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Coronavirus Update (Live): 20,870,911 Cases and 748,338 Deaths from COVID-19 Virus Pandemic - Worldometer. How dangerous is the virus? There are three parameters to understand in order to assess the magnitude of the risk posed by this novel coronavirus: Transmission Rate (Ro) - number of newly infected people from a single caseCase Fatality Rate (CFR) - percent of cases that result in death Determine whether asymptomatic transmission is possible. - The Washington Post.

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New York State Statewide COVID-19 Testing. This dataset includes information on the number of tests of individuals for COVID-19 infection performed in New York State beginning March 1, 2020, when the first case of COVID-19 was identified in the state.

New York State Statewide COVID-19 Testing

The primary goal of publishing this dataset is to provide users timely information about local disease spread and reporting of positive cases. New York State Statewide COVID-19 Testing. Microsoft Power BI. Outil de suivi cartographique en direct du coronavirus (COVID-19) de Microsoft Bing. CDC Covid 19 Assessment 542020.

Coronavirus Deaths by U.S. State and Country Over Time: Daily Tracker. Notes: Deaths are plotted on a log scale.

Coronavirus Deaths by U.S. State and Country Over Time: Daily Tracker

Doubling times are based on growth rates averaged over the previous week. The Trump Administration Needs to Ramp Up Health Care Resources to Fight Coronavirus. The mayor of New York sat ashen-faced before the cameras on Thursday evening and begged for help.

The Trump Administration Needs to Ramp Up Health Care Resources to Fight Coronavirus

“We need three million N95 masks,” Mayor Bill de Blasio said. “We need 50 million surgical masks. We need 15,000 ventilators, and 25 million each of the following items of personal protective equipment...surgical gowns, coveralls, face masks.” The numbers were staggering: Nearly a 130 million pieces of medical gear for New York City alone, by early next month at the latest. If they don’t arrive, the mayor warned, it would mean needless deaths. And that’s just one city. The nation has gone to war this week, as the Trump administration, Congress, and the Federal Reserve act quickly to try to shore up an economy in the grips of the coronavirus pandemic. Mayors, governors, and other elected officials have asked the Trump administration for assistance in shoring up the medical system.

[LIVE] Coronavirus Pandemic: Real Time Counter, World Map, News. 11 coronavirus pandemic charts everyone should see. The outbreak of Covid-19, a coronavirus-caused illness that originated in Wuhan, China, and has since spread to most of the world, is one of the most serious public health crises in decades.

11 coronavirus pandemic charts everyone should see

It has spread far wider than Ebola did in 2014, and the World Health Organization has designated it a pandemic. Johns Hopkins’s tracker is worth bookmarking with case number counts in the US and worldwide as the crisis progresses. The situation on the ground is evolving incredibly quickly, and it’s impossible to synthesize everything we know into clean, intelligible charts. County by County Breakdown of Positive Cases.

Coronavirus Dashboard. Coronavirus Coverage. Trump’s coronavirus musings put scientists on edge. Public health experts have noted the WHO’s estimate may change as more is learned about the spread of the virus; thousands of non-fatal cases likely have gone undetected.

Trump’s coronavirus musings put scientists on edge

But while the death rate may dip below 3.4 percent, everything that’s known so far suggests it won’t plummet to a level that’s not alarming. And it’s already hitting some populations, like the elderly, disproportionately hard. But the president’s subsequent explanation could prove dangerous, as it contradicts officials’ attempts to keep infected people away from others. White House sidelines Azar from coronavirus response.

Azar's absence didn't go unnoticed by allies worried about his standing in the administration and the way he's catching more flak for missteps.

White House sidelines Azar from coronavirus response

Azar was front and center Thursday at a Capitol Hill briefing with House members, during which he took heat from some lawmakers over transparency and whether his department is adequately prepared for the stealthy disease. Asked why Azar didn’t attend Wednesday's televised briefing, a Pence spokesperson said that Azar left for his office after the task force meeting, and officials wanted to make room on stage for Ben Carson, the Housing and Urban Development secretary and also a task force member. A spokesperson for Azar said that members of the task force will be “rotating through as necessary” now that the group is doing daily briefings. Pence asked Azar not to attend Wednesday's press conference, said one individual with knowledge of events.

Rep. A Vaccine Won’t Stop the New Coronavirus. The Harvard epidemiology professor Marc Lipsitch is exacting in his diction, even for an epidemiologist.

A Vaccine Won’t Stop the New Coronavirus

Twice in our conversation he started to say something, then paused and said, “Actually, let me start again.” Coronavirus COVID-19 (2019-nCoV) Lancet Inf Dis Article: Here. Mobile Version: Here. Data sources: Full list. Downloadable database: GitHub, Feature Layer. Lead by JHU CSSE. Technical Support: Esri Living Atlas team and JHU APL. Cases and Death counts include confirmed and probable (where reported).Recovered cases are estimates based on local media reports, and state and local reporting when available, and therefore may be substantially lower than the true number.

Point level: Admin2 Level (County) - US only; Admin1 Level (Province/State); Admin0 Level (Countries/Regions/Sovereignties). Coronavirus.