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[m1k3y1] 02/2/2020 14:22

Farrugia.....why are you trying sooooooo hard to persuade people not to buy IAG shares ?

[farrugia] 02/2/2020 14:10

Coronavirus live update: After deadly virus outbreak, China faces H5N1 bird flu.



Cases are also being found in India now

The problem with airlines is that if there's an outbreak in an European country most airlines will stop flying. Plus the virus frightens people from flying and going on holiday.

[elpirata] 02/2/2020 10:17

Indeed, is the world now full of panicking snowflake wimps, get a grip ffs



Get a grippe, America. The flu is a much bigger threat than coronavirus, for now.

Feb. 1, 2020 at 1:00 p.m. GMT
The rapidly spreading virus has closed schools in Knoxville, Tenn., cut blood donations to dangerous levels in Cleveland and prompted limits on hospital visitors in Wilson, N.C. More ominously, it has infected as many as 26 million people in the United States in just four months, killing up to 25,000 so far.

In other words, a difficult but not extraordinary flu season in the United States, the kind most people shrug off each winter or handle with rest, fluids and pain relievers if they contract the illness.

But this year, a new coronavirus from China has focused attention on diseases that can sweep through an entire population, rattling the public despite the current magnitude of the threat. Clearly, the flu poses the bigger and more pressing peril; a handful of cases of the new respiratory illness have been reported in the United States, none of them fatal or apparently even life-threatening.

[nw99] 02/2/2020 10:06

The Flu does not stop airlines flying The current virus has go figure

[m1k3y1] 02/2/2020 10:04

worraps.......thank you for the perspective and a rational view.

[worraps] 02/2/2020 09:46

A bit of perspective on all the hysteria and scaremongering

[bookbroker] 02/2/2020 07:34

Maybe 400 deceased 03.02 at this rate, numbers will continue rising until cusp in infected tops out! These figures may already be conservative if many cases not reported!

[farrugia] 02/2/2020 06:29

as of today 14,568 infected and 305 dead! its gonna be a bad day tomorrow.

[m1k3y1] 01/2/2020 10:40

Walsh’s successor trails in pay stakes

[m1k3y1] 01/2/2020 10:28

Farrugia..... talk about spreading panic !!!!!!
your own link only says 100,00 and yet you say millions !!!!
In addition, being infected is not the same as dying.

Currently 11,791 infected and only 259 deaths, which is very low .

Stop spreading fear and panic.

[farrugia] 31/1/2020 23:01

millions of people will be infected before a vaccine can be found - by then the world economy (and transport) will be on their knees! The numbers infected could hit to millions infected by the end of February given the current infection trajectory.



'Getting a handle on the numbers is becoming more urgent as the outbreak spreads beyond China’s borders, prompting the World Health Organization to declare a global health emergency. Neil Ferguson, a public health expert at Imperial College London, said his “best guess” was that 100,000 people could be infected around the world, according a Jan. 26 report in the Guardian.'

There are too many people getting being found infected and circulating around the world for the numbers to be small! This can't be a coincidence.

[milliecusto] 31/1/2020 21:35

Phase 1 is a minimum 3 months away, so looking at over a year, SARS took 20 months to get a vaccine back in 2003, difference to SARS that you only became contagious when you where sick, this virus is 2-14 days before symptom showsLike any virus, it will burn itself out as it roots the weak out and the strong become immune after infection, however how long will that take and much damaged Globally will it cause.

[m1k3y1] 31/1/2020 18:34

harry....and what happens when people stop dying due to the virus and a vaccine is produced, as will inevitably happen.

[worraps] 31/1/2020 16:30

Won't the Coronavirus impact be at least in part offset by the low oil price at the moment?

[applepieinthesky] 31/1/2020 16:29

El Gordo to leave and replaced by Head of Engineering you heard it first from the Apple

[harry3021] 31/1/2020 16:27

both american airlines and delta are down over 2.5%

dow jones down over 400 pts

[m1k3y1] 31/1/2020 16:04

harry........lol..........doomsayer
nw99 is right.....it will not last.

[nw99] 31/1/2020 15:38

It will not last

[harry3021] 31/1/2020 15:33

we'll see how well it holds on Monday when the new figures on deaths from the virus are out...

[montyhedge] 31/1/2020 15:25

Held up well really.

[harry3021] 31/1/2020 15:24

as i see it at the moment - one only has to light a cigarette - if one European country starts getting people infected with the Corona virus (and I'm not saying one or two but a little outbreak) a lot of investors would get cold feet.

[m1k3y1] 31/1/2020 14:05

millie.....if you don't want to buy them.....don't buy them.

[elpirata] 31/1/2020 14:03

yesterday you said this would be sub £5 today milliecusto, & theres short traders flapping around like pantomime dames shouting armageddon, nightmare while the share price remains where it is as the business fundamentals remain unchanged.

Get a grip ffs

“The majority of fatal cases are elderly and/or have a chronic disease that would increase their susceptibility to infectious diseases,” Columbia University epidemiologist W. Ian Lipkin told the NYT.

[milliecusto] 31/1/2020 13:38

I just can't see a reason to buy currently, too much uncertainly around actual short/ medium and long term impact

[applepieinthesky] 31/1/2020 13:34

El Gordo is going to be replaced by Head of Engineering