2020.03.17
Official Numbers:
- 197,168 confirmed infections
- 7,905 confirmed deaths
- 80,840 confirmed recoveries
- 81,058 China
- 31,506 Italy
- 16,169 Iran
- 11,748 Spain
- 9,257 Germany
- 8,320 Korea, South
- 7,683 France
- 6,421 US
- 2,700 Switzerland
- 1,960 United Kingdom
- 1,708 Netherlands
- 1,463 Norway
- 1,332 Austria
- 1,243 Belgium
- 1,190 Sweden
- 1,024 Denmark
- 878 Japan
- 696 Cruise Ship
- 673 Malaysia
- 478 Canada
- 452 Australia
- 448 Portugal
- 439 Qatar
- 396 Czechia
- 387 Greece
- 337 Israel
- 321 Finland
- 321 Brazil
- 275 Slovenia
- 266 Singapore
- 238 Poland
- 236 Pakistan
- 228 Bahrain
- 225 Estonia
- 223 Ireland
- 220 Iceland
- 201 Chile
- 196 Egypt
- 187 Philippines
- 184 Romania
- 177 Thailand
- 172 Indonesia
- 171 Saudi Arabia
- 154 Iraq
- 142 India
- 140 Luxembourg
- 130 Kuwait
- 120 Lebanon
- 117 Peru
- 114 Russia
- 109 San Marino
Sites/Links
- New site with cool graphs and info and stuff
Asia
- China expelling a ton of western journalists.
Europe
- Some stats out of Italy. Link to the JAMA page here
US
- Amazon is only bringing essential household and medical goods into its fulfillment centers for a while to better handle this crisis
- Texas activates their national guard. I guess we getting locked down soon?
Science/Medical
- Personal story from a 39 year old who caught this
- An actuary crunched some numbers from the Diamond Princess. I don’t speak actuary, unfortunately, but it looks like some evidence in favour of the hypothesis that younger people have lower (but not low/zero) risk.
- Canadian company claims it already has a Coronavirus vaccine. I don’t know what “has a vaccine” means given that the timeline is still 12-18 months out
- People with Type-A blood have increased risk of disease, and people with Type-O have reduced risk. Glad to count myself, and most of my family, in the type-O master race.
- More evidence that Chloroquine works