Maps, science, data & statistics tracking of COVID-19

[moproblems99]

While I applaud the hard measures taken by New Zealand, thinking that the virus can be eliminated even in New Zealand will be very hard until we have either the vaccines or a cure. People can only be locked down for so long.

This is the problem overall. Without a vaccine, as soon as lockdowns are lifted and intercontinental travel resumes, we are going to be at point a all over again.

 

[trparky]

The bigger problem is how many innocent people these "morons" end up infecting before that

Those who are smart will be staying indoors, those who are stupid will spread it around and kill themselves off leaving the smart ones inside unaffected.

 

[moproblems99]

Those who are smart will be staying indoors, those who are stupid will spread it around and kill themselves off leaving the smart ones inside unaffected.

You're forgetting they need to be elderly and/or have serious underlying health concerns. Otherwise, they will be mostly fine.

 

[EarthDog]

You're forgetting they need to be elderly and/or have serious underlying health concerns. Otherwise, they will be mostly fine.

For greater chances of death, sure... but catching and spreading it (what you quoted and responded to) doesnt discriminate.


Edit: unrelated to above...this is not a map... but a statistic...

New York State now has more reported coronavirus cases than any country except the U.S. as a whole.

 

[LFaWolf]

Interesting story. Does anyone know how many different strands of Covid-19 that we have now?
https://www.yahoo.com/news/most-york-coronavirus-cases-came-120729916.html

 

[HTC]

While I applaud the hard measures taken by New Zealand, thinking that the virus can be eliminated even in New Zealand will be very hard until we have either the vaccines or a cure. People can only be locked down for so long.

Eliminated, no: @ least not until a vaccine is found and distributed.

However, they can buy time while they understand what does / doesn't work in mitigating the virus' progression, as well as participate in the worldwide effort to find any medication that @ least alleviates the symptoms of this virus.

When they release some of the current restrictions, they can still impose quarantine on all arrivals to the country, for example, or any other protective measures that, while less restrictive, still provide some protection.

 

[the54thvoid]

Well, I'll just put this here...

 

[rtwjunkie]

And on that note of staying on target:

April 9, 2020 for Louisiana-

This is the 3rd day in a row that ventilator numbers have gone down.

18,203 cases (17,030 yesterday)
702 deaths (652 yesterday)
2,014 hospitalized (1,996 yesterday)
473 on ventilators (490 yesterday)
86,919 tests have been conducted (81,406 yesterday)

Louisiana Coronavirus | La Dept. of Health

The Louisiana Department of Health protects and promotes health and ensures access to medical, preventive and rehabilitative services for all citizens of the State of Louisiana.

ldh.la.gov

 

[flmatter]

235 for today here in Alaska. 7 deceased and 49 recovered.

 

[xman2007]

Nearly 1000 deaths a day in the UK at the moment and it has been steady between 700-900+ for a few days now, people are starting to think we have seen the worst of it and there are lots more cars on the roads, people sitting in parks with families like nothing is going on, people socialising with neighbours and friends and not observing social distancing, I mean if you have that attitude and they do, how many other people have you both been in close contact with, it's ridiculous. I don't think the UK is at the peak right now and if anything is at the start of a peak that will rise a lot higher with peoples blase attitudes towards this virus.

 

[Caring1]

Saw this live graph the other day, holy sheet.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-51235105

I thought Italy had runaway numbers until the U.S. says hold my beer.
Scroll down until you see:
How confirmed cases of coronavirus have spread

 

[Gmr_Chick]

Saw this live graph the other day, holy sheet.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-51235105

I thought Italy had runaway numbers until the U.S. says hold my beer.
Scroll down until you see:
How confirmed cases of coronavirus have spread

You know how we need to be "#1" in everything...no matter how tragic

 

[HTC]

Portugal's numbers have been updated:



- 15472 confirmed infected --- 1516 more
- 233 recovered --- 28 more
- 435 fatalities --- 26 more
- 123564 suspected cases --- 8406 more
- 140863 tests taken --- 9736 more
- 4509 waiting for test results --- 708 more
- 25914 under watch from authorities --- 1206 more
- 1179 hospitalized --- 6 more
- 226 in ICU --- 15 less

As i feared, we don't seem to have peaked @ all: highest number of new confirmed infected ever, and by a wide margin. Only good news is the smaller number of people in ICU but that can easily be explained by the fatalities in the last 24h, so no conclusion can come of it, for now.

