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97,039/1,617,204 = 6%

Today's worldwide figures:

102,136/1,684,833 = 6%

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Deon Meyer: "Many scientists have warned that a pandemic is brewing, and no one has seemed to listen to them"

In his novel "The Year of the Lion", published in France in 2017, the South African writer Deon Meyer had anticipated the current epidemic due to the coronavirus
An abandoned car on a deserted road, some expired food. It is in this environment that a father and his son, both survivors of the "viruscorona" which has just decimated 95% of the world population, are attacked by wild dogs. Thus begins The Year of the Lion, a novel by Deon Meyer that France took in 2017 for a postapocalyptic account. No one imagined at the time that this fiction was already telling the story of the current coronavirus pandemic. Not even its author.

The South African writer had yet scientifically validated that the coronavirus was indeed the most dangerous pathogen for the human race and the planet. He had worked on its transmission and its consequences on our globalized societies, from the passage from animals to humans to intercontinental contamination, through the closing of borders or the diversion of protective masks, which have become weapons of this funny war…
Three years after the translation of the novel into French, the framework that underlies it, improbable yesterday for an average imagination, has become reality. Funny foreshadowing! Including Deon Meyer, who plunged back into his notes, himself a little afraid to discover that his novel had anticipated a planetary catastrophe.
Humanity decimated by a coronavirus is the starting point for The Year of the Lion. How did you get that idea ?

To be honest, with The Year of the Lion, I wanted to explore our world first after a virus wiped out the world's population, not so much the pandemic itself. It turns out that the stories of the chaotic experience of the characters during the pandemic did not stop inviting themselves into the book, which forced me to do research on the nature of pandemics and try to imagine what that it would be to experience such a situation.
Newspaper "Le Monde".

Coronavirus could travel up to 4 meters from patient, says Chinese study

The main mode of spread of the new coronavirus is the relatively large droplets produced when coughing or sneezing.
The new SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus contaminates both surfaces and air near patients, and up to four meters from them, according to a study carried out in a Wuhan field hospital and published by the Centers on Friday American Disease Prevention and Control (CDC).
An important limitation of the study, published by the CDC journal Emerging Infectious Diseases, is that the test used detects the presence of the virus, but not the quantity of viable virus. In other words, just because the virus ejected into the air by sneezing or breathing patients can fly up to four meters does not mean that there will be enough of these particles to infect someone.
Samples from the prefabricated hospital.
Chinese researchers took samples from an intensive care unit (15 patients) at the Huoshenshan field hospital in Wuhan between February 19 and March 2, as well as from a general care unit with less serious patients (24 patients). ).
This is the prefabricated hospital which had been built in 10 days by an army of workers at the start of the epidemic in the city. Samples were taken from the floors, computer mice, trash cans, bed rails, patient masks, caregiver protective equipment, air vents, as well as from the air in the rooms. several places.
"SARS-CoV-2 was widely distributed in the air and on the surface of objects in the intensive care and general care departments, which implies a potentially high risk of contamination for healthcare workers and other close contacts"
, write the researchers.
The most contaminated areas were near intensive care patients. The most contaminated objects were mice, followed by garbage cans and beds and door handles.
But half of the soles of the nursing staff's shoes also had traces of the virus. "We strongly recommend that people disinfect the soles of their shoes before leaving services where Covid-19 patients are found," the researchers conclude. They also recommend disinfecting the masks after use, before throwing them away.
Microscopic droplets
The virus has also been detected in the air: more often near the patient's bed than near doctors' workstations. But they found it once four meters from the patient, which makes them write that "the maximum transmission distance of an aerosol of SARS-CoV-2 could be four meters".
The virus was also found on the air vent through which room air is exhausted. Given the significant contamination of the patient environment, the researchers believe that "isolating people with a suspected Covid-19 at home may not be an effective control strategy."
The main mode of spread of the new coronavirus is the relatively large droplets produced when coughing or sneezing.
But we also emit microscopic droplets by speaking and breathing, and the presence of sufficient coronavirus inside these droplets (aerosols) is the subject of intense scientific debate.
As a precaution, the United States has recommended covering their faces to prevent people with the virus but without symptoms from infecting others by talking or breathing.

www.nouvelobs.com.

Few articles I am reading about aggravating factors of COVID-19:

Obesity adds to health risks in general, with an increase in the incidence of diabetes and hypertension -- both identified as aggravating factors of COVID-19 in Italian and Chinese studies, along with age and to a lesser extent heart cardiovascular and cerebrovascular disease.

This raises a particular concern for the United States, where some 42 percent of adults are obese, according to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, which has warned people with a BMI over 40 could be at higher risk of severe illness from COVID-19.

And also here:
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles ... oronavirus

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Coronavirus: US death toll overtakes Italy as world's highest
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-52258284

So the U.S. has the highest number of immune in the world I guess.

To do a comparison, do it right!

You're wrong and right Toby42. Italy shouldn't just be compared to USA when it comes to total deaths. BUT it shouldn't be compared by area either. It should be compared by looking at population size instead.

ORIGINAL: ernieschwitz

You're wrong and right Toby42. Italy shouldn't just be compared to USA when it comes to total deaths. BUT it shouldn't be compared by area either. It should be compared by looking at population size instead.

U.S. ~328.2 million
Italy ~60.36 million

Probably should look at deaths as a percentage of population? But this whole pandemic is more than just a bunch of numbers! It's real people suffering....

110,892/1,800,791 = 6%

Today's worldwide figures:

115,286/1,864,629 = 6%

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5,833/1,864,629 = 0.313%

A long but very good article:

Facts about Covid-19
Published: March 14, 2020; Updated: April 12, 2020
Fully referenced facts about Covid-19, provided by experts in the field, to help our readers make a realistic risk assessment. (Regular updates below)

“The only means to fight the plague is honesty.” Albert Camus, The Plague (1947)

https://swprs.org/a-swiss-doctor-on-covid-19/

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