COVID 19 How is everyone holding up?

[sniksnak]

The US is now head of the pack world-wide with positive cases:

https://www.foxnews.com/health/us-overt ... rchers-say



Thinking and praying for all people around the world.

[asolitaryblue]

I feel so heartbroken reading these statistics. So many dead and some world leaders just shrug and say it's inevitable (I'm looking at you, Boris). Nobody, no matter what their age, is expendable.

[sniksnak]

At noon today, Louisiana's latest figures were released:

3,315 positive cases
137 deaths
56 of 64 parishes are affected

1 death among individuals below 18
4 deaths among individuals ages 30-39
11 deaths among individuals ages 40-49
21 deaths among individuals ages 50-59
13 deaths among individuals ages 60-69
69 deaths among individuals ages 70+

20 positive cases among individuals below 18
234 positive cases among individuals ages 18-29
403 positive cases among individuals ages 30-39
538 positive cases among individuals ages 40-49
570 positive cases among individuals ages 50-59
490 positive cases among individuals ages 60-69
491 positive cases among individuals ages 70+

Sending many prayers for you and your families. Gang, please stay safe!

[asolitaryblue]

We had our first death yesterday. I know statistically it was inevitable but the whole country is feeling scared and demoralized.

[cmcmonteiro]

Hello friends!!

Here in Brazil the situation about Covid 19 is very dangerious day after day.

About me and my Family all of us still in ours houses since March 15 and I'm working Home Office until the company decide to come back to the Office Building.

Thanks God that my Family and my Friends are in perfet healthy and we pray for the situation can be better to everybody come back to your normal life as soon as possible.

In this time the good news is that I'm reading so much!!!

I want to say and ask for everybody here to take care yourself and your Family too and stay home!!!

[sniksnak]

As we've seen with pets and the virus, new scientific facts regarding it may change from one day to the next. Here's an article about the virus on food products and packaging. Keep in mind, additional studies and facts may change this theory at any time.

https://www.foxnews.com/health/can-coro ... -packaging

[oel_3]

Be safe, my friends!

[sniksnak]

I really wish more of our members would contribute to this thread. So many of us are very concerned about other places around the world.

The death total in the parish, Caddo, that I live in is now 5.

Louisiana's stats as of noon today:

Positive cases 4,025
Deaths 185
59 of 64 parishes affected

[AddictedToReading]

South Africa has had the benefit of seeing the mistakes and missteps that other countries have made but still did not manage to evade many of the biggest errors of judgement.

Positive cases 1326
Deaths 3

Not many tests have been done only around 35 000 and it takes almost a week before the people receive their results

The government is only launching now a massive, 10 000-strong, medical project to screen residents for the coronavirus...

Elderly grant recipients were queuing as early as 05:00 this morning to get their monthly payouts today. 70% do not use bank cards and receive it in cash so during lock down more than 60 000 people had to go to towns to collect their grants and then go to the shops to buy food.

A Group of people has taken the President to the Constitutional Court over the country’s 21-day lockdown. They believe this lock down is unconstitutional and that the COVID-19 coronavirus “poses no serious threat to the country and its people”.

They believes that COVID-19 cannot be harmful to Africans

Stay Safe and stay indoors

[sniksnak]

A Group of people has taken the President to the Constitutional Court over the country’s 21-day lockdown. They believe this lock down is unconstitutional and that the COVID-19 coronavirus “poses no serious threat to the country and its people”.

They believes that COVID-19 cannot be harmful to Africans

[mention]AddictedToReading[/mention] There is so much misinformation out there that it's unreal, but putting blinders on during a situation that has spread to such a global extent, that this belief in the pandemic is totally irrational and irresponsible. A friend in SA sent me this link regarding this issue your country is facing:

https://mybroadband.co.za/news/trending ... newsletter

On top of the misinformation, new studies are showing this:

https://www.foxnews.com/health/coronavi ... y-suggests

So this pandemic may be much, much worse than originally thought.

[sniksnak]

Since only two of our US members has bothered to post about their state, I will post this announcement:

U.S. deaths from the coronavirus pandemic topped 3,000 on Monday night as all 50 states have reported confirmed cases of the disease. New York City is considered the U.S. epicenter of the virus, with over 164,000 cases and 914 deaths.

Source of my information: https://www.foxnews.com/health/coronavi ... s-top-3000

[werf8934]

Here in the state of Maryland we have several confirmed cases. They say it is not in all counties yet, but I believe it will be before it’s over. Yesterday our governor placed our state on lockdown meaning you stay at home except for only the necessities. This was done because so many people are ignoring this disease. We have been home except for the bare necessities during this whole outbreak.
I hope we all get through this and we all survive. Hope that all of you keep safe out there.

