Final Up to date on October 8, 2020
The Corona virus (COVID-19) is everywhere in the information, with loads of fear-mongering unfold among the many evaluation and good data. Due to that, I don’t suppose there’s quite a bit for me to write down about this with out spending a ton of time digging into it or arising with conspiracy theories.
That mentioned, I do suppose the tendency of some I do know to dismiss the seriousness of the menace is misguided. It appears COVID-19 has an extended symptom-free interval the place the provider is contagious, can last more on strong surfaces, and should or could not have a better mortality charge than the ‘regular’ flu. There may be a whole lot of contradictory data on the market.
That mentioned, it appears as if medical professionals are increasing their screening for potential carriers. I went to the pressing care as a result of I had the flu that was bronchitis, and one of many screening questions was “have you ever traveled outdoors the nation throughout the previous 30 days?”
I answered ‘no’ since I haven’t, however I’m wondering if they’ve any observe up questions if somebody solutions sure. I believe I’ll ask some medical area associates about that.
Within the meantime, I’ve come throughout two good web sites the place you’ll be able to observe the illness’s unfold and an infection and mortality charges.
The primary one is from Worldometers.com/coronavirus. It provides the variety of instances, energetic instances, deaths, recovered, and way more. It breaks the knowledge down by nation and provides ages of the contaminated the place it will possibly. Worldometer.com was voted as the most effective free reference web sites by the American Library Affiliation.
The second monitoring website is from John Hopkins through the geolocation and mapping firm, ESRI. This one reveals the sources the place its information comes from, and means that you can click on on the situation indicators to get particular information concerning the space. I don’t imagine it’s reside, however appears to be frequently up to date.
For some background on the Corona Virus, the World Well being Group has a Q&A piece on it that is likely to be useful.
Keep protected.
