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Thursday, January 30

-Jan 30: The World Health Organization declares a global health emergency. The U.S. reports its first cases of person-to-person transmission of the new virus. A research paper published in the New England Journal of Medicine confirms the asymptomatic transmission of the coronavirus. Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross says the virus will be good for the U.S. economy in a Fox News interview (see video below). Secretary Azar directly warns President Trump that the virus could morph into a pandemic, a warning the president discounts as alarmist. Warnings also continue to come in from the intelligence community about the dangers of the virus. Trump tells an Iowa crowd at a rally that proponents of the Green New Deal want to, “crush our farms, destroy our wonderful cows. They want to kill our cows.” Brexit begins, with Britain’s final departure from the EU planned for Friday. *

Trump tweets all is well

@realDonaldTrump, Twitter, Jan 30, 2020.

Doctors comment on ignored research into coronaviruses

@eugenegu, Twitter, Jan 30, 2020.

CDC Confirms Human to Human Spread

https://www.cdc.gov

The most searched terms on Facebook in February

https://www.facebook.com/business/news/insights

Sino-phobia, or just call it racism.

@AccountingHell, Jan 30, 2020.

CDC Novel Coronavirus Telebriefing, Jan 30, 2020. https://www.cdc.gov/media/releases/2020/p0130-coronavirus-spread.html

Ross, Wilbur. “Coronavirus Will Bring Jobs to US, Mexico: Ross.” Fox Business, January 20, 2020. http://video.foxbusiness.com/v/6128248662001/.

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Rothe, Camilla, Mirjam Schunk, Peter Sothmann, Gisela Bretzel, Guenter Froeschl, Claudia Wallrauch, Thorbjörn Zimmer, et al. “Transmission of 2019-NCoV Infection from an Asymptomatic Contact in Germany.” New England Journal of Medicine 382, no. 10 (January 30, 2020): 970–71. https://doi.org/10.1056/NEJMc2001468.

CDC. “CDC Confirms Person-to-Person Spread of New Coronavirus in the United States.” Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, January 30, 2020. https://www.cdc.gov/media/releases/2020/p0130-coronavirus-spread.html.

CDC. “Transcript of CDC Telebriefing for the Update on 2019 Novel Coronavirus (2019-NCoV).” Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, January 30, 2020. https://www.cdc.gov/media/releases/2020/t0130-novel-coronavirus-update-telebriefing.html.

McKenna, Maryn. “Amid Coronavirus Fears, a Mask Shortage Could Spread Globally.” Wired, February 4, 2020. https://www.wired.com/story/amid-coronavirus-fears-a-mask-shortage-could-spread-globally/.

Du, Zhanwei, Lin Wang, Simon Cauchemez, Xiaoke Xu, Xianwen Wang, Benjamin J. Cowling, and Lauren Ancel Meyers. “Risk of 2019 Novel Coronavirus Importations throughout China Prior to the Wuhan Quarantine.” MedRxiv, January 30, 2020, 2020.01.28.20019299. https://doi.org/10.1101/2020.01.28.20019299.

Furedi, Frank. “Coronavirus and the Culture of Fear,” January 30, 2020. https://www.spiked-online.com/2020/01/30/coronavirus-and-the-culture-of-fear/.

Ricci, Sébastien. “Deadliest Day for China in Virus Fight as Global Fears Mount,” January 30, 2020. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2020-01-deadliest-day-china-virus-global.html.

UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs. “Novel Coronavirus (2019-NCoV): Situation Report – 10 (30 January 2020) – China.” ReliefWeb, January 30, 2020. https://reliefweb.int/report/china/novel-coronavirus-2019-ncov-situation-report-10-30-january-2020.

US Government. “Our Documents – Chinese Exclusion Act (1882),” 1882. https://www.ourdocuments.gov/print_friendly.php?flash=false&page=&doc=47&title=Chinese+Exclusion+Act+%281882%29.

Chen, Nanshan, Min Zhou, Xuan Dong, Jieming Qu, Fengyun Gong, Yang Han, Yang Qiu, et al. “Epidemiological and Clinical Characteristics of 99 Cases of 2019 Novel Coronavirus Pneumonia in Wuhan, China: A Descriptive Study.” The Lancet 395, no. 10223 (January 30, 2020): 507–13. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736(20)30211-7.

