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. Latest State of Affairs May 15, 2020

How are countries doing? And, what did they do?

Georgia Reopens
Not bad

US NY
COVID-19 tracker
https://covid19tracker.health.ny.gov/...

Population 19.45M
NYC population: 8.39M

1.3M tested
345K positive (~26%)
22,304 fatalities (6.46% of the positive)

Patients: Male 51% Females 48%
Fatalities: Male 58.3% Female 41.7%

109 Children (Age less than 20 y) and 3 Deaths

New Yorkers are now required to wear a mask and maintain 6 feet distance in public.

Issued covid-19 inflammatory illness in children
https://coronavirus.health.ny.gov/chi...

All nursing home staff be tested for COVID-19 twice per week.

NY metrics to guide reopening
https://forward.ny.gov/metrics-guide-...
Monitoring New Infections
• Decline in total hospitalizations
• Decline in deaths
• Decline in new hospitalizations
Health Care Capacity
• Hospital bed capacity (at least 30% of the total beds available.)
• ICU capacity (at least 30% of the total beds available.)
Diagnostic Testing and Contact Tracing Capacity
• Diagnostic testing capacity
o 30 tests per thousand people per month
• Contact tracing capacity

Taiwan
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/ta...
Population: 23.78M

Cases: 440

Deaths: 7

Temperature checks for visitors

Mobile phones to track for 14 days for mandatory isolation.

You run out of batteries or the reception is poor, police will show up.

Violation of quarantine: $3,333 to $333,333

Can’t use public transport for international arrivals.

Special taxis are offered. These taxis are disinfected every day and no other passenger sits in these cabs.

$116/day driver pay even if it is not used.

A month later, the driver, and the taxi goes in quarantine with GPS signals.

Businesses and facilities check the temperature of the employees and visitors. Names and phones are recorded.

Parents check student’s temperature daily and then at the school gate.

Restaurants are disinfecting daily.
Businesses have disinfectants in the lobbies.

Social distancing continues with gatherings of 100 indoors and 150 outdoors.


Mauritius
https://voxeu.org/article/mauritian-r...

First African Country with no cases since 4/27

Population: 1.26M

Cases: 332

Deaths: 10

First announcement on 18th March of three cases.

Lockdown

Contact tracing

Phone app for update if you were in 100 meters of an infected patient.


Madagascar
Population: 26.26M

Cases: 238

Deaths: 0

First 3 cases on 3/20

International flights were suspended on 3/20

Lockdown in two cities

Tourism is affected

Madagascar has a herbal concoction/tea (COVID ORGANICS) that their president believes cures the COVID-19. WHO is working with them.
https://www.aa.com.tr/en/africa/who-t...

Senegal
Population: 15.85M

Cases: 2,310

Deaths: 25

They have a test for under $1 that may detect virus RNA within 10 minutes.
https://www.newscientist.com/article/...


Pakistan
Population: 220M

Confirmed: 37K

Deaths: 803

Gilead to work with Ferozons Labs to make and export Remdesivir. Gilead has also contracted with four labs in India.
https://www.voanews.com/covid-19-pand...

Partial lockdown is lifted

Public transport remains shut.

Schools and large shopping malls remain shut.

Factories and offices have opened.

Further relaxation starting in a few days.


What is new for HCQ, AZ, Zinc, Remdesivir, etc?

Hydroxychloroquine and azithromycin plus zinc vs hydroxychloroquine and azithromycin alone: outcomes in hospitalized COVID-19 patients
https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.11...



Another study trying to discredit the hydroxychloroquine, studies chloroquine instead:
https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama...


A study of HCQ with Zinc in Military Healthcare Workers
https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/N...
Completing on July 31 2020


BCG Vaccine is not valuable study
https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama... ...

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