 

[EarthDog]

Saw this live graph the other day, holy sheet.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-51235105

I thought Italy had runaway numbers until the U.S. says hold my beer.
Scroll down until you see:
How confirmed cases of coronavirus have spread

Weve got the most. But note we also have ~6x the population, 60M vs 350M, vs Italy.

 

[HTC]

Weve got the most. But note we also have ~6x the population, 60M vs 350M, vs Italy.

True, but while Italy is seeing their numbers grow less, with USA that's not happening, yet.

It's now taking Italy roughly 15 days to double their number of cases while it's taking USA roughly 9 days to do the same: this is because Italy's measures have begun to take effect a while back, which is why they are doubling their number of cases @ a much slower pace, while USA's measures have just starting having their effects "noticed", which is why the percentage of new cases has been dropping only very slightly.

 

[Vayra86]

Weve got the most. But note we also have ~6x the population, 60M vs 350M, vs Italy.

I think a more realistic, still grossly inaccurate comparison is the entire EU vs the US. You're just about to pass us by in that case... and I doubt this is over, the number is still exploding.

 

[Tomgang]

I don't know how bad the situation is in USA, but it seems there are now a few good news around the world.

First an update from Denmark. Infected people are climbing, but far less than expected and for 9 days straight now people needed hospitalized or respirator has been going down or said with other words. Denmarks health care system is far from being overwhelmed and a few placed for Covic-19 patients has even been shut down as it seems there are no need for it. But not shut more down than they can be reopen If the virus somehow manage to go ballistic in cases again.

So ind sted Denmark has send some of the respirators we don't need know to help Italy and money with them to help them in more need.

Denmark is even after Easter beginning the first phase of reopening the country. First phase will be schools to reopened, next phase if the virus doesn't begin to climb again with infected, will be small business reopen like restaurants and threathers. Next phase is to be in beginning of May.

Status for Denmark is:
Total infected: 5819 (this number includes all, also who have recovered again)
Recovered: 1773
Hospitalized in critical state: 113
Dead: 247 mostly elderly with other health issues. But a few young people have been in hospital but not critical.
Active cases: 3800

So far it seems it is going the right way. Denmark whas fast enough to lock down the country and prevent Italy levels of infected

Also a few other European countries has reported to reopen after Easter or by end of April. Norway, Germany, island and even Italy is planning a reopening. Italy infected cases has been going down lately and so have other countries as well including Denmark. So it seems the virus has now peaked in many countries. Just that Denmark seems to have peaked already now is great as I and danish government expected the virus to first peak by end of April or beginning of May. But it seem the virus all ready now peaking 2-3 weeks before expected. This is great as this means Denmark and properly other countries can reopen faster than expected, still slowly and it will still takes weeks or perhaps months before many countries are fully open. But just that things seems to happen faster than expected is good news for people that want to go back to there normal life al throw that is still a good amount of time away yet. But if some countries can reopen faster it is also good news for the economy as the longer the lock down is, the more severe the damage is.

Also i think this gives hope for USA can over time get this virus under control all throw it seems hopeless now, but remember it also seems hopeless for Italy and they are now planning for reopen at the end of April, slowly opening off cause. All countries needs to open up slowly or else the virus will boom again. But what I am trying to say is that even the most plage country in Europe or Italy seems to have managed to get the virus some short of control now. This gives hope for USA i think to also get the virus under control.

But there are still hard times ahead as the world will only reopen slowly and that can still take months and a risk that the virus can return in fall/winter season (hopefully if that happens, we are by that time close to a vaccine) and after that, we all have a economy to recover, family's needs time to recover from lost members, lost jobs and companies going bankrupt. I have as well paid a price for this virus as I lost my job in marts and so far I have no idea on when in can get a new job, but properly not anytime soon.

