by Ty Davison | Mar 4, 2020 | News & Commentary
Some COVID-19 notes from today’s Reddit AMA with a bunch of doctors tracking the virus:• A few infected folks are asymptomatic. They test positive and are infected but have no symptoms.• Around 80% of people infected will have a mild illness, low-grade fever...
by Ty Davison | Mar 4, 2020 | News & Commentary
There are now more than 13k COVID-19 cases outside China. The number of cases has been doubling roughly every three days. If this growth rate continues unchecked, there will be 1.7 million cases outside China in about 3 weeks. For some countries, this will be...
by Ty Davison | Mar 3, 2020 | News & Commentary
The Report of the WHO-China Joint Mission on Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) + the cases statistics out of China (also announced by WHO) give us two bits of hope: China is slowly beating the virus. It’s ponderous work, but the number of new cases per day...
by Ty Davison | Mar 1, 2020 | News & Commentary
Team of 25 World Health Organization (WHO) experts with some findings:• When cluster of infections occurred in China, most often (78-85%) caused by infection within family by droplets or other close contact with infected person. Transmission by fine aerosols in air...