welcome to another MedCram corona virus updates number of deaths has gone from
565 up to 638 that's an increase over day of 73 and that's exactly what it was
yesterday so it looks as though we've got a linear increase here in the last
couple of days I am very sad to say that one of those deaths was dr. Lee wen
Liang who was credited as one of the original doctors who recognized that
there was a outbreak and then succumbed to the very infection that he was
warning about and for those of us that are in the healthcare industry
doctors nurses respiratory therapists all sorts of people who every day go to
work to fight disease a comrade of ours has fallen and it gives us pause to
remember that this is not a numbers game they're real people with families behind
every one of these numbers in terms of the infected that's wet from 28,000 274
to 31,000 440 interestingly yesterday that number represented an increase of
3700 today only an increase of 30 166 could this possibly be where things are
starting to level out I'm eternally optimistic but I'm not sure so
interestingly if you go to this website called world meters dot info backslash
coronavirus backslash you come to this dashboard that we referenced a couple of
days ago and shows here the number of corona virus cases of course and the
number of deaths and the number that's recovered and what you'll see here is
the total cases and if you notice very carefully you'll start to see that it
looks as though it's starting to layer off but it may be difficult to actually
assess that from the way this graph is laid out so if you keep scrolling down
you'll see this linker that says more case statistics if you click on that you
can see here the corona virus cases and there's little bit more detail here's
the part that's interesting if you look at daily cases worldwide on the graph
here are the bar graph you'll start to see here that February 6 for the
second day in a row there seems to be somewhat of a decrease at least there's
a decrease here on February 5th it may be that the data hasn't all come in yet
for February 6th it's unclear but that is certainly something that is
noteworthy and something to watch and then there's the growth factor which is
basically taking the derivative or the slope of that increase and that's what
we have here for the growth factor you can see early on there was quite
variable and then it's been generally speaking just above 1 in terms of growth
and here again for the second day in a row it seems if all the data is in and
is correct it would seem to suggests that the daily cases growth factor is
finally for the first time here going below 1 for two days in a row
potentially and hopefully that's gonna lead us in the right direction and then
again here we have the total change in number it seems as though we were in the
29 mid-20s here in terms of change in total number we've dipped below 20 down
to 15 and now we're down to 11% we can only hope that that is true we're gonna
have a better understanding of what's going on here in the next couple days
over the weekend which by the way as we did last week we will take a break and
we'll start up at the beginning of next week I want to put these numbers into
perspective however right now in the United States we have a flu epidemic
I'm sure that's globally as well about 19 million people have gotten the flu
this year a hundred and eighty thousand of them have been hospitalized here in
the United States and believe it or not 10,000 of them have died this flu season
68 of those 10,000 were children
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in terms of those people that are recover
to make a note of that yesterday the total number officially that recovered
was 1178 that's gone up by about three hundred and sixty nine to one thousand
five hundred and forty seven and we're gonna see this number increasing a
couple of weeks ago we were in the few hundred and now things have taken off
the thirty thousand so we gonna start to see definitive things here one way or
the other I will say though dr. Lee had a kind of unusual course if you look
into his history he was hospitalized on one twelve twenty twenty of course by
that point they had suspected along the way that he may have had this virus and
he was tested numerous times it wasn't positive until February first
2020 he passed away on two six twenty or should I say he passed away on actually
on to seven because it was I believe Friday morning already in China at the
time that he passed away so why was it that he came down with symptoms and yet
for a good week two weeks no positive coronavirus on testing I don't know if
there was a quality issue or whether or not he just didn't have very Mia not
exactly sure why this was the case I want to talk about what's going on in
Canada because we've had a couple more cases in Vancouver first case in
Vancouver was related to a gentleman in his 40s who recently had traveled to the
area in China who Han and then there was a woman in her 50s in Vancouver this was
the second case in her 50s who became ill on February 1st 2020
after a husband and wife from one had visited her and so there was a female
and a male in their 30s that were visiting and they're all staying in the
same house so when this lady became ill and she was with someone that had come
from Wuhan they tested her and she was positive for the corona virus it looks
as though they have now tested these people as well after the
home isolation and of course they are both positive as well which is not
surprising given the fact that the woman in her 50s probably got it from those in
their 30s what's interesting is that these people who are in their 30s
generally young speaking here had very mild symptoms maybe only a slight cold
and then it went away what's significant though about this case is this
represents the first person-to-person transmission in Canada so far however it
appears as though everybody is doing well at least the cases in North America
no one's been hospitalized because they needed to be it was more for a
quarantine and isolation as it seems that young and healthy people are better
apt to deal with this virus those of us who are a little rundown let's take this
opportunity to get extra sleep and to prepare ourselves in case there is a
epidemic care of coronavirus but more importantly because there already is a
flu virus issue thanks for joining us
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