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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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.
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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.
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LATEST WHO DATA: These are the latest COVID-19 numbers (March 16, 2020) up on "WHO Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19) Situation" site.
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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.
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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
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Sources: https://bit.ly/3aT5jdp, https://bit.ly/3aWWNKu
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Source: https://bit.ly/2ITxUmO
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Data source: https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2762130
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Study: Characteristics of and Important Lessons From the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) Outbreak in China
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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.
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Data sources: https://www.worldometers.info/; https://www.gisaid.org/epiflu-applications/global-cases-covid-19/; https://www.coronatracker.com/analytics/
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