2020.04.03

Official Numbers

• 1,098,848 confirmed infections (Δ 90871)
• 58,871 confirmed deaths (Δ 6100)
• 226,106 confirmed recoveries (Δ 15920)
• 430 confirmed infections in my city (Δ 79)
• 19 confirmed infections in my ZIP code (Δ 2)
• 4 confirmed deaths in my city (Δ 1)
• 277,828 US
• 119,827 Italy
• 119,199 Spain
• 91,159 Germany
• 82,511 China
• 65,202 France
• 53,183 Iran
• 38,690 United Kingdom
• 20,921 Turkey
• 19,606 Switzerland
• 16,770 Belgium
• 15,821 Netherlands
• 12,545 Canada
• 11,524 Austria
• 10,062 Korea, South

Updates

• New York issues order that they’re not going to resuscitate cardiac arrest cases, to avoid risk of infection to EMTs
• NYC pandemic stats. Important, this is the first significant data source I have for age-related hospitalization rates. 9% hospitalization rate for under-44, and death rate 0.5%. These are significantly lower than for higher age ranges, but 9% of ending up in a hospital is still much too high for my tastes
• Singapore doesn’t have it under control after all. They’re doing half a lockdown, apparently
• More evidence that cats can catch this, although they don’t seem to be significant infection risk
• It makes more sense to treat severe cases as hypoxemic. Old treatment: “lungs don’t work”. New treatment: “not enough O2 in blood”. More evidence that something other than lung failure is going on