Great infographic from designer Eleanor Lutz categorizing human viruses (Made before Covid-19). Read more on her methodology and workflow at her blog at Tabletopwhale.com.
A coronavirus study done by researchers at University of Hong Kong-Shenzhen Hospital studied a family of seven after their visit from Wuhan, China between Dec 29, 2019 and Jan 4, 2020, who then returned to Shenzhen.
None of the family members had contacts with Wuhan markets or animals. Two had visited a Wuhan hospital. Six of the seven were infected.
Read details at The Lancet, which is doing a great job of tracking the coronavirus.
Chinese citizens were allowed by the communist government to see a rare negative update this week, after an original coronavirus whistleblower Dr. Li Wenliang, died from the coronavirus. He had been reprimanded for “severely disrupting social order.” Read more at The Epoch Times
100 million people could be infected with the Wuhan coronavirus by Feb. 20, 2020, using a conservative 2.5 infection rate geometric projection. (not the worse 3.8 infection rate projected for coronavirus).
This is not a prediction, since successful quarantines and possible vaccines could slow the spread.
Blue line: Actual number of reported cases at 4,515 as of January 27.
Feb. 6 UPDATE: 31,525 cases. (South China Morning Post)
Orange line: Progression if 1 person infects 2-2.5 people.
Spanish flu infection rate: 1.4 – 2.8.
Coronavirus projected infection rate: 3.6-4.0, according to a report by UK researcher Jonathan Read available in PDF from Medrxiv.org.
After Christmas, Americans tend to gain about 0.4 percent to their weight according to the New England Journal of Medicine in 2016. Enjoy!
Spending more money per capita on health care does not equal better outcomes, much like education, or anything else the government decides to control.
A case can be made that higher rates of cancer is byproduct of increased life expectancy, but the U.S. is falling behind in both categories. Read more at The Peter G. Peterson Foundation
Three deep-red states vote to expand Medicaid (Washington Times)
A look into our cells from Nature.com.
One of the first scientific claims in the documentary on Netflix called “What’s with Wheat” is that there are 10 times more bacteria in human bodies than cells.
The article by Nature.com’s Alison Abbott says the ratio is closer to a 1-to-1 ratio. (Not 10-to-1)
Which science is correct?