Latest from 🔥https://hackernoon.com/tagged/coronavirus COVID-19: In God We Trust, All Others Must Bring [CLEAN] Data: "We must have clear objectives, what do we want to achieve? I think we can all converge on 3 specific goals together: 1. Protecting high-risk population groups 2. Avoid the collapse of the health care system 3. Preventing the economy from collapsing List the goals we want to achieve where to start? First of all, start with a good data crunching. We’ve got a huge amount of data on COVID-19, let’s take it seriously. Let’s start with the data presented by John Hopkins University, what do we know? At the moment (24.03.2020) we know that there are 381,621 cases in the world compared to 16,563 deaths for a mortality rate of 4.34%. We also know that the data of those infected are abundantly low because the tests are not carried out in a blanket manner. Let’s take again the case of South Korea where the tests were carried out in a censorship manner, the numbers tell us anything but 9,037 infected against 120 deaths for a mortality rate of 1.32% This number is in line with the data published by the New England Journal of Medicine which attests a mortality rate of 1.4% studying 1,100 subjects hospitalized in China at the beginning of the pandemic. I’ll say more, we take other cases of countries where the tests are followed across the board, Germany at the moment has a mortality rate of 0.4%, Austria 4,477 cases for 21 deaths a rate of 0.46%, Norway 2,625 cases and 10 deaths for a rate of 0.38%. What do these figures tell us? That you have to perform a lot of tests to have solid figures on which to make serious decisions. Still, the death rate for COVID-19 appears to vary by location and an individual’s age, among other factors. For instance, in Hubei Province, the epicenter of the outbreak, the death rate reached 2.9%; in other provinces of China, that rate was just 0.4%, according to the China CDC Weekly study. Besides, older adults have been hit the h...