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Coronavirus COVID-19 Update for 4/5/2020

The coronavirus COVID-19 is affecting 208 countries and territories around the world and 2 international conveyances.


Confirmed USA cased are 336,673.
Deaths are 9,616.



Long motorcades of volunteers converged at three Stanford University research sites this week, donating blood for a new test that identifies the prevalence of coronavirus in our community – and could help reveal the full scope of Santa Clara County’s epidemic.

The 2,500 test slots on Friday and Saturday filled up within hours, as news of the project — the first large scale study of its type in the U.S. — spread quickly through the county.

The test detects protective antibodies to the virus rather than the virus itself.

This gives scientists a snapshot of how many people in the county have already been infected, but weren’t seriously sick and didn’t realize it. And it tells residents whether they carry potentially protective antibodies – so may be immune to future infection.



Some crematory operators are handling triple the number of bodies they would on a typical day; a plea for cardboard caskets



China has concealed the extent of the coronavirus outbreak in its country, under-reporting both total cases and deaths it’s suffered from the disease, the U.S. intelligence community concluded in a classified report to the White House, according to three U.S. officials.

The officials asked not to be identified because the report is secret, and they declined to detail its contents. But the thrust, they said, is that China’s public reporting on cases and deaths is intentionally incomplete. Two of the officials said the report concludes that China’s numbers are fake.

The report was received by the White House last week, one of the officials said.
Coronavirus death toll: Americans are almost certainly dying of covid-19 but being left out of the official count


Coronavirus death toll: Americans are almost certainly dying of covid-19 but being left out of the official count 

The fast-spreading novel coronavirus is almost certainly killing Americans who are not included in the nation’s growing death toll, according to public health experts and government officials involved in the tally. 

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