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CORONAVIRUS LIVE UPDATES: China Says 1,700 Medical Workers Have Been Infected .... Six of the workers have died, the government said on Friday. It was the first time that officials had disclosed the number.

RIGHT NOW: China reports 5,090 new coronavirus cases and 121 new deaths in the past 24 hours.

READ UPDATES IN CHINESE: 新冠病毒疫情最新消息汇总

HERE’S WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW:

Release of information on infected medical workers underscores risks.

For more than a month, medical workers in Hubei, the province at the center of the coronavirus outbreak, have been working nearly nonstop even as they struggled with a shortage of personal protective equipment such as masks, gowns and safety goggles.

For the first time on Friday, China disclosed figures that drove home the risks faced by those on the front line: 1,716 medical workers have contracted the virus and six of them have died. Of those people, 1,502 were in Hubei Province, with 1,102 of them in Wuhan, the provincial capital and the center of the outbreak.

The announcement was the first official confirmation about the number of infected medical workers, and is likely to ratchet up fears about the spread of the virus.

“I think it’s quite concerning,” said Benjamin Cowling, a professor of epidemiology at the University of Hong Kong. “Health care workers face the challenge of caring for a substantial number of patients in Wuhan. It’s worrying to discover that a number of them have been infected.”

[A MEDICAL WORKER DIES: The death of the doctor whose warnings about the coronavirus were silenced has become a potent symbol of Beijing’s failures. SEE TIMELINE]

Zeng Yixin, deputy director of the National Health Commission, said the numbers of infected workers represented 3.8 percent of China’s overall confirmed infections as of Feb. 11.

He added that further research was needed to ascertain whether the infections spread throughout the hospital or within the community.

Medical workers, struggling to both treat patients and keep themselves safe, have resorted to begging from friends, putting out frequent calls for donations, and using tape to patch up torn masks and gowns.

Many doctors and nurses there say they eat just one meal a day because going to the restroom means removing and discarding safety gowns that they would not be able to replace.

During the SARS outbreak of 2002-3, 961 medical workers were infected, representing 18 percent of all infections, according to government data. About 1 percent of the medical workers infected with SARS died, a medical expert, Xu Dezhong, told Xinhua, China’s official news agency.

BLOOD PLASMA FROM SURVIVORS COULD HELP CREATE A TREATMENT.

A senior health official in Wuhan, China, the center of the outbreak, has called on residents who have recovered from the coronavirus to donate blood plasma, believing their naturally produced antibodies could be used to treat patients who are still sick.

Dr. Zhang Dingyu, the director of the Jinyintan Hospital in Wuhan, made his appeal on Thursday after Chinese researchers said they believed that such antibody treatments could help people recover from the virus.

The search for a drug capable of treating or curing the virus has frustrated researchers, as rates of infection and deaths continue to mount.

The government is currently prescribing a combination of antiviral drugs and traditional Chinese medicine. But on Thursday, China National Biotec Group, a state-owned company under the Ministry of Health, said it had found that administering a round of human antibodies from the survivors to more than 10 critically ill patients caused inflammation levels to drop significantly after 12 to 24 hours of treatment.

The company called the use of plasma “the most effective method, which can significantly reduce the mortality of critically ill patients.”

Benjamin Cowling, a professor of epidemiology at the University of Hong Kong, said the use of antibodies to treat the coronavirus was “a really good idea,” noting that it had been used before in influenza pandemics. But he cautioned that it needed to be proven in a controlled trial.

“It’s basically transferring immunity from a patient who has recovered to a patient still fighting the infection, and then helping them to recover,” he said.

CHINA RECORDS MORE THAN 5,000 NEW cases in 24 HOURS.

Numbers continued to climb after the government changed the criteria by which it tracks confirmed cases. China on Friday reported 5,090 new coronavirus cases and 121 new deaths in the previous 24 hours.

The authorities said a total of 63,851 people had been infected by the coronavirus and at least 1,380 had been killed by the disease. Most of the cases occurred in Hubei Province, the center of the outbreak, which recorded 4,823 new cases and 116 deaths over the same period.

The tally in Hubei jumped most drastically on Thursday after the authorities changed the diagnostic criteria for counting new cases. The government now takes into account cases diagnosed in clinical settings, including the use of CT scans, and not just those confirmed with specialized testing kits.

