Since January, media around the world has increasingly been fixated on China’s latest version of the coronavirus (COVID-19). This week the World Health Organization finally decided to call the spread of the disease for what it is, a pandemic. Many individuals feel that the WHO should have pulled the trigger much earlier.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Governments around the world are taking measures to protect their citizens by canceling flights and closing their boarders to travelers from the most infected countries, such as China. Even Canada, which has kept an open boarder policy during the outbreak and who’s Prime Minister’s wife brought the COVID-19 back with her on her last trip has finally begun to take more urgent action. Well, actually it’s the specific provinces, rather than the federal government that are trying the most to protect their residents.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
But, has is it too late to stop the spread?… or as some believe, is it an over-reaction to a new version of the flu. Just what actions are merited by the actual facts of COVID-19? <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Decide for yourself. Below are the current deaths attributed to COVID-19 compared to other causes of death. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
The number of deaths due to COVID-19 versus other causes in 2020 as of 4:54pm EST today (March 14, 2020):<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Coronavirus\nCOVID-19: 5815<\/p>\n\n\n\n Coronary\nArtery Disease: 1,903,241<\/p>\n\n\n\n Stroke:\n1,356,548<\/p>\n\n\n\n Lower\nRespiratory Tract Infection: 693,549<\/p>\n\n\n\n Chronic\nObstructive Pulmonary Disease: 689,132<\/p>\n\n\n\n Trachea,\nBronchus, Lung Cancers: 368,306<\/p>\n\n\n\n Diabetes Mellitus:\n344,637<\/p>\n\n\n\n Alzheimer\nDisease and Other Dementias: 335,180<\/p>\n\n\n\n Diarrhoeal\nDiseases: 301,810<\/p>\n\n\n\n Tuberculosis:\n298,497<\/p>\n\n\n\n Road Injury:\n291,749<\/p>\n\n\n\n Cirrhosis of\nthe Liver: 252,612<\/p>\n\n\n\n Kidney\nDiseases: 245, 496<\/p>\n\n\n\n HIV\/AIDS:\n230,283<\/p>\n\n\n\n Preterm\nBirth Complications: 230,038<\/p>\n\n\n\n Preterm\nBirth Complications: 230,038<\/p>\n\n\n\n Hypertensive\nHeart Disease: 204,764<\/p>\n\n\n\n Liver\nCancer: 171,271<\/p>\n\n\n\n Suicide:\n171,271<\/p>\n\n\n\n Colorectal\nCancer: 168,204<\/p>\n\n\n\n Stomach\nCancer: 163,787<\/p>\n\n\n\n Birth Asphyxia and Birth Trauma: 150,291<\/p>\n\n\n\n Numbers based on WHO: Cause-Specific Mortality<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" COVID-19 declared pandemic and governments around the world are taking action. Are they under- or over-reacting? This is what latest statistics show.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-203157","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/metroactive.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203157","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/metroactive.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/metroactive.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/metroactive.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/metroactive.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=203157"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/metroactive.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203157\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":203158,"href":"https:\/\/metroactive.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203157\/revisions\/203158"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/metroactive.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=203157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/metroactive.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=203157"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/metroactive.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=203157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}