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nytimes.com/2020/01/23/worl...

People who have Parkinson’s need to be more careful.

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Quote: Many had underlying conditions like cirrhosis of the liver, hypertension, diabetes and Parkinson’s disease. Most spent more than a week in hospitals, with some undergoing treatment for a month or longer. But two died just four days after they were admitted.

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CNBC this AM mentioned a case in Chicago, a woman who'd just returned from China.

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Yikes!

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Apparently there is up to two weeks incubation period, meaning we could see this one for a very long time as infected people carry it around the world with no sign for them to take precaution exposing others...including having done so far earlier than the Chinese reports of initial and small scale infection started...and ditto upon reports now that the Chinese government has been moving heaven and earth to keep the real story of how widespread it actually is.

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Much ado about nothing, in my opinion.

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