[ MEASURING AN OUTBREAK: Here’s an explanation for why the case numbers suddenly changed. SEE BELOW ]

A CORONAVIRUS CLINIC IN HONG KONG IS ATTACKED.

A Hong Kong clinic designated to treat suspected coronavirus cases suffered a second arson attack early Friday, officials said.

Hong Kong’s Hospital Authority said it “seriously condemned” the attack, against an outpatient clinic in the New Territories district of Tsuen Wan. A police spokeswoman said it had occurred overnight and left a door charred. The first attack, on Saturday afternoon, damaged an air-conditioner. No one was wounded in either attack.

The clinic is about four miles from an apartment building where dozens of residents were evacuated this week after two residents on different floors were found to be infected, raising fresh fears about how the virus spreads. (Officials said an unsealed pipe might be to blame.)

There were 56 confirmed cases in the city as of Friday. Fearing a wider outbreak, residents have been staging small-scale protests at several clinics assigned to treat people with mild symptoms of the virus. Late last month, the government shelved a plan to turn an unoccupied housing project into a quarantine facility after protesters set a fire in the lobby.

As public anger and anxiety mount, the Beijing-backed government has been accused by many residents of not doing enough to contain the spread of the virus, including the refusal to quickly order a complete shutdown of the border with mainland China. The authorities have gradually restricted arrivals from mainland China over the past few weeks.

Carrie Lam, Hong Kong’s chief executive, said on Friday that her administration would do its best to repatriate more than 2,000 of the city’s residents stranded in Hubei province and aboard the Diamond Princess, the cruise ship quarantined off Japan’s coast.

The Hong Kong government has received more than 1,000 requests for help from over 300 cities across Hubei, including from Wuhan, Mrs. Lam said. Ten people from Hong Kong in the region were confirmed to have been infected.

Some 330 Hong Kong residents remain stuck on the cruise ship in Japan, and 11 of them were infected, officials said. The Hong Kong authorities are pressing their Japanese counterparts to consider allowing its citizens to be quarantined onshore and to get tested for the virus as soon as possible, said John Lee, the city’s security minister, on Friday.

As the mind assesses risk, the coronavirus ‘hits all the hot buttons.’

The coronavirus has killed more than 1,300 and infected tens of thousands in China. Those are alarming statistics, but a much more common illness, influenza, kills about 400,000 every year, including 34,200 Americans last flu season and 61,099 the year before.

There remains deep uncertainty about the new coronavirus’s mortality rate, with the high-end estimate that it is up to 20 times that of the flu, but some estimates go as low as 0.16 percent for those affected outside of China’s overwhelmed Hubei Province. That’s about on par with the flu.

While the metrics of public health might put the flu alongside or even ahead of the new coronavirus for sheer deadliness, the mind has its own ways of measuring danger.

Experts used to believe that people gauged risk like actuaries, parsing out cost-benefit analyses every time a merging car came too close or local crime rates spiked. But a wave of psychological experiments in the 1980s upended this thinking.

Researchers instead found that people use a set of mental shortcuts for measuring danger. And they tend to do it unconsciously, meaning that instinct can play a large role.

The coronavirus, which has created a wave of fear, may be a case in point.

“This hits all the hot buttons that lead to heightened risk perception,” said Paul Slovic, a University of Oregon psychologist who helped pioneer modern risk psychology.

[ HOW THE MIND JUDGES DANGER: The flu might kill more people, but that’s not how we assess risk. SEE BELOW]

CITING FRUSTRATION, QUARANTINED RUSSIANS ESCAPE HOSPITALS.

At least five people fled coronavirus quarantine across Russia, local news media reported on Friday, citing frustration, erratic and inconsistent government policies, and bad conditions in the hospitals where they were held.

Alla Ilyina, 32, a woman from St. Petersburg, had enough patience to stay for only one day at a hospital in Russia’s second-largest city. She detailed how she had broken a lock in her room and sneaked away while doctors were distracted by another patient.

“I am a reasonable person, if someone told me that there was a suspicion, if doctors didn’t tell me that I was healthy, if I had not done three tests in separate hospitals, I would sit there,” Ms. Ilyina told reporters in an interview, broadcast on Russian television. “I don’t want to infect my relatives or threaten anybody, but I just don’t understand why an absolutely healthy person should be held somewhere.”

