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1. LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Wednesday, 18-Mar-2020 17:49:35 UTC LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864}
   Confirmed #COVID-19 / #2019-nCoV / #SARS-CoV-2 #coronavirus cases:
   Worldwide: 207,615
   China: 81,102
   Italy: 31,506
   Iran: 17,361
   Spain: 13,910
   Germany: 11,302
   South Korea: 8,413
   France: 7,661
   United States: 7,324 [1]
   Switzerland: 3,028
   United Kingdom: 2,642
   Netherlands: 2,056
   Austria: 1,646
   Norway: 1,550
   Belgium: 1,486
   Sweden: 1,212 [2]
   Denmark: 1,115
   Japan: 889 [3]
   Malaysia 790
   Cruise Ship: 712 [3]
   Canada: 598
   Australia: 568
   Czechia: 464
   Portugal: 448
   Qatar: 442
   Israel: 433
   Greece: 418
   Brazil: 350
   Finland: 336
   Singapore: 313
   Ireland: 292
   Slovenia: 275
   Romania: 260
   Estonia: 258
   Bahrain: 256
   Pakistan: 256
   Poland: 251
   Iceland: 250
   
   
   [1] The US had (and may still have) a shortage of working test kits and a relatively narrow standard for who is tested.
   [2] Sweden was only testing "high risk" individuals, not every sick person.
   [3] Technically, the cruise ship's illnesses mostly occurred in Japanese waters, but the numbers are rightly separated.
   • LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Wednesday, 18-Mar-2020 17:50:05 UTC LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864}

     in reply to
     source: Johns Hopkins Univ
   • LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Wednesday, 18-Mar-2020 20:01:48 UTC LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864}

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     New analysis: People aged 20-44 are not immune from the effects of #COVID-19 / #2019-nCoV / #SARS-CoV-2 #coronavirus but still far less susceptible than their elders.
     
     https://nu.federati.net/url/265798 [www statnews com]
   • GeniusMusing (geniusmusing@nu.federati.net)'s status on Wednesday, 18-Mar-2020 21:56:57 UTC GeniusMusing

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     @lnxw48a1 @sims03@pleroma.site
     
     It seemed interesting that Russia has not been in the news, I now know why.
     
     Russia Belatedly Begins to Awaken to the Coronavirus
     https://foreignpolicy.com/2020/03/18/fortress-russia-coronavirus-spread-covid-pandemic/
     
     >MOSCOW—As the coronavirus pandemic has spread, bringing nations to a halt and killing over 8,000 people in recent weeks around the globe, Russia emerged as a rare spot of calm—or perhaps indifference.
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     >Daily life largely continued as normal, with shops, workplaces, and schools still operating, while the authorities exuded confidence, pointing to only 147 confirmed cases and zero deaths, out of more than 116,000 tests for COVID-19 in the country of about 145 million people—one of the lowest ratios among infected nations in the world. Russian President Vladimir Putin, meanwhile, started an oil price war with Saudi Arabia, the global economy be damned.
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     >However, in less than 48 hours, that image has begun to crumble as the Russian government has kicked its response to COVID-19 into overdrive: shutting down its borders, limiting air travel, closing schools, and launching a large economic stimulus as medical experts have begun to question Russia’s official coronavirus statistics and the true efficacy of the response to limit its spread.
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     >Should the true scope of the virus prove to be higher than shown in official statistics, it would mean that the Russian government has missed its chance to slow the pandemic, leaving an already overstretched health care system and weakened economy to deal with the burden of a new national crisis.
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     >“Because the government now understands that infections could jump rapidly, we see new measures being employed to try and contain things very quickly,” said Alexander Gabuev, a senior fellow at the Carnegie Moscow Center. “The key concern is that the medical system doesn’t have the capacity to deal with the coming uptick in cases.”
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     >On Tuesday, Putin toured a new coronavirus information center in Moscow that is pulling together high-tech resources, including surveillance cameras and artificial intelligence, to monitor social media for disinformation about the spread of the disease, properly enforce quarantines, and identify empty supermarket shelves, which have recently been emptied in major cities as Russians have begun stockpiling goods. After the visit, Putin said that he judged the situation in the country to be “under control.”
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     >“We were able to contain the mass penetration and spread” of the pandemic, Putin said during a government meeting of ministers and top officials in Moscow. “The situation is generally under control despite high risk levels.”
     
     Where have I heard that before…
     LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} repeated this.