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Monday UPDATE: What Happened with the Covid-19 Crisis This Weekend

• The Organic Prepper by Daisy Luther

Where the coronavirus has spread

Over the weekend there was a sharp uptick in cases outside of mainland China. Here's a graph from Johns Hopkins that illustrates the climb.

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The latest tallies outside of China are:

South Korea: 833

Italy: 215

Japan: 154

Singapore: 89

Hong Kong: 79

Iran: 61

Thailand: 35

United States: 35

Taiwan: 30

Australia: 22

Malaysia: 22

Germany: 16

Vietnam: 16

UAE: 13

UK: 13

France: 12

Macau: 10

691 people are listed as "other" locations, which I assume are on cruise ships, etc. The following countries have between 1-9 active cases: Canada, Phillippines, India, Russia, Spain, Lebanon, Nepal, Cambodia, Israel, Belgium, Finland, Sweden, Egypt, and Sri Lanka. Here's the source for this information.

The weekend in questionable numbers

Literally nobody believes the numbers coming from China, so all the data there that could have helped slow or even halt the spread of the virus is lost, at least to the Western world.

In the United States, there's a puzzling event that brings our own numbers into questions. Health officials had chosen Fairview Developmental Center in Costa Mesa, California, a facility that had been previously used to house disabled adults, to house "50 infected individuals" that had been rescued from the ill-fated Diamond Princess cruise ship.

Interestingly, the US only reports 35 cases spread across the nation, so either they simply expect 50 people to be infected or they know they're infected and haven't added the numbers to the official tally. The city of Costa Mesa, incidentally, has fought back and refused to allow their building to be used to house the quarantine. This refusal was backed up in federal over the weekend, at least temporarily. (source) In related news, a facility in Calhoun County, Alabama also resisted federal efforts to bring quarantine passengers there. (source)


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