Talk:Timeline of the COVID-19 pandemic in February 2020/Archive 1

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Archive 1

Global airlines

And this is only a partial list!

https://www.cnn.com/2020/02/05/business/china-flights-travel-coronavirus-outbreak/index.html

kencf0618 (talk) 19:15, 8 February 2020 (UTC)

Media Mention

Linked, too.

https://www.wired.co.uk/article/wikipedia-coronavirus

kencf0618 (talk) 08:28, 9 February 2020 (UTC)

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Further extrapolation

Evidently Max Tegmark is interested in coronavirus case statistics:

https://twitter.com/tegmark/status/1226511657117081600

Assuming the data are faithful to reality and the number of confirmed cases passed an inflection point, a close fit to the error function is possible. Alternatively, the data might follow piecewise exponential growth curves as conditions vary and the outbreak is not slowing.

c\approx 26395\left(1+\operatorname {erf} \left(0.114\left(t-18.57796484\right)\right)\right)

with t giving days since 17 January 2020. Again this suggests the outbreak won't continue past February. 184.155.206.191 (talk) 23:19, 11 February 2020 (UTC)

Requested move 11 February 2020

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Moved to Talk:2019 novel coronavirus § Requested move 11 February 2020

– – Thjarkur (talk) 23:37, 11 February 2020 (UTC)

Timeline of the 2019–20 Wuhan coronavirus outbreak in February 2020 → Timeline of the COVID-19 outbreak in February 2020 – Official Name announced by WHO. 70.21.192.44 (talk) 20:09, 11 February 2020 (UTC)

As the disease is COVID-19 and the Virus is SARS-CoV-2, i fully agree to change the title page. --Eric1212 (talk) 20:47, 11 February 2020 (UTC)

I agree with the move due to the change of name by the WHO. The move should be done as soon as possible. FranciscoMMartins (talk) 21:40, 11 February 2020 (UTC)

Comment I agree to move these title but this request move now resides in the 2019-nCoV talk page because this article will moved along with all articles retaining former names prior to WHO and ICTV announcement as COVID-19 and SARS-CoV 2. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 36.76.229.147 (talk) 22:28, 11 February 2020 (UTC)

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Only 12 death the 13th of february ?

The stats seems to be wrong on the 13th of february. The reference [42] is a link in chinese that appears to say 121 deaths. (auto translate) But it went from 1,367 (12th feb) to only 1,380 in the table. (13th february) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Bkrqpzef (talk • contribs) 13:20, 14 February 2020 (UTC)

About the case statistics section size, let's try to reduce the size of the templates used

As noted by PrimeHunter in Wikipedia:Teahouse#What_happened_that_the_refs_just_vanished_and_got_replaced_by_template_links?, the case statistics section is take around 42% of the Post‐expand include size. As at the writing of this new section, this size usage is now 1746313/2097152 bytes, or about 83%. It was 72% 2 days ago. It is likely that we may encounter rendering issues as some of us had faced a couple of days ago before I boldy spilt the page up. The Dec-Jan pages may face the same issue as the statistics tables are being updated, as editors work the page further. Currently it is at 97.5%.) The only two solution I can think of are:

Split the templates up by months
Remove the case statistics templates in the monthly lists and place them only in the aggregation list page.

Suggestions? robertsky (talk) 07:30, 11 February 2020 (UTC)

It's broken now - we need to do something quickly before {{reflist}} no longer expands. davidwr/(talk)/(contribs) 15:37, 14 February 2020 (UTC)

And fixed. I replaced the "Case statistics" with a link to Timeline of the 2019–20 Wuhan coronavirus outbreak#Case statistics. This mirrors a recent change to Timeline of the 2019–20 Wuhan coronavirus outbreak in December 2019 – January 2020. davidwr/(talk)/(contribs) 16:40, 14 February 2020 (UTC)

Nonsensical translation from Portuguese

According to the responsible of Portugal's medical emergency services (INEM), Portugal currently had four ambulance prepared to transport patients with the novel coronavirus to the referenced hospitals.[518] All INEM personnel, around 700 medical professionals, would also have refresh courses and new formations about the virus.[518]
I believe this to be able to be improved upon.--Adûnâi (talk) 22:23, 16 February 2020 (UTC)

Table issue

One or more tables on the page have technical issues. Please fix if possible. 183.89.196.124 (talk) 05:11, 17 February 2020 (UTC)

I believe I've fixed the "COVID-19 cases in mainland China" bar chart, which had an error. I'm not seeing other issues at a glance, but feel free to leave a note here if there's some other problem. GorillaWarfare (talk) 05:16, 17 February 2020 (UTC)

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Flagicons?

