April 12 Recap
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First group of UCSF medical staff arriving in New York City to help NewYork-Presbyterian 🙌
Summary
Worldwide: 1,862,028 confirmed cases and 114,980 deaths; 431,613 recoveries
USA now at 533,115+ cases, which is still a 5.1%+ growth rate
Spain at 169,496 (1.8% growth), Italy at 156,363 (2.6%), France at 132,591 (2.3%), and Germany at 127,854 (1.6%)
Good places to find numbers and other Covid-19 info:
US testing tracking (US daily totals, as well as numbers broken out by state)
🇺🇸 US news
At a glance:
Total confirmed cases at 560,433 (27,318+ more cases), 22,115 deaths
New York (189,415 cases & 9,385 deaths), New Jersey (61,850 & 2,350), and Massachusetts (25,475 & 756) lead in case numbers
Michigan (24,638 & 1,487), California (23,287 & 681), and Pennsylvania (22,920 & 561), are the next three states.
Illinois (20,852 & 720), Louisiana (20,595 & 840), and Florida (19,895 & 461) are next. Texas rounds up the top ten with 13,640 cases and 278 deaths.
Testing total at 2,805,892 (up 140,226 from yesterday)
State and Local News
New Jersey (61,850 cases & 2,350 deaths) may start seeing a flattening of the curve, but officials are doubling down on existing measures. Newark is implementing “Be Still Mondays” where everything, including essential businesses, are closed every Monday until May 11. The Governor of New Jersey has also ordered all NJ Transit employees and riders to wear face covering; transit capacity has also been cut by 50%.
In Florida (19,895 & 461), the Miami Herald has filed suit for records regarding which assisted living facility (ALF) in the state has coronavirus cases. The Office of the Governor has been unwilling to reveal this information, and has tried to get the Herald’s law firm to abandon the case. The newspaper has hired another law firm instead and will be continuing with the case.
In South Dakota (730 & 6), a pork processing facility that accounts for 4 to 5 percent of the country’s pork production is closing until further notice after 240 employees are found to have Covid-19. The 240 sick employees account for more than half of the 430 active cases in the state. Meat processors in Iowa (1,587 & 41) and Pennsylvania (22,920 & 561) have also closed due to sick employees.
Trends
Depressing one today
Will we have a “fat tail” in the US like they are having in Europe? (Dark green are cases, light green at the bottom are deaths)
Compare to Washington’s numbers:
Other news
🗽Joe Biden, the presumptive Democratic nominee, proposes some steps to reopen the economy. He proposes the continuation of social distancing, ramping up of protective equipment production, more testing and more serological testing (testing for antibodies). He also mentions “disease surveillance". This sounds like the “test and trace” proposals we have heard from others.
🌐 International News
🇨🇳China (82,160 cases & 3,341 deaths, 1,156 currently active cases) got 108 new cases yesterday, 98 of which are Chinese citizens returning from abroad. Half of those are Chinese crossing from Russia into Heilongjiang province (the China-Russia land border has been closed). Guangzhou, a city in the south, is also reporting some outbreaks linked to the large African community there. It’s unclear how that’s happened since foreign nationals have not been allowed to enter the country for a few weeks.
🇮🇱Israel (11,235 & 110) may have leveraged its national intelligence agency, Mossad, to get much needed medical equipment.
🇳🇮Nicaragua (9 & 1) has not had imposed any government shutdowns, has not closed its borders, and continues to encourage public events. The President of the country is nowhere to be found, and the Vice President Murillo, his wife, has assured the public that the country does not have any community spread. In comparison, Costa Rica, Nicaragua’s less populous neighbor, has reported 595 cases and 3 deaths. Despite the government posturing, people are staying home, and most churches in the country were closed over Easter weekend.
🇬🇧Boris Johnson, the United Kingdom (84,279 & 10,612) Prime Minister, has been released from the hospital after 7 days.
Interesting Things
😷📊Nassim Taleb (author of Black Swan and Fooled by Randomness) presents, in his own direct style, about how an imperfect mask that only reduces exposure to a virus by 30% might mean way higher percentage reduction of contraction of the disease: “can even be 95%”
🏀 Jeremy Lin, basketball player for the Beijing Ducks, shares a video about his daily routine. Practice seems to have resumed for the team, which plays in the Chinese Basketball Association. The league was suspended due to the coronavirus pandemic and hasn’t played since January. No official restart date has yet been given.
Quaran-tweet of the Day
This is a work in progress, so please PLEASE let me know at dailycovid19updates@gmail.com if you have any suggestions, and/or see anything that is wrong or missing. You can also tweet me @julienchien
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Would be interesting to follow the re-infection cases in Korea to understand more about test-reliability and expected-acquired-immunity/antibodies...
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