Doomsday Virus? Coronavirus cases are NOT boosting the weekly death numbers for pneumonia and influenza from the CDC and National Center for Health Statistics yet. This would be expected if the coronavirus is unusually deadly compared to other diseases that contribute to deaths categorized as pneumonia and influenza… YET! (Based on data through March 14, 2020)
CDC Pneumonia and Influenza Mortality Surveillance: https://www.cdc.gov/flu/weekly/#S2
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John F. McGowan, Ph.D. solves problems using mathematics and mathematical software, including developing gesture recognition for touch devices, video compression and speech recognition technologies. He has extensive experience developing software in C, C++, MATLAB, Python, Visual Basic and many other programming languages. He has been a Visiting Scholar at HP Labs developing computer vision algorithms and software for mobile devices. He has worked as a contractor at NASA Ames Research Center involved in the research and development of image and video processing algorithms and technology. He has published articles on the origin and evolution of life, the exploration of Mars (anticipating the discovery of methane on Mars), and cheap access to space. He has a Ph.D. in physics from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and a B.S. in physics from the California Institute of Technology (Caltech).