kevin kee

I hope they keep it, I am happier the News+ bypassing publisher it makes the experience more cohesive to me. Really enjoy News+ especially during isolation period. Plenty of reading materials to occupy my time.

Soli said:

kevin kee said:

As above poster said above, flu vaccine prevents you from getting sick. There are so much unknown about the coronavirus that is equally daunting for it to become potentially pandemic as well as harmless in the future. We just don't know and that makes prevention measurement all the more important.

No, it doesn't. It reduces the potential for risk. There is no magic bullet at this point with the annual flu vaccine. But let's be clear about your statement regarding this assertion that the vaccine is effectively a "cure," there are still 8,000 deaths this season from the flu in the US, so why should Americans be more afraid of the flu (and countless others things) over 11 cases of people now under quarantine? The numbers don't work out in your favor.

Despite the morbidity and mortality with flu, there's a certainty of seasonal flu. You could predict pretty accurately what the range of the mortality is and the hospitalizations will be, and when the seasonal ended. 

Compare to that, 2019-nCoV is something of a wild card in terms of how far it will spread and how many deaths it will cause. You said 8,000 deaths this season from the flu, how can you be certain it would not be 8,000,000 deaths alone in a year time from nCoV? Scientists are racing to find out more about 2019-nCoV, and our understanding of the virus and the threat it poses may change as new information becomes available. Based on what we know so far, here's how it compares with the flu.

Severity
So far this flu season, about 1% of people in the United States have developed symptoms severe enough to be hospitalized, which is similar to the rate last season, according to data from the CDC. Of the more than 20,000 cases reported in China so far, about 14% have been classified as severe, according to data from the World Health Organization (WHO) posted Tuesday (Feb. 4).

Death Rate
So far this flu season, about 0.05% of people who caught the flu have died from the virus in the U.S., according to CDC data.  Throughout the outbreak, the death rate for 2019-nCoV has been about 2%. 

Transmission
The measure scientists use to determine how easily a virus spreads is known as the "basic reproduction number," or R0 (pronounced R-nought). This is an estimate of the average number of people who catch the virus from a single infected person, Live science previously reported. The flu has an R0 value of about 1.3. A study published Jan. 29 in the New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM) estimated an R0 value for the new coronavirus to be 2.2, meaning each infected person has been spreading the virus to an average of 2.2 people.

Risk of Infection
The CDC estimates that, on average, about 8% of the U.S. population gets sick with the flu each season. It's unknown how the situation with this virus in the U.S. will unfold but with high transmission, without prevention, it can escalate quickly.

Prevention
Unlike seasonal flu, for which there is a vaccine to protect against infection, there is no vaccine for 2019-nCoV. 

I tried many Mail alternative apps, but for some reason I keep coming back to the default Mail app. It has all that I need and it works fine for me, haven't had any issues, so why bother changing?

First time seeing the screen and I was blown away. The display is out of this world.

OnPartyBusiness said:

I thought at first that Siri was getting better but now it seems to be going backwards. Functionality that I had a few months ago is gone. I used to be able to ask Siri the percentage of battery charge on my iPad which was helpful if I didn’t have my glasses on and couldn’t see the little battery amount. Now it says I’m sorry I don’t know the battery status of iPad. Also, I  used to be able to ask Siri to read my email, now it just opens the email app. And I used to be able, when dictating a text message and realized I had forgotten something, to just say “add” and she would say go ahead and add that to my text, now the added portion is all that gets sent. I just would be content if she would resume her old functionality.

 I just did and it says "Your iPad is at 70%". Also it is still able to read email (by time or by name). Haven't tried the last one yet.