Originally Posted by
Airbubba
From the staff clinic today at an airline in Dubai.
Oh, dear. And, the other day, in Washington State, they transferred their first 2019-ncov patient in an ISOPOD, put him in an isolation ward and sent in a robot to treat him.
More than a little bit over the top for an illness that appears, so far, to be serious in relatively few cases and truly dangerous mostly for patients who don't get good supportive care. In any event, the disease appears to have a reproduction number of around three (it's early in the game for analysis) and an average latency period of about nine days. That means it will likely spread fast enough and widely enough that the world won't even come close to having the facilities to provide that level of isolation -- and, if the virus is transmissible before symptoms are evident, there would be no way to even guess which humans to try to isolate.