Aug 11: 5,303,974 confirmed 167,562 dead.
Aug 10: 5,249,577 confirmed 166,155 dead.
Aug 9: 5,199,411 confirmed 165,608 dead.
Aug 8: 5,150,060 confirmed 165,074 dead.
Aug 7: 5,093,756 confirmed 164,048 dead.
Aug 6: 5,028,027 confirmed 162,708 dead.
Aug 5: 4,973,155 confirmed 161,581 dead.
Aug 4: 4,918,240 confirmed 160,276 dead.
Aug 3: 4,862,174 confirmed 158,929 dead.
Aug 2: 4,813,640 confirmed 158,365 dead.
Aug 1: 4,764,588 confirmed 157,905 dead.
July 31: 4,705,889 confirmed 156,747 dead.
July 30: 4,634,505 confirmed 155,281 dead.
July 29: 4,560,511 confirmed 153,588 dead.
July 28: 4,497,834 confirmed 152,285 dead. Again gross underestimate by 10 fold.
July 27: 4,432,551 confirmed 150,425 dead.
July 26: 4,371,424 confirmed 149,843 dead.
July 25: 4,312,288 confirmed 149,340 dead.
July 24: 4,245,890 confirmed 148,411 dead.
July 23: 4,169,991 confirmed 147,333 dead.
July 22: 4,100,133 confirmed 146,142 dead.
July 21: 4,028,569 confirmed 144,953 dead. Another Trump milestone achieved.
July 20: 3,961,410 confirmed 143,826 dead. Numbers may be grossly under reported as it appears Trump admin is playing dirty with the numbers. Trump tweeted Invisible China Virus.
July 18: 3,833,716 confirmed 142,881 dead.
July 17: 3,766,605 confirmed 141,977 dead.
July 16: 3,695,025 confirmed 141,118 dead. Trump ordered hospitals not to send coronavirus data to CDC. Already under reported numbers will be more gross.
July 15: 3,611,486 confirmed 140,006 dead.
July 14: 3,545,076 confirmed 139,143 dead. Trump signed HK Act.
July 13: 3,478,582 confirmed 138,239 dead. Trump starts attacking Fauci, calling the virus ChinaPlague, ChinaVirus, and 20 different names you can call it.
July 12: 3,413,995 confirmed 137,782 dead.
July 11: 3,355,646 confirmed 137,403 dead. Trump starts wearing mask.
July 10: 3,291,295 confirmed 136,645 dead. New record daily increase in cases. Community infection broke out in HK, gov decided to test all pilots and crew upon arrival, United stopped flights to HK (fishy).
July 9: 3,219,999 confirmed 135,822 dead. Trump pushing to open schools.
July 8: 3,158,734 confirmed 134,854 dead. Record increase of cases.
July 7: 3,097,084 confirmed 133,972 dead. Trump formally withdrew from WHO.
July 6: 3,039,688 confirmed 132,950 dead.
July 5: 2,981,669 confirmed 132,565 dead. Trump claims 99% of COVID-19 Cases Are 'Totally Harmless'.
July 4: 2,935,770 confirmed 132,318 dead.
July 3: 2,890,588 confirmed 132,101 dead. Way to celebrate July 4th! Studies indicate 10 times actual cases than reported and 30% more death.
July 2: 2,837,189 confirmed 131,485 dead.
July 1: 2,777,951 confirmed 130,785 dead.
June 30: 2,727,318 confirmed 130,111 dead.
June 29: 2,681,778 confirmed 128,777 dead. Boeing stock jumped.
June 28: 2,636,550 confirmed 128,436 dead.
June 27: 2,596,537 confirmed 128,152 dead. This is after Trump stopped funding testing sites in the states. Trump is virus best friend.
June 26: 2,547,365 confirmed 127,361 dead.
June 25: 2,502,311 confirmed 126,726 dead.
June 24: 2,462,554 confirmed 124,281 dead. The jump even after Trump ordered to slow down testing!
June 23: 2,424,168 confirmed 123,473 dead.
June 22: 2,388,153 confirmed 122,610 dead.
June 21: 2,356,657 confirmed 122,247 dead.
June 20: 2,330,578 confirmed 121,980 dead. Most supporters at Tulsa rally did not wear masks while at least 6 campaign workers were confirmed with the virus so far.
June 19: 2,297,190 confirmed 121,407 dead, accounting for 26.2% world's total.
June 18: 2,262,986 confirmed 120,682 dead. Curve steepening again.
June 17: 2,234,415 confirmed 119,941 dead.
June 16: 2,208,400 confirmed 119,132 dead.
June 15: 2,182,717 confirmed 118,279 dead.
