Coronaviruses are a family of RNA viruses that typically cause mild respiratory disease in humans. A novel coronavirus (COVID-19) was identified in Wuhan, China in December 2019.
This site, curated by Johns Hopkins provides daily situation reports on COVID-19.
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Local updates for San Diego are being compiled at this blog curated by the Union Tribune newspaper.
People globally are now being encouraged to practice "social distancing" to help "flatten the curve" to reduce the burden placed on health care systems. As it's number of confirmed COVID-19 cases begin to spike this week, the US is already running out of hospital beds.
You an use this predictive model for a rough estimate of when would be the appropriate time to quarantine for your particular geographic region. You can modify all the numerical assumptions and run different scenarios.
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