Corona Virus Updates Part 5

And another boom of new borns to the newly divorced a bit after that.

originally posted by: DanDanDat

Reported a two weeks ago:

Worst-Case Estimates for U.S. Coronavirus Deaths
Published March 13, 2020
Updated March 18, 2020

Between 160 million and 214 million people in the United States could be infected over the course of the epidemic, according to a projection that encompasses the range of the four scenarios. That could last months or even over a year, with infections concentrated in shorter periods, staggered across time in different communities, experts said. As many as 200,000 to 1.7 million people could die.

www.nytimes.com...

Reported to days ago

Coronavirus May Kill 100,000 to 240,000 in U.S. Despite Actions, Officials Say
March 31, 2020


WASHINGTON — The top government scientists battling the coronavirus estimated on Tuesday that the deadly pathogen could kill 100,000 to 240,000 Americans as it ravages the country despite social distancing measures that have closed schools, banned large gatherings, limited travel and forced people to stay in their homes.

www.nytimes.com...

Things are looking brighter?

Maths isn't my strong point, but isn't 1.7m /8 billion approx a 0.0002125 CFR?

Thanks
(preparing to look dumb!) 👍🏻😷

originally posted by: FinallyAwake
Maths isn't my strong point, but isn't 1.7m /8 billion approx a 0.0002125 CFR?

Thanks
(preparing to look dumb!) 👍🏻😷

0.02125 CFR, but that's under the assumption that every single person on the planet gets infected -- which isn't likely.
You calculate the CFR by dividing the total deaths by the total confirmed (or estimated) number of people infected (not the whole Worlds population).

originally posted by: Navieko

originally posted by: FinallyAwake
Maths isn't my strong point, but isn't 1.7m /8 billion approx a 0.0002125 CFR?

Thanks
(preparing to look dumb!) 👍🏻😷

0.02125 CFR, but that's under the assumption that every single person on the planet gets infected -- which isn't likely.
You calculate the CFR by dividing the total deaths by the total confirmed (or estimated) number of people infected (not the whole Worlds population).

Thank you very much 👍🏻

Another one of those stories about people spitting on other people

Man with coronavirus spits at passenger before collapsing dead on train

www.mirror.co.uk...

A train passenger with the coronavirus was caught on camera spitting at another person as they queued to buy tickets. Anan Sahoh was then found dead slumped in a carriage on Tuesday afternoon while taking a train from Bangkok to Narathiwat in the south of Thailand the day before. The 56-year-old man later tested positive for Covid-19. Anyone who was onboard the carriage has been ordered to quarantine for 14 days and the train has been disinfected. But after checking CCTV from the station, officials were shocked to see Anan spat at the man in front of him as he bought his ticket. Footage shows the Thai man in Islamic clothing hobbled on a crutch - ignored social distancing lines on the ground - spitting in the man's face. He then walked away and took the train on which he was found dead.

originally posted by: cirrus12
Omg i just watched that. Horrible.
Came across this as well when seeing that video:

A Chinese (he appears to be to me) man on the video licks his fingers, touches the lift buttons, then puts his hands down his pants and then touches everything. SICK SICK SICK
mobile.twitter.com...

a reply to: tjack

This is really really bad and in Wales apparently.

I remember saying in the beginning when this virus spread that one way to begin a biological warfare was to create the virus and then send mercenaries out into the World spreading that virus and that's exactly what happened. Maybe not all the Chinese who flew out of China were in on it but it could well turn out that many were...

Biggest terrorist act if true.

Okey, here's little update for this morning. Yesterday we were at 92381 this morning 93053:
www.worldometers.info...

Johns Hopkins Numbers:

Just heard this on the news now.
Korea has a bit over 10000 cases of infection.

originally posted by: mikell
Neighbors granddaughter on first nursing job in CA. Told Monday a 25% pay cut. Next e mail more hours but no OT. She's only been there since the first of the year. She packed and left Monday after her shift, should be back here tomorrow. Strange times were in.

That's what every single nurse should do now.

Pay rise or DIY.


Risking their lives and then a pay cut.


