Coronavirus Update -- Is Anyone Paying Attention? -- February 24, 2020

Updates

February 25, 2020: see comments. A reader suggests this site if interested in economic impact of coronavirus: 

http://econintersect.com/pages/contributors/contributor.php?post=202002230021.

It would also be nice to see economic impacts if Bernie Sanders' proposals were all enacted.

Original Post

 

Coronavirus: tracked at the sidebar at the right.

Statistics here; below, statistics as of February 24, 2020 -- posted just a few hours ago:

Four stats to follow:

• daily deaths growth factor: steep drop (very good)
• total deaths, change in total, day-over-day, down again (very good); at 3%;
• daily deaths, change in daily, day-over-day, huge drop, minus 49 percent (incredibly good news);
• global stats by country; link here, new deaths since last report:
• China: 71 (huge jump)
• South Korea: 1
• Italy: 0 (and only two more cases)
• Austria halts train traffic with Italy -- two days ago
• Turkey closes Iran border -- two days ago

Statistics for February 23, 2020, yesterday, were alarming and shocked equity markets and oil markets worldwide.

Absolutely fascinating.