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Coronavirus: Latest Stats
In pursuit of objective information. COVID-19 stats as of March 9th 2020.
Coronavirus is essentially a harsh version of the flu.
COVID-19, a respiratory tract infection, similar to SARS and MERS, of which the common cold and seasonal flu are also members.
Media attention on it has been the widest and and most globally reaching in recent history and social media has picked it up in a huge way (sorry to state the obvious). This combination has led to scaremongering, panic, misinformation and some overreaction.
For example, I still don’t understand why there are no more toilet rolls on supermarket shelves. Coronavirus doesn’t make you sh*t yourself uncontrollably.
So, here are some of the latest stats and figures (figures correct as of 9th March 2020).
All graphs and visual representations are from informationisbeautiful.net (the website is also beautiful).
Firstly, it’s not as deadly as it’s sometimes made out to be in the news and social media.
