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Recovered from coronavirus: Know the numbers

Fears of COVID-19-driven mass contagion, death hugely overblown

Published: March 16, 2020 14:11 Jay Hilotin, Senior Assistant Editor

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COVID 19 recovered cases — FATALITIES: More people are likely to die of cancer (1.7 million), smoking (1.03 million), or malaria (203K) this year than COVID-19, given the low case fatality and high recovery rates (upwards of 92%) in China, as you can see in the next few slides. Image Credit: Gulf News / Jay Hilotin Sources: https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2762130; https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/

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covid -01 — WHERE'S THE NUMBER OF COVID-19 RECOVERED CASES? Nowhere. This screenshot was taken on March 13, 2020. The number of recovered coronavirus cases is strangely absent. Image Credit: Gulf News

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WHO numbers — Screenshot of the WHO site with confirmed cases, deaths and number of countries affected (data taken on March 13, 2020), which shows no number for recovered cases. Image Credit: Gulf News

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Latest COVID fgtures from WHO — LATEST WHO DATA: These are the latest COVID-19 numbers (March 16, 2020) up on "WHO Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19) Situation" site. Image Credit: https://experience.arcgis.com/experience/685d0ace521648f8a5beeeee1b9125cd

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no WHO recovered cases — NO DATA ON RECOVERED CASES? If indeed the recovered cases tally does exist, we don't see it being reported up front — along with cases, deaths, countries. This act of omission is not helping assuage panic from ordinary global citizens who hold on to every word from WHO officials about the coronavirus. Image Credit: Gulf News

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NO who DATA? — Image Credit: Gulf News

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Recoveries 01 — 77K RECOVERED CASES: The numbers for recovered cases published by the Johns Hopkins Center for Science and Engineering. Data links: https://bit.ly/2ILLw3z; https://bit.ly/2TTmTIJ Image Credit: Gulf News / Johns Hopkins Center for Science and Engineering / WHO

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Coronavirus recovered cases 02 — Sources: https://bit.ly/3aT5jdp, https://bit.ly/3aWWNKu Image Credit: Gulf News / Jay Hilotin

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recovered cases 07 — Source: https://bit.ly/2ITxUmO Image Credit: Gulf News / Data: Johns Hopkins Center for Science and Engineering

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coronavirus 80% — Data source: https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2762130 Image Credit: Gulf News / JAMA

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recovered cases — Study: Characteristics of and Important Lessons From the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) Outbreak in China Image Credit: Sources: https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2762130; https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/

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coronavirus 07 — Image Credit: Gulf News / Jay Hilotin

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World o meters — BIGGER KILLERS: More people are likely to die of the common flu or cancer than Covid this year, based on CFR and recovery numbers in China, the first epicentre of the deadly coronavirus. Image Credit: Gulf News / worldometers.info

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3 research institutions — Data sources: https://www.worldometers.info/; https://www.gisaid.org/epiflu-applications/global-cases-covid-19/; https://www.coronatracker.com/analytics/ Image Credit: Gulf News

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