Three more people escaped quarantine in the same hospital, Fontanka.ru reported on Friday.

In the city of Samara, Guzel Neder, 34, escaped through the window of another hospital. After staying in quarantine for four days, Mrs. Neder called a testing center and a specialist said if she hadn’t received a positive result within two hours, “then you should be fine.”

“My son already felt well, he didn’t have any fever symptoms, but doctors deliberately made us stay for longer, so that we wouldn’t leave, to ‘fulfill the order’ of isolating people, coming from China,” she said. She described conditions at the hospital, where doctors didn’t wear any protective gear.

Only two confirmed cases of coronavirus have been reported in Russia so far. Hundreds of Russian and Chinese nationals have been quarantined across the country for the 14-day period, following recommendations from the World Health Organization.

Valentine’s Day in the time of coronavirus leaves much to be desired.

During the coronavirus outbreak, cinemas and restaurants across China have shut their doors, parks and streets are empty, and public events have been postponed.

For couples, that meant there were few places to celebrate Valentine’s Day on Friday. But some came up with creative ways to declare their love.

In a nod to the scarcity of fresh vegetables, people ordered nicely wrapped bouquets of broccoli, cauliflowers and snacks, according to data from the delivery service Meituan. Others sent face masks, goggles and wipes, the data showed.

Online meal orders also reflected the crisis at hand. Last Valentine’s Day, the most popular orders were steak sets for two, hot pot and Cantonese food. This year, the top choices included simpler options — pizza and basic Chinese meals.

Hotels, of course, have seen bookings plummet. Zhang Lu, vice president of Myriad, a chain of 40 “love hotels” across the country, said most of them were closed on government orders. Some were being used as quarantine sites.

“I really hope this is going to end soon,” Ms. Zhang said.

Many people were stranded far from their significant others because of travel restrictions. On the social platform Weibo, people shared makeup tips for online video chats and recipes for homemade meals, under the trending topic “it’s a long-distance relationship for everyone this year.”

For florists who count on Valentine’s Day business, the situation was brutal. In Dounan Flower Market in the southwestern province of Yunnan, sellers had to dump millions of roses, according to a report by Jiemian, a Chinese news site. The price of roses had collapsed while the cost of delivery soared.

“Right now many people are worried about whether they can buy enough food,” one seller said. “They are not in the mood for flowers.”

SINGAPORE PRIME MINISTER SAYS THE CORONAVIRUS COULD LEAD TO A RECESSION.

Lee Hsien Loong, the prime minister of Singapore, said on Friday that it was possible the city-state could fall into recession as the coronavirus spreads.

“I think the impact will be significant at least in the next couple of quarters,” said Mr. Lee, in a video posted on his Facebook page.

At Singapore Changi Airport, the number of flights has fallen by a third and travelers who have recently visited mainland China are not allowed to disembark.

“It’s a very intense outbreak,” said Mr. Lee, who visited the airport to show his support for the workers there. “It is already much more than SARS, and economies of the region are much more interlinked together.”

Singapore, whose economy is particularly sensitive to global fluctuations, has already seen a slowdown in growth. The economy is estimated to have expanded by 0.7 percent in 2019, compared to 3.1 percent the year before, according to government statistics.

“China particularly is a much bigger factor in the region and therefore I can’t say whether we’ll have a recession or not,” Mr. Lee added. “It’s possible, but definitely our economy will take a hit.”

THE U.S. SAYS IT WILL APPROVE AID TO NORTH KOREA TO FIGHT THE CORONAVIRUS THERE.

The United States said on Friday that it would approve humanitarian assistance to North Korea to help international aid agencies fight the coronavirus there, amid fears that the impoverished country may be hiding an outbreak.

North Korea has not reported any cases of the new coronavirus. But in the past week, some South Korean news reports, citing unnamed sources within the secretive North, said there had been deaths in the country that were suspected to be related to the virus. The reports could not be confirmed.

North Korea shares a 930-mile border with China, where the coronavirus emerged, and has taken aggressive steps to prevent its spread, including suspending all flights and trains to and from China.

North Korea’s public health system remains dysfunctional, and the travel restrictions have made it more difficult for the North to buy or smuggle medicine, goods and other supplies from China. Relief organizations have complained that American-led U.N. sanctions have blocked them from quickly approving aid.

