Coronavirus update - March 9th
Bottom Line: The news was always going to get worse before it’d get better and that’s exactly what has happened and is happening. From South Florida to the Pacific North West – the COVID-19 virus has made its way here. The question, of course, remains how much worse will it get before it gets better? And for that we have no answers until we get there...
This daily update is designed to put everything in perspective with straight-forward facts. No hyperbole, no misinformation, no “bad math”. Here’s where we stand. To date over 80% of worldwide cases have come from China. The virus continues to spread fastest outside of China, based on the information provided by the WHO. In the United States we remain 9th in the world for cases with a doubling of positive tests over the weekend.
Here’s where we now stand in Florida:
- 18 cases – 2 deaths – 0 recovered
Nationally:
- 554 cases – 22 deaths – 15 recovered
Worldwide:
- 110,110 – 3831 deaths – 62,355 recovered
The most disconcerting aspect of the virus at this point remains the death/recovery rate. It’s remained static at 6% for eight days. That’s an extremely high death rate. To put this in perspective – let’s say every American obtained the H1N1 flu virus. Based on its average death rate it’d kill 165,000 Americans. If the COVID-19 virus maintained its current death rate and every American contracted it, 19.8 million Americans would die. Again, I’m not at all trying to be an alarmist. Those are just the facts. Hopefully we begin to see progress with the death rate but as you can tell – we now have more Americans who’ve died from the virus than have recovered.