What's with all the flagicons? It's distracting --valereee (talk) 22:42, 17 February 2020 (UTC)

Are some of these permalinked to the country name so you can't remove the flagicon without removing the country? This is very strange. --valereee (talk) 22:51, 17 February 2020 (UTC)

If you mean the ones in the sections covering 7 Feb. to 14 Feb., I agree. davidwr/(talk)/(contribs) 02:01, 18 February 2020 (UTC)

TheGreatSG'rean, let's discuss. You are thinking there's some preference for inserting flagicons into text on timeline articles? --valereee (talk) 11:03, 18 February 2020 (UTC)

Then again, the flag icons are placed by default. So should we not follow it? Cause if all the flags are to be removed, we should also do so for the other Timeline articles. TheGreatSG'rean (talk) 11:37, 18 February 2020 (UTC)

TheGreatSG'rean Not sure what you mean by 'placed by default'? --valereee (talk) 18:33, 19 February 2020 (UTC)

I have removed the flag icons. We were clearly violating the Wikipedia Manual of Style, as per MOS:FLAG. This is a Wikipedia article: we have to follow Wikipedia's standard style. Bondegezou (talk) 18:51, 19 February 2020 (UTC)

--valereee On that, the flag icons were already placed by other users before I followed the format. As it is determined not to be following rules, I won't reinsert the flags. Hope that clarifies. TheGreatSG'rean (talk) 19:23, 19 February 2020 (UTC)

Oh, sorry, I misunderstood what you meant! :) 22:43, 19 February 2020 (UTC)

Major Cancellations

Cancellations of, and changes to, mass events should have its own article. Carnival of Venice has already been cancelled, and Six Nations Championship has been postponed. Even the 2020 Summer Olympics are at risk, never mind music festivals such as SXSW and Treefort Music Fest. Not only does no one want to host a superspreader event, such mass events are major industries in their own right with considerable economic heft. kencf0618 (talk) 12:19, 27 February 2020 (UTC)

This page is too long

I think this page is too long and we can't wait until February ends. Thingofme (talk) 12:32, 26 February 2020 (UTC)

I would suggest trimming this page as per WP:NOTNEWS. Wikipedia should not be trying to note every thing that happens related to coronavirus: we're an encyclopaedia, not a newspaper. If we take that approach, the article won't be too long. Bondegezou (talk) 13:55, 26 February 2020 (UTC)

Not only are we are a long way from the likes of 2009 flu pandemic timeline summary, this article is perforce going to be much, much larger than 2009 flu pandemic timeline -it's the nature of the beast. kencf0618 (talk)

I think only the first cases should be reported in a timeline (e.g. first case detected, first local transmission, first death, ecc) PaguroB (talk) 11:00, 27 February 2020 (UTC)

In the timeline page, I suggest that remove case statistics table and create timeline summary like 2009 flu pandemic timeline summary.

Thingofme (talk) 04:02, 28 February 2020 (UTC)

Perhaps we should make each section collapsible? --Tenryuu (🐲 • 💬 • 🌟) 04:42, 28 February 2020 (UTC)

Go to it. kencf0618 (talk) 15:37, 29 February 2020 (UTC)

MOS:COLLAPSE says we shouldn't do that. Bondegezou (talk) 15:41, 29 February 2020 (UTC)

A lot of this article is "Country Y has declared X more cases." Surely that information can be summarised in a table rather than being written as prose over and over. Bondegezou (talk) 15:49, 29 February 2020 (UTC)

A-ha, yes. We have 2019–20 coronavirus outbreak data/WHO situation reports. Why don't we link to that and delete most of the "Outbreak chronology" section? Bondegezou (talk) 15:53, 29 February 2020 (UTC)