If you would be interested in tracking in real time accurate data on the spread of coronavirus worldwide, there is a web site that is doing that
Amazingly the site has been set up by an American boy of just 17, Avi Schiffmann, a high school junior from Mercer Island outside Seattle. But the site is using reputable sources such as the Word Health Organisation.
You can access the site here. As I write this posting, the global number of confirmed cases has just reached 200,000 (but, of course, there are many, many more unrecorded cases) and the global number of deaths is almost 8,000 (but, of course, this is set to rise substantially.
For UK readers of this blog, there are three statistics which are worth remembering:
- The modelling suggested that, without severe social distancing and isolation practices, the death toll could be around 260,000.
- The modelling suggested that, with the current severe social distancing and isolation practices, the death toll could be around 20,000 or lower.
- Seasonal flu kills around 8,000 a year in this country in a ‘normal’ season.