|
|
Post by sman12 on Apr 2, 2020 3:27:42 GMT 10
My cousin in Texas tested positive for coronavirus.  She is 22 years old with no underlying health problems, so I hope she'll be okay. She was a waitress at a coffeeshop, I can't even imagine how many surfaces she got her hands on.  I hope your cousin is okay. 
|
|
|
|
Post by SharksFan99 on Apr 2, 2020 17:49:36 GMT 10
Thursday, 2nd April 2020:
* There are now 937,783 confirmed cases worldwide. 47,260 have died, while 184,132 have recovered.
* The United States has set a record for the number of cases diagnosed within a single day. 216,722 have been diagnosed with the virus, while 5,137 Americans have lost their lives.
* Australia now has 5,108 cases and 24 reported deaths.
* PM Scott Morrison has announced that all childcare centres will now be free of cost for the next six months.
* Tasmania has banned greyhound and horse racing.
|
|
|
|
Post by SharksFan99 on Apr 2, 2020 17:56:31 GMT 10
 While i'm at it, I came across this interesting image on Twitter only a few minutes ago. It's a virus model originally published on the 26th January that predicts how many confirmed cases there will be worldwide up until the end of September. They projected that the world would have just below a million confirmed cases on the 3rd May 2020; we've already reached that number and it's only the second day of April...
|
|
|
|
Post by Telso on Apr 2, 2020 23:57:42 GMT 10
While i'm at it, I came across this interesting image on Twitter only a few minutes ago. It's a virus model originally published on the 26th January that predicts how many confirmed cases there will be worldwide up until the end of September. They projected that the world would have just below a million confirmed cases on the 3rd May 2020; we've already reached that number and it's only the second day of April... Well to be honest it's rather difficult to make models based on a brand new virus (plus there's a lot of doubt around the official Chinese numbers). For example, we now know that the rate of contagion of the coronavirus is twice that of the flu.
|
|
Deleted
Deleted Member
|
0 |
|
Post by Deleted on Apr 3, 2020 7:16:43 GMT 10
While i'm at it, I came across this interesting image on Twitter only a few minutes ago. It's a virus model originally published on the 26th January that predicts how many confirmed cases there will be worldwide up until the end of September. They projected that the world would have just below a million confirmed cases on the 3rd May 2020; we've already reached that number and it's only the second day of April... In these self-isolation days I've been self-studying some machine learning/artificial intelligence and learning about logistical regressions, and looking at this chart I'm thinking this looks like a sigmoid curve, and in sigmoid curves, things stay at 0 for a long time but go from 0 to 1 (100%) real fast. As you can see in the chart, there is still a 0% infection rate as late as May, but in just a mere 4 months, the infection rate is 100%. I have a feeling with all the lockdowns, high death tolls and hospitals being flooded we are STILL at the "0" side of things. I can't even imagine what this virus has in store for us over the next couple of months. Shit is about to go from 0 to 100 real fast
|
|
|
|
Post by sman12 on Apr 4, 2020 2:16:33 GMT 10
While i'm at it, I came across this interesting image on Twitter only a few minutes ago. It's a virus model originally published on the 26th January that predicts how many confirmed cases there will be worldwide up until the end of September. They projected that the world would have just below a million confirmed cases on the 3rd May 2020; we've already reached that number and it's only the second day of April... Oh, man. We're probably gonna see over 2-3 million cases by early May as this virus continues to rapidly spread.
|
|
|
|
Post by Telso on Apr 4, 2020 6:09:46 GMT 10
Oh, man. We're probably gonna see over 2-3 million cases by early May as this virus continues to rapidly spread. Uhm, 2 million could easily be reached by mid-April actually. Remember that the more people catch it, the more it is easily spread.
|
|
Deleted
Deleted Member
|
0 |
|
Post by Deleted on Apr 5, 2020 12:20:08 GMT 10
|
|
|
|
Post by sman12 on Apr 6, 2020 8:24:44 GMT 10
Oh, man. We're probably gonna see over 2-3 million cases by early May as this virus continues to rapidly spread. Uhm, 2 million could easily be reached by mid-April actually. Remember that the more people catch it, the more it is easily spread. Yikes, you could be right. We could hit around 500,000 this week. 
|
|
|
|
Post by SharksFan99 on Apr 6, 2020 13:19:57 GMT 10
|
|
|
|
Post by Telso on Apr 6, 2020 20:02:22 GMT 10
|
|
|
|
Post by SharksFan99 on Apr 6, 2020 20:11:36 GMT 10
Interesting, that's actually the first I've heard about it! To be honest though, it doesn't really surprise me that a coronavirus incident in Belgium hasn't made international headlines. Here in Australia, our media tends to only focus on what's going on in Italy, Spain, China, the UK and the US. France and Germany are sometimes mentioned in passing, but besides the five countries I previously mentioned, we hear very little about what else is going on around the world.
|
|
|
|
Post by karlpalaka on Apr 7, 2020 11:45:44 GMT 10
It is really pathetic that over a third of the global active cases come from the US considering it all started with China. Of course I am happy they are recovering and staying under 2,000 active cases as that could be a good sign if that is actually the case. I am happy Oregon is sending 140 ventilators to New York and China is sending a thousand more to help them as New York is the one most affected in the US by it. Anyways, when looking at the graphs, it looks like the slope is decreasing a little for both new daily cases and new daily deaths, and that we are not at the peak for either, but still a huge amount is happening each day. www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/
|
|
|
|
Post by rainbow on Apr 7, 2020 11:49:11 GMT 10
It is really pathetic that over a third of the global active cases come from the US considering it all started with China. Of course I am happy they are recovering and staying under 2,000 active cases as that could be a good sign if that is actually the case. I am happy Oregon is sending 140 ventilators to New York and China is sending a thousand more to help them as New York is the one most affected in the US by it. Anyways, when looking at the graphs, it looks like the slope is decreasing a little for both new daily cases and new daily deaths, and that we are not at the peak for either, but still a huge amount is happening each day. www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/ That's assuming you trust the numbers coming from China, and I honestly don't trust the numbers coming from China. They are 100% lying. I still believe they have the most cases out of every country.
|
|
|
|
Post by karlpalaka on Apr 7, 2020 11:53:26 GMT 10
It is really pathetic that over a third of the global active cases come from the US considering it all started with China. Of course I am happy they are recovering and staying under 2,000 active cases as that could be a good sign if that is actually the case. I am happy Oregon is sending 140 ventilators to New York and China is sending a thousand more to help them as New York is the one most affected in the US by it. Anyways, when looking at the graphs, it looks like the slope is decreasing a little for both new daily cases and new daily deaths, and that we are not at the peak for either, but still a huge amount is happening each day. www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/ That's assuming you trust the numbers coming from China, and I honestly don't trust the numbers coming from China. They are 100% lying. I still believe they have the most cases out of every country. That would be true if you are counting what China dealt with in December. Also, this website only counts cases that occurred since January 10, not since China had its first case. In total that would be 81,740, and if we are counting like those from December or November, it would be probably double. I am just going to hope the numbers are correct as that could be a good sign. Of course I am checking and they do seem to increment their new amount of daily cases and deaths.
|
|
