The coronavirus COVID-19 is affecting 138 countries and territories around the world and 1 international conveyance (the Diamond Princess cruise ship harbored in Yokohama, Japan)
As of March 14, 2020 at 00:40 GMT, there have been 2269 confirmed cases (up 32% from yesterday) and 48 deaths due to coronavirus COVID-19 in the United States.
Trump Declares National Emergency
Worst-Case Estimates for U.S. Coronavirus Deaths
Coronavirus Is an Even Worse Threat to More Than Half of Americans
The new coronavirus is a serious threat to the elderly, as federal officials have been at pains to note recently. But they have stepped gingerly around advice for another group of Americans also at special risk from the infection: those with chronic health conditions.
It is not a small group. An estimated 60 percent of all Americans have at least one chronic health condition, and 40 percent have more than one. (The figures include the elderly.) Heart disease, cancer, diabetes — all of these can exacerbate a coronavirus infection, studies show, increasing the odds of severe disease and death.
Here's what this US coronavirus survivor in Seattle learned when she was sick
Flattening the Curve for COVID-19: What Does It Mean and How Can You Help?
“We all need to pitch in to try to prevent cases both within ourselves and in our communities.”
It’s called “flattening the curve,” a term that public health officials use all the time but that many Americans just heard for the first time this week.
National Guard to deploy 1,000 troops in six states in response to coronavirus
As of March 14, 2020 at 00:40 GMT, there have been 2269 confirmed cases (up 32% from yesterday) and 48 deaths due to coronavirus COVID-19 in the United States.
Trump Declares National Emergency
Worst-Case Estimates for U.S. Coronavirus Deaths
Between
160 million and 214 million people in the U.S. could be infected over
the course of the epidemic, according to one projection. That could last
months or even over a year, with infections concentrated in shorter
periods, staggered across time in different communities, experts said.
As many as 200,000 to 1.7 million people could die.
And, the calculations based on the C.D.C.’s scenarios suggested, 2.4 million to 21 million people in the U.S. could require hospitalization, potentially crushing the nation’s medical system, which has only about 925,000 staffed hospital beds. Fewer than a tenth of those are for people who are critically ill.
The assumptions fueling those scenarios are mitigated by the fact that cities, states, businesses and individuals are beginning to take steps to slow transmission, even if some are acting less aggressively than others. The C.D.C.-led effort is developing more sophisticated models showing how interventions might decrease the worst-case numbers, though their projections have not been made public.
And, the calculations based on the C.D.C.’s scenarios suggested, 2.4 million to 21 million people in the U.S. could require hospitalization, potentially crushing the nation’s medical system, which has only about 925,000 staffed hospital beds. Fewer than a tenth of those are for people who are critically ill.
The assumptions fueling those scenarios are mitigated by the fact that cities, states, businesses and individuals are beginning to take steps to slow transmission, even if some are acting less aggressively than others. The C.D.C.-led effort is developing more sophisticated models showing how interventions might decrease the worst-case numbers, though their projections have not been made public.
Coronavirus Is an Even Worse Threat to More Than Half of Americans
The new coronavirus is a serious threat to the elderly, as federal officials have been at pains to note recently. But they have stepped gingerly around advice for another group of Americans also at special risk from the infection: those with chronic health conditions.
It is not a small group. An estimated 60 percent of all Americans have at least one chronic health condition, and 40 percent have more than one. (The figures include the elderly.) Heart disease, cancer, diabetes — all of these can exacerbate a coronavirus infection, studies show, increasing the odds of severe disease and death.
Here's what this US coronavirus survivor in Seattle learned when she was sick
Flattening the Curve for COVID-19: What Does It Mean and How Can You Help?
“We all need to pitch in to try to prevent cases both within ourselves and in our communities.”
It’s called “flattening the curve,” a term that public health officials use all the time but that many Americans just heard for the first time this week.
National Guard to deploy 1,000 troops in six states in response to coronavirus
The National Guard announced Friday that it is
deploying 1,000 troops across six states by the end of the day as part
of the national response to the coronavirus pandemic.
A
statement said that as of Friday morning, 400 Air and Army National
Guard personnel were present in six states -- Florida, Iowa, Louisiana,
New York, Rhode Island and Washington -- having been requested at the
direction of their respective governors.
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