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I was interested to see how we're doing on containing the virus.
Here is a rendering of the John Hopkins COVID-19 numbers for reported deaths for a number of Western countries, including the United States, as of yesterday, 4/28/20. The data is smoothed by a 7-day moving average.
Encouragingly, all the curves look like they have rolled over or are in the process of rolling over. Sweden, due to reporting lags, is shown with both the Johns Hopkins data and delayed official Swedish data; in both cases they also look to be rolling over.
This is pretty good news overall. I can't make any projections or predictions for the future, but it is looking better than I have thought.
European countries:
United States:
These charts are from a liberal blogger on a liberal website, but I'm making no statement on any political matter, just using the charts. ( )
US Government Report Concludes Wuhan Lab 'Most Likely Source' Of COVID-19 Outbreak
• In 2013, scientists at the Wuhan Institute of Virology collected horseshoe bats at a cave 1,000 miles away infected with the virus that causes COVID-19.
Stored away and forgotten until January this year, the sample from the horseshoe bat contains the virus that causes Covid-19. -WSJ
• Peng Zhou, WIV's head of Bat Virus Infection and Immunization, was researching "the molecular mechanism that allows Ebola and SARS-associated coronaviruses to lie dormant for a long time without causing diseases," while a press release from his lab was titled "How bats carry viruses without getting sick."
• Zhou's colleague, Shi Zhengli, has been involved in bioengineering bat coronaviruses - co-authoring a controversial 2015 paper which described the creation of a new virus by combining a coronavirus found in Chinese horseshoe bats with another that causes human-like severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) in mice.
• In 2015, Nature magazine expressed concern over Zhengli's experiments with bat coronavirus. The same year, the US government suspended funding to the lab due to their concern over risks of experimenting with bat coronavirus.
• Meanwhile, the US State Department warned over safety standards at the Wuhan lab in a series of cables beginning in 2015, according to the Washington Post's Josh Rogin.
Feeling a little whipsawed on the remdesivir story, which a few days ago seemed a flop. It seems that there were a number of studies, and NIH is announcing a partial success in theirs:
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