2020.04.11

Official Numbers

• 1,800,791 confirmed infections (Δ 85,648)
• 110,892 confirmed deaths (Δ 7,018)
• 412,534 confirmed recoveries (Δ 23,160)
• 744 confirmed infections in my city (Δ 54)
• 21 confirmed infections in my ZIP code (Δ 0)
• 9 confirmed deaths in my city (Δ 0)
• 133 confirmed recoveries in my city (Δ 5)
• 89 confirmed (non-ICU) hospitalizations in my city (Δ 0)
• 49 ICU Inpatients in my city (Δ 2)
• 31 ventilated patients in my city (Δ 0)
• 530,830 US
• 166,019 Spain
• 152,271 Italy
• 130,730 France
• 125,834 Germany
• 85,173 United Kingdom
• 83,134 China
• 71,686 Iran
• 52,167 Turkey
• 29,647 Belgium
• 25,746 Netherlands
• 25,328 Switzerland
• 23,717 Canada
• 21,042 Brazil
• 16,585 Portugal
• 15,770 Russia
• 13,945 Austria
• 10,878 Israel
• 10,512 Korea, South
• 10,483 Sweden

Updates

• Interesting deep dive into the press archives of the Canadian city of Winnipeg. If you, like me, have been wondering “what kind of public health measures did they even take during Spanish Flu”, then here’s your answer. Short version: they did pretty much the same thing we’re doing now, including having the same arguments and making the same mistakes
• Factors associated with hospitalization and critical illness among 4,103 patients with COVID-19 disease in New York City. Pretty much reinforces what we know: biggest risk factors are age, obesity, and hypertension. Risk for young healthy people is much lower but still not low
• Hospitalization Rates and Characteristics of Patients Hospitalized with Laboratory-Confirmed Coronavirus Disease 2019. Similar paper. Hospitalization rate for 18-49 is 2.5/100k, compare average 4.6 and 13.8/100k over 65.
• John Conway, the man who invented life, has died of coronavirus
• Boris Johnson has been discharged from the hospital. It seems he recovered
• Research suggests that SARS-CoV-2 will not trigger ADE