Sunday, February 2, 2020

Coronavirus and Germany

According to Focus News this afternoon.....of these 250-odd Germans that they flew out of Wuhan with.....today, the Germans announced that two of them have the virus.  A big deal?  Well, they've had a full day to mingle around the rest, and I would take a guess that a dozen or more will show symptoms within the next couple of days.  The entire group, along with 20-odd German Red Cross workers to manage the isolation center....are safely in a compound area of a German Army post in the Pfalz.

What happens to the two infected folks?  According to ARD (public German TV), they go to a special wing of hospital in Frankfurt, which is meant to house serious infections. 

Conspiracy theories?  Well...the Heath Minister (Spahn) came out and hyped up criticism of social media.  A fair amount of the internet chatter goes to the rumor that more deaths in China have occurred....than reported in public....something that the Germans can't do much about. 

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