Daily COVID-19 Stats as of 5:30 AM, March 13th CT (from John's Hopkins)

• Total Confirmed Cases Worldwide: 138,156, (up from 127,388 on the 12th, over 9% increase). On Saturday, 3/14, @ 5:00 p.m. the numbers were over 145,000, an increase of ----.).
• Total Confirmed Deaths Worldwide: 5,080 (up from 4,641 yesterday, over 9% increase), 
• Total Confirmed Recoveries Worldwide: 70,437 (up from 68,327 yesterday)
• 132 Countries have confirmed cases (up from 125 yesterday) 4 more have suspected cases
• 9% of Active Cases are considered serious (requiring hospitalization), down from 11% yesterday and down from 19% just 2 weeks ago, 3% of patients require ICU
• US has 1,762 Confirmed Cases up from 1,336 cases, (over 7.6% increase); and 41 Deaths up from 38 confirmed deaths yesterday.  (Up over 9%)
• In the US, only Alabama, Alaska, West Virginia and Maine don't have at least 1 case.

You Have Power Against the Threat of COVID-19

Reliable information and instructions are everywhere and they are empowering. 

If you want a global view, https://coronavirus.jhu.edu/map.html. At the bottom center, you can link to CDC.gov and WHO. Easily obtain information and updates from state, county and local sites. https://coronavirus.utah.gov/ serves me well. 

Answers about COVID-19 will evolve and be disseminated as more people are tested, treated, recover and unfortunately, a few will expire.  Don’t be surprised if information from government, public health, religious and community leaders change from time-to-time. 

What Can you do to lessen the impact of COVID-19 in your home and workplace?

Coronavirus — Did You Know

• The Coronaviruses are a common, large family of viruses. 

• Our current crisis comes from an outbreak of respiratory disease caused by a new coronavirus named “SAES-CoV-2.”

• This virus causes the disease coronavirus 2019, that is abbreviated as COVID-19.

• There is more than one theory as to the origin of COVID-19.  What you need to know is that person-to-person spread occurred first in Wuhan China and is in now in most nations. 

COVID-19 – Isn’t it Just Another Seasonal Flu??

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Johns Hopkins University, School of Public Health.  These stats were published by Blaze TV.

COVID-19 vs Flu

	Common Seasonal Flu*	COVID-19
Case Fatality Rate	0.1%	2.30%*
·        Serious Complication Rate (Pneumonia/Hospitalization)	0.9%	18%
Requiring ICU Rate (SARS/Septic Shock/Organ Failure)	0.25%	5%
R0 (R-Naught)/Rate of Infection	1.3	4.7
Spreads via Droplets	Yes	Yes
Spreads via Aerosols	Yes	Yes
Time Virus Survives on Surfaces	4-5 hours	5-9 Days
Incubation Period	2-3 Days	5-14 Days
Spreads During Incubation Period	No	Yes
Spreads Asymptomatically	No	Yes
Natural Herd Immunity	Yes	No
Vaccines/Antiviral Drugs Available	Yes	No
Fecal-Oral Transmission	No	Yes
Reinfection Risk	No	Yes
	1,000,000	1,000,000
Projections Based on Current Data	Seasonal Flu	COVID-19
Hospitalizations per 1 Million Infections	9,000	180,000
ICUs per 1 Million Infections	2,500	50,000
Fatalities per 1 Million Infections	1,000	23,000

*WHO is publishing 3.4% fatality rate

Daily Stats as of March 11, 5:30 AM CT (from John's Hopkins)

• Total Confirmed Cases Worldwide: 126,611 (up from 114,638 yesterday)
• Total Confirmed Deaths Worldwide: 4,365 (up from 4,031 yesterday)
• 66,894 Patients Have Recovered from COVID-19 Worldwide
• 120 Countries Have Confirmed cases (up from 115 yesterday), 6 more have suspected cases
• 12% of Active Cases are Considered Serious (Requiring Hospitalization), steady from 12% yesterday, with 4% requiring ICU
• US has 1,10 Confirmed Cases, and 31 Deaths
• Confirmed Cases in the 35 US States, with 6 More Tracking Suspected cases

Virology 101, Suzanne D. Vernon, PhD

By Angela Linford | March 5, 2020

My first virology class was taught by Howard Tenim, PhD, a virologist and 1975 Nobel laureate for the discovery of reverse transcriptase – the enzyme used by retroviruses to turn RNA into DNA. I got hooked and have been fortunate to spend the past 35 years learning and studying how viruses do and don’t make us sick.


Here are a couple of essential virology basics from Dr. Tenim’s class.

Coronavirus - Who Should Be Screened