[sniksnak]

[mention]AddictedToReading[/mention]

They believes that COVID-19 cannot be harmful to Africans

History repeats itself. Quoted from https://www.livescience.com/worst-epide ... story.html

12. Philadelphia yellow fever epidemic: 1793
When yellow fever seized Philadelphia, the United States' capital at the time, officials wrongly believed that slaves were immune. As a result, abolitionists called for people of African origin to be recruited to nurse the sick.

The disease is carried and transmitted by mosquitoes, which experienced a population boom during the particularly hot and humid summer weather in Philadelphia that year. It wasn't until winter arrived — and the mosquitoes died out — that the epidemic finally stopped. By then, more than 5,000 people had died.

[AddictedToReading]

A ticking time bomb [mention]sniksnak[/mention]

Total confirmed coronavirus cases in Africa: 5,431

Hopefully people will start to realize this virus affects everyone

[sniksnak]

Info requested by a member who wondered about stats for global cases.

Coronavirus COVID-19 Global Cases by the Center for Systems Science and Engineering (CSSE) at Johns Hopkins University (JHU)

Confirmed Cases by Country/Region/Sovereignty
174,467 US
105,792 Italy
94,417 Spain
82,278 China
68,180 Germany
45,232 France
44,605 Iran
25,474 United Kingdom
16,186 Switzerland
13,531 Turkey
12,775 Belgium
12,662 Netherlands
10,109 Austria
9,786 Korea, South
7,448 Canada
7,443 Portugal
4,831 Israel
4,715 Brazil
4,605 Norway
4,559 Australia
4,435 Sweden
3,257 Czechia
3,039 Denmark
2,910 Ireland
2,766 Malaysia
2,738 Chile
2,337 Russia
2,245 Romania
2,240 Ecuador
2,215 Poland
2,178 Luxembourg
2,084 Philippines
1,953 Japan
1,914 Pakistan
1,651 Thailand
1,563 Saudi Arabia
1,528 Indonesia
1,418 Finland
1,353 South Africa
1,314 Greece
1,251 India
1,135 Iceland
1,109 Dominican Republic
1,094 Mexico
1,075 Panama
966 Argentina
950 Peru
926 Singapore
867 Croatia
802 Slovenia
798 Colombia
785 Serbia
745 Estonia
716 Algeria
712 Diamond Princess
693 Qatar
664 United Arab Emirates
656 Egypt
647 New Zealand
630 Iraq
602 Morocco
567 Bahrain
549 Ukraine
537 Lithuania
532 Armenia
492 Hungary
463 Lebanon
411 Bosnia and Herzegovina
399 Bulgaria
398 Latvia
370 Andorra
363 Slovakia
362 Tunisia
353 Moldova
340 Kazakhstan
330 Costa Rica
329 North Macedonia
322 Taiwan*
320 Uruguay
298 Azerbaijan
289 Kuwait
274 Jordan
262 Cyprus
261 Burkina Faso
243 Albania
230 San Marino
207 Vietnam
193 Cameroon
192 Oman
186 Cuba
175 Senegal
174 Afghanistan
169 Malta
168 Cote d'Ivoire
167 Uzbekistan
152 Belarus
152 Ghana
143 Mauritius
142 Sri Lanka
141 Honduras
135 Nigeria
135 Venezuela
129 Brunei
117 West Bank and Gaza
110 Georgia
109 Cambodia
107 Bolivia
107 Kyrgyzstan
106 Kosovo
105 Montenegro
98 Congo (Kinshasa)
85 Trinidad and Tobago
70 Rwanda
68 Liechtenstein
65 Paraguay
59 Kenya
51 Bangladesh
49 Monaco
46 Madagascar
36 Guatemala
36 Jamaica
35 Zambia
34 Barbados
34 Togo
33 Uganda
32 El Salvador
30 Djibouti
28 Mali
27 Niger
25 Ethiopia
22 Guinea
19 Congo (Brazzaville)
19 Tanzania
18 Maldives
16 Gabon
15 Burma
15 Eritrea
15 Haiti
14 Bahamas
12 Dominica
12 Equatorial Guinea
12 Mongolia
11 Namibia
10 Seychelles
10 Syria
9 Benin
9 Eswatini
9 Grenada
9 Laos
9 Saint Lucia
8 Guinea-Bissau
8 Guyana
8 Libya
8 Mozambique
8 Saint Kitts and Nevis
8 Suriname
8 Zimbabwe
7 Angola
7 Antigua and Barbuda
7 Chad
7 Sudan
6 Cabo Verde
6 Holy See
6 Mauritania
5 Fiji
5 Nepal
4 Bhutan
4 Gambia
4 Nicaragua
3 Belize
3 Botswana
3 Central African Republic
3 Liberia
3 Somalia
2 MS Zaandam
1 Papua New Guinea
1 Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
1 Sierra Leone
1 Timor-Leste

Notice that North Korea isn't on this list. See this article posted today by The New York Times:

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/31/worl ... virus.html