Arggghh, I ended up on the old thread again. Bringing over updates. Sorry.
TN
Country music legend Joe Diffie dies from COVID-19 complications
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WKRN) – GRAMMY®-winning country music legend Joe Diffie passed away today, Sunday, March 29, from complications of coronavirus (COVID-19). His family respects their privacy at this time.
On Friday, Diffie revealed he had been diagnosed with COVID-19.
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MD
Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan said in a national TV interview that Maryland would look “a lot more like New York” by Easter.
Metro has announced further cuts to bus and rail service for the coming workweek.
A nursing home in Mt. Airy, Maryland, has been hit with an outbreak of COVID-19, the disease caused by the novel coronavirus, with 66 residents testing positive. The county health officer announced Sunday that one resident, a man in his 90s, has died.
https://wtop.com/coronavirus/2020/03/coronavirus-update-dc-maryland-virginia-march-29/
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MD
COVID-19 Statistics in Maryland
Number of Confirmed Cases: 1239
Number of negative test results: 12,354
Number of Deaths: 10
Hospitalizations: 277 ever hospitalized
Released From Isolation: 39
Cases by County:
Anne Arundel 99
Baltimore City 129
Baltimore County 162
Calvert 10
Caroline 3
Carroll 82
Cecil 13
Charles 28
Frederick 24
Garrett 3
Harford 23
Howard 81
Kent 3
Montgomery 301
Prince George’s 247
Queen Anne’s 4
St. Mary’s 9
Somerset 1
Talbot 3
Washington 6
Wicomico 6
Worcester 2
Cases by Age Range and Gender:
0-9 4
10-19 21
20-29 165
30-39 203
40-49 241
50-59 243
60-69 191
70-79 117
80+ 54
Female: 634, Male: 605
https://coronavirus.maryland.gov/
TN
State PH Lab 151 1,385 1,536
Non-State PH Lab 1,386 17,652 19,038
Total 1,537 19,037 20,574
* Please note, these data are meant to provide a rough estimate of testing volume. Due to different source data, numbers may differ slightly from day to day.
** Laboratory reports of positive cases are reported to metro and local health departments as soon as results are available. State numbers are updated at 2pm daily and there may be a lag in the reporting of cumulative numbers at the state level.
133
Please note for hospitalizations: Information about hospitalization status is gathered at the time of diagnosis, therefore this information may be incomplete. This number indicates the number of patients that were ever hospitalized during their illness, it does not indicate the number of patients currently hospitalized.
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Please note for deaths: Some deaths may be reported by health care providers, hospitals, medical examiners, local health departments, or others before they are included in the statewide count.
0-10 17
11-20 80
21-30 380
31-40 239
41-50 262
51-60 239
61-70 176
71-80 97
80+ 33
Pending 14
Total 1,537
https://www.tn.gov/health/cedep/ncov.html
EGYPT
I think most suspected this a while back when so many cases worldwide were originating from Egypt:
Coronavirus and cover-up: Egypt’s two-fronted war
A high-ranking military officer tells MEE the outbreak is much wider spread than the government admits - or is prepared to handle
By Amr Khalifa
Published date: 29 March 2020 12:18 UTC | Last update: 5 hours 52 min ago
For weeks, suspicions have abounded that the Egyptian government has not been open about the extent of the country’s Covid-19 outbreak.
Multiple events this past week, including the deaths of two senior military leaders and now the leak of a military document suggesting that the virus is more widespread than previously disclosed, have only entrenched that view.
When Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi finally emerged from a long public absence on Sunday, he stressed that his government was dealing with the crisis with full transparency and encouraged Egyptians to stay at home for two weeks.
“We don’t want the crisis to hit larger numbers,” he said during the same TV address.
The government did not implement a lockdown, perhaps being savvy enough to recognise the economic hardship that would entail for millions even if it would have made more sense from a public health standpoint. You can’t employ social distancing only 50 percent of the time