June 14: 2,162,144 confirmed 117,853 dead.
June 13: 2,142,224 confirmed 117,527 dead.
June 12: 2,115,593 confirmed 116,795 dead.
June 11: 2,089,684 confirmed 116,029 dead.
June 10: 2,066,223 confirmed 115,130 dead.
June 9: 2,045,520 confirmed 114,148 dead.
June 8: 2,026,493 confirmed 113,055 dead.
June 7: 2,007,449 confirmed 112,469 dead.
June 6: 1,988,544 confirmed 112,096 dead.
June 5: 1,965,708 confirmed 111,390 dead. New cases surged! Death toll may surge too 2 weeks later unless the old already infected.
June 4: 1,923,637 confirmed 110,171 dead.
June 3: 1,901,703 confirmed 109,140 dead. People become numb about the numbers and Goerge Floyd protests take over all the headlines.
June 2: 1,880,957 confirmed 108,058 dead.
June 1: 1,859,174 confirmed 106,923 dead.
May 31: 1,837,165 confirmed 106,190 dead. Again numbers might have been grossly under-reported.
May 30: 1,816,820 confirmed 105,557 dead.
May 29: 1,793,530 confirmed 104,542 dead. Cases moved higher per day and dead toll no longer accurate as Trump stopped CDC reporting certain numbers from care homes. Trump exited WHO.
May 28: 1,768,216 confirmed 103,329 dead.
May 27: 1,745,803 confirmed 102,107 dead.
May 26: 1,725,491 confirmed 100,573 dead. Broke another Trump target of 100k dead.
May 25: 1,706,226 confirmed 99,805 dead. #s may be low due to lack of reporting during holiday.
May 24: 1,686,442 confirmed 99,300 dead. Trump shut down travels from Brazil. Cuomo: travelers from Europe "brought the virus to New York", not China.
May 23: 1,666,828 confirmed 98,683 dead. Noticed satan 666 appeared.
May 22: 1,643,549 confirmed 97,580 dead.
May 21: 1,617,701 confirmed 96,184 dead.
May 20: 1,589,229 confirmed 94,902 dead. Data accuracy getting worse as Republican led states began to manipulate the reported data.
May 19: 1,570,583 confirmed 93,533 dead. Approaching another Trump milestone.
May 18: 1,546,128 confirmed 91,763 dead.
May 17: 1,527,486 confirmed 90,973 dead. UK is a joke. A 29 year old man was confirmed with the virus on May 14 but was asked to go home without quarantine, either self or otherwise, even allowed to fly to HK on May 16, knowingly exposing passengers in the whole airplane! 249 People were chartered back to HK from India.
May 16: 1,507,773 confirmed 90,113 dead. Various analyses by Harvard and others indicate death counts grossly under-reported by about 40-100%!
May 15: 1,481,672 confirmed 88,373 dead. New high with 30k new cases.
May 14: 1,451,689 confirmed 86,601 dead.
May 13: 1,427,204 confirmed 84,973 dead.
May 12: 1,406,807 confirmed 83,284 dead.
May 11: 1,385,834 confirmed 81,795 dead.
May 10: 1,367,638 confirmed 80,787 dead.
May 9: 1,347,309 confirmed 80,037 dead.
May 8: 1,321,122 confirmed 78,577 dead.
May 7: 1,292,262 confirmed 76,916 dead. Death count passed Trump's new target!
May 6: 1,262,693 confirmed 74,791 dead. Death count fast approaching Trump's new target.
May 5: 1,237,045 confirmed 72,242 dead. Did Trump just throw Pompeo under the bus? In an interview with New York Post, Trump clarified he did not believe the virus was leaked from Wuhan lab, and the spread from Wuhan was not intentional. Wow, Trump turns faster than anyone ever has thought!
May 4: 1,212,343 confirmed 69,723 dead. France first Covid19 was near Paris around early December, 53 year old man with no travel to China! Over 2% German population infected. "WHO says has no proof from US on 'speculative' Wuhan lab claims." Fauci repeated on Monday that the virus could not be man-made, and similarly dismissed theories the virus was naturally-occurring but had been accidentally released from a lab where it was being studied, setting off the pandemic: "that means it was in the wild to begin with. That's why I don't get what they're talking about [and] why I don't spend a lot of time going in on this circular argument." Ouch, that must hurt to those conspiracy spinners. I did not think of that, to be honest. That is what makes Fauci a scientist, intelligent person, despite the fact under Trump he does bend and display his some minor personality defects some times. All in all, he still earns my respect.
May 3: 1,187,442 confirmed 68,572 dead. Pompeo said, "enormous" and "significant" evidence that coronavirus outbreak originated from Wuhan lab. Right, why not tell what it is then?
