Auteur: Archimedes van Wou

This is Corona

OVID-19 is the disease transmitted by SARS_CoV2 virus. SARS_COV2 is the official name, when it did not yet have an official name it was often called nCoV-2019 or in China Wuhan-Hu-1 virus. The virus was first reported on December 30, 2019 in Wuhan, the capital of China’s Hubei province. At the outbreak in 2019 and early 2020, the first patients were mainly visitors and employees of the Huahan fish market in Wuhan, with disease transmission between coughing and sneezing.

SARS_CoV2 virus source: NIAID under this licence

Recent research from the WHO evaluated the survival of the COVID-19 virus on different surfaces and reported that the virus can remain viable for up to 72 hours on plastic and stainless steel, up to four hours on copper, and up to 24 hours on cardboard.

An infected person infects an average of 2.2 other people . The disease is characterized by flu-like symptoms, including fever, cough, shortness of breath, muscle pain, fatigue. See also my Corona statistics page for the symptoms.

Novel Coronavirus SARS-CoV-2

New statistics added to corona page

I added the symptoms from wikipedia in my corona page. The most important ones are fever, fatique and headaque. In the top 10 countries with the most deaths the US and the UK are rising. China is stable for a while.

In my own country the Netherlands the real number of cases is unknown. Only when people are very sick they get a test because of the shortage of test material. At this moment my girlfriend had fever two days ago and stil suffers from fatigue. It is unknown if this is Corona or just a little bit of seasonable flu.

How to download films from youtube

A time ago I was looking for a Python library to download a film for a joke in an offline presentation. This is the code which achieved the download part.

installation in python (anaconda) run in the terminal conda install pytube3

In the Python editor paste the code below and run it.

from pytube import YouTube
yt = YouTube(“linkToFilm”)
yt.streams.first().download()

Corona deaths per country top 10

China still ranks first among most Corona victims. However there is now a decline in the number of new cases. Italy is now in first place in Europe. The Netherlands my own country still has only 20 victims. This evening, our Prime Minister gave a speech on national television for the first time since 1973. The Netherlands will be locked in the near future with the aim of spreading infections over time. It is not possible to stop corona, but delaying the epidemic would put less pressure on healthcare capacity.

Corona covid19 analysis of the deaths

Corona (covid19) is the plague of today since a week. Out of curiosity I downloaded a dataset from the datascience competition kaggle. The dataset is not very big but I found out that the mortality rate is 3%. Most of the dead are elderly people. Average is 70. I think the reason behind the measures which governments are taking is for instance that 3% of the Dutch population is 510.000 people. The percentage is low but total count is high if enough people are becoming sick. De used Python code can be found at my gitlab account.