COVID-19 04/05/2020

Posted On April 5, 2020

NY Times – Latest updates

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• NY Times – Texas
• NY Time – Italy’s Shutdown came too late?
  • A late shutdown may have increased the number of infections
• NY Times – Are countries Flattening the curve?
  • italy, Switzerland, Austria, Australia, Malaysia, Luxembourg, Singapore, Slovenia, Jordan are starting to flatten the curve.
  • China, South Korea has flattened the curve.
• NY Times – Where Americans did not stay home
  • South and Southeastern US are not.

More insights

• FiveThirtyEight – Case counts are meaningless – it depends of how many tests are administered
• Snopes – Why wear face masks in Public? What the reseach shows.
  • Research on SARS, another coronavirus, found that N95 masks were highly effective at blocking transmission of that virus. Even ill-fitting medical face masks have been found to interrupt airborne particles and viruses, keeping them from reaching as far when someone sneezes.
• LA Times – kills some people and hardly affects others: How is that possible?
  • The data tell us that
  • 50% of people who acquire the infection develop either no symptoms at all or very mild symptoms to the point that they don’t even know they have it.
  • 30% develop overt symptoms from mild to moderate.
  • 20% are the ones that develop severe symptoms, and those are the ones that are ending up in the hospital.