Yesterday more people recovered from the virus in China than were diagnosed with it. That’s a huge development if the reporting is accurate. To date, over 80% of all worldwide cases have come from China. Meanwhile, the news in the US wasn’t as good. We have dozens of new cases and additional deaths. In Florida, there was one new case detected. A 72-year-old man who lives in Santa Rosa County in the panhandle and recently traveled internationally.
In Florida now we have four confirmed cases, zero deaths and zero recovered. In the US, 233 cases, 14 deaths, and nine recovered. And, worldwide, there are 98,442 cases, 3,387 deaths and 55,661 have recovered.
The most disconcerting aspect of the virus at this point remains the death/recovery rate. It’s remained static at 6% since last weekend. That’s an extremely high death rate. To put this in perspective, let’s say every American obtained the H1N1 flu virus. Based on its average death rate it’d kill 165,000 Americans. If the COVID-19 virus maintained its current death rate and every American contracted it,19.8 million Americans would die. I’m not at all trying to be an alarmist. Those are just the facts. Hopefully, we begin to see progress with the death rate but as you can tell, we now have more Americans who’ve died from the virus than have recovered.
We remain 9th in the world for cases. The big concern stateside remains nursing homes and related healthcare facilities with anyone who is already medically compromised. As the Florida Department of Health has guided, anyone with pre-existing conditions is at risk of complications if they were exposed to the virus.
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