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Wuhan Coronavirus Reaches Epidemic Proportions
February 02, 2020
The World Health Organization (WHO) declared a global public health emergency over the spread of the Wuhan coronavirus on Thursday, citing the potential of the virus to spread to countries not prepared to deal with the contagion. As of Friday, over 20,000 cases of the Wuhan coronavirus have been confirmed in China, with at least 300 deaths and 200 recovered patients. There are now confirmed cases in every provincial-level region except for Tibet, which has not yet confirmed its one suspected case. Beijing, Shanghai and other major cities have enacted their highest-level emergency responses. Wuhan and other cities are building temporary emergency hospitals to handle the influx of patients infected by the virus. American, United and Delta stopped flying to China and Apple closed all of its stores.
Following a wave of unexplained cases of viral pneumonia in the Chinese city of Wuhan across December 2019, a novel coronavirus was detected. Labeled 2019-nCoV, the spread of the virus has been swift. As of January 29, 2020, it has spread to 20 countries with over 6,000 confirmed cases and 133 deaths. While the virus belongs to the same general family responsible for the SARS and MERS outbreaks, its unique properties are still unclear. A new Lancet study encompassing 99 patients admitted with the virus to a local Wuhan hospital revealed the average age of infected patients was 55, and the majority (68 percent) were male. Half of the patients studied were suffering from a pre-existing chronic disease and 49 percent had a direct connection to the food market suspected to be the origin of the virus.
Symptomatically, most patients displayed fever and/or cough on admission to hospital. These are the two most prominent and consistent symptoms seen in the virus. Other symptoms seen in some patients included shortness of breath, muscle aches and headaches. Paul Hunter from the University of East Anglia noted there are key symptomatic differences between this coronavirus and its notorious counterpart, SARS. “What comes through strongly is that the clinical features and epidemiology of the recent outbreak is very similar to SARS with one big difference – the relative lack of upper respiratory tract symptoms such as runny nose, sore throat and sneezing compared to what was seen in SARS,” says Hunter. “This is very important as sneezes and runny noses are a prime way for people to spread infection.” By the endpoint of the study, January 25, only 11 patients had died from the virus, while 31 had recovered and been discharged. Those patients with the virus that did die primarily did so from acute respiratory distress syndrome, or ARDS, a critical form of respiratory failure. While the mortality rate in this studied cohort is around 11 percent, the scientists say some patients currently hospitalized may still succumb to the virus. However, it is also noted that this high mortality rate only accounts for acute hospitalized cases and is not indicative of the virus’s general virulence in the real world. “The reduced susceptibility of females to viral infections could be attributed to the protection from X chromosome and sex hormones, which play an important role in innate and adaptive immunity,” the scientists hypothesize in the new study. The ultimate takeaway from this analysis, the scientists claim, is that older males with pre-existing chronic diseases are most at risk from the novel coronavirus.
DSCC provided the fabs and glass factories in Wuhan:
February 02, 2020
The World Health Organization (WHO) declared a global public health emergency over the spread of the Wuhan coronavirus on Thursday, citing the potential of the virus to spread to countries not prepared to deal with the contagion. As of Friday, over 20,000 cases of the Wuhan coronavirus have been confirmed in China, with at least 300 deaths and 200 recovered patients. There are now confirmed cases in every provincial-level region except for Tibet, which has not yet confirmed its one suspected case. Beijing, Shanghai and other major cities have enacted their highest-level emergency responses. Wuhan and other cities are building temporary emergency hospitals to handle the influx of patients infected by the virus. American, United and Delta stopped flying to China and Apple closed all of its stores.
Following a wave of unexplained cases of viral pneumonia in the Chinese city of Wuhan across December 2019, a novel coronavirus was detected. Labeled 2019-nCoV, the spread of the virus has been swift. As of January 29, 2020, it has spread to 20 countries with over 6,000 confirmed cases and 133 deaths. While the virus belongs to the same general family responsible for the SARS and MERS outbreaks, its unique properties are still unclear. A new Lancet study encompassing 99 patients admitted with the virus to a local Wuhan hospital revealed the average age of infected patients was 55, and the majority (68 percent) were male. Half of the patients studied were suffering from a pre-existing chronic disease and 49 percent had a direct connection to the food market suspected to be the origin of the virus.
Symptomatically, most patients displayed fever and/or cough on admission to hospital. These are the two most prominent and consistent symptoms seen in the virus. Other symptoms seen in some patients included shortness of breath, muscle aches and headaches. Paul Hunter from the University of East Anglia noted there are key symptomatic differences between this coronavirus and its notorious counterpart, SARS. “What comes through strongly is that the clinical features and epidemiology of the recent outbreak is very similar to SARS with one big difference – the relative lack of upper respiratory tract symptoms such as runny nose, sore throat and sneezing compared to what was seen in SARS,” says Hunter. “This is very important as sneezes and runny noses are a prime way for people to spread infection.” By the endpoint of the study, January 25, only 11 patients had died from the virus, while 31 had recovered and been discharged. Those patients with the virus that did die primarily did so from acute respiratory distress syndrome, or ARDS, a critical form of respiratory failure. While the mortality rate in this studied cohort is around 11 percent, the scientists say some patients currently hospitalized may still succumb to the virus. However, it is also noted that this high mortality rate only accounts for acute hospitalized cases and is not indicative of the virus’s general virulence in the real world. “The reduced susceptibility of females to viral infections could be attributed to the protection from X chromosome and sex hormones, which play an important role in innate and adaptive immunity,” the scientists hypothesize in the new study. The ultimate takeaway from this analysis, the scientists claim, is that older males with pre-existing chronic diseases are most at risk from the novel coronavirus.
DSCC provided the fabs and glass factories in Wuhan:
- China Star
- China Star has a 50K substrate per month G6 LTPS LCD fab in Wuhan which began production in 2016.
- China Star also has a G6 flexible OLED fab in Wuhan. The first phase of 15K began mass production in April 2019. Its production is expected to be impacted. Some equipment for integrated touch capability (Y-OCTA) was expected to be installed in March 2020 which could be impacted.
- The second phase of 15K was expected to be installed in October of 2020 with POs issued from November of 2019. A 3rdphase of 15K is also expected in Wuhan with equipment awards and purchase orders in process of being issued. Some of the POs for both phases may be delayed which could impact delivery timing.
- Tianma
- It has an older 30K substrate per month a-Si G4.5 LCD fab that has been in operation since 2010.
- It also has a G6 OLED fab in Wuhan. The first phase of 15K/month of mixed flexible and rigid capacity began production in 2018. Equipment is being moved in for the 2ndphase now. Equipment is likely being moved-in from November 2019 to March 2020 and beyond.
- BOE
- While the Tianma and China Star fabs are for mobile, BOE has a G10.5 a-Si LCD fab in Wuhan. It was expected to begin production in January with additional capacity coming online every 3 months through 2020 and much of 2021. New equipment is also in process of being installed this month and this will continue through 2020 as well. Thus, BOE’s B17 fab is likely to experience some delays in ramping its new capacity due to lack of available manpower as well as installing new equipment for additional capacity coming. It is fortunate for BOE and its customers that this is the slow season, but they are likely to experience delays which should favor its competitors in Taiwan and its Chinese competitors that have facilities far from Wuhan.
- Corning has a glass melting plant in Wuhan to supply BOE. Corning said they have decided to restrict travel for their employees to China.
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