May 2: 1,159,564 confirmed 67,396 dead.
May 1: 1,121,712 confirmed 65,315 dead.
April 30: 1,093,724 confirmed 63,801 dead. 80% Inmates in Marion prison confirmed with the Covid19! "California had around 4,500 additional deaths so far in 2020 suggesting far more people died from COVID-19 than currently reported"
April 29: 1,057,392 confirmed 61,349 dead. Pompeo continued lying and cheating.
April 28: 1,035,454 confirmed 59,252 dead. Trump ordered meat processing plants to stay open.
April 27: 1,009,259 confirmed 56,773 dead.
April 26: 987,160 confirmed 55,413 dead.
April 25: 956,540 confirmed 54,124 dead. "Mask wearing" asteroid 1998 OR2 approaching Earth.
April 24: 923,612 confirmed 52,092 dead, accounting over 30% and 25% world totals, respectively. Trump promised sending ventilators to Ecuador, Indonesia. What happened MAGA AF?
April 23: 880,204 confirmed 49,845 dead. It is going beyond bizarre, someone should seriously check Trump's IQ. Trump said, “supposing we hit the body with a tremendous — whether it’s ultraviolet or just very powerful light. And I think you said that hasn’t been checked, but we’re going to test it. And then I said, supposing you brought the light inside the body, either through the skin or some other way.” “And then I see the disinfectant where it knocks it out in a minute, one minute. And is there a way we can do something like that, by injection inside or almost a cleaning? Because you see it gets in the lungs and does a tremendous number on the lungs. It would be interesting to check that. That you’re gonna have to use medical doctors with, but it sounds interesting to me, so we’ll see.” Apparently he got the ideas from Bill Bryan, who has no medical background and got his position by Trump directly. Monkey does what monkey sees. When a monkey learns from another monkey, you get monkey results.
April 22: 848,717 confirmed 47,659 dead. Rick Bright fought back his demotion from BARDA.
April 21: 816,385 (823,786 by JHU) confirmed 45,174 dead. Cases doubled again in 2 weeks. Trump stops all immigration in tweets. Later report confirmed only greencards. I am not sure if he knows the difference even though he married one "professional lady on Einstein" visa. Studies conclude "Trump drug" did not work but harm for Covid19 patients.
April 20: 792,759 confirmed 42,514 dead. Deaths more than doubled in 9 days.
April 19: 764,303 confirmed 40,548 dead. Investigations by local labs (note: not federal which has lost all credibility) show Santa Clara under reported cases more than 80 times and Chelsea's infection rate was 32%! In a statement Saturday, a spokeswoman for the FDA, Stephanie Caccomo, said, “CDC did not manufacture its test consistent with its own protocol.”
April 18: 738,792 confirmed 39,014 dead.
April 17: 695,107 confirmed 36,576 dead, accounting for more than 30% of all cases and more than 20% of all deaths worldwide, AF MAGA! "(Trump) said 11 times, 'I don't want to get involved in testing – it's too hard, it's too complicated,'" Cuomo said. Sounds like Trump. Macron Office unprecedentedly put out statement that no evidence links the virus to Wuhan lab. Esper did not follow in line with Pompeo either - Esper not very competent but at least proved sane among Trump admins.
April 16: 675,640 confirmed 34,522 dead. Cases doubled and deaths more than tripled in 11 days, another AF MAGA milestone. Lying cheating stealing CIA head Pompeo spread the conspiracy that the virus "might" have escaped from a Wuhan biolab. "Trump's 'Opening Our Country Council' Runs Into Its Own Opening Problems", stable genius at work again, everything it touches turns into a monkey show. "'Megadrought' emerging in the western US might be worse than any in 1,200 years"
April 15: 643,419 confirmed 28,504 dead. China starts phase 2 clinical trial for a vaccine. Kellyanne Conway: "This is COVID-19, not COVID-1 folks, and so you would think the people in charge of the World Health Organization, facts and figures, would be on top of that." Another "stable genius" indeed, also intriguing to know how George Conway could put up with such a bimbo day in and day out. Trump threatened to adjourn Congress and started attacking China coronavirus numbers. Clearly he is losing his mind.
April 14: 611,156 confimed 25,924 dead. Trump suspended funding to WHO, exactly when U.S. needed it the most - another work by the "stable genius".
April 13: 586,377 confirmed 23,610 dead. Trump attacks Fauci and NYT. All 50 states declared disaster, and Trump tweeted "we are winning."
