As expected, an increased number of tests in the West led to an increased number of cases in the US and elsewhere.
Deaths in Italy Surpass China
Not that any stats from China are believable, but the chart shows the number of reported deaths in Italy have now surpassed the number of deaths in China.
Stats from Worldometers.
Italian Army Takes Away Coffins
The Italian army takes coffins away in Bergamo as morgues and cemeteries struggle to cope with the number of coronavirus deaths.
Exponential Rise in the West
A reader questioned if the rise was still exponential. The chart clearly shows that it is the case.
A positive slope on a log chart indicates an exponential rise. And it is lead by the West especially Italy and the United states.
Promising Treatment Fails
The New York Times reports A Promising Treatment for Coronavirus Fails
Researchers had hoped that antiviral drugs would help patients, but a new study from China said that one antiviral drug combination didn’t work.
Antiviral drugs that had held promise as a potential treatment for the coronavirus did not work in one of the first major studies in seriously ill patients, researchers from China reported on Wednesday.
“No benefit was observed,” the researchers wrote in The New England Journal of Medicine.
The study tested Kaletra, a combination of two antiviral medicines, lopinavir and ritonavir, that are normally used to treat H.I.V.
I had hopes for that one.
Trump Opposing Payments
No, Not Me
State legislatures say, no not me. Let the Federal government handle it.
Track Record of Failure
Bottom In?
3-D Mask Printing
Dallas County
Still Can’t Get Tested!
Home Testing Coming?
Fed to Buy Junk?
That’s what it will be even if it’s not rated junk.
A Word About Xenophobia
A Word About Jackasses Telling Lies to Circumvent Lies
Only jackasses believe that Trump should tell lies to handle China telling lies.
