Cases tops 89,000. Six US deaths all in the Seattle are, First cases for Malaysia, Tunisia, Senegal, Latvia, Saudi Arabia, Portugal, New Hampshire, New York State, and Indonesia, Total deaths exceeding 3,000. Record days again for South Korea and Italy. Dow Jones bounces back. The death rate or case fatality rate is the number of…
China Centers for Disease Control Weekly released on February 17 a comprehensive study of 72,314 Covid-19 patients. The Good Covid-19 infections in the 36-79 years old are considered mild in 80.9%. No deaths have occurred among those with mild or even severe symptoms. A total of 1,023 deaths for a case fatality rate of…
A Study about Covid-19 Pneumonia Patients Last month, the Lancet described the patients sick with the Covid-19 that are confined at Wuhan Jinyintan hospital from January 1 to January 20, 2020. Of the 99 patients with Covid-19 pneumonia, 67 are men, and 32 are women. About half of patients infected by 2019-nCoV had chronic…
Shine news reports that Traditional Chinese medicine effective in COVID-19 treatment: official. Traditional Chinese medicine has been proven effective in curing patients of the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19), a Chinese health official said Monday. For example, a TCM decoction named “Qingfei Paidutang” has been used in treating 701 confirmed cases in 10 provinces, of which…
Thermometer guns use infrared technology to screen for fever. These thermometer guns can be seen in some airports or on the streets of China to detect patients who may have the Covid-19. Not all Covid-19 Patients Have Fever The problem with temperature screening is that not all patients with the Covid-19 may have a fever….
According to Taiwan News, It’s possible to get infected by the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) a second time, according to doctors on the frontline in China’s city of Wuhan, leading to death from heart failure in some cases. The claim is made by doctors working in the Hubei Province capital that is at the center of…
At first glance of the table below, the Wuhan coronavirus does not look too bad because it’s case fatality rate is the lowest at 2%. The Case Fatality Rate or CFR is the number who died divided by the number who have the disease. It reflects how deadly the condition is. The Marburg and Ebola…
The Coronavirus can get to the Nose thru the eyes. Have you noticed that when people cry, they get the sniffles? When we yawn, our eyes make tears, and we find our nose becomes runny. That is because of the lacrimal duct. The lacrimal duct drains the tears from the eyes to the nose. The…
The Wuhan coronavirus pneumonia is also known as the 2019-new coronavirus or 2019-nCoV. It was late renamed Covid-19 by the WHO. The rapid spread of the 2019-nCoV prompted the Chinese government to cancel all public transportation this Chinese New Year. Doing so effectively put millions of people under quarantine. The drastic decision is unprecedented….
Jonathan Read is a well-published infectious disease researcher from Lancaster University in the UK. In this report, Novel coronavirus 2019-nCoV: early estimation of epidemiological parameters and epidemic predictions, Read’s group came with the following conclusions: The basic reproduction number (Rο) or how many people a person with coronavirus will infect is 3.6 to 4 Only 5.1%…
Coronavirus (CoV) is responsible for 10-30% of common colds. The most popular CoV are the SARS virus in 2003 with 10% mortality and the Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV) with a death rate of 34.5% CoV is back on the headlines again. This time as the Wuhan coronavirus or 2019-nCoV by the Centers for…