This week, the Red Cross called for a sanctions exemption allowing it to transfer money to its office in North Korea, describing it as “a lifesaving intervention.” It cited an urgent need for personal protective gear and testing kits to prepare for an outbreak in North Korea.

The United States has similarly expressed alarm, saying it would not stand in the way of such aid.

She added that Washington encourages American and international aid groups to “counter and contain the spread of coronavirus” in the North.

[ THE RESPONSE IN Pyongyang: North Korea has sealed its border with China, but there are fears that the impoverished country may be hiding an outbreak. SEE BELOW]

Wuhan doctor issues a rare public rebuke of the government’s handling of the crisis.

The Chinese government failed to sound a public warning in the early days of the outbreak even though scientists were aware of human-to-human transmission, a doctor from Wuhan wrote in a paper published by the Lancet this week.

Dr. Zhang Hong of Zhongnan Hospital wrote that the local authorities allowed more than 5 million people to leave Wuhan to travel for the Lunar New Year holiday despite warnings from Chinese scientists.

“Early detection and early reporting were delayed,” Dr. Zhang wrote.

The paper was a rare instance of a medical professional criticizing the government, especially at a time when doctors and nurses have come under pressure not to speak out. Dr. Zhang also wrote that doctors did not understand the severity and contagiousness of the new coronavirus early on, and that medical workers failed to fully protect themselves as a result.

He wrote that the supplies of protective equipment in hospitals are severely insufficient, and were worsened by the implementation of traffic controls after the government sealed off cities across China. He called on the government to “pay attention to the front-line doctors and provide adequate protective equipment to reduce their risk of infection.”

Overstretched hospitals were forced to turn patients away as the virus spread, “inevitably increasing morbidity and mortality,” he added.

The authorities in Wuhan have admitted that public announcements about the virus were delayed. In late January, when the outbreak was spreading throughout Wuhan, the city’s mayor, Zhou Xianwang, acknowledged that the disclosures had not been timely, but said his hands were tied because he could only publicize it “in accordance with the law.”

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Reporting and research was contributed by Sui-Lee Wee, Choe Sang-Hun, Richard C. Paddock, Elaine Yu, Motoko Rich, Lin Qiqing, Karen Zraick, Amie Tsang, Amber Wang, Zoe Mou, Albee Zhang, Yiwei Wang, and Claire Fu.

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How the Coronavirus Numbers Changed So Sharply

A new way of counting used by the Chinese authorities should catch more cases and get people into treatment earlier. But the scale of the epidemic will remain unclear for some time.

By Richard PÉREZ-PEÑA | Published Feb. 13, 2020 Updated Feb. 14, 2020, 9:46 a.m. ET | New York Times | Posted February 14, 2020 |

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The number of cases and deaths in the coronavirus epidemic in China jumped sharply on Thursday as the authorities there changed how they keep track of the disease, and not, primarily, because of any change in the shape of the outbreak.

There is still a lot of uncertainty about the true numbers — as with any new disease — and that will continue for the foreseeable future. Underscoring that point, hours after China revised its figures, the World Health Organization put out a lower set, saying that for now, it would not change the way it counts.

But experts say there were good reasons for changing the way patients with the disease, newly named Covid-19, were counted, and the new approach should catch many cases that had been missed before. That will allow more patients to get treatment and be quarantined faster.

Here is a look at what we know — and what we don’t — about the new coronavirus numbers and what they say about the scope of the crisis.

HOW DID THE NUMBERS CHANGE?

For several days, the Chinese government had reported figures that suggested the spread of the disease was slowing, but that changed abruptly on Thursday.

Officials in Hubei, the Chinese province that is the epicenter of the outbreak, said there had been more than 48,000 cases there, a 44 percent jump from the day before. They also reported 1,310 deaths, a 23 percent increase. The trend continued on Friday, though not as markedly, when Hubei officials disclosed another 4,800 cases and 116 more deaths.

Previously, cases were counted only if patients tested positive for the new virus. Now, the figures appear to include anyone who has a CT scan of the lungs showing a telltale pattern of pneumonia.

In the short run, the new accounting may deepen confusion about the true size of the epidemic. It also complicates efforts to track the growth of the disease over the last several weeks.