April 12: 560,425 confirmed 22,108 dead
April 11: 532,879 confirmed 20,577 dead. Another AF MAGA "milestone": U.S. officially ranked #1 in Covid-19 death counts, accounting for over 20% of world total. White House attacked its own VOA for covering Wuhan lifting lockdown. "Army's Seatle field hospital closes after 3 days, without treating a single patient", another AF MAGA "milestone".
April 10: 502,049 confirmed 18,719 dead. Doubled again in about 7 days. Over 2000 new deaths within a single day, more than 2nd France and 3rd UK combined. Another AF MAGA milestone! UK is becoming the larest hotspot. NYC alone reported over 1,100 died in the streets never tested or accounted for, no name mass burials in Hart Island reached new high of about 24 coffins a day (used to be for a whole week). Should WSJ write another article titled "New York is the Real Sick Man in America" or "U.S. is the Real Sick Man in the World"?
April 9: 465,586 confirmed 16,545 dead. Bill Gates said U.S. is "in big trouble" until it has better coronavirus testing! "Nature" took the unprecedented step to publicly apologize for having associated the novel coronavirus with Wuhan or China in its early article, in an apparent rebuke to Pompeo, Trump and nutty Republican politicians. Melania went on the internet to promote wearing masks in public, another clear departure from her husband.
April 8: 430,271 confirmed 14,738 dead. About 10% aircraft carrier Roosevelt infected. Trump threatened to withdrawal from WHO, brilliant "stable genius" indeed! Research by Adriana Heguy, a geneticist at NYU Grossman School of Medicine, found out New York Covid-19 came from Europe.
April 7: 400,335 confirmed 12,841 dead. It is conveniently leaked to the media Novarro wrote memos on Jan 29 and Feb to warn Trump of the coronavirus risk. First, Jan 29 is extremely late, anyone with a sound mind already knew what the risk might be. Second, you can guess who leaked them. Navarro is a weasel. Clearly the "smart Harvard weasel" is preparing post Trump era. Interesting to see how this plays out over next months. Trump demands but never gets any loyalty from his people. He only attracts selfish crooks with zero integrity.
April 6: 367,004 confirmed 10,871 dead. Peter Navarro claimed his PhD from Harvard makes him a medical expert!
April 5: 336,830 confirmed 9,618 dead, again doubled in 6 days! "Health experts say official U.S. coronavirus death toll is understated" for reasons such as limited testing (even now it is still difficult for people to be tested in some areas), false negatives, no postmortem testing, some flu or pneumonia deaths before mid March were likely due to coronavirus. So what is the true number? News Pentagon received a spy assessment report on the novel coronavirus in November, which was before Wuhan had its first case, which means CIA/Pentagon knew what was going to happen in Wuhan before what happened in Wuhan?
April 4: 311,357 confirmed 8,452 dead. It appears the count doubles every 6 days!
April 3: 257,379 confirmed 6558 dead. CDC finally caved in by recommending masks, though voluntarily. Do not understand the fascination with Fauci as the truth man except he was a bit better than Trump. That bar is extremely low. As late as March 20 Fauci was quoted saying U.S will be fine, not be like Italy. He and the whole Trump Admin had been downplaying the situation until at least then. Trump just threatened 3M to "have a big price to pay" for N95. He also ordered 3M not export to Canada, its closest ally!
Two months before the coronavirus begun in Wuhan, the Trump admin ended a $200-million pandemic early-warning program aimed at training scientists in China and other countries to detect and respond to such a threat. The project, launched by the U.S. Agency for International Development in 2009, identified 1,200 different viruses that had the potential to erupt into pandemics, including more than 160 novel coronaviruses. The initiative, called PREDICT, also trained and supported staff in 60 foreign laboratories — including the Wuhan lab that identified SARS-CoV-2. Field work ceased when the funding ran out in September, and organizations that worked on the PREDICT program laid off dozens of scientists and analysts, said Peter Daszak, president of EcoHealth Alliance, a key player in the program. The work and milestone by a real "stable genius".
Capt. Crozier's name was shouted out as a hero by his crew of thousands when he walked off the carrier to be released of his duty. Very much looking forward to hear his side of the story.
April 2: 240,344 confirmed 5,807 dead. Capt. Brett Crozier of aircraft carrier Roosevelt was fired for copying too many people in his plea for help. He did nothing wrong and did not personally leaked the memo to the media. This is a real cover-up, why no media outrage? As of today, people are still debating on TV, including Fauci, about wearing masks or not, indeed preciously incredible! Also report: US hijacked medical supplies meant for Canada and France. What allies are for? Easy stealing from each other!
