Covid-19 Blog Series #4

What comes next?

Australia’s mortality rate for Covid-19 remains very low, although it’s getting closer to the expected figure of around 1.5%. Currently, based on Department of Health figures, it’s just under 1% but has been growing recently [1]. We can expect this growth as the peak of infections about 3 weeks ago will be resulting in deaths now.

Covid-19 Blog Series #3

Update 3 - Some Correspondence

My third update on the Covid-19 Pandemic was originally intended to be either a screed on the economic ramifications of the pandemic or a discussion of the testing protocols.

Covid-19 Blog Series #2

And it begins

Late in the day of 29^th December 2019, Dr Li Wenliang, an ophthalmologist at Wuhan Central Hospital, became worried enough about the increasing number of pneumonia cases at the hospital, that he took to WeChat, a social media and messaging platform. In a group chat with some former University colleagues, he shared information about the cases and the fact that the cause had been identified as a “SARS like” virus.

Covid-19 Blog Series #1

How Many People are Dying from Covid-19?

Spoiler Alert: Nobody knows.

There is, right at the moment, a proliferation of data freely available that would usually be hidden behind a paywall. Most of this is data held by some of the world’s great medical journals such as Lancet and The New England Journal of Medicine and as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic, most journals and other databases have taken down their paywalls and made data freely available.