“We need to be careful in interpreting these numbers,” Dr. Michael Ryan, the World Health Organization’s emergency responses chief, said on Thursday. The larger number of cases, he said, “does not represent a significant change in the trajectory of the outbreak.”

The W.H.O. then released its own figures, leaving out the diagnoses made without a positive test for the virus — and indicating that it did not fully understand the change China had made.

“For consistency, we report here only the number of laboratory-confirmed cases,” the organization said in a situation report. “W.H.O. has formally requested additional information on the clinically diagnosed cases, in particular when these have occurred in the course of the outbreak and whether suspect cases were reclassified as clinically diagnosed cases.”

The W.H.O. reported almost 47,000 confirmed cases worldwide, fewer than 1 percent outside mainland China. The Chinese figures put the total at more than 61,000 cases.

Release of information on infected medical workers underscores risks.

The announcement was the first official confirmation about the number of infected medical workers, and is likely to ratchet up fears about the spread of the virus.

[A MEDICAL WORKER Dies: The death of the doctor whose warnings about the coronavirus were silenced has become a potent symbol of Beijing’s failures. SEE TIMELINE]

Zeng Yixin, deputy director of the National Health Commission, said the numbers of infected workers represented 3.8 percent of China’s overall confirmed infections as of Feb. 11.

He added that further research was needed to ascertain whether the infections spread throughout the hospital or within the community.

Many doctors and nurses there say they eat just one meal a day because going to the restroom means removing and discarding safety gowns that they would not be able to replace.

WHAT WAS WRONG WITH THE OLD WAY OF COUNTING?

In a word, plenty.

Kits to test for the virus are not being produced quickly enough to keep up with demand, and they take days to produce results. Using CT scans means more patients can be checked, with the results available almost immediately.

And the tests for the virus have not been very reliable. Many sick people have tested negative, only to test positive later. That appears to be, at least in part, because standard testing involves swabbing nasal passages and the throat, while the virus may be lodged in the lungs.

In the United States, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shipped hundreds of testing kits to state laboratories — and days later revealed that some of them were faulty. It is not clear whether China has experienced similar problems in making the tests.

No.

There are several ways cases might still be missed. Some people get sick, and die or recover, without ever seeing a doctor. CT scans allow doctors to identify people whose infections have caused pneumonia, which can be fatal, but the scans will not catch people with milder symptoms.

There is another source of confusion about the numbers. It was reported this week that China is no longer counting as confirmed cases people who test positive for the virus yet show no symptoms. But some experts said they were not sure what had actually changed.

The Chinese health authorities say they can distinguish, on a CT scan, pneumonia brought on by the coronavirus from some other serious lung diseases. But it is not clear that they can tell it from pneumonia caused by other diseases, like seasonal influenza; the accuracy may vary with the skill of the doctor reading the scan.

WILL WE EVENTUALLY GET MORE ACCURATE FIGURES?

Quite possibly.

Right now, labs are testing for the virus itself, and viruses can be hard to detect. What is often easier to identify is the immune system's own response.

When a patient contracts an infection, the body produces antibodies to it — proteins in the blood that recognize a particular pathogen and trigger an immune system attack on it. Labs around the world are working to develop a test for antibodies to the new coronavirus, but none is available yet.

It could be tricky.

There are several strains of coronavirus in humans, including ones that cause common colds, SARS and MERS. Antibodies to the new virus may be hard to distinguish from the antibodies people already have to other coronaviruses.

In any case, it can take days or weeks before a patient tests positive for antibodies to a new infection, so the test may not be useful in diagnosing current illnesses.

So while an effective antibody test may produce a fairly comprehensive picture of an outbreak, that picture will lag a bit behind the reality.

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U.S. SUPPORTS AID TO NORTH KOREA FOR FIGHTING THE CORONAVIRUS The North has reported no cases of the virus, but relief groups say it is woefully unprepared to deal with an outbreak.

By Choe Sang-Hun | Published Feb. 14, 2020, 2:43 a.m. ET | New York Times | Posted February 14, 2020 |

SEOUL, South Korea — The United States said it would approve humanitarian assistance to North Korea to help international aid agencies fight the coronavirus there, amid fears that the impoverished country may be hiding an outbreak.