April 1: 215,003 confirmed 5,102 dead. "We think Italy may be the most comparable area to the United States at this point," Pence told CNN on Wednesday. Shouldn't Trump say "Italian virus"? Lying cheating stealing CIA Pompeo failed in blaming China now directs CIA to leak so called "secret" (so no names no facts but claims by already failed "intel" people) report that China under reported its coronavirus cases to Bloomberg, but Trump said he never received any such report. Trump is too honest and Pompeo failed to coach him to lie before hand. Over 1,000 dead within a single day, another MAGA AF milestone!
March 31: 187,347 confirmed 3,860 died. I try now not listen to Trump anymore, but did notice, instead of right behind, Fauci stayed far away as possible and had his arms acrossed while Trump was speaking. Read an old news article on Feb 17, in which Fauci was quoted the Covid-19 danger was minuscule and there was no need for wearing masks as the masks you buy from pharmacies don't really work. Trump threw Boris Johnson under the bus by publicly admitting Johnson admin adopted "herd immunity" strategy until March when himself caught the virus, and last week he begged Trump for ventilators!
March 30: 161,358 confirmed 2,974 died. Even though testing numbers appear to ramp up, little has been done to isolate, track, quarantine and contain the virus from spreading. No wonder Trump changed his tone. Report: a sharp increase in coronavirus cases among troops inside the United States, which have overtaken the number of cases among forces overseas in key branches of military. Clearly the real danger resides within. Another MAGA America First milestone achieved!
March 29: 141,854 confirmed 2,475 dead. Report by The New York Times "The Lost Month: How a Failure to Test Blinded the U.S. to COVID-19" confirmed the U.S. CDC had been informed with details from the very beginning possible: "The first time Redfield heard about the severity of the virus from his Chinese counterparts was around New Year’s Day, when he was on vacation with his family. He spent so much time on the phone that they barely saw him. And what he heard rattled him; in one grim conversation about the virus days later, George Gao, the director of the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, burst into tears." Robert Redfield is Director of U.S CDC! China CDC was not involved until December 31, before that it was local CDC from Wuhan or Hubei, which did not know what the disease was until December 30 or 31.
The Guardian "The coronavirus is the worst intelligence failure in US history" failed to ask the question what Trump did know exactly? It may not be an intelligence failure but an intelligence boomerang!
Trump said if U.S ended up with 100,000 to 200,000 deaths from Covid-19, he and his administration "we altogether have done a very good job!" He obviously began trying to manage down the expectations. Unbelievable.
March 28: 123,750 confirmed and 2,227 dead.
March 27: 104,142 confirmed 1,695 dead. US media trying to recycle old WSJ article to pin down patient zero to Wei Guixian and the blame on the government, which was quite lame as the original article (very long) clearly indicates the doctors did not have clue until Dec 29 or 30 the earliest. Wuhan's (later China) actions and missteps are now clearly reasonable as they were dealing with the unknown, but the actions by the US government since the very beginning are hard for me to understand.
March 26: 83144 confirmed 1201 dead. "Military imposes 60 day coronavirus ban on troops coming home from overseas", why 60 long days? Not by Easter? Easter not so special any more, Trump? Report U.S flu season extended and getting worse whileas HK ended earlier than usual. Track, test, contain and wear masks do work! Fauci said Italy was due to having most Chinese travellers for the situation, a complete illogical argument coming from a scientist! Clearly Fauci has also fallen into Pompeo fold. If true, Japan, other Asian countries, other regions in China close to Wuhan should have far more cases. The fact Italy is only peaking now, not one or two months earlier, indicates the source of the outbreak did not come from the Wuhan wave. From where? Fauci as the leading scientific expert in the U.S should know the answer!
March 25: 66048 confirmed 944 dead. Pompeo continued to attack in G7 and asked to label "Chinese virus", receiving zero support. It appears CIA Pompeo is behind the the conspiracy from the beginning. How much had been CIA involved in the pandemic? Did it plant the virus in the first place? This can not be 100% rooted out. He ordered his minions to do the same at UNSC but failed again. Pompeo is out to destroy China and will do anything (including his own mother and daughter) no matter what. Trump only cares about reelection. Another report, Japan Aso said in February G7 FM meeting he asked what to do with the outbreak at the time, Italian FM said no worry as it affects only yellow race, which could explain why Italy is where it is now. Trump crossed out "Chinese" from his speech note but started to attack WHO. He started calling it "invisible enemy". It is not, it can be detected as long as you screen and test! It takes only a few hours to a day, not weeks!
March 24: 53482 confirmed 696 dead. Burma reported first two cases, both imported from U.S and UK. Burma is very close to China both by land and culturally, should have had a lot more cases by now if China/Wuhan is the source. Trump called Moon to send coronavirus equipments. Trump stopped calling "Chinese virus" for now. Fauci reappeared behind Trump but kept looking at his own feet.
