Public Health  Covid-19 Surges Overseas, China Slow to Return to Normalcy In the past week, new confirmed cases of the novel coronavirus in China have risen by 2,206 for an average of roughly 315 newly infected people per day. In sharp contrast, outside of the mainland confirmed infections have surged from 3,181 a week ago to 13,980, a 439 percent increase. While total numbers worldwide at 94,250 individuals pale in comparison to seasonal influenza, the death rate of 3.4 percent is more than 2,500 percent higher than the average rate for the flu in the U.S., which has averaged .136 percent since 2010, according to the Centers for Disease Control. On the positive side, recoveries now exceed 50 percent of diagnosed cases with a total o...

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