Coronavirus (COVID-19) Pandemic

[Morrigu]

Hmmmm waiting to hear from Alex Hawke MP and happy clapper .................

[Jezza]

[Jezza]

[Jezza]

Latest numbers

Confirmed (Deaths) - Recoveries

USA = 312,420 (8,515) - 15,021
Spain = 130,759 (12,418) - 38,080
Italy = 124,884 (15,395) - 20,996
Germany = 97,381 (1,446) - 28,910
France = 89,953 (7,560) - 15,438
China = 81,669 (3,329) - 76,991
Iran = 58,226 (3,603) - 22,011
UK = 47,806 (4,932) - 135
Turkey = 23,934 (501) - 786
Switzerland = 21,100 (685) - 6,415
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Australia = 5,693 (35) - 2,315

1,226,340 confirmed cases
66,576 deaths
258,723 recoveries

Australia:
- Confirmed cases = 5,693
---- New South Wales = 2,580
---- Victoria = 1,135
---- Queensland = 907
---- Western Australia = 453
---- South Australia = 409
---- ACT = 96
---- Tasmania = 86
---- NT = 27
- Deaths = 35
- Recoveries = 2,315
- Case fatality rate = 0.61%

Active Cases = 899,699
- USA = 288,884
- Italy = 88,493
- Spain = 80,261
- Germany = 67,025
- France = 66,955
- UK = 42,739
- Iran = 32,612
- Turkey = 22,647
- Netherlands = 15,835
- Belgium = 14,493
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- Australia = 3,343

[Jezza]

AUSTRALIA

Date = Confirmed Cases (New Cases) = Percentage of new cases

29/03/2020 = 3,985 (345) = 9%
30/03/2020 = 4,250 (265) = 7%
31/03/2020 = 4,561 (311) = 7%
1/04/2020 = 4,864 (303) = 7%
2/04/2020 = 5,136 (272) = 6%
3/04/2020 = 5,362 (226) = 4%
4/04/2020 = 5,552 (190) = 4%
5/04/2020 = 5,693 (141) = 3%

2,315 recovered, 35 deaths.

Cases doubling every 10 days.

494 cases of community transmission nationwide.

VICTORIA

Date = Confirmed Cases (New Cases) = Percentage of new cases

29/03/2020 = 769 (84) = 12%
30/03/2020 = 821 (52) = 7%
31/03/2020 = 917 (96) = 12%
1/04/2020 = 968 (51) = 6%
2/04/2020 = 1,036 (68] = 7%
3/04/2020 = 1,085 (49) = 5%
4/04/2020 = 1,115 (30) = 3%
5/04/2020 = 1,135 (20) = 2%

573 recovered, 8 deaths.

Cases doubling every 10 days in Victoria.

75 cases of community transmission in Victoria.

[K]

[K]

Queen's speech:

https://twitter.com/RoyalFamily/status/1246875266334539777

[Pies4shaw]

[Pies4shaw]

According to the ABC, Boris Johnson has just been admitted to hospital with COVID-19.

[K]

[Tannin]

[K]

Coronavirus death toll: Americans are almost certainly dying of covid-19 but being left out of the official count

https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/coronavirus-death-toll-americans-are-almost-certainly-dying-of-covid-19-but-being-left-out-of-the-official-count/2020/04/05/71d67982-747e-11ea-87da-77a8136c1a6d_story.html

"The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention counts only deaths in which the presence of the coronavirus is confirmed in a laboratory test. “We know that it is an underestimation,” agency spokeswoman Kristen Nordlund said.

A widespread lack of access to testing in the early weeks of the U.S. outbreak means people with respiratory illnesses died without being counted, epidemiologists say. Even now, some people who die at home or in overburdened nursing homes are not being tested, according to funeral directors, medical examiners and nursing home representatives.

Postmortem testing by medical examiners varies widely across the country, and some officials say testing the dead is a misuse of scarce resources that could be used on the living. In addition, some people who have the virus test negative, experts say.
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Scientists who analyze mortality statistics from influenza and other respiratory illnesses say it is too early to estimate how many fatalities have gone unrecorded. For a disease with common symptoms such as covid-19, they said, deaths with positive results almost certainly represent only a fraction of the total caused by the disease.
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Marc Lipsitch, a professor of epidemiology at Harvard, said there are probably some people dying with covid-19 who are not dying of covid-19. Such misattribution is a problem for any cause of death, he said, but it is a minor issue that is “swamped by the opposite problem: deaths that are caused by covid but never attributed, so the death count is underestimated.”
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Widdowson, the former CDC scientist, was part of a team that estimated global deaths from the 2009 H1N1 swine flu pandemic. The World Health Organization recorded only 18,631 people with laboratory-confirmed diagnoses dying of that disease. But the pandemic probably caused 15 times as many deaths, the CDC team concluded in 2012.
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To estimate the total fatalities from a disease, scientists often look at “excess deaths” — the number of deaths over and above the average number during a particular period.

The most robust estimates require national statistics that in the United States can take two or three years to compile, according to Cécile Viboud, a National Institutes of Health scientist who co-authored the study estimating the U.S. undercount during the H1N1 flu.
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Sally Aiken, the president of the National Association of Medical Examiners, wrote in a news release that “the public, in general, does not understand that there is not a uniform death investigation system in the United States. . . . So, a uniform response to COVID-19 by Medical Examiners will not occur.”
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“You certainly are going to have numbers that aren’t being counted because deceased people aren’t being tested,” she said. “We need to test people who are still alive.”"

[Pies4shaw]

36 and 37: An 85 year old man (a contact of another case) and an 86 year old man (a resident of an aged care facility in Bankstown) passed away in NSW yesterday.

[think positive]

[Pies4shaw]

^ 101 and the disease miraculously vanishes?