Talk:Coronavirus diseases/Archive 1

Health care workers percentage?
What do the "Health care worker" row percentages in the 2012 and 2002 columns mean? Are they the percentage of all healthcare workers in the world that contracted the disease, the percentage of those "involved", the fatality rate among healthcare workers, or ...? The 2019 column just has the number "16" with an uncited note. —[ Alan M 1 (talk) ]— 21:35, 27 February 2020 (UTC)


 * As of February,1716 infected health workers of which 6 died.


 * https://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-health-medics/china-says-1716-health-workers-infected-by-coronavirus-idUSKBN2080MA


 * (Angunnu (talk) 11:54, 29 February 2020 (UTC))


 * It cannot be percent, I think it’s case fatalities reported,should be a typo .I couldn’t edit it in the page .(Angunnu (talk) 11:57, 29 February 2020 (UTC))


 * is the author of Coronavirus data/Patients characteristics, from which the table is transcluded. Perhaps they can comment here? —[ Alan M 1 (talk) ]— 02:49, 1 March 2020 (UTC)
 * The source paper is from Juanary 24th, when 830 cases were known. This study is from one cohort studied (47?). 6 health workers got sick (absolute number). Check the source for more. Yug (talk)  12:18, 1 March 2020 (UTC)

I'm afraid I don't understand your response. My question is what is the of these numbers (what exactly do they describe, in words), and what exactly is the source for each (enough info to create a proper citation): Some possible ways to interpret it as it currently stands are:
 * 1) "16" is the number of healthcare workers infected (0.020% of 80,423)
 * 2) "16" is the number of healthcare workers dead (0.59% of 2,708)
 * 3) 9.8% of the cases reported were healthcare workers (244 of 2,494)
 * 4) 9.8% of the deaths reported were healthcare workers (84 of 858)
 * 5) 23.1% of the cases reported were healthcare workers (1870 of 8,096)
 * 6) 23.1% of the deaths reported were healthcare workers (172 of 744)

Thanks. —[ Alan M 1 (talk) ]— 21:45, 1 March 2020 (UTC)
 * Hi . I don't remember. Best is to check the source paper. Yug (talk)  23:54, 1 March 2020 (UTC)
 * Seems to be the absolute numbers of cases (not necessarily dead) compared to whole epidemics. Yug (talk)  00:12, 2 March 2020 (UTC)

Closures and Quarantine
I just have one question why are people still outside and business is still open in order for us to prevent this from spreading the government must force people to stay home and shut down unnecessary businesses that are not important right now we need the government to enforce this that’s the only way it’s going to happen they did it in other countries why can’t we do it here I’m getting so worried and scared Nadiasli (talk) 15:50, 22 March 2020 (UTC)

Does "COVID" include SARS, MERS, etc.?
This article starts out by saying that coronavirus diseases are also known as COVID. However, I have only ever seen this term used for COVID-19, the current outbreak. Are there any sources that use "COVID" as a more general category that includes SARS, MERS, and other coronavirus infections? 72.209.60.95 (talk) 23:11, 4 March 2020 (UTC)
 * The term "COVID" was coined during this outbreak/pandemic. It was coined by the UN WHO, to refer to all such coronavirus diseases. -- 65.94.170.207 (talk) 17:56, 31 March 2020 (UTC)

editrequest - portal COVID19
Please add the COVID-19 portal to the See Also section



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-- 65.94.170.207 (talk) 18:11, 31 March 2020 (UTC)
 * Yes check.svg Done Mdaniels5757 (talk) 18:25, 2 April 2020 (UTC)

Edit Request - common cold
Most human coronaviruses cause the common cold. So the common cold is a disease that results for a coronavirus infection. Thus this should appear, please add an entry to the See Also section for this.


 * See also
 * Common cold, a disease caused by common forms of human coronaviruses

-- 65.94.170.207 (talk) 18:11, 31 March 2020 (UTC)


 * Red information icon with gradient background.svg Not done: This doesn't seem to be correct. We need multiple reliable sources to prove this is true. We can't rely on one source. Interstellarity (talk) 21:40, 5 April 2020 (UTC)
 * What is incorrect about it? The U.S. National Institutes of Health isn't a sufficient authority for you? (they're hosting that book, apparently as a standard text) According to our own article Common cold, it lists that 15% of common colds are caused by Coronaviruses. According to our article Coronavirus, it causes the common cold. Other material:     -- 65.94.170.207 (talk) 15:20, 11 April 2020 (UTC)