23rd May Updates

COVID – 19, Saturday 23rd May

New Zealand

1 days with no new cases

28 active

1504 total

1455 recovered

21 deaths (1.39%)

1 in hospital

255,850 tested

UK

Cases, 255,544

Deaths, 34,716

ONS spread of the virus in the community

14,500 people in 7,054 households tested 4th - 17th May

Increasing to 300,000 in months

0.25 of people currently infected in the community

66m population = 165,000 current infections

No evidence in the proportion of positive tests in different age categories

Male / female positive tests same

No differences in infected people between patient facing and non-patient facing roles

About 9,000 new infections per day

Covid-19 symptom tracker today, 9,900 new cases in England

Track and trace capacity 10,000 per day

Contain local outbreaks

New 20-minute test now being used

Dr. Mourant

Testing at the point of care

Testing direct from swab

Fully portable machine

Comparable with PCR

United States

Cases, 1,601,434

Dearth 96,007

Nearly everywhere easing restrictions

Alabama

Reopening began 10 days ago

14,000 cases

Montgomery, hospitals and ITUs full

Stephen Reed, if you need an ITU bed you are in trouble

Upcoming hotspots

Dallas

Houston

Tennessee

Florida

Florida is NOT getting it right. Many people are back to normal. Sitting together at restaurants and bars! Way too soon! Wife and I wear masks, but many don't. We just stay away from people as much as possible.

University of Washington

Screening is more effective in care homes than clinical presentation, asymptomatic carriers

Ford plant visit Michigan

Houses of worship essential

Poland

Cases, 20,838

Deaths, 990

Antibody test down to 20 euros

Italy

Cases, 228,658

Deaths, 32616

Milan metropolitan area

Seroprevalence of SARS-CoV-2 infection in healthy asymptomatic adults

Cross-sectional study during the outbreak

Presence of anti-SARS-CoV-2 IgM/IgG antibodies

Blood center at a leading COVID-19 referral center

Random sample of blood donors, February 24th to April 8th, 2020, n=789

The test had a 98.3% specificity and 100% sensitivity

Seroprevalence was 4.6% rising to 7.1%, finishing at 10.8% of healthy adults

Conclusions: SARS-CoV-2 infection was already circulating in Milan at the outbreak start

Sweden

Cases, 32,809

Deaths, 3,926

Not very locked down

Social distancing

Personal responsibility

Everyone does what they want

Brazil

Cases, 330,890

Deaths, 21,048

Sao Paulo

Beach city closed, but people still going

ITU close to capacity

Afghanistan

Cases, 9,998

Deaths, 216

Lockdown but not at all strict

Some Mosques packed

Qatar

Imposes mandatory masks on pain of prison

Yemen

Health system has effectively collapsed

A COVID pandemic with no health care

Indonesia

Cases, 21,745

Deaths, 1,351

Jakarta

Shops keep opening, police struggling