March 23 pm: 43718 confirmed 552 died. Trump said "coronavirus not Asian Americans' fault." A real "stable genius" indeed. He also said flu death counts are 50,000 plus and more deaths in auto accident ....
March 23: 35079 confirmed 458 died. "White House pushes U.S. officials to criticize China for coronavirus 'cover-up'".
March 22: 32783 confirmed, 416 died. Australia PM said most cases are from the US, USA now the world virus exporters letting people out without any screening. "US axed CDC expert job in China months before virus outbreak".
March 21 pm: 26863 confirmed, 348 died. Trump suggests medical staff sanitize and reuse masks, a real "stable genius" indeed!
March 21 am: 19774 confirmed, 275 died. Trump admin asked states not to release unemployment numbers. WTF, can't he get anything right? Hope market won't crash Monday. (Market did crash again on Monday 23rd)
March 20 pm: 19285 confirmed, 250 died. Anthony Fauci facepalm, how long can he sustain this twisted psychosis with a madman? Fauci appears the only sane person now, but needs to keep toeing the line between being accurate and not offending Trump, a difficult and almost impossible task. Fauci has been missing from news briefing for at least two days on Monday 23rd!
If Trump keeps deflecting by calling "Chinese virus" and not stopping it, he will end up known as Trump virus, also Trump disease, Trump flu, Trump crash, Trump recession, Trump outbreak, Trump pandemic, Trump depression, Trump suicide, Trump murder (chloroquine), TrumpConDemic, TrumpPornDumbic, Mushroom Head virus, Mario Kart virus, CoronaMushroomHeadMarioKartStormyTrump virus......
March 20: Hong Kong 48 and Taiwan 27 confirmed today, none to do with Wuhan or China, a lot to do with travellers from USA, Europe, and SEA.
March 20 am: 14336 confirmed, 217 died
March 19 pm: 13847 confirmed, 209 died. Trump has been trying desperately to deflect and divert blames by repeatedly calling it "Chinese virus", but was caught by a smart reporter who exposed to the world with indisputable evidence Dum Trump personally crossed out the word "Corona" and wrote "Chinese" with his favorite Sharpie on his cheat sheet at the podium! Again, he is not as stupid as some believe, he is doing this on purpose to his political advantage.
March 19 am: 9521 confirmed, 160 died.
March 18 night: 9439 confirmed 155 died
March 18: 8006 confirmed, 129 died. CDC: 7038 and 97.
March 17: 6522 confirmed, 116 died. Again these are under-estimate and not CDC numbers, which have not been up to date. In essence, CDC has no clue!
March 16: 5243 confirmed with 94 deaths
March 15 night: over 3,800 people from another cruise were allowed to disembark in Miami without any kind of screening let alone quarantining even though there was confirmed case onboard!
March 15: 2952 confirmed, 57 deaths (CDC: 1629 confirmed, 41 deaths). Same time TV reported over 3000 cases and over 60 deaths. Another news reported over 3,200 confirmed and 62 deaths. Very confusing! Fed overreacted with double cutting 1% rate to 0%, and restarting QE! How will markets react when open on Monday?
March 14: 2836 tested and confirmed, 57 death. Trump's doctor claimed Trump was tested the night before, and in less than 24 hours the result came back negative, yet the same doctor who said just hours before there was no need for asymptomatic Trump to be tested.
March 14: Covid-19 RNA genome comparison study of limited cases indicates Case 0 may be between 30 October and 29 November. 16 November 2015 "Lab-made coronavirus triggers debate" wrote UNC at Chapel Hill Prof R. Baric published on 9 November 2015 a study to engineer a hybrid coronavirus with surface protein of SHC014 coronavirus found in horseshoe bats in China, and the backbone that causes human-like SARS in mice. 15 February 2020 "Biologists rush to recreate the China coronavirus from its DNA code" also by Baric team (not sure if it was a mistake - shouldn't it be RNA?). Apparently it is not that easy to engineer a successful coronavirus in a lab even for the leading US scientists. Conspiracy promoters appear to shoot their own feet by admitting Chinese scientists are superior to their US counterparts. How ironic? That is the danger of not understanding science but yet trying to manipulate it.