Where's CNN's complaint about too many Chinese people on the virus control taskforce in China…no diversity there either. Bet there's not much diversity on the virus control taskforce in Nigeria either….or on the one in Mexico…or the one in Korea…or Pakistan…etc, etc….
— Mark Dingman (@amdingman) January 30, 2020

LIVE: Press conference on the Emergency Committee meeting on #2019nCoV https://t.co/hTQam7RWc9
— World Health Organization (WHO) (@WHO) January 30, 2020

You monster! How dare you!?
Wilbur Ross in the #Trump administration sees happy news in the #coronavirus outbreak — as long as it stays in China. https://t.co/0UlrcAwKVv
— Laurie Garrett (@Laurie_Garrett) January 30, 2020

Based on the data on exposures among 10 confirmed #2019nCoV cases, the mean incubation period was 5.2d, the 95th percentile of the distribution was 12.5 days (9.2 to 18), supporting 14d medical observation recommendation for exposed persons. #IDTwitter https://t.co/QSmAxSaw6A pic.twitter.com/m2FuAbyJ77
— Muge Cevik (@mugecevik) January 29, 2020

In this new modelling study, using ground, rail and air travel data, Simon Cauchemez @institutpasteur & colleagues *estimate* the probability of 2019 novel coronavirus importations throughout China prior to the Wuhan quarantine. #IDTwitter #2019nCoV https://t.co/5dVJS5xRhd
— Muge Cevik (@mugecevik) January 30, 2020

Anderson, Warwick. Colonial Pathologies: American Tropical Medicine, Race, and Hygiene in the Philippines. New edition edition. Durham: Duke University Press Books, 2006.
Boseley, Sarah. “142,000 Died from Measles Last Year, WHO Estimates.” The Guardian, December 5, 2019, sec. Society. https://www.theguardian.com/society/2019/dec/05/142000-died-from-measles-last-year-who-estimates.
Hixenbaugh, Mike. “Scientists Were Close to a Coronavirus Vaccine Years Ago. Then the Money Dried Up.” NBC News, March 8, 2020. https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-care/scientists-were-close-coronavirus-vaccine-years-ago-then-money-dried-n1150091.
Lee, Erika. At America’s Gates: Chinese Immigration during the Exclusion Era, 1882-1943. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2003.
Wilbur Ross says the coronavirus will bring jobs to America. https://www.foxbusiness.com/markets/coronavirus-jobs-north-america-wilbur-ross
Tetro, Jason A. “Is COVID-19 Receiving ADE from Other Coronaviruses?” Microbes and Infection, Special issue on the new coronavirus causing the COVID-19 outbreak, 22, no. 2 (March 2020): 72–73. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.micinf.2020.02.006.
McLaughlin, Eliott C., and Faith Karimi. “Americans Evacuated from China amid Coronavirus Outbreak to Be Monitored for Days.” CNN, January 30, 2020. https://www.cnn.com/2020/01/29/health/us-coronavirus-evacuation-wednesday/index.html.
Sekimukai, Hanako, Iwata-Yoshikawa, Naoko, Fukushi, Shuetsu, et al. Gold nanoparticle-adjuvanted S protein induces a strong antigen-specific IgG response against severe acute respiratory syndrome-related coronavirus infection, but fails to induce protective antibodies and limit eosinophilic infiltration in lungs.Microbiol. immunol. 2020;64(1):33-51. doi:10.1111/1348-0421.12754 https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31692019/
Ariane Düx et al., “The History of Measles: From a 1912 Genome to an Antique Origin,” BioRxiv, December 30, 2019, 2019.12.29.889667, https://doi.org/10.1101/2019.12.29.889667
Jason A. Tetro, “Is COVID-19 Receiving ADE from Other Coronaviruses?,” Microbes and Infection, Special issue on the new coronavirus causing the COVID-19 outbreak, 22, no. 2 (March 1, 2020): 72–73, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.micinf.2020.02.006.
Mike Hixenbaugh, “Scientists Were Close to a Coronavirus Vaccine Years Ago. Then the Money Dried Up.,” NBC News, March 5, 2020, https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-care/scientists-were-close-coronavirus-vaccine-years-ago-then-money-dried-n1150091
NIH: National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, “Experimental HIV Vaccine Regimen Ineffective in Preventing HIV |,” February 3, 2020, http://www.niaid.nih.gov/news-events/experimental-hiv-vaccine-regimen-ineffective-preventing-hiv
https://www.facebook.com/business/news/insights/2020-01-hot-topics-united-states
https://www.cdc.gov/media/releases/2020/p0130-coronavirus-spread.html
Maryn McKenna, “Amid Coronavirus Fears, a Mask Shortage Could Spread Globally,” Wired, February 4, 2020, https://www.wired.com/story/amid-coronavirus-fears-a-mask-shortage-could-spread-globally/.

* Timeline summaries at the top of the page come from a variety of sources:, including The American Journal of Managed Care COVID-19 Timeline (https://www.ajmc.com/view/a-timeline-of-covid19-developments-in-2020), the Just Security Group at the NYU School of Law (https://www.justsecurity.org/69650/timeline-of-the-coronavirus-pandemic-and-u-s-response/), the “10 Things,” daily entries from The Week (theweek.com), as well as a variety of newspapers and television programs.

Thursday, January 30

CDC Novel Coronavirus Telebriefing, Jan 30, 2020. https://www.cdc.gov/media/releases/2020/p0130-coronavirus-spread.html

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