China has asked other countries to ship medical supplies. This is a bad sign since China is arguably the world’s largest producer of most medical supplies. There are credible images of masks being tossed over the border fence from Burma.
This sort of chart forecasting confirmed cases is using essentially the same techniques you will be learning in the middle section of this course:
I noted the other day that it is a short move from restrictions on travel to restrictions on trade. While it is a minor border, Kazakhstan has closed its border with China to both.
There are estimates out that the epidemic may shave 1% of China’s real GDP growth for 2020. That is roughly $150B.
This image is confirmed authentic:
China is attempting to build a new hospital in Wuhan in 10 days (the video of this showing different colored vehicles is mesmerizing). China is building a physical steel and concrete hospital because this is what they can do; in the U.S., both the CDC and the military have pre-fabricated mobile hospitals for this.
The U.S. has gone to Level 4 travel advisement. This isn’t a restriction, but rather a position that you should not travel to China at all.
Many Chinese are in self-imposed quarantine. They are healthy but getting bored and low on food.
Italy has quarantined a cruise ship due to a suspected case on board.
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Videos below here are best viewed as unconfirmed:
Believe this video from Tuesday is of a deserted shopping district is in Wuhan.
Apartment doors barred shut from the outside in Jiangsu, to keep infections in quarantine.
Charitable distribution of face masks in Hong Kong.
Monkeys at Mount Emei that are normally fed by tourists looking confused.
I am not going to link to epidemic porn, but there are also multiple videos available of people collapsed in public places going unaided.
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