Coronavirus — COVID-19 Resources

3 min readMar 11, 2020

Here are a few links to the best Coronavirus (COVID-19) resources that were shared with me and that I could gather.

I oscillate between calmness and freaking out. Reading these articles helped me gain some perspective. It is serious and we should stay informed.

Take-a-ways

The Coronavirus is spreading fast — faster than the flu and influenza. with each person diagnosed on average infecting 2.5 others. Putting it into perspective — it is estimated the 1300+ cases identified in the U.S. on 3/10 will be 13,000 by 3/17, and 130,000 by 3/24. It’s getting real.
It is dangerous — especially for older people. The mortality rate is about 2–4%. That is ~40x higher than the flu, with ~1 out of every 10 people dying over the age of 65. For youth to 50, mortality rates between ~0.2–0.4% or 1 in every 250–500 people.
We don’t have a vaccine any time soon. Effective treatments are months away and a vaccine is 12–18 months away.
Containment of communities (lockdowns) are highly likely. This is how China contained the Wuhan outbreak.

Stocking up, staying rested, and staying inside is the most likely approach until we get test kits and can understand who has the virus and who does not to contain the spread.

What do we do?

Everyone’s starting now to take the ‘pandemic’ seriously. It is quite straight forward what needs to happen. The approach worked to address the situation in China.

We need to…

(1) Stay in one place / limit interactions to stop the spreading

(young and healthy people too, so they don’t act as hosts)

(2) Test everyone to determine who has it and who does not

(3) Limit in-person interactions of each group with the other

(4) Treat those infected until they recover and are not contagious to interact with those not infected

My opinion…

More government leaders need to make this clear — and they will if we voice our concerns — but we need to do our part. The real challenge is in the execution. We can’t do this *operating as normal* with our current system.

People, normal citizens and organizations, are going to be called to lead in supporting each of these areas while not seizing the economy and not causing irrecoverable damage to people’s lives. This is no small task, but it will take each of us to do what we can to get safely and expediently through this.