that suddenly dropped dead on a street in Wuhan is causing quite a bit of fear and speculation… (Read More...)

Exponential Growth Rate: The Number Of Confirmed Coronavirus Cases Is 236 Times Higher Than It Was 2 Weeks Ago

What is our world going to look like in a few months if the number of coronavirus cases continues to grow at this rate?  On January 17th, there were 41 confirmed cases, and now there are 9,692 in China alone.  That means that the number of confirmed cases is 236 times larger than it was just 2 weeks ago.  I don’t expect the number of cases to be another 236 times larger two weeks from now, but even if the number of cases simply doubles each week, hundreds of millions of people will eventually get this virus.  And that would mean that millions upon millions of people would end up dead.  Let us pray that such a scenario does not materialize, but at this point it has become exceedingly clear that we are dealing with a very serious health crisis. (Read More...)