2020.04.07
Official Numbers
- 1,447,466 confirmed infections (Δ 84,530)
- 83,471 confirmed deaths (Δ 7,089)
- 308,215 confirmed recoveries (Δ 16,027)
- 554 confirmed infections in my city (Δ 52)
- 20 confirmed infections in my ZIP code (Δ 1)
- 7 confirmed deaths in my city (Δ 1)
- 399,929 US
- 146,690 Spain
- 135,586 Italy
- 110,070 France
- 107,663 Germany
- 82,809 China
- 64,586 Iran
- 55,957 United Kingdom
- 34,109 Turkey
- 23,403 Belgium
- 22,789 Switzerland
- 20,678 Netherlands
- 17,897 Canada
- 14,152 Brazil
- 13,141 Portugal
- 12,852 Austria
- 10,384 Korea, South
Updates
- Wuhan lifts outbound travel restrictions. Maybe this is actually ending there? I think that the best prediction of how long our lockdowns last is “at least as long as Wuhan”, so hearing that Wuhan is opening up is good news
- About 20% of the NYPD is out on sick leave
- I wonder what the professional epidemiologists were posting about here on Twitter in mid-January when we had our last chance to stop the worst pandemic in our lifetimes?. Reminder that it isn’t just politicians that dropped the ball on this
- Because this crisis just can’t get bad enough, it has prompted the Prime Minister of Canada to utter the word “moistly”
- Exploration of some historical flu stats