📊 Daily Data Brief: 100,242 cases New Cases outside China: 2,961 (+805) New Cases in China: 150 Total Death: 3,408 (+121) Serious or Critical Cases: 6,272 (-168) Source: https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/ The UK recorded its first death yesterday as did many other countries and US states. We have now over 100,000 reported cases. All media outlets have a live feeds, breaking news notifications are on the rise, and yet there is a huge cacophony and information overload whilst a lot remains unknown about COVID19. Two questions linger on: how worried should I be? what can I do? These questions are being asked in the “Age of distrust” where populism (and lies) are on the rise and leaders in some countries are more interested in spreading disinformation to advance their narrow interest than preparing the public with objective communication and leadership. It is a recipe for panic rather than decisive action. And yet we need the latter.
An interesting graph out of Hong Kong where the preventative measures against Covid are also seeing a fall in all the other seasonal bugs that fly around. Which is quite striking given how frequently people are making the link between this and 'normal' flu - if we just washed our hands better could we save 300-600,000 people's lives (WHO estimates of global annual flu deaths)? https://twitter.com/lokinhei/status/1234541131028783116?s=20
The Wikipedia page of “Mieux vaut prévenir que guérir”, states that the base principle of traditional Chinese medicine is prevention. Maybe this helped the country take the right decision early: https://fr.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/mieux_vaut_pr%C3%A9venir_que_gu%C3%A9rir
very good newsletter.
An interesting graph out of Hong Kong where the preventative measures against Covid are also seeing a fall in all the other seasonal bugs that fly around. Which is quite striking given how frequently people are making the link between this and 'normal' flu - if we just washed our hands better could we save 300-600,000 people's lives (WHO estimates of global annual flu deaths)? https://twitter.com/lokinhei/status/1234541131028783116?s=20
I will add this thread and drawing to my newsletter tomorrow: https://twitter.com/ct_bergstrom/status/1235865328074153986?s=21