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COVID-19 Coronavirus: Impact on Apple's iPhone, Mac and WWDC
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Talk to your friends and family, those that you have not talk in a long time and say hi to them. This might be a good chance to unite.
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CDC currently estimates that so far this season in the United States, there have been at least 32 million flu illnesses and 18,000 deaths.
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Based on the above CDC numbers, the 2019-2020 flu season has a crude fatality ratio of 0.056% in the U.S.
CFR for Covid-19 is calculating at 3.42% worldwide. That means that if the same 32 million people catch this new virus, 1,104,000 people may die.
The typical infection rate (R0) for flu is around 1.2. WHO reports that COVID-19 has an R0 of 2-2.5 – a number considered relatively high and puts its contagiousness on par with the influenza pandemic of 1918.
Nobody is immune to Covid-19. Over 99% of people who contract the disease will get sick to some degree.
About 80% of confirmed cases have mild to moderate disease and experience some degree of fever, chills, achiness, dry cough, fatigue, and shortness of breath. These people generally recover without medical intervention.
Severe disease occurs in 13.8% who contract Covid-19. They experience difficulty breathing, have low blood oxygen levels, and develop lung infiltrates like pus.
About 6.1% of Covid-19 patients are critical and experience respiratory failure, septic shock, and multiple organ dysfunction and failure.
That means that if the same 32 million people in the U.S. were to catch Covid-19, 6,400,000 people may need hospitalization.
The United States has about 950,000 hospital beds in total.
If COVID-19 goes wide like the flu, and if it does so quickly, it will be very, very bad. We all have to take this seriously.
What experts, doctors and officials really need the American public to do is slow this disease down. We will all likely catch it and get a little sick at some point in the next two years. We just need to do it slowly, spread it out so that the healthcare system can ramp up preparations and not be hit too hard at once. And we need to slow it down so scientists can determine what antivirals and other drugs work and to develop a vaccine.
Weekly U.S. Influenza Surveillance Report
Learn more about the weekly influenza surveillance report (FluView) prepared by the Influenza Division.
Based on the above CDC numbers, the 2019-2020 flu season has a crude fatality ratio of 0.056% in the U.S.
CFR for Covid-19 is calculating at 3.42% worldwide. That means that if the same 32 million people catch this new virus, 1,104,000 people may die.
The typical infection rate (R0) for flu is around 1.2. WHO reports that COVID-19 has an R0 of 2-2.5 – a number considered relatively high and puts its contagiousness on par with the influenza pandemic of 1918.
Nobody is immune to Covid-19. Over 99% of people who contract the disease will get sick to some degree.
About 80% of confirmed cases have mild to moderate disease and experience some degree of fever, chills, achiness, dry cough, fatigue, and shortness of breath. These people generally recover without medical intervention.
Severe disease occurs in 13.8% who contract Covid-19. They experience difficulty breathing, have low blood oxygen levels, and develop lung infiltrates like pus.
About 6.1% of Covid-19 patients are critical and experience respiratory failure, septic shock, and multiple organ dysfunction and failure.
That means that if the same 32 million people in the U.S. were to catch Covid-19, 6,400,000 people may need hospitalization.
The United States has about 950,000 hospital beds in total.
If COVID-19 goes wide like the flu, and if it does so quickly, it will be very, very bad. We all have to take this seriously.
What experts, doctors and officials really need the American public to do is slow this disease down. We will all likely catch it and get a little sick at some point in the next two years. We just need to do it slowly, spread it out so that the healthcare system can ramp up preparations and not be hit too hard at once. And we need to slow it down so scientists can determine what antivirals and other drugs work and to develop a vaccine.
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Yea I know I picked the WRONG week to run out of toilet paper -
They are hoarding rice as well - My Costco was out of 50 lbs bags of rice today too.
I think its funny b/c toilet paper is that last thing I would think there would a run on.
there are tons of substitutes for t/p
Absolutely amazing how clear things are to us MacRumors readers and yet the overpaid execs at Apple can’t see their noses on their faces. /s