March 13: Trump declared national emergency. 2174 tested and confirmed with 47 deaths. Read original interview with Ai Fen in Chinese as the translated English versions were too biased toward making her an anti-government heroin, which could not be further from the truth. She was the person who sent x-ray scan picture to a classmate outside the hospital that started the viral social media panic. She, as the head of emergency department, was blamed by her colleagues of spreading the actual virus in the hospital by not containing it within her department. Plus over the following weeks and months, she was constantly under stress due to intense workload. It is fully understandable for her to air some frustrations as well as exonerate herself from her colleagues. In the end, we are all human. Unfortunately those who are anti-China and anti-communists would always have a different take on everything. The first known patient WH1 first sought help in the clinic on 16 December and was referred to the Respiratory Specialist Department on 22 December as high fever did not recede after 6 days. WH2 was received on 27 December after being quite sick for over ten days. Both had connection to the nearby Seafood Market, which made the doctors believe it is related to the Market. It is therefore reasonably assumed both were infected around 11 December. On 30 December a x-ray specialist recognized unusual lung scan, noted down SARS like virus, and reported duly upward. On the same day, Dr. Ai Fen, head of the emergency department of the hospital saw and sent the picture with highlighted "SARS" related words to her old classmate, a doctor from another hospital who happened to ask her if she knew anything about the Seafood Market cases. The classmate then socialmediaed to other people, amongst them was Li Wenliang, who was an eye doctor from the same hospital as Ai Fen but they did not know each other personally as it is a big hospital. It quickly became viral and caused commotion in the communities. Police was noticed and enquired Dr. Li but did not punish any of them as no bad intention was found. City Health Bureau allegedly inquired the hospital chief who in turn told Ai not to send sensitive materials outside the hospital without consultation with her superiors. On 31 December China alerted WHO about unusual pneumonia cases in Wuhan. On 1 January the Seafood Market was closed. As scientists tried to identify the source, cases mushroomed to over 40 within a few days. On 5 January SARS was ruled out. On 7 January the virus was identified and notified to WHO and the world. On 9 January first death occurred which was announced publicly on 11 January. On 17 January second death, USA announced airport screenings. On 20 January third death with over 200 confirmed cases and a national expert panel confirmed human to human transmission possible. January 22 saw more deaths and 550 cases resulting in the decision to quarantine the whole city on January 23. The rest and ongoing events afterwards have been well publicized.
By March 8 CDC only performed 1707 tests, and by 11 March, 1784, mere 77 more tests in 3 days! State tested about 7617 for a total tested by 11 March 9401 people, with confirmed 1663 cases resulting in 17.7% confirmed rate.
March 12: John Hopkins count 1663 confirmed with 40 death. How many deaths unaccounted for? Noone knows. Conservative estimate 400 Covid-19 related deaths would put infection at least 40,000. Given the expanse of the land and sparsity of population relative to China, Korea or even Italy, it means the coronavirus must have been in the community much longer than that in China! Ohio State Health Chief Amy Acton said "at least of 1%" in Ohio had been infected, which means more than 117,000 Covid-19 infections in Ohio alone, and yet it is not even the epicenter! Multiply that by 40 (or 10 to be generous), it is 4,680,000 (or more than 1 million the least) for the country! You think Trump and CIA Pompeo did not know this? This is way beyond USA healthcare capacity, that is probably one of the reasons Trump had been downplaying the situation and hope it would hide behind Flu until April/May. A point about bioweapon conspiracy. Covid-19 works best among crowded places and inflicts the worst on older and sick people, especially those with weak lungs, both factors favor the US better than China. Chinese scientists must have been really stupid to develop such a virus which will exert heavier loss on its own people. The timing is also against its own interests - China's economy had been under stress due to Trump's trade war, who in their right minds in China would want to push it farther to the edge? CIA (maybe KGB) has both motive and capability to carry this out secretly, but never expected the boomerang so quick and severe, due to what? Incompetent leadership in Washington and failed CDC! Noone is more clear about the whole thing than Pompeo. How much did he tell Trump? Pompeo/Trump must have known about the virus before November/December, that explains why Trump was first to restrict travels to China, first to extract its citizens from China, and Pompeo cohorts continue up to this hour desperately trying to pin the blame on China, just like the "Spanish Flu". At this point scientificly speaking, it is only accurate to say Covid-19 was first detected in Wuhan, China, its origin yet to be determined. Only after each country fully tests enough samples of its population (like China and Korea had done so far, the only two countries) and more generational virus RNA mappings are done, it can determine, within degree of confidence, the true original source of Covid-19.
March 11: over 1300 confirmed with 38 died, still way way under-testing.
