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Actual data from ECDC (EU's European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control), and areppim S-curve projections for selected countries:
| World total deaths | World total cases | China total cases | France total cases | Germany total cases | Iran total cases | Italy total cases | Portugal total cases | Spain total cases | Switzerland total cases | United Kingdom total cases | United States total cases |
As of 28 October 2020, World:
Death toll: 1,168,076 or 2.65 percent of the infected cases.
New deaths: 7,023.
Total infection cases: 44,052,388 or 0.57 percent of the population.
New infection cases: 433,782 or a new infection ratio of 5.56 per 100,000 people.
How many fatalities is the Covid-19 really causing? The number of world deaths grew up to 7.28 percent of world cases on 24, 25 April 2020, and moved slowly downwards to the current value thereafter. However, we cannot trust the reports to be fully reliable. The 28 October 2020 Bloomberg newsletter warns that Though there are 175,000 confirmed U.S. deaths from the coronavirus, as many as 215,000 more people than usual died during the first seven months of 2020, pointing to a likely undercounting of the pandemic’s toll on America, the world’s worst-hit nation.
There is no reason why a similar data discrepancy should not occur across the border in the other countries.
Further to the disparate quality of the raw data, to the erratic definitions of the statistical units, and to the shady reliability of the sources, death rates vary widely from country to country in the selected group. Death rate is the highest for Italy at 6.68 percent, and the lowest in Switzerland at 1.52 percent. According to a study completed by the Los Alamos National Laboratory, each person infected early in the epidemic in Wuhan may have passed the virus to an average of 5.7 other people. Should this spread rate hold for the rest of the world, about 82 percent of the world population should be immunized to put a stop to the pandemic.
The pandemic has laid bare the dismal unpreparedness of all administrations, and provided a peephole into the swollen-heads of some state leaders. The French president Macron, who vaingloriously declared himself a “Jupiterian", not a “normal" chief of state, and labeled himself the “commander in chief of the war on the coronavirus" has successfully placed France in the 3rd rank of infection cases as percent of population, after the USA and Spain (within the group of countries considered by areppim). Does it hurt the pompous “war leader"? As for the U.S. president Trump, the man who insisted the pandemic was a fake news, he remains unruffled by the infamous US performence as the world number one of infection cases and of covid19 fatalities (each one about 20 percent of the total world).
As for the British prime minister Boris Johnson, he should be praised for his farcical illustration of immanent justice. On March 3rd, he faced the cameras to boast of his contempt for the despicable virus : “you’ll be pleased to know that I was in the hospital yesterday and I shook hands with infected patients, and I won’t stop doing it". On April 7th, a press release announced that the conceited leader was in an “intensive care unit, fighting against the coronavirus"! While resting in bed he should have plenty of time to savor the practical joke that destiny played on him.
Our projection is obtained by a logistic regression based on the actual numbers provided by ECDC. In those cases where significant bumps in the time series suggest a definite change of direction, we fitted the regression curve by means of a multi-logistic function.
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As of 28 October 2020, World:
Total infection cases: 44,052,388 or 0.57 percent of the population.
New cases: 433,782 or a new infection ratio of 5.56 per 100,000 people.
New deaths: 7,023.
Death toll: 1,168,076 or 2.65 percent of the infected cases.
The pandemic containment, partially achieved after the administrations enforced anti-contagion measures upon the pandemic declaration by the World Health Organization in March, gave way to a generalized surge of the infection with the arrival of the summer season. People in charge defined their dilemma as a choice between saving the economy, or saving the public health, and opted clearly for the first option, the economy.
They took that course of action without implementing the specific instruments and tools to trace the disease, test the suspected cases, quarantinize and take care of the positive ones, while ensuring that people in need without a remunerated job would get a minimum income, and citizens could go about their business enjoying safe transportation, safe shopping, and safe work conditions. The responsible agencies should have reconfigured or provided such facilities, in the absence of which the pandemic couldn’t but enjoy a new boom.
Our forecasts show that the pandemic will spread further along the year, although it will fade out eventually. The question is when will this happen. Equally important, what will be the final price to pay for the incompetence of those in power. It is highly likely that the latter will have sacrificed public health on the altar of the economy, without achieving anything but another mega economic crisis, leaving behind a trail of almost 1.5 million fatalities, and of about 70 million convalescents in a more or less pitiful shape. What a repulsing and contemptible record!
As of 28 October 2020, China:
Total infection cases: 91,217 or 0.01 percent of the population.
New cases: 42 or a new infection ratio of 0.003 per 100,000 people.
New deaths: 0.
Death toll: 4,739 or 5.20 percent of the infected cases.
As of 28 October 2020, France:
Total infection cases: 1,198,695 or 1.84 percent of the population.
New cases: 33,417 or a new infection ratio of 51.20 per 100,000 people.
New deaths: 523.
Death toll: 35,541 or 2.96 percent of the infected cases.
As of 28 October 2020, Germany:
Total infection cases: 464,239 or 0.55 percent of the population.
New cases: 14,964 or a new infection ratio of 17.86 per 100,000 people.
New deaths: 85.
Death toll: 10,183 or 2.19 percent of the infected cases.
As of 28 October 2020, Iran:
Total infection cases: 581,824 or 0.69 percent of the population.
New cases: 6,968 or a new infection ratio of 8.30 per 100,000 people.
New deaths: 346.
Death toll: 33,299 or 5.72 percent of the infected cases.
As of 28 October 2020, Italy:
Total infection cases: 564,778 or 0.93 percent of the population.
New cases: 21,989 or a new infection ratio of 36.37 per 100,000 people.
New deaths: 221.
Death toll: 37,700 or 6.68 percent of the infected cases.
As of 28 October 2020, Portugal:
Total infection cases: 124,432 or 1.22 percent of the population.
New cases: 3,299 or a new infection ratio of 32.35 per 100,000 people.
New deaths: 28.
Death toll: 2,371 or 1.91 percent of the infected cases.
As of 27 October 2020 (latest available data), Spain:
Total infection cases: 1,116,738 or 2.39 percent of the population.
New cases: 18,418 or a new infection ratio of 39.39 per 100,000 people.
New deaths: 267.
Death toll: 35,298 or 3.16 percent of the infected cases.
As of 28 October 2020, Switzerland:
Total infection cases: 127,042 or 1.47 percent of the population.
New cases: 6,362 or a new infection ratio of 73.51 per 100,000 people.
New deaths: 16.
Death toll: 1,929 or 1.52 percent of the infected cases.
As of 28 October 2020, United Kingdom:
Total infection cases: 917,575 or 1.36 percent of the population.
New cases: 22,885 or a new infection ratio of 33.99 per 100,000 people.
New deaths: 367.
Death toll: 45,365 or 4.94 percent of the infected cases.
As of 28 October 2020, USA:
Total infection cases: 8,779,653 or 2.65 percent of the population.
New cases: 75,129 or a new infection ratio of 22.70 per 100,000 people.
New deaths: 988.
Death toll: 226,723 or 2.58 percent of the infected cases.
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