[Coronavirus Pandemic] The daily COVID chronicle - May 18, 2020
The daily COVID chronicle for May 18, 2020
In no particular order, here are today's links from Steem and from my RSS feed. Please consider clicking through to upvote any Steem post(s) on the list.
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As mentioned in previous posts, here is a visualization tool for mapping the cases of COVID-19 occurrences.
According to the site, this morning's worldwide number of reported cases was 4,748,356 with 1,747,639 recoveries, 315,822 fatalities, and 1,490,195 cases in the United States (US). This represents 21,618 new cases in the US, which is a decline of 1,092 vs. yesterday.
In the US, the site reports 272,265 recoveries, 89,636 fatalities, and 65,700 cases in my own state, Pennsylvania (which reports 4,495 deaths).
Given that 2 weeks ago, the worldwide number of cases was reported at 3,523,121 and the US number of cases was reported at 1,158,341, the numbers of recoveries in both the US and the world seem to be implausibly low.
- Steem @latonyacobbs: Coronavirus Myth Busting Series Post 1
- Steem @meepins: US COVID Update (Weekend)
- Steem @rishabh99946: Phase-4-of-lockdown-in-india
- How Boston Dynamics' robots from went from YouTube stars to actual tools for helping doctors treat coronavirus patients and enforcing social distancing
- How to Snuff Out the Next Pandemic - Subtitle: High-speed sequencing technology, placed strategically in urban hospitals, could flag a new pathogen before it has a chance to spread widely
- From Headaches to ‘COVID Toes,’ Coronavirus Symptoms Are a Bizarre Mix - Subtitle: Blood clots and inflammation may underlie many of these complications
- Good News on the Human Immune Response to the Coronavirus
- SCIENTISTS SHOULDN'T RULE OUT LAB AS SOURCE OF CORONAVIRUS, NEW STUDY SAYS
- Humans are complicated—do we need behavioral science to get through this? - Subtitle: Some scientists think social science isn’t ready for the COVID-19 crisis.
- A Nigerian crime ring siphoned millions of dollars from US unemployment programs amid COVID-19 shutdowns, officials say