Teak: 24 Feb 2020 World Univ & Sch Q & A and News - Minutes from 15 Feb '20 open Monthly Business Meeting * * * 'In case of emergency (was: Electricity outage)' ... this thread about a major earthquake in CA, or Coronavirus / COVID 19 or newly MERS corona

World Univ & Sch Livestream ... https://www.youtube.com/user/WorldUnivandSch ... https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch ... https://worlduniversityandschool.blogspot.com/2020/02/minutes-for-sat-feb-15-2020-world.html ... https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/02/eclectus-parrot-minutes-for-sat-feb-15.html ...


24 Feb 2020 World Univ & Sch Q & A and News - Minutes from 15 Feb '20 open Monthly Business Meeting

https://youtu.be/5obDUslRXbg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5obDU...
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'In case of emergency (was: Electricity outage)' ... 
this thread about a major earthquake in CA, or Coronavirus / COVID 19 or newly MERS coronavirus (MERS-CoV) or SARS (re genes) 
MacLeod <sgkmacleod@gmail.com>1:03 PM (1 hour ago)
to edX, David, David, Dean, Gabrielle, Caleb, Brig, Jerry, Karen, Tym, Patti, Barbara, Peter, Janie, Alden, Gantt, Ed, Bruce, David, Heather, Ann, Alex, Jonathan, Linda, lovell, Byron, JoAnne, Scott, Jane, Bruce, Nancy, Michael, GLORYHi All, 
New thread here: 'In case of emergency (was: Electricity outage)' re numerous outages in Canyon 94516 ... but this thread could be about a major earthquake in CA, or Coronavirus / COVID 19 or newly MERS coronavirus (MERS-CoV) or SARS (re genes) ...

Have been aggregating some information sources re Coronavirus / COVID 19, beginning here - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/02/easter-island-chile-rapa-nui-report-all.html on Feb 12, 2020, where I think it begins data-wise around 23 Jan 2020.

Here's Kaiser Permanente's web page on this (which health care provider is in 8 US states) - https://healthy.kaiserpermanente.org/alerts/p1/2019-novel-coronavirus-feb-2020 - which points to the CDC - Center for Disease Control (https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/index.html ) - for information.

Am wary of "Orientalism" (a kind of racism) in the representations of all this data, and here too - Coronavirus COVID-19 Global Cases by Johns Hopkins CSSE
 ... https://gisanddata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/opsdashboard/index.html#/bda7594740fd40299423467b48e9ecf6 (where it's big red circles presently center on Wuhan China, Italy, and Iran) - but am also appreciative of all these new amazing opportunities for access to information!

Just learned of a new Coronavirus:
'MERS coronavirus (MERS-CoV)
Middle East respiratory syndrome-related coronavirus'

from searching and finding this Google map -
https://www.google.com/maps/d/viewer?msa=0&hl=en&ie=UTF8&t=h&z=2&vpsrc=1&mid=15GjG9LJ3K4LTOcdYPuu2zjJoAPg&ll=29.482620294255913%2C132.57207391774304
(and this and SARS are all mentioned in the CDC website).

In German, here's a recent article on Coronavirus Covid-19 emerging in Italy:
https://www.fr.de/panorama/coronavirus-italien-riegelt-dutzend-staedte-zr-13533315.html (and as an alternative news' source, here are German national newspapers - https://www.deutschland.de/en/topic/knowledge/national-newspapers - https://translate.google.com/ - but search for information online in Google especially). And here's another article regarding Germany's health minister - https://www.faz.net/aktuell/wirtschaft/spahn-auch-deutsche-orte-koennten-abgeriegelt-werden-16649531.html - which suggests that quarantines could happen; and another regarding that the WHO wants the world to prepare for a Pandemic: https://www.welt.de/vermischtes/live205334991/Coronavirus-WHO-will-Welt-auf-moegliche-Pandemie-vorbereiten.html .

I also found the tone of this recent PBS NewsHour LIveStream responsible, informative and helpful:
WATCH LIVE: NewsHour answers your questions on novel coronavirus
Streamed live on Feb 21, 2020
- https://youtu.be/0jcT1Ui3Hmc
And here's the World Health Organization's web site: https://www.who.int/emergencies/diseases/novel-coronavirus-2019

And the web site of:
European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control
An agency of the European Union
https://www.ecdc.europa.eu/en/covid-19/interactive-map
Per this 1/12/20 blog entry again, am thinking / planning for avatar bot electronic medical records for all 7.5 billion people could help in this COVID-19 situation -

"Easter Island, Chile (Rapa Nui): . . . Genes . . . Report ALL cases of Coronavirus into a #RealisticVirtualEarthForGenetics in #AvatarBotElectronicMedicalRecords planning for all 7.5 billion people on planet in all ~200 nation states' WUaS Univs & in a SINGLE #RealisticVirtualEarth - and in the ~200 online WUaS teaching hospitals ..."
 https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/02/easter-island-chile-rapa-nui-report-all.html - and per Harvard and MIT Professor of Genetics' George Church's recent Tweet (in blog post too) -

https://link.medium.com/7zL63vauY3    Thanks Ed. Rapid response capabilities needed: molecular diagnostics, vaccines, neutralizing antibodies, and homes easily converted to off-the-grid full-recycling quarantine-biospheres. Not just for this epidemic, but the next one.

https://t.co/8gF7gotjNU Thanks Ed. Rapid response capabilities needed: molecular diagnostics, vaccines, neutralizing antibodies, and homes easily converted to off-the-grid full-recycling quarantine-biospheres. Not just for this epidemic, but the next one.— george church (@geochurch) February 11, 2020

> https://twitter.com/geochurch/status/1227150486320615424?s=20 too.

