{"id":25649,"date":"2020-03-18T11:25:08","date_gmt":"2020-03-18T10:25:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=25649"},"modified":"2020-03-18T12:20:06","modified_gmt":"2020-03-18T11:20:06","slug":"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","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=25649","title":{"rendered":"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"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Amazingly the site has been set up by an American boy of just 17, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.democracynow.org\/2020\/3\/13\/meet_the_17_year_old_behind?fbclid=IwAR3ZiC5O_8UVPAB4nApdqs9CFUrLQ7u5G0v1adeGz5D3njxX_IY_HmysOkE\">Avi Schiffmann<\/a>, a high school junior from Mercer Island outside Seattle. But the site is using reputable sources such as the Word Health Organisation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You can access the site <a href=\"https:\/\/ncov2019.live\/\">here<\/a>. As I write this posting, the global number of confirmed cases has just reached <strong>200,000<\/strong> (but, of course, there are many, many more unrecorded cases) and the global number of deaths is almost <strong>8,000<\/strong> (but, of course, this is set to rise substantially.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For UK readers of this blog, there are three statistics which are worth remembering:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>The modelling suggested that,<em> without<\/em> severe social distancing and isolation practices, the death toll could be around <strong>260,000<\/strong>.<\/li><li>The modelling suggested that, <em>with<\/em> the current severe social distancing and isolation practices, the death toll could be around <strong>20,000<\/strong> or lower.<\/li><li>Seasonal flu kills around <strong>8,000<\/strong> a year in this country in a &#8216;normal&#8217; season.<\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,5,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25649","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-british-current-affairs","category-science-technology","category-world-current-affairs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25649","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25649"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25649\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25658,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25649\/revisions\/25658"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25649"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25649"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25649"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}