Obviously, the coronavirus story changes by the moment. But here is a snapshot in time of coronavirus deaths, as reported by CDC and in news reports.
The majority of U.S. deaths to date (31 of 40) have occurred among the elderly, sick in Washington State nursing homes or long term care facilities.
A majority of the Washington State deaths (27 of 31) occurred in King County.
A majority of the King County deaths in Washington State (22 of 31) occurred at the same elderly nursing facility in Kirkland. This large cluster in one facility is under investigation.
There have also been three deaths in Snohomish County, and one in Grant County (Washington State).
There have been four deaths among the elderly in California.
There have been two deaths among the elderly in Florida.
Three deaths have been reported among elderly, sick men in New Jersey, South Dakota, and Georgia.
The average age of U.S. coronavirus fatalities is 80, according to the U.S. Surgeon General.
Pubic health officials have not released the exact ages of some coronavirus fatalities. But all are above age 50. No babies, children, or youths in the U.S. have been reported to have died from coronavirus, so far.
CDC reports that the vast majority of people who get coronavirus have mild symptoms or no symptoms at all, and almost everyone infected with coronavirus will recover.
Consult CDC.gov for the latest government information on coronavirus.
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I bet we wait a month nothing happens then the media comes out with a statement that the Wuhan virus is no longer a threat. I had to sign a telework agreement authorizing the state occupational hazard agency access to my home with only 48 hour notice or immediately if an emergency. Is that to check on my fire extinguisher? What emergency? Not happy.
Those deaths e.g. last year would had been recorded as flu related, or unspecified virus related but since now they have a test to find a virus that they could not find before those related and unspecified became specific, is very simple. The virus and the disease is not something new, something that just appear NOW and was not existed BEFORE. As per WHO estimates there are more than 100million virus related RTI every year with UN-specified cause/virus. And that is a FACT, now they SEE one that prior they could not SEE, is very very simple and there is not any real virus pandemic. Also 5% to 30% of RTI are related to the Coronavirus family (mostly with unknown members) and with most of them in fragile and elderly people https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article… & https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3185465/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3185465/ Also something very important is to CHECK retrospectively if that virus (by using the new identification test) was circulating and was related to any similar disease previous years (with frozen samples) e.g. as per that procedure for a previous novel coronavirus https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3358201/pdf/10-1381_finalL.pdf …. I haven’t find any such study the last 3 months and that tells me that they will not check and they will not retrospectively check for the existence of that NOVEL strain because their pandemic will collapse
Sheryl, is there any way to determine the ethnicity of the deceased?
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