 

[EarthDog]

True, but while Italy is seeing their numbers grow less, with USA that's not happening, yet.

It's now taking Italy roughly 15 days to double their number of cases while it's taking USA roughly 9 days to do the same: this is because Italy's measures have begun to take effect a while back, which is why they are doubling their number of cases @ a much slower pace, while USA's measures have just starting having their effects "noticed", which is why the percentage of new cases has been dropping only very slightly.

Correct. We're behind where they are in time by a couple of weeks...makes sense. For now, we still have way less infections per capita. We'll see how that shakes out over time.

 

[trparky]

True, but while Italy is seeing their numbers grow less, with USA that's not happening, yet.

But if you look at where most of the infections are happening you'd see that it's mainly taking place in large population centers like New York City, Chicago, and other such large cities where people are crammed in like sardines.

New York City, for instance, has 11 Million people crammed into 468.9 square miles. The density of the population makes it easy for things like this virus to run roughshod over the population. People mostly live in apartments where everyone in the apartment building breathes the same air supply that's cycled throughout the building, easy way for the virus to spread. And then you have the subways where people in New York City often stuff themselves in where you can't even move because everyone is shoulder-to-shoulder; again, easy way for the virus to spread. Why the mayor of New York City hasn't shut the whole of the subway system down I have no clue but he should have done that weeks ago, he could have saved the whole city a whole lot of heartache in doing so.

Other states, like my home state of Ohio, is showing good signs of squashing the curve. Some states are definitely doing better than others.

 

[trparky]

There is a fundamental difference between how Japanese think and how the average United States citizen thinks. The average American believes in freedom, freedom, and freedom. Oh, and did I mention freedom? I think I did but I'm going to mention it again... Freedom.

In order to stop this kind of pandemic as fast as Japan did, we'd essentially have to enact Martial Law. Everyone is locked down, the houses boarded up, the military is in the streets, etc. That would never fly here in the US, we would instantly think that someone is trying to grab power for themselves and once the pandemic is over we'd worry if that person would give up that power. History has taught us that once a man has power very rarely do they give it up. We here in the US are very afraid of things like dictatorships due to how our country came about. We broke away from a tyrannical government back in 1776, namely Britain; we do not want to go back to that kind of thinking or governing even if it means saving lives. Freedom is first and foremost the most important idea on any American's mind.

 

[ozkisses]

Thank you for trying to explain.

I live in a country with more freedom than most as well.

Good luck at this time and our thoughts are with you.

 

[Tatty_Two]

UK update:

Biggest climb in death rates today and the previous 2 days suggests that the estimated peak should be Sunday as thought, still alarming and difficult to come to terms with...…...

Daily	19,116 Tests	13,543 People tested	5,706 Positive results	980 Deaths
Total	316,836	256,605	73,758	8,958

 

[rtwjunkie]

April 10, 2020 for Louisiana.

Ventilator usage and number hospitalized went slightly up today, ending the 2 days of going down we had.

19,253 cases (18,203 yesterday)
755 deaths (702 yesterday)
2,054 hospitalized (2,014 yesterday)
479 on ventilators (473 yesterday)
92,280 tests have been conducted (86,919 yesterday)

Louisiana Coronavirus | La Dept. of Health

The Louisiana Department of Health protects and promotes health and ensures access to medical, preventive and rehabilitative services for all citizens of the State of Louisiana.

ldh.la.gov

 

[ARF]

The global population continues to rise by 2.6 people per second according to https://www.worldometers.info/

I haven't seen data that the total, I repeat the total number of deaths has increased since the beginning of the pandemic.

Keep in mind that stress from the lockdown can also negatively influence people's immune systems.
And the electromagnetic radiation which disturbs our healthy bodies.

 

[trparky]

Keep in mind that stress from the lockdown can also negatively influence people's immune systems.

I'm sitting here fine, though I do have to admit that having someone else external to me imposing a lifestyle that I myself already live on a daily basis feels... different.