2020.03.13

Official Numbers:

• 144,863 confirmed infected
• 5,398 confirmed deaths
• 70,249 confirmed recoveries
• 80,945 China
• 17,660 Italy
• 11,364 Iran
• 7,979 Korea, South
• 5,232 Spain
• 3,675 Germany
• 3,667 France
• 2,028 US
• 1,139 Switzerland
• 996 Norway
• 814 Sweden
• 804 Netherlands
• 804 Denmark
• 801 United Kingdom
• 701 Japan
• 696 Cruise Ship
• 559 Belgium
• 504 Austria
• 320 Qatar
• 200 Singapore
• 197 Malaysia
• 193 Canada
• 190 Greece
• 189 Bahrain
• 161 Israel
• 155 Finland
• 151 Brazil
• 141 Slovenia
• 141 Czechia
• 134 Iceland
• 112 Portugal
• 101 Iraq

Website Updates

I’ve noticed that there is something of a slowdown in reportable news lately. I browse through the reddits and there’s not a whole lot of new things coming up. It’s like too many things are happening so they only report the headline things. Consequently, I’m getting the feeling that updates will be getting a little bit lighter in the near future. Don’t worry, I’m still posting my updates. It’s just that I might have fewer things to post.

I also might get lazier about posting sources. A lot of what I come across is in Discord servers where I can’t easily post the source. I generally don’t post any of this unless I can find an external link to confirm it. I may start posting these as commentary updates, instead.

If any of you want to help me crowdsource more updates, you can contribute by email, you can contribute by github, and you can tag or message /u/cvdailyupdates on reddit. I will credit you in whichever way you wish.

Europe

• Italy reports 250 deaths in one day. Don’t forget that the best case scenario is that many deaths, every day, for months. The worst case scenario is exponential growth
• Denmark closing the borders
• Greece going full Italy lockdown
• The UK has an insane plan: get as many young healthy people infected as fast as they possibly can, subject to medical resource availability, to develop society-wide herd immunity. I think this is an extremely bad idea, because young people are not nearly as resiliant to this plague as the UK appears to think they are

US

• Pretty much every sports league is paused or cancelled
• The president has declared a state of emergency.
• Johns Hopkins developed their own test
• Student loan interest freeze
• University of Texas President’s Wife confirmed infected
• New York is starting to see the massive influx of patients

Science/Medical

• Poland registers Cloroquine as drug for treating Coronavirus

Markets

• Slightly less fucked, but still fucked