Saturday, April 11, 2020

The victims of Covid-19

Some interesting figures on the Covid-19 pandemic.

As of yesterday world-wide there were 1,677.256  people confirmed Covid-19 positive, with 101,732 dead from the virus.

In the United States there are 492,995 Covid-19 positive, with 18,248 dead. The population of the US is 327.2 million

In the UK there are 73,758 Covid-19 positive with 8,958 dead. 66.65 million is the population of the United Kingdom

In Germany there are 121,462 Covid-19 positive with 2,754 dead. The German population stands at 83.02 million.

Germany has one of the world's, if not the best, State health system.

This map gives an up-to-date world view of Covid-19.

https://google.com/covid19-map/?hl=en

EU finance ministers agreed yesterday on a €500 billion Corona rescue package. 

Florence Nightingale (1820 - 1910) said she  wanted all her patients treated as if they were princes.


1 comment:

Andreas said...

In tne the US it is officially allowed to declare the dead as Corona Dead WITHOUT doing a test. You just have to be 'relatively' sure that a corona infection was present.

This is aggravated by the fact that one does NOT look if the corona virus was the cause of death.

So you just have to assume that the patient had corona, don't look closer at the cause of death and then you say corona dead.

That's how you get 2,000 corona deaths a day...

On average, 8,000 people die in the United States every day. In winter, 10,000.



https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/nvss/vsrg/vsrg03-508.pdf

Featured Post

'Parents must be consulted about sex education in schools'

  Michael McDowell in The Irish Times yesterday. There has been some degree of public controversy in recent times concerning the role of sch...