The events surrounding the coronavirus pandemic will inevitably stir people in to activity and acts of solidarity at various levels. Here in California some homeless families have taken over empty homes and we see in this video Germans in Bavaria coming outside and singing an Italian resistance song in solidarity with their Italian neighbors to the south.
Italy has had 793 new deaths since yesterday and now has more deaths than China at 4825 as of this morning. One of the reasons given for this situation has been that Italy has the second oldest population in the world. Many of the deaths are older people with pre-existing conditions.
Pre-existing illnesses that put patients at higher risk:
- cardiovascular disease
- diabetes
- chronic respiratory disease
- hypertension
80% of cases are mild
Based on all 72,314 cases of COVID-19 confirmed, suspected, and asymptomatic cases in China as of February 11, a paper by the Chinese CCDC released on February 17 and published in the Chinese Journal of Epidemiology has found that:- 80.9% of infections are mild (with flu-like symptoms) and can recover at home.
- 13.8% are severe, developing severe diseases including pneumonia and shortness of breath.
- 4.7% as critical and can include: respiratory failure, septic shock, and multi-organ failure.
- in about 2% of reported cases the virus is fatal.
- Risk of death increases the older you are.
- Relatively few cases are seen among children.
Latest Updates
March 21 (GMT)
1035 new cases and 56 new deaths in the United Kingdom [source]
- 3355 new cases and 32 new deaths in the United States
New deaths include:- 1 new death in Oregon, first in Marion County [source]
- 1st death in Tennessee: a 73-year old man with underlying health conditions in Nashville [source]
- 1st death in Arizona: a Maricopa County man in his 50s with underlying health conditions [source]
- 1 death in Ohio: an 85-year-old man was an Erie County [source]
- 2 new deaths in South Carolina: elderly people suffering from underlying health conditions [source]
- 1 death in California: the first death in Contra Costa County: a patient in their 70s [source]
- 1 death in Maryland: a Baltimore County resident in his 60s who suffered from underlying medical conditions [source] D.C. schools will be closed until April 27
- 1 death in Missouri: a woman in her 60s, who suffered from multiple health problems prior to being diagnosed with COVID-19 [source]
- 39 new cases and 1 new death in Japan [source]
*This site has data from Chinese and US sources
1 comment:
sad
Post a Comment