“At the moment we’re getting well over a billion requests per day — or interactions with this dashboard on a daily basis. It’s gone viral on almost every social media channel that exists,” Gardner said.
It doesn't even rank in the Top 20 diseases killing people in the United States or anywhere else around the globe, yet somehow the world is
going coronavirus crazy as our new international obsession. Case in point is the new website from Johns Hopkins University that is currently getting over one billion requests, or hits, per day. Ironically, when you view the infection rate, the mortality rate and the recovery rate, it is actually quite comforting.
"And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free." John 8:32 (KJB)
Why do I say it's comforting? Simple, look at it. The green line representing the recovery rate is actually spiking sharper than the infection rate, which means that it is nowhere near as scary as we have been led to believe it is. And the mortality rate, the number of people dying from it, is hovering around 3%, roughly the same as people who die from the flu. So why is everyone so freaked out about the coronavirus?
We live in a time when a spirit of fear, and end times spirit, is rising rapidly, causing people to take their eyes off of God and on the world with its myriad issues and problems. The rising spirit is preparing the way for the soon arrival of Antichrist who will come on the scene after the
Pretribulation Rapture of the Church takes place. Born again Christians need not fear the outbreak of the coronavirus or any other disease for that matter. Our lives are not our own, we've been
bought with a price, and it is the Lord who decides how and when each one of us will exit this world. Wash your hands, stay away from sick people, get your rest, eat right and drink lots of pure water. Put your faith in God, and not in the fear of man.
Johns Hopkins Launches Coronavirus Website: More than 1 Billion Requests a Day
FROM BREITBART NEWS: Johns Hopkins University experts
held a press briefing on Friday on Capitol Hill to discuss efforts to confront coronavirus as it spreads around the globe, including the
launch of a website with an interactive dashboard that collects data worldwide about the virus, including data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the World Health Organization (WHO).
Lauren Gardner, co-director of the Johns Hopkins Center for Systems Science and Engineering, led the team that
designed the dashboard, which has a wide range of always-updating data, from the number of confirmed cases (105,559), the number of deaths from the virus (3,555), the number of people who have recovered (58,354) and cases by region and country.
Gardner said that statistics about users of the dashboard shows that the public is mostly using it “looking for reliable, factual information.” But local, state and federal governments, public health agencies — “and pretty much everything in between” are also using it, Gardner said.
Statistics show people in the United States account for the majority of users. Gardner said her team has been taken aback but just how popular the dashboard has become.
“It’s been pretty popular for awhile,” Gardner said. “At the moment we’re getting well over a billion requests per day — or interactions with this dashboard on a daily basis. It’s gone viral on almost every social media channel that exists,” Gardner said.
“So I think that this really speaks to this huge demand for reliable, trustworthy, objective information especially around situations like these,” Gardner said. Others experts on the panel included Jason Farley, professor in the Johns Hopkins School of Nursing; Tom Inglesby, director of the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security and a professor at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health; Lisa Maragakis, epidemiologist and senior director of infection prevention for the Johns Hopkins Health System; and Andy Pekosz, co-director of the Johns Hopkins Center of Excellence in Influenza Research and Surveillance and professor at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.
Panelists called for public calm and warned about the danger of misinformation that is pumped out daily online, including on social media, where Pekosz said health experts have been engaging in conversations to try to get the facts out.
Inglesby said there remains “substantial work” that still needs to be done to make the U.S. health infrastructure capable of handling the virus. And, according to Ingelsby, a vaccine that can be made available widely to the public is still 12 to 18 months out.
The panel distributed literature that included tips to stop the spread of the virus, including avoiding contact with people who are sick; coughing into a tissue and disposing of the tissue properly; avoid touching your eyes, nose and mouth; clean and disinfect objects and surfaces; stay home when sick except to seek medical help; and wash your hands with soap frequently for at least 20 seconds.
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