Posts Tagged ‘covid19’

Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) Daily Data Summary

April 5, 2020

https://www1.nyc.gov/assets/doh/downloads/pdf/imm/covid-19-daily-data-summary-deaths-04042020-1.pdf

Useful resource.
Clearly indicates characteristics of mortality:
M>F, old>young & pre-existing condition v healthy

Also: https://twitter.com/MLevitt_NP2013/status/1246516101976133632

A German Exception? Why the Country’s Coronavirus Death Rate Is Low – The New York Times

April 5, 2020

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/04/world/europe/germany-coronavirus-death-rate.html

Is the Coronavirus as Deadly as They Say? – WSJ

April 5, 2020

Interesting analysis, illustrating selection bias

QT:{{”
On or around Jan. 31, countries sent planes to evacuate citizens from Wuhan, China. When those planes landed, the passengers were tested for Covid-19 and quarantined. After 14 days, the percentage who tested positive was 0.9%. If this was the prevalence in the greater Wuhan area on Jan. 31, then, with a population of about 20 million, greater Wuhan had 178,000 infections, about 30-fold more than the number of reported cases. The fatality rate, then, would be at least 10-fold lower than estimates based on reported cases.

The best (albeit very weak) evidence in the U.S. comes from the National Basketball Association. Between March 11 and 19, a
substantial number of NBA players and teams received testing. By March 19, 10 out of 450 rostered players were positive. Since not everyone was tested, that represents a lower bound on the prevalence of 2.2%. T… But if we extend that lower-bound assumption to cities with NBA teams (population 45 million), we get at least 990,000 infections in the U.S. …These numbers imply a fatality rate from Covid-19 orders of magnitude smaller than it appears.
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https://www.wsj.com/articles/is-the-coronavirus-as-deadly-as-they-say-11585088464

Opinion | Why Telling People They Don’t Need Masks Backfired – The New York Times

April 5, 2020

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/17/opinion/coronavirus-face-masks.html

More Americans Should Probably Wear Masks for Protection – The New York Times

April 5, 2020

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/27/health/us-coronavirus-face-masks.html

New York Pleads for Factory Owners to Switch Up and Make Coronavirus Gear | CoStar

April 5, 2020

https://www.costar.com/article/2137057160/new-york-pleas-for-factories-to-switch-up-and-make-coronavirus-gear

Bad News Wrapped in Protein: Inside the Coronavirus Genome – The New York Times

April 4, 2020

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/04/03/science/coronavirus-genome-bad-news-wrapped-in-protein.html

The Daily Show on Twitter: Today, we salute the Heroes of the Pandumbic.

April 4, 2020

https://twitter.com/TheDailyShow/status/1246146713523453957

“Hannity. Rush. Dobbs. Ingraham. Pirro. Nunes. Tammy. Geraldo. Doocy. Hegseth. Schlapp. Siegel. Watters. Dr. Drew. Henry. Ainsley. Gaetz. Inhofe. Pence. Kudlow. Conway. Trump. Today, we salute the Heroes of the Pandumbic. https://t.co/35WLDgoHcf” / Twitter

What We Know So Far About SARS-CoV-2 – The Atlantic

April 4, 2020

https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2020/03/biography-new-coronavirus/608338/

Hopes of pandemic respite this spring may depend upon what happens indoors | YaleNews

April 4, 2020

https://news.yale.edu/2020/03/30/hopes-pandemic-respite-spring-may-depend-upon-what-happens-indoors