‘The coronavirus seems unstoppable. What should the world do now?’ + coronavirus teller
26 February 2020
10:01
The global march of COVID-19 is beginning to look unstoppable. In just the past week, a countrywide outbreak surfaced in Iran, spawning additional cases in Iraq, Oman, and Bahrain. Italy put 10 towns in the north on lockdown after the virus rapidly spread there. An Italian physician carried the virus to the Spanish island of Tenerife, a popular holiday spot for northern Europeans, and Austria and Croatia reported their first cases. Meanwhile, South Korea’s outbreak kept growing explosively and Japan reported additional cases in the wake of the botched quarantine of a cruise ship.
De worldometers.info/coronavirus teller. Met meer stats en info dan alleen een teller. Aldaar wordt vooralsnog een sterftepercentage gegeven van 8 procent, berekend op patiënten die de ziekte volledig hebben doorlopen (twee procent op alle geïnfecteerden).
Foto: screenshot worldometers.info/coronavirus – 26 februari 2020 08:30 GMT
Ter vergelijking, de Spaanse griep.
It’s shocking now to consider that 1918’s Spanish Flu infected 500 million people worldwide, and killed between 50 and 100 million, which was 3% to 5% of the world’s population at that time.
The particular hallmark of the Spanish Flu was that it disproportionally killed those between the ages of 20 and 40, rather than the aged or the young, as is common in other outbreaks. The Spanish Flu’s mortality rate is estimated to have been between 10% and 20%, while the mortality rate of other flu epidemics is 0.1%.