March 10: in less than two days, death number in the USA jumped to 31 and infected to over 1000! More States are taking control of the testing over CDC. Egypt and India appear to be the new hot spots: several cases confirmed after trips to India and an Egypt tour group of 9 all confirmed upon return to Hong Kong! It is worth pointing out that just a few days/weeks ago, Indians here in Kong Kong had been bragging about no Indian cases and how curry food cures the virus? "A Seatle Lab uncovered Washington's coronavirus outbreak only after defying federal regulations" pointed out a couple of weeks before 25 Feb it requested CDC testing, which means the patient WA2 was seriously sick before 10 Feb. As WA2 is a high school teenager, most likely first thought having a flu and had been sick for at least over a week before seeing a doctor. Unless with chronic illness, a healthy teenager is known not to have any symptom even for 21 to 37 days after infection, which means WA2 could have had the virus mid December to early January. It is reported that WA2 shares similar makeup as WA1 but the two had no contact and WA2 did not travel. WA1 arrived in Seatle on January 15 and was confirmed on January 19/20. It is possible both contracted the virus locally in Seatle. More study/information on all known patients is needed to trace the source of the virus. It is very strange that CDC insisted no other lab but itself to conduct the tests. USA was first to impose travel restrictions before almost any other country, at which point Trump seemed to know more about the danger of the virus, what briefing did he get from CIA? Ex-CIA head Pompeo until today still keeps calling/blaming Wuhan/China for it, whereas Trump, uncharacteristically, refrained from doing so. Trump is a simple guy who can not hold secrets too long, but he is not as stupid as some believe.
There have been all kinds of views and opinions, some outright outrageous. Diamond Princess (DP) offers a "controlled" (sad unfortunately) experiment, in which the virus was more or less allowed to run its course, the infected rate is 19% of this close cluster population. Given that its population might tend to be more elderly and more sick than the free general population, the death rate about 1% should be higher than that of those infected in a free general population. In Wuhan the confirmed rate is about 0.2%, and death rate about 10%. How so? The numbers are most likely inaccurate as the virus was not known in the early weeks, a lot of self-recovered mild cases had not been detected and a percent of milder cases later remained at home after the quarantine. In my view, Wuhan at the outset might be similar to DP but difference is hospitals were the hot spots as early doctors were not aware and did not take necessary protective measures. As such the true infection rate at Wuhan hospitals early on should be around 20%, similar or higher than DP, but when spreading out into the wider communities, the rate should become much lower. Assuming 1% death rate is correct, that would give a total about 230,000 infected persons, ten times bigger. If these additional 200,000 were added to Hubei or China numbers, the death rate for both would also reduce to 1% or lower. Given the mild and difficult to detect nature for majority of those infected, 1% death rate is a more accurate benchmark to judge the stage and condition of a region under infection.
This shows Macau, Singapore, Taiwan, China Mainland (after measure taken) have much better medical system and people awareness to tackle the virus whereas Italy, Iran, Japan and Korea continue to unfold. Korea took good and aggressive measures to test and quarantine so the reported death rate is very low, we need to wait for the final number to come as it is still early to judge, but credit should be given to the Korean government.
On the other hand, 4.3% death rate from the USA is partially due to the fact that most of those were from the high risk elderly home centers but clearly it was mostly due to under-reporting and under-testing as it appears CDC was ill-prepared with limited and faulty test kits to date, and the general attitude that it was kind of like a flu and would go away in April is not helping either.
As said earlier, "hot spot" cluster infection rate is about 20%, but extreme cases like recent Egypt Cruise in which 45 out of 150 were infected, and the Hong Kong hot pot gathering in which about 11 out of 19 were infected, could be, unfortunately, over 50%! However, with appropriate measures and increased awareness, as shown in some regions already, the infection rate should be way below 1% and death rate below 1% too, similar to flu. Therefore 1% infection can be a yard stick whether a region is out of control. Though Hong Kong's death rate appears high, its infection rate is extremely low, which shows its measures are working.
It is reported that flu cases and deaths were pretty high this season in the US, vaping and unknown lung related death cases occurred in the US as early as last summer. How many cases, including death, were actually Covid-19? It is a mystery. It may have originated from the US before last December, but we may never know. Nature does have a way to run as it wishes. Trump's ignorance and downplaying significance of the virus may come back to haunt him, this we will find out in a few months.
Region Pop Death (%) Infected (%)
Diamond Princess ~3700 7 (1) 706 (19)
Grand Princess 3533 1 so far 3+21 so far (19 crew)
Wuhan 11.08m 2282 (10) 22368 (0.2)
Hubei 58.5m 2871 (11) 25905 (0.044)
China 1386m 3097 (3.8) 80696
Macau 650k 0 10
Hong Kong 7.4m 2 113
Taiwan 23m 1 45
Singapore 5.6m 0 138
Japan 126.8m 6 (1.3) 461
Korea 51.47m 50 7134
Iran 81.16m 145 (2.5) 5823
Italy 60.48m 233 (4) 5883
USA 327.2m 19 (4.3) 442
Egypt Cruise 150 ND 45 (30)
HK hot pot ~19 ND ~11 (over 50)
HK WH Evacuee 469 ND 1 so far
