The Latest Coronavirus Data Are Out — and the Number of Infected People Keeps Growing By Al Root March 14, 2020 6:24 pm ET Photograph by Jane Barlow — WPA Pool/Getty Images Things continue to develop quickly regarding the covid-19 coronavirus situation. President Trump declared a state of emergency Friday, freeing up funds to help with testing and treatment, among other things. Over the past two days, 18 new territories—13 Saturday as well as 5 Friday—reported initial cases of the covid-19 coronavirus. More than 142,000 cases in 135 countries and regions have been reported over the past few weeks. Outside of China, the number of new cases diagnosed totaled 9751, up from 7,488 diagnosed Friday and 6,703 diagnosed Thursday. The number of new Chinese coronavirus cases reported Saturday remained low compared with recent history at 18. Daily New Coronavirus Cases ReportedOutside of ChinaSource: World Health Organization SituationReports 24-Jan4-Feb15-Feb26-Feb8-Mar02500500075001000012500 South Korea reported 107 new cases Saturday. It has reported fewer cases for a few consecutive days now. Iran reported 1,289 new cases Saturday, up from 1,075 new cases reported Friday. Italy, the country with the most cases reported outside of China, reported 2,547 new cases Saturday and 2,651 new cases Friday. Italy, according to the World Health Organization, has 17,660 coronavirus cases. The U.S., based on WHO statistics, reported 414 new cases Saturday and 277 new cases on Friday, bringing the total in America to 1,678. The Johns Hopkins Center for Systems Science and Engineering has reported higher numbers in the U.S. for days. The Hopkins database now reports 2,572 cases. Daily New Coronavirus CasesSource: World Health Organization SituationReports ChinaOutside24-Jan4-Feb15-Feb26-Feb8-Mar02500500075001000012500 Hopkins database consistently reports higher numbers of U.S. cases than the WHO daily situations reports. Globally, Hopkins reports 155,423 total cases, compared with 142,529 cases tallied by the WHO. The Hopkins data also include recovery figures. The center reports that more than 72,000 people have recovered from the viral infection. About 2,500 people recovered over the past 24 hours. Based on Hopkins data, the mortality rate for coronavirus in China is about 3.8%. Outside of China, mortality rates are about 3.6%. When questioned earlier in the week, WHO officials said octogenarians and people with existing medical conditions were far more at risk than younger, healthier portions of the population. Coronavirus fears continued to fuel market volatility. The Dow Jones Industrial Average dropped more than 10% this past week, but rose 1,985 points, or 9.4% Friday. The S&P 500rose 9.3% Friday. https://www.barrons.com/articles/la...ntinues-to-spread-even-in-the-u-s-51584224660
%5 Interesting the worst 2 nations , China, Italy, have state run health acre...………………………………………………………………………….
%% Partly true, UK seems to have not much trouble; but US I guess that's your 2nd nation - the mandate is killed, so the ACA trainwreck is not really state run==================================================== The chicoms bragged a micro manager/commie gov like them could contain it better..But our broad brushes aside; big risks are rather limited; wash hands, [2] immune systems compromised [3] old folks. [NOT that all old folks ar e same risk /smokers, counch potatoes
Was thinking S. Korea, Singapore, Japan, Scandinavia, when I made that statement. US is way behind in the "best" response, then again, it's not a state run system in the US.
We are not. Supposedly, if we go the way of Italy it will be a catastrophe. That’s what my hospital doctor friends are telling me based on their internal meetings and preparations.
I figured we were worse off but hoped we'd have curved it somehow. I think we have less hospital beds than they do from what I read a few days ago. https://www.washingtonpost.com/heal...us-numbers-we-really-should-be-worried-about/
Assuming your from the US I suspect that you may have much worse to contend with in few weeks time. It's been spreading all around the US for weeks already but they have not been testing for it. Seems mainly due to incompetence and desire to keep cases low due to upcoming elections. No test = No cases = No idea which areas infected until they come banging on hospital doors at once in which cases the health system cannot cope. The country in which it starts is likely to be worst hit because of the time taken to figure out what they are dealing with.