I believe what’s happening is that your browser isn’t able to open the Excel file directly, so instead it tries it as HTML, which ends up as the gibberish.
Try downloading the file (right-click and “Save target as” in IE) as an xlsx file to HD or a flash drive, or whatever. Then open it with an Excel file viewer (most are free) or, I use Libre Office Portable on a flash drive. (Libre Office Portable will work just fine as a “lite” Office suite on a HD as well.)
(Not trying to talk down at you - just trying to give multi-options to other readers. Obviously IT skill sets vary - mine being on the medium-low end!))
D1, maybe you can make mention of downloading options when you post these spreadsheets. (Feel free to use my text or modify / add.) Also would suggest this go on the daily live coronavirus thread to make it easier to find. Tomorrow, for example, I may not be online much. (”Mom care” duties.) Thanks!
Thanks. I’m printing your instructions to try to fiddle with tomorrow. I’m really a techno challenged person. Like I said, I only mentioned it in case others were just seeing gibberish like I was.
I know that some of the folks here, perhaps most of you don't like this
file, because you are certain China is not being forthcoming with information
and I agree with that.
I am providing a link to my file, because there are a few folks who do
like to look at the numbers, as I do.
You see, if this thing broke out in the U. S. like it did in China, we wouldn't
get a full picture of what was going on either. Hospitals would be full.
People would be contracting the disease at home and dying there. So I am
doing a work-up with the information provided.
Anyone can look at the file linked at the bottom of this post.
Since a few folks don't have a spreadsheet reader on their computer, I'll provide some numbers here.
JHU Coronavirus stats as of 02/15/2020 23:15
Cases: 69,256
Fatalities: 1,669
Recovered: 9,641
Active cases: 57,946
Mortality Rt: 14.76% currently - figure drops by about 1% per day currently / started on the 27th at 62.94%.
I use this formula: mortality rate=fatalities/fatalities+recoveries
Currently Mainland China accounts for 98.91% of the cases
Currently there are 756 cases outside of mainland China, or 1.09% of the total cases.
Of those 756 cases, 355 of them have come from the Cruise Ship. That 47% of the non-Mainland China cases.
The non-Mainland China cases grew by 161 today alone. That's a 27.06% growth rate per day.
Cruise ship cases made up 137 of those 161 new cases outside China today. Only 24 new cases popped up, other than the Cruise Ship globally.
Because the Cruise Ship is impacting these numbers so radically, I have studied what the numbers look like without them.
Without the Cruise Ship numbers, there are 401 cases outside of Mainland China. Today the non-Cruise Ship numbers grew by on 24 cases or 6.37%.
Of the current 1,669 deaths globally, 1596 were from one province in China, Hubei. Wohan is located in that province.
This leaves only 73 deaths globally, outside of Hubei province in China.
Since only four deaths have taken place outside of China, this leaves only 69 deaths outside Hubei province in all the rest of China.
It may be of interest to some of you, that there are only 15 known cases in the Southern Hemisphere. They are in Australia.*
* It should be stated that some nations on the equator may have a case or two technically in the Southern Hemisphere. I can't verify that.
16.331% of all 69,256 cases have now been resolved, by death or recovery.
This leaves 57,946 active cases, as documented above, and the recovery to fatalities ratio is now 9.641/1.66.
1301 people recovered from COVID-19 today.
101 people succumbed to COVID-19 today.
You are welcome to access my work on the spreadsheet if you like. LINK