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The Coronavirus — Here’s Everything You Need To Know

Thought Catalog
15 min readMar 12, 2020

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This article is continually updated tracker of resources, summaries and links about Coronavirus or COVID-19 from the US based publication. Email us with corrections, additional links, and your insights.

[*] Is coronavirus (COVID-19) killing people? There are two great coronavirus trackers available online that show how many people are dying and how many are recovering. The ArcGIS tracker has a great interface. Coronatracfonker.com has a slightly different visualization method.

A COVID-19 tracker as of March 11, 2020

[*] How many people have COVID-19 in the United States? We don’t know that number because so few people are being tested for it. Here is a data-driven report on the testing process (or lack thereof) and here is a first-hand report from a women whose husband likely has COVID-19 but could not get tested.

We were then told he didn’t meet the CDC mandated criteria for COVID-19 testing: he wasn’t hospital-level sick, he hadn’t been in contact with anyone who was KNOWN to be infected, or he hadn’t been to a “high-risk” country. Since he was negative for everything else, but we couldn’t get him tested for COVID-19, our doctor told us to proceed as if he did test positive and told us to self-isolate and take all precautions.

[*] We also don’t know if the numbers from other countries are accurate yet, particularly…

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