Current Affairs Coronavirus Thread - Serious stuff !!!

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The US unemployment rate has risen to 14.7%, with 20.5 million jobs lost in April, as the coronavirus pandemic devastated the economy.

The rise means the jobless rate is now worse than at any time since the great depression of the 1930s.

Since the pandemic began, the US has suffered it's worst growth numbers in a decade and the worst retail sales report on record.

Just two months ago, the unemployment rate was at 3.5%, a 50-year low.
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Read more here: https://www.miamiherald.com/news/state/florida/article242480931.html#storylink=cpy
It was March 1 when Florida announced its first two cases of the novel coronavirus, a 29-year-old Hillsborough County woman who had traveled to Italy and a 63-year-old Manatee County man. But buried in data recently published by the Florida health department is an intriguing revelation: The spread of COVID-19 in Florida likely began in January, if not earlier.

State health officials have documented at least 170 COVID-19 patients reporting symptoms between Dec. 31, 2019, and February 29, according to a Miami Herald analysis of state health data. Of them, 40 percent had no apparent contact with someone else with the virus. The majority had not traveled. At least 26 people who contracted COVID-19 started showing symptoms in late December or January — and at least eight of them both had not traveled and did not have contact with another person infected by the virus. The trend continued into February.
 
In terms of the 5 steps I agree. No idea why they've decided to delay those 5 steps by 3 weeks though, not like its really bad in the North compared with the Republic or the UK. Odd for sure.
Deaths per million in the Republic 280
Deaths per million in the north 420
Deaths Per million in Britain overall 472
So worse than Republic but better than UK average
 
Read more here: https://www.miamiherald.com/news/state/florida/article242480931.html#storylink=cpy
It was March 1 when Florida announced its first two cases of the novel coronavirus, a 29-year-old Hillsborough County woman who had traveled to Italy and a 63-year-old Manatee County man. But buried in data recently published by the Florida health department is an intriguing revelation: The spread of COVID-19 in Florida likely began in January, if not earlier.

State health officials have documented at least 170 COVID-19 patients reporting symptoms between Dec. 31, 2019, and February 29, according to a Miami Herald analysis of state health data. Of them, 40 percent had no apparent contact with someone else with the virus. The majority had not traveled. At least 26 people who contracted COVID-19 started showing symptoms in late December or January — and at least eight of them both had not traveled and did not have contact with another person infected by the virus. The trend continued into February.

Part of that article was mentioned in the report on the BBC site earlier in the week relating the French discovering it in the blood of a pneumonia patient on Dec 27th.

It`s looking more and more likely that it`s been us for a lot longer than originally thought.

Just thinking out loud, in view of this, could this be the second wave we are now experiencing ?
 
Interesting map that kind of explains that:
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There's very few other countries that have big cities so close together, if we think in the North West we have two big cities and numerous other big towns, whilst you look at Spain and there's so much density around Madrid.
i think its more to do with a dense population than population density lol
 
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