S.Korea confirms 851 more cases of COVID-19, 5,186 in total

Xinhua ^ | Today

[cba123]

SEOUL, March 3 (Xinhua) -- South Korea confirmed 851 more cases of the COVID-19 on Tuesday, raising the total number of infections to 5,186.

As of 4:00 p.m. local time (0700 GMT), the number of infected patients totaled 5,186, up 851 from 24 hours ago. Five more deaths were reported, lifting the combined death toll to 31.

The fatality rate from the COVID-19 here was 0.6 percent as of midnight local time. The figure gained to 4.0 percent for those in their 70s and 5.4 percent among those in their 80s or higher.

(Please see full article at link)

[cba123]

Please note, the fatality rate is increasing, as time passed.

[cba123]

http://www.xinhuanet.com/english/2020-03/03/c_138839677.htm

[Truthoverpower]

Snore

This story needs to be over yesterday

[RummyChick]

We just had an emergency .50 rate cut because of this virus.

This story isn’t over by a long shot.

Look at a chart of today and how the market is reacting.

Now down after the cut.

Although, one of the guys on Twitter that I watch says “Powell the Putz” usually causes the market to go down when he speaks.

[cba123]

But, here it is.

Inconvenient, huh?

[BluegrassCardinal]

Not nothingburger, that’s for sure. We will see impacts from this for the next few months or longer.

However, overall CFR is 0.6% in SK. That number is being increased by a disproportionate amount of deaths in the 80 and over population.

Hopefully we will see a peak in Korean cases within the next couple of weeks. It appears that China has peaked, but could be due to the lockdown.

[MNJohnnie]

Please note your panic mondering drama queen

Please stop with the criminally incompetent drama queen hysteria. 7,800,000,000,000 people on earth 90,000 cases. This is not even as serious as the annual Flu. It is not a world ending pandemic not even close.

So please STOP with incompetent fear mongering. It despicable beyond words that people are deliberately trying to manufacture a panic over nothing.

People, watch the John Hopkins website and not these drama queen lying hysterics for real facts.

https://systems.jhu.edu/research/public-health/ncov/

[MNJohnnie]

No it a massive nothing burger

Please stop with the criminally incompetent drama queen hysteria. 7,800,000,000,000 people on earth 90,000 cases. This is not even as serious as the annual Flu. It is not a world ending pandemic not even close.

So please STOP with incompetent fear mongering. It despicable beyond words that people are deliberately trying to manufacture a panic over nothing.

People, watch the John Hopkins website and not these drama queen lying hysterics for real facts.

https://systems.jhu.edu/research/public-health/ncov/

[cba123]

7 trillion?

Please.

[blueunicorn6]

Fear mongering actually hurts people. Read the stories about people whose retirement incomes were destroyed by fear mongers. It also breeds additional cowardice in the general population, and no one values cowardice.

But, trying to stop fear mongering (writing about it that harms no one) is “badgering” and you must give it a break.

[grey_whiskers]

GIGO.

[SgtHooper]

WOW! Raging on! The Norks must be half-dead by now.

[Paul R.]

We have some real brainiacs on here, don’t we? Probably the same type people who watched their 10 pm local news in TN last night, and went to bed without even turning their weather radio to alert mode.

(P.S. - I am not slamming all Tennesseans! Most are great!)

[Paul R.]

Read the stories about people whose retirement incomes were destroyed by fear mongers.

You are yourself doing the same thing, then: Fear mongering. A roughly 10% drop in the Dow does not "destroy" a retirement income. Especially not when the DOW has gained so much in recent years. Or are you projecting a (you think) likely future based on current trends?

[Paul R.]

OP posted some numbers & noted an easily(!) observable trend in said numbers, without further comment. JHU is posting the same numbers. Their map is red on black, no less. So I guess JHU is hysterical too.

[Uncle Miltie]

(5,186 Total Today - 851 Added Today) = 4,315 Yesterday

851 / 4,315 = 20% Increase

20% Increase per Day = 5 Day Doubling Cycle.

Prediction for 3/8/20 is 5,186 * 2 = 10,372.

Prediction for 3/13/20 is 20K.

Etc., until some effective mechanism is put into place.

In Wuhan, it was a complete quarantine of over 100,000,000 people.

Ready?

[blueunicorn6]

Thank you for your post.

Perhaps if you explained your expertise in this matter, we could all benefit.

[buwaya]

These detections are coming from an increasing rate of testing. 125,000 tested per the story. Its testing that is finding positives, the more tests the more positives.

That makes it impossible to determine a rate of spread. It could be zero or declining, under these circumstances. The “instrument” being used to count the numbers (the testing process) introduces an overwhelming confounding factor.

[Leep]

Is China winning?

[buwaya]

You could easily have 100,000 or 1,000,000 cases in SK right now, that would test positive, if tested.

But thats the point, it all comes down to testing, and the expanding test process determines the numbers being reported much more so than actual spread of the virus.

To get a proper idea of rate of spread they need to repeatedly test stable randomized samples of the population, to track changes over time. But nobody has that sort of system in place yet.