Stay Safe,
Sam

From a retired SF officer in Rome:

www.militarytimes.com... k.com&utm_campaign=Socialflow+AIR&utm_medium=social&fbclid=IwAR1rqGJQCBRiVEPYAA37OJwa8XrOqzBaANFhGCpFEGq7kfD0jwdsPamJjxs

This is why America is doomed . There is absolutely no hope for America.
1. The mentally ill will intentionally spread the virus
2. Hospitals will ignore the mentally ill and send them back on the streets
3. Ambulances won't bother with them (street people )

Here is the reason why I said the above: One infected person can spread the disease to many others. Got to bring in some kind of martial law. These seemingly Draconian measures are necessary and prudent. But American politicians are little babies and afraid they'll lose power if they do this.

I see this clearly from an outsider now watching the American news ( something up till a few days ago, I never watched ), but here in this country I see the same damn dumb sh$t going on. Group thinking take too long to act.

But guess what? Now the Japanese govt. is coming up with a scheme to help us financially, but sad to say, many business owners won't qualify. Sad I tell ya.

The above statement is from the Military Times. www.militarytimes.com...

a reply to: musicismagic

And North Korea has 0

a reply to: ManyMasks

To understand about the homeless with regards to those that are mentally sick with destruction on their minds, maybe, just maybe N.Korea might be thinking what is best for the general population.
Because of ATS and some members reporting the sic behavior of these idiots contaminating foods and cost the small mom and pop stores thousands of dollars, what heck should we end up doing. Pray and hope that works?

a reply to: musicismagic
There is only one solution
Strength over fear, regardless of your situation.

From French Live Feed :

- 7.26 : French Police, Gendarmerie, and Military to be present on Major crossraods and motorways, Train Stations, to turn back any people trying to 'go on Holidays'. (The two week Easter Holiday here is staggered over 4 weeks, split between three 'zones').
This evening the first Easter Holiday starts for Zone1, they will be turning people back, and possibly fining them.
French is confined to their Homes until 15th April (at the earliest).

- 7h34 : A man in Guyane has been imprisoned for 14 months for Spitting on Gendarmes (Military Police), and saying he had coronavirus (he was drunk, and being violent to his mother and sister).

- 7h37 : A person working in the COVID-19 task force in New Caledonia, has tested positive for COVID-19.

- 9h10 : Amphibious Helicopter carrier "Dixmude" is leaving the Port of Toulon this morning for the French Antilles, with over a Million Medical Masks, over 17,000 FFP2 Masks, and hundreds of Litres of Alcohol based hand-sanitiser.

- 9h50 : After local strikes of Amazon workers, as of Today, they will all have face masks provided, and from Monday, they will also have temperature checks at the entrance of their sites.

- 10h50 : The French Air Force is being used to move up to 30 patients daily from the Ile-de-France region, to other regions where space is available.
(I have personally seen at least one Super Puma, which is very similar to a Sea-King, fly over heading for Evreux or Rouen yesterday, and one Air Ambulance, and another small Helicopter. The Super Puma is quite large and can probably cope with more than one patient at a time, or all for the medical gear for someone who is in really bad shape).

- 11h40 : Spain has over 900 Deaths for the second day in a row.

- 11h50 : Another Medicalised TGV left Strasbourg with 24 patients on board, heading to Nouvelle-Aquitaine region.

- 12h10 : The retrictions are working : Spread of Virus is visibly slowing in Germany, says Lothar Wieler, President of the Robert Koch Institue.

- 12h45 : Matt Hancock has opened the 'Nightingale Hospital' in London. It starts with a 500 bed capacity, rapidly expanding to 4,000.

- 13h37 : Prime Minister Edouard Philippe : "We are in unexplored territory, there is no precedent, to an epidemy of this scale, to such a brutal and massive stop of the French Economy, and the Economies of our Partners."
"What we are living, is literally extraordinary".

- 13h37 : Boris Johnson is staying in self-isolation.

originally posted by: clay2 baraka
Well, I just found out my friend's dad just died from this "hoax" today.

Sorry about your Dad, but who is calling this a hoax?

originally posted by: tanstaafl

originally posted by: clay2 baraka
Well, I just found out my friend's dad just died from this "hoax" today.

Sorry about your Dad, but who is calling this a hoax?

The poster may be referring to the threads and posts saying that hospitals are empty and there is no real emergency.
Those people are out there, calling this a hoax.

684 deaths in the last 24 hours UK.
Someone posted predictions yesterday. Sorry can't remember who posted. I'm sure that figure was 694? So pretty close.

From BBC Live Feed :

- 6.55 : Pakistans Raiwind city under complete lockdown after ~40 Preachers test positive for COVID-19.

