How is your company preparing for coronavirus

If my company is preparing for anything, they haven't announced it. I would be surprised if they aren't, they have a contingency plan for everything from fire to tornado, to terrorist attack, disgruntled employee, etc. The majority of us can work from home when/if needed so the company won't come to a halt at least.

My MIL was just talking this weekend about buy a large chest freezer for their basement and stocking up, just in case...

I don't know.  I think he might have been thinking we needed a natural disaster survival kit.  I kept having to say "but if we need ___ (salt for example) it's in the kitchen cupboard!"  Maybe he's confusing quarantine with the zombie apocalypse...    

Not that I know of, but we are very tight on anything that is out there.  I work for a prison in the medical area.  I have not heard anything on my level.  We pretty much lock down the facility if there is even one confirmed case of the flu, which just happened.  There is a lot that takes place.  I am sure somewhere in upper management the coronavirus has been discussed.

Nothing here, although I work for a very small company.

I'm thinking that THIS is what will start affecting the US much more than the actual # of people infected with the virus.  Our company sources raw materials and ingredients from ALL over the world, so I don't think it will affect us, but the fact that a lot of generic Rx drugs are made by overseas companies?  THAT will probably end up being an issue for people here in the United States.  As well as economic ripples worldwide from tourism and travel #s dropping.

(and boo-frickin'-hoo to DT   if he wants to keep this quiet SOLELY to help his re-election efforts!!  It's called NEWS, Donald!!  You can't totally suppress it, no matter how hard you might want to try.)

I'm not worried about death, I'm worried about being trapped in the house for an unspecified number of days/weeks...  

Well, the good (?) news is that according to this out of 80,000 confirmed cases, 28,000 have recovered; and only 2,700 have died.
So as sad as that is, the odds are good. And 78,000 of those 80,000 were in Mainland China.

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If there are too many sick people to run the power plants and treatment facilities.

I doubt that's going to happen, but that would be why.

We have a 3+1+1 arrangement with a Chinese university. Their students take the first 3 years of their undergrad Finance course at the Chinese university, taught by Chinese professors and a few of our visiting professors. Then they take the last year of undergrad courses here, and they finish up with our 1-year masters program in Finance.

The program is set up for them to have the summer off so they can go home to visit. While summer seems like a long way off, many of the students are concerned that if they leave, they won’t be able to return. We are considering offering some of the graduate courses as optional over the summer so they can stay here on their student visas. It may not be necessary, but we want to be prepared. We have a couple of instructors who are willing to teach this summer if we need them.

My daughter's university is working on a vaccine for coronavirus.  I sure hope they are successful!  They discovered the polio vaccine, and I hope they can be successful with this vaccine as well.

One of my kids just had a school trip to Italy canceled. Tears all around. I wasn't worried about the students getting sick, but I was a little afraid they'd get stuck if new restrictions (on the part of either government) went into effect while they were away. I'm more sorry than relieved, though.

I think that the CDC has caused way more panic the necessary. Virtual schools? Really? I work for a school and I promise you we won’t be setting up virtual schools for kids who don’t even have internet. Stay in your lane please. CDC.

It’s one thing to be prepared. It’s another thing to cause unnecessary panic.