How to parse all this remarkable information as this situation develops - and between all of us in communication with experts (presumably creating these web site updates)? What information sites would you suggest looking at?

And about CA earthquake preparedness too?

Regards, Scott
https://twitter.com/scottmacleod

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Hi, Byron, Ed, MDs, All,  
Ongoing thinking and communicating about this impending CoronaVirus COVID-19 virus here - 

World Univ & Sch 2/24/20 Livestream - https://t.co/M0985srtce - https://t.co/Ga7kahzZU5 re @WorldUnivAndSch WUaS Q & A and News-Minutes from open #WUaSMonthlyBusinessMeeting https://t.co/IkgvS6R3ed - https://t.co/DydmwOAHW1 &>https://t.co/x6xhMNmd5c incl. #CoronaVirusCOVID19 ~— WorldUnivandSch (@WorldUnivAndSch) February 24, 2020

https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1232073321220435969?s=20 - and I think that the following Harvard Tweet is a remarkable opportunity: 
"Scientists from Harvard will join forces with colleagues from China to improve coronavirus diagnostics, and develop vaccines to prevent new infections and antiviral therapies to treat existing ones" - 

Scientists from Harvard will join forces with colleagues from China to improve coronavirus diagnostics, and develop vaccines to prevent new infections and antiviral therapies to treat existing ones https://t.co/jt0Dq0DUhu— Harvard University (@Harvard) February 25, 2020

https://twitter.com/Harvard/status/1232116756560465921?s=20
https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2020/02/harvard-and-china-collaborate-on-coronavirus-therapies/

Also, from today's front pages of "Newspapers of Record" + ...

"C.D.C. Tells Americans to Prepare for Coronavirus Outbreak" -
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/25/health/coronavirus-united-states.html
And from other countries' presses:
'Drohender Ausbruch:
Deutschland bereitet sich auf Covid-19 vor'
"Impending outbreak:
Germany is preparing for Covid-19"
https://www.spiegel.de/wissenschaft/medizin/coronavirus-wie-sich-deutschland-auf-covid-19-vorbereitet-a-b5739916-9993-4f2b-93d9-8f5a8a8bd884

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_newspapers_in_Germany


"CDC sounds warning, says people should start preparing for coronavirus spreading in US" -
https://www.bostonglobe.com/2020/02/25/metro/cdc-says-people-should-start-preparing-coronavirus-spreading-us/
"As fears of pandemic mount, WHO says the world is not ready" - https://www.bostonglobe.com/news/world/2020/02/24/fears-pandemic-mount-who-says-world-not-ready/BSh2e4yzPaDuQZtq0aiidO/story.html
I still think the risks of COVID-19 are place-specific, and from what I've read and heard are very very low, and was seeking a bell curve or graph of peak of deaths so far, but couldn't find this. This Johns Hopkins model suggests that 87,000 cases have been confirmed, 2,705 people have died thus far, and 28,000 people have recovered - https://gisanddata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/opsdashboard/index.html#/bda7594740fd40299423467b48e9ecf6 .  
What do people think? 
Scott
Am learning on Twitter, and Tweeting some about this as well:- https://twitter.com/scottmacleod



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Hi, Ed, Byron, David, All, 
I've also added these two emails to my blog post from yesterday, FYI - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/02/teak-24-feb-2020-world-univ-sch-q-and.html ...

I'm curious how George Church's 'molecular diagnostics' into electronic medical records would work, and as one approach to deal with the possibility of PREPARING for a global pandemic (and not just a US one) per:


@geochurch
Feb 11
https://link.medium.com/7zL63vauY3    Thanks Ed. Rapid response capabilities needed: molecular diagnostics, vaccines, neutralizing antibodies, and homes easily converted to off-the-grid full-recycling quarantine-biospheres. Not just for this epidemic, but the next one.
- https://twitter.com/geochurch/status/1227150486320615424?s=20

And if everyone on the planet had a potential Wikidata PIN # (like a Wikidata Q-item #) - all 7.5 billion people - in what ways could health workers orchestrate response capabilities in all ~200 countries and their official/main languages (and per https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/You_at_World_University and https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Nation_States and https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Languages)? Build out even of the KP system? 
Thoughts, questions, observations? 
Best regards, Scott

World Univ & Sch 2/24/20 Livestream - https://t.co/U8rFQ3ldfJ - https://t.co/682hBrAA60 re @WorldUnivAndSch WUaS Q & A and News-Minutes from open #WUaSMonthlyBusinessMeeting https://t.co/TOXclRdURi - https://t.co/7inDXjwZnE &>https://t.co/2ZxY9NMpTI incl. #CoronaVirusCOVID19 ~— ScottMacLeod (@scottmacleod) February 25, 2020

https://twitter.com/scottmacleod/status/1232387037900066817?s=20https://twitter.com/scottmacleod/status/1232386921323626496?s=20




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