COVID – 19, Tuesday 28th April
Iran
National coroners’ authority
Feb 20th – April 7th 728 deaths from alcohol poisoning
66 last year
5,011 people poisoned with methanol
90 + people reduced eye site or blindness
Australia
12 new cases
Sydney beaches reopen
Austria
Reopening hotels next month
US
Prevalence of SARS-CoV-2 Infection in Residents of a Large Homeless Shelter in Boston, (JAMA, 27th April)
Prior symptom screening or self-referrals to outside care
N = 408, symptom assessment and SARS-CoV-2 PCR testing.
147 (36.0%) PCR positive for SARS-CoV-2
Positive for SARS-CoV-2, 87.8% were asymptomatic.
Cross-sectional study
Symptom screening in homeless shelters may not adequately capture the extent of disease transmission in this high-risk setting.
UK
Deaths + 360 = 21,092
Cases, 158,348 or 2.5m
1st to 15th April symptomatic cases down by 71%
From 2 million down to 582,640 cases
Therefore, still many infectious people in the UK
Symptoms change 2 weeks before hospital admissions
ONS up to 17th April England and Wales
Week ending 17 April 2020 (Week 16) 22,351 deaths
3,835 more deaths than week 15
11,854 more than the five-year average
Highest weekly total recorded since comparable figures begin in 1993
8,758 (39.2% of all deaths) mentioned “novel coronavirus (COVID-19)”
6,213 (33.6% of all deaths) in Week 15.
London, 55.5% of deaths registered in Week 16 involved COVID-19
77.4% of COVID deaths (14,796 deaths) occurred in hospital
Deaths in care homes for Week 16 was 7,316
2,389 higher than Week 15
Almost double the number in Week 14 and almost triple the number in Week 13
IRC
1 billion infections
3.2 million deaths
Yemen
Probably community transmission
Risk of cholera
In Yemen, more than half of Yemen’s health facilities are no longer functioning
18 million people do not have access to proper hygiene, water and sanitation.
IRC has also warned about increases in other forms of violence against vulnerable groups worldwide, such as violence against women
South Sudan
Less than half the country’s health facilities are functioning, there are 24 ICU beds and four ventilators.
Already gripped by high levels of malnutrition may face famine.
Venezuela
More than half of doctors have left
90% of hospitals face shortages of medicine and critical supplies
84 ICU beds for a population of 32 million
Burkina Faso – 11 ventilators for population of 20.9 million
Sierra Leone – 13 ventilators for population of 7.9 million
Central African Republic – 3 ventilators for population of 4.8 million
Somalia – 15 ICU beds for population of 15.8 million
COVID Symptom Tracker
Santa Clara County
NEJM Vit D
Inflammatory syndrome in Children
Vitamin D
Don’t be an ass, put on a mask
Paediatric inflammatory syndrome
Animation video link
European heating and ventilation
Virus in the body
HK data
Irish dashboard
Our world in data
Diabetes
Iran alcohol poisoning
ONS UK
South Sudan
JAMA, Boston homeless center
