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Old Mar 18, 2020 | 12:35 AM
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Default Re: How has the Covid-19 virus affected you?

https://coronavirus.jhu.edu/map.html
This is the very informative UP TO DATE John Hopkins COVID-19 data page. You can click on any country to the left and see # of reported cases, deaths, and recoveries. Italy has a death rate of 13%, EXTREMELY high compared to most countries. To put that in perspective the "normal" annual flu has a death rate of 0.1%, or 1 in 1,000. In Italy 130 in 1,000 die from COVID-19. In Iran it's 18%, nearly 1 in 5!

As to how it's affected me: Ordered via Amazon Prime yesterday. Before placing my order the item stated delivery 2 days hence, as always. Once I actually placed the order it soon became clear that it will take 4 days to deliver the item. As it's the FIRST TIME EVER Amazon Prime has let me down I dare say A LOT of people must be sitting at home ordering things instead of fetching them in person.