Bobby Hundreds

https://www.rfa.org/english/news/china/wuhan-deaths-03272020182846.html Iffy source perhaps but no one would be surprised if true.

The Imperial stats modelling has Italy peaking around today.

Can’t work out if out trajectory is due to our shit hot NHS, our Northern European genetics, our lack of tactility and perhaps reduced viral load or all of the above.

The arrogance and stupidity of this guy is off the scale. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/mar/25/bolsonaro-brazil-wouldnt-feel-anything-covid-19-attack-state-lockdowns

Covid-19 is doing a pretty good job at cleaning up cities’ air pollution.

3 additional days to reach 300,000 cases.

1035 new cases today. Grim.

Just heard the British public have bought and stockpiled £1 billion worth of food in the last 3 weeks.

I think the US’s numbers will make everyone else look like amateurs. Their obese population is going to get annihilated.

https://www.thelancet.com/journals/laninf/article/PIIS1473-3099(20)30174-2/fulltext Virus not detectable in throat swabs but positive in sputum. Christ, this is gonna be so hard to get an idea of early infection.

https://www.epicentro.iss.it/coronavirus/bollettino/Report-COVID-2019_17_marzo-v2.pdf Source is supposedly from the INHI. Over 99% of covid-19 deaths are attributed to at least 1 additional comorbidity.

It took 3 months to reach 100,000 confirmed cases. It’s taken an additional 12 days to reach 200,000.

https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.03.11.20031096v1 Blood type may play a part in severity of response to coronavirus. Not surprising as similar findings with different strains of influenza.

Richard Horton is editor in chief of the Lancet.

For any tin foil helmets out there, it’s not a human edited construct, https://www.nature.com/articles/s41591-020-0820-9

Knowing how long it takes to get research into this shape, it makes me wonder how the CDC, WHO etc guidelines are even out. Perhaps all anecdotal or observational evidence from the early cases admitted?

https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.03.05.20030502v1 New virology research coming out does not support this. Cold symptoms can very much be a sign of Covid-19 infection.

https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.03.05.20030502v1 More research suggesting that symptoms are akin to upper respiratory common cold symptoms. The whole self isolation if dry cough and feverish could be missing a lot of actual infected.

Number of cases reaches 590.

Bookies must be delighted that 2/3 of the favourite treble has gone under.

Just make Liverpool lift the trophy to an empty stadium and ban them having a victory parade.

https://nextstrain.org/ncov?c=location&m=div plenty of coronavirus mutations have already been discovered. Like any RNA virus it undergoes nucleotide mutations which can alter the amino acid sequence and their function, most of the times the mutations are silent though.

https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.03.05.20030502v1 this research does not agree. Mild means mild.

https://www.arcgis.com/apps/opsdashboard/index.html#/bda7594740fd40299423467b48e9ecf6 & https://nextstrain.org/ncov loving the whole data science shebang that's coming out of this pandemic.