COVID-19: Valuable Resources

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Sukla Sen

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Mar 14, 2020, 10:58:15 AM3/14/20

to foil-l, Say NO 2 UID Core Group

I. Updated Detailed Status.

AA. <https://ourworldindata.org/coronavirus>.

BB. <https://infographics.channelnewsasia.com/covid-19/map.html>.

CC. <

https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/>.

II. The, detailed, pattern of spread and the "urgency" to act: <https://medium.com/@tomaspueyo/coronavirus-act-today-or-people-will-die-f4d3d9cd99ca>.

III. India: <https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/india-has-30-days-to-halt-onset-of-stage-iii-says-icmr-dg/articleshow/74620277.cms>.

Few salient points:

AA. Reported "confirmed cases" are far less (by a factor of 10?) than people affected by the virus.
Thereby they're carriers of the virus, even if they're not "reported".
As time passes, many - though not all, of them will graduate to reported "confirmed cases".
This hold both globally and nationally for India.

BB. Both globally and, perhaps even more so, nationally we're still at the initial segment - steeply rising portion, of the statistical distribution curve. Despite the fact that the curve in China appears to have flattened out by now. Right now, it's the turn of Europe and North America.
Things would keep turning worse, it's apprehended, at an exponential rate.

CC. "Social distancing" has to be a major strategy in restricting the speed of the spread.
But, too difficult to implement.