They belong to the Islamic missionary movement Tablighi Jamaat, whose members have also been in the news in India and Malaysia as prime suspects among potential coronavirus carriers.

- 6.55 : Bangladesh to convert all its stadiums to quarantine facilities or field hospitals. Bangladesh has one of the lowest testing rates in the world.

- 7.03 : American Jazz guitarist John "Bucky" Pizzarelli has died at his home in Saddle River, New Jersey, aged 94.

His family members told the New York Times they believed the cause of death on Wednesday was coronavirus.

Pizzarelli had an illustrious career spanning eight decades. He was inducted into the New Jersey Hall of Fame.

Two other high-profile American musicians also died this week from complications linked to coronavirus: jazz pianist Ellis Marsalis Jr, 85, and 52-year-old Adam Schlesinger, from the power pop band Fountains of Wayne.

- 7.43 : Malawi reports first three cases of Coronavirus.

The southern African nation was among the few African countries yet to report cases. Others include Lesotho, Comoros, South Sudan and São Tomé and Príncipe.

The news means there are just 18 countries left without a confirmed case.

The 18 Countries are :

Comoros; Kiribati; Lesotho; Marshall Islands; Micronesia; Nauru; North Korea; Palau; Samoa; Sao Tome and Principe; Solomon Islands; South Sudan; Tajikistan; Tonga; Turkmenistan; Tuvalu; Vanuatu, Yemen

We all know North Korea is probably Bullsnipping, not sure about the others, they might just not have any tests.....

- 8.09 : "India's biggest Bollywood star, Shah Rukh Khan, has announced a series of measures to support efforts against Covid-19."

Khan will work with state governments in Maharashtra and West Bengal to help supply 50,000 items of PPE equipment for health workers.

He will also provide daily food requirements to more than 5,500 families in the city of Mumbai, where he lives, as well as set up a kitchen that will make 2,000 meals every day to serve homes and hospitals whose needs aren't being met.

- 8.56 : "Google to track travel habits during pandemic" (Please create a new thread to discuss this)

Google is to publicly track people's movements over the course of the coronavirus pandemic, so that the information can be used by public health officials and others to help manage the outbreak.

The tech firm will publish details of the different types of places people

are going to on a county-by-county basis in the UK, as well as similar data for 130 other countries.

The plan is to issue a daily update with the figures referring back to activity from two or three days prior.

The company has promised that individuals' privacy will be preserved.

The readings are based on location data gathered via the Google Maps app or one of the firm's other mobile services.

They will be broken down to reveal how busy some places have been, compared to a period earlier in the year before lockdowns were introduced.

More info in the Article on BBC; Here

- 9.06 : Matt Hancock describes having COVID-19 :

England's Health Secretary, Matt Hancock, has described coronavirus as a "pretty unpleasant experience" after recovering from the illness.

He was unable to sleep for a couple of nights and it felt "like having glass in my throat", leaving him unable to eat or drink.

"It’s really worrying because we can all see just how serious this illness is," he said, adding that he had lost half a stone (3kg).

_ 9.53 : Doctor infected in Mumbai's Dharavi Slum.

10.20 : Does North Korea really have no cases of COVID-19 ?

A US top military commander called this an "impossible claim", and an expert told the BBC it was unlikely that North Korea - which borders both South Korea and China, two major virus hotspots - had no cases itself.

- 10.50 : Singapore to close all Schools, Most Workplaces for a Month.

All schools and most workplaces will be closed for a month, starting next week, Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong has announced.

All businesses except food establishments, markets, supermarkets, clinics, hospitals, utilities, transport and key banking services will have to shut.

- 15.05 : Tributes paid to Nurse who has died of Coronavirus, Areema Nasreen, 36.

Areema Nasreen, 36, had been placed on a ventilator at Walsall Manor Hospital, where she worked in the acute medical unit.

Dr Samara Afzal, a GP in Birmingham who knew Ms Nasreen, told the BBC that she was "very bubbly [and] full of life".

"She was a fantastic role model to Asian women, she married young and had children but then wanted to pursue her dream in nursing," she said. "She was completely dedicated to it, she'd go out of her way to help people."

Fellow nurse Rubi Aktar said Ms Nasreen "was the most loveliest, genuine person you could ever meet".

- 15.10 : Death Toll in UK increases by 684 in 24 hours.

originally posted by: Phage
a reply to: Observationalist

Guillain-Barré syndrome (GBS) is a rare disorder

Ummm... so is death from COVID-19?