coronavirus-index

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Developments
Extra intel
Informative takes by Kiwis

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Developments

main coronavirus developments (cases, responses, etc)

medRxiv paper posits that the coronavirus may make men infertile, cause kidney damage, and that it is even deadlier if you catch it a second time around (source) (archive.)
Estimates suggest 760 million Chinese living under residential lockdown in quarantined zones (source) (archive)
From the Seattle AAAS science congress: US scientist Trevor Bedford claims that the coronavirus cannot be artifically made, since genetic analysis shows it has the same strain as the SArS virus and would have developed separately from SARS 20-70 years ago; also, Bedford suspects roughly 200,000 people are currently infected with the coronavirus (source) (archive)
Reports of a second biolab in Wuhan: the Center for Disease Control, in close proximity to the Wuhan wet market, that works with coronaviruses and live bats, is linked to the hospital that saw the first coronavirus cases, and has had several breaches (source) (archive)
Belgians that were quarantined for two weeks released, no deaths or complications
Israel introduces mandatory 2 week quarantine for travelers from Thailand, Singapore, Macau and Hong Kong, in addition to China; and a new coronavirus case in Thailand brings their total to 34 cases (source) (archive) (source) (archive)
Research paper from China details the likely origin of the 2019-nCoV coronavirus as the biolab near the market (source) (archive)
Schools in Britain told to stay open even if they suspect coronavirus cases, senior management at NHS have been told to stop testing for the coronavirus after they hit "around 100 confirmed cases", medics in protective suits and face masks panic shoppers in Cowley, the coronavirus has reportedly reduced Singapore's estimated GDP to between "-0.5 to 1.5 percent", China's first potential drug "Favavivir" to treat coronavirus approved for marketing, Japan's health minister issues advisory to avoid crowds and non-essential gatherings, new This Week in Virology podcast discusses the 2019-nCoV coronavirus, record-breaking drop in pollution levels in China as every factory stops work amid coronavirus outbreak, businesses panicking about delays in base materials/textiles/polymers/parts from China (source) (archive) (source) (archive) (source) (archive) (source) (archive) (source) (archive) (source) (archive) (source) (archive) (source) (archive) (source) (archive) (source) (archive)
Prominent critic of Xi Jinping's management of the coronavirus situation has Internet access cut after house arrest (source) (archive)
Photos of Wenzhou residents forced to sleep outside after Chinese New Year as the new laws forbid landlords from renting apartments to non-locals (source) (archive) (archive.)
Basic Reproduction Number R0 for 2019-nCoV coronavirus revised to be between 4.7 and 6.6 (source) (archive) (source) (archive)

Extra intel

extra stuff that doesn't quite fit into the developments section (e.g. videos from youtubers discussing the situation, stuff that's more interesting than informative/current, social media sperging, etc)

Informative takes by Kiwis

If any of our kiwifriends have made any particularly informative/semper posts.