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What's Happening with the Coronavirus
- c0restraint 7y agoThis might actually be the best summary I’ve seen: includes the map, statistics, and highlights of most recent news. Take note BBC, NBC, NYTimes, Fox, etc!
- chapium 7y agoAnd every other article on the main page pushes an email newsletter.
- hprotagonist 7y agoWe’re rapidly approaching the need for a logarithmically scaled color map.
- MayeulC 7y agoLinking back to that live-updated map, which I find pretty good: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22168451 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22168451
- xbmcuser 7y agoI think this Baidu map is updated faster as they have access to more China news compared to any Western news outlet. But they lag behind a bit for the international count. This link works mostly fine with Google auto translate. https://voice.baidu.com/act/newpneumonia/newpneumonia https://voice.baidu.com/act/newpneumonia/newpneumonia
- agumonkey 7y agojust in case someone didn't have the link https://gisanddata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/opsdashboard/index.html#/bda7594740fd40299423467b48e9ecf6 https://gisanddata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/opsdashboard/index.h...
- qwerty456127 7y agoSo humble numbers of people infected outside China, why is the whole world panicking?
- dontreact 7y agoGrowth still looks exponential and attempts at containment seem to have failed.
- qwerty456127 7y agoThen why so small number of people get infected outside of China? I can hardly believe no case of infection could get unnoticed and not isolated successfully so far.
- dragonwriter 7y ago> Then why so small number of people get infected outside of China? Because we won't no how many people are infected today for a couple of weeks, it has an up to 14 day incubation period (and appears to be contagious during the incubation period.) Also the numbers are growing rapidly, especially in places with lots of contact with China. > I can hardly believe no case of infection could get unnoticed and not isolated successfully so far. A lot of negatives there but, yes, cases in the incubation period are likely to go unnoticed, since no symptoms exist.
- qwerty456127 7y agoThen it intuitively seems there already are many people infected all over the world and we can't really prevent the infection from spreading, the measures being taken are futile. Brace yourself, buy grocery supplies and prepare your immune systems - start sleeping enough, eating healthy etc now.
- solotronics 7y agoNot even joking I quit drinking and started eating healthier as I followed this. I have been watching and reading since it was a few hundred confirmed cases and I think it will become a very large outbreak.
- garyclarke27 7y agoGIGO - The numbers from China are a complete fiction - amazes me how gullible and slow the mainstream media has been to catch onto what has been really going on in China. Peak Prosperity Videos are quite good at making sense of the sporadic info that does escape the China censors https://youtu.be/P_3hNPTofEU https://youtu.be/P_3hNPTofEU Huge crematoriums with 30 ovens each are running 24/7 to deal with the deaths - most estimates from citizen journalists are 10-15X official figures. Most cases are not tested, they are sent home due to lack of capacity at hospitals also lack of test kits. Subsequent deaths are classified as respiratory complications not 2019-nCov.
- crystaldev 7y agoOh come on, like I'm going to trust the panic video from the guy selling survivalist porn. /r/CoronaVirus hosts a similar gathering of nutters.
- copperx 7y agoThat sub is full of preppers with a romantic idea of the zombie apocalypse. And now they feel their dream has come true. It's amusing to read how many people in the sub are buying ammo as their first priority.
- Toenex 7y agoI wonder how we could use viral outbreak data to better understand the cohesion between nations?
- yummybear 7y agoAm I wrong to find it concerning that Africa and South America has yet to report a single case?
- TurkishPoptart 7y agoYou are not wrong to find this concerning.
- fiftyfifty 7y agoEspecially given China's growing presence in Africa, there has to be quite a bit of travel between Africa and China.
- wh1t3n01s3 7y agoThey probably have no way to test it. Also -very maybe- the (rich) chinese are preparing their future secret extractions
- cuttlebit 7y agoBecause they likely don’t have enough test kits yet.
- mikhailfranco 7y ago2019-nCoV targets ACE2 receptor cells in the lung. Current estimated death rate is 15% (based on now slightly out-of-date Lancet articles). Asian men are the most susceptible group. Male / female infection rate currently about 3:1 (but based on low statistics). Ratio of ACE2 cells in Asian men to Asian women is about 4:1. Ratio of ACE2 cells in Asian men compared to whites or African-Americans is 5:1. https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.01.26.919985v1.full https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.01.26.919985v1.... See some criticisms of the methods and results in the comments. Interesting correlation of ACE2 to stress and high blood-pressure, so could be strongly affected by some treatments for hypertension. It is just about possible, in some qualitative hand-waving way, that reducing susceptibility by 80% could drop R0 from 5 to 1, hence reduce the threat of an epidemic in other regions.
- adelHBN 7y agoThis is why the Coronavirus is becoming such a scary disease: 1) it's unknown, 2) it's swiftly transmitted, and 3) it's a virus that's killing people.
- DonCopal 7y agoDoes anybody find surprising that India only has 3 infected? Out of 1.3 billion? And they are a neighboring country?