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  1. See if they can get a pt streak going post all star break. The div race is tight. Every pt is crucial.
  2. Yeah, environment and nutrition play a role but more impact may be due to the pre existing health of the population at risk. So if there are more people with chronic illness at the epicenter of the attack, more will die than if it occured in a healthier population. Agree with better care here. But when a health system is overwhelmed (Wuhan is over 10 million), lot of people will not get enough or prompt care. Also, it is flu season. Many people with any symptom (can be flu or cold and not the Novel coronavirus) will want to be checked and swamp the ER. Treatment is mainly supportive and isolation, and so if they are out of hospital rooms, supplies, healthcare workers, more people will die than otherwise be saved. That's why they built 2 new hospitals in a week. The epicenter was locked down Jan 22, so about 10 days now. More cases are expected. But I think Canada will be fine. My hospital in NYC just distributed policies too, and everyone is made to be on alert for travel history and contact with people under investigation for suspected cases.
  3. Get updated info from BC CDC here: http://www.bccdc.ca/about/news-stories/stories/2020/information-on-novel-coronavirus Good update from BC health here. Dr. Bonnie Henry is a good communicator.
  4. The numbers are still encouraging. 2% fatality and majority cases in China. I expect the cases to still go up for a few weeks. I suspect they are overwhelming the local resources and are less able to care for the infected. Treatment is mostly supportive, but if patients have comorbidites, they will be much harder to treat and those will likely die first. The local lock down in China is largely working to reduce the spread. We can argue it should have been done earlier. But limiting movement of 40 to 50 million people is unprecedented. That's larger than the entire population of Canada. Good thing it is a totalitarian government. That will never happen in Canada. Try to lock down Toronto or Vancouver and there will be riots and protests.
  5. Including Canadian citizens, permanent residents, and diplomats? Sensible screening and quarantine makes more sense to me. We have good public health resources. The handful of cases in Canada are all very mild. No one is dying. We need to keep a lid on it for sure, but there are things we can do short of all out ban. People can also take flights to other countries then come to Canada.
  6. Good info by Ontario. Talks about it with sound rational way. About 1% of cases outside of China. 0 fatality so far. This virus seems to be more infectious than SARS but not as deadly, which is good but harder to contain. Lot of people with pre existing comorbidities are highest at risk. Fatality rate around 2-3% so far, compared to SARS at 10%. As it mutates in humans, it may become less virulent as do some other viruses. Travel history and close contact with those people are the key risk factors. Being Chinese or of Asian descent is not. Self reporting is critical and rapid testing and quarantine of some sort to prevent spread. We have to encourage people to get tested. All common cold and flu spreads like wildfire, in the same way. We don't notice it because people don't get tested and news don't report it, and the fatality rate is much smaller. But the fact is it is spreads the same way. Good hand hygiene, avoid touching your face, don't cough in open air in public, stay home if you are ill, etc do work. Common sense precautions.
  7. Nux used to be a bad 3rd period team for yrs. Now if they just clean up the 2nd period lows...
  8. First lead of the game Still lot of time. Need a cushion. Go for 5.
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