North Korea has not reported any cases of the new coronavirus. But in the past week, some South Korean news reports, citing unnamed sources within the secretive North, said there had been deaths that were suspected to be related to the virus. The reports could not be confirmed.

North Korea shares a 930-mile border with China, where the coronavirus emerged. It has since spread to numerous countries; more than 1,300 deaths have been reported, almost all of them in China.

North Korea has taken aggressive steps to keep the virus out, including suspending all flights and trains to and from China. But the border has long been porous for smugglers, who ferry goods across the shallow river frontier that separates the two countries.

North Korea’s public health system is dysfunctional, and the travel restrictions have made it harder for the North to buy or smuggle medicine, goods or other supplies from China. Relief organizations have complained that American-led international sanctions against the North, imposed because of its nuclear weapons program, have prevented them from providing aid quickly.

This week, the Red Cross called for a sanctions exemption that would let it transfer money to its office in North Korea, describing it as “a lifesaving intervention.” It cited an urgent need for personal protective gear and testing kits to prepare for a possible outbreak in the North.

The United States has also expressed alarm, and it said on Thursday that it would not stand in the way of such aid.

“The United States is deeply concerned about the vulnerability of the North Korean people to a coronavirus outbreak,” Morgan Ortagus, a State Department spokeswoman, said in a statement. She added that Washington encouraged American and international aid groups to “counter and contain the spread of coronavirus” in the North.

“The United States is ready and prepared to expeditiously facilitate the approval of assistance from these organizations,” she said.

So far, North Korea has said nothing about how many people it may have quarantined or tested for the virus. But it is clearly taking the threat seriously, having suspended international tourism and, more recently, extended the quarantine period for people with coronavirus symptoms, from 14 days to 30 days.

Its state media has carried photos of mask-wearing officials holding emergency meetings at disease-control centers and disinfecting ports and train stations. The North also asked South Korean officials to vacate a joint liaison office in the North Korean city of Kaesong as a precaution against the virus.

Earlier this month, state media said health officials had stepped up inspections on “all routes leading to the capital city,” Pyongyang, which is home to North Korea’s elite, including the top leader, Kim Jong-un. It said the authorities were requiring all people passing through Pyongyang’s main train station to wear masks.

The United States has also expressed alarm, and it said on Thursday that it would not stand in the way of such aid.

“The United States is ready and prepared to expeditiously facilitate the approval of assistance from these organizations,” she said.

Amid the many signs that North Korea fears an outbreak, its state media has reported no public appearances by Mr. Kim since he watched a concert in Pyongyang a few weeks ago.

Liberty Post Korea, a Seoul-based website run by a North Korean defector, reported last week that 4,000 North Koreans had been placed under special monitoring for symptoms in one northern province bordering China, and that 720 had been quarantined in hospitals. The report quoted an unidentified source in the North and could not be independently verified.

Daily NK, another Seoul-based website that relies on anonymous sources inside the North, reported last week that five people had died in hospitals in another northern province after suffering from fevers, and that people there had speculated that they died from the coronavirus.

As North Korea shut its ports and borders to foreign goods and summoned back officials who had been earning hard currency in China, quarantining them on the border, both commodity prices and exchange rates have begun rising in some northern towns, Daily NK said. North Korea’s military has also been smuggling in large quantities of South Korean face masks through China, it said.

Kim Seung-eun, a Christian pastor and human rights activist in South Korea who works with informants inside the North, said on Friday that he had not heard of any deaths from the coronavirus in the country.

He said the North Korean authorities had drastically stepped up border controls, even ordering guards to fire at those attempting to cross the border illegally. That draconian measure has made it impossible for groups like his to smuggle refugees out of North Korea, he said.

“North Korea has to take such an extreme step because their medical infrastructure is so bad that if an epidemic breaks out, it could run out of control,” Mr. Kim said.

The coronavirus emerged as North Korea seemed to be retreating from a period of relative openness, with the diplomacy between Kim Jong-un and President Trump having produced no concrete agreements on ending the North’s nuclear arms program or the international sanctions. In recent months, North Korea has opened resort towns in hopes of attracting Chinese visitors and badly needed tourist cash. But the coronavirus has halted that effort.

Mr. Kim, the pastor, said the prolonged border shutdown had already caused hardship for North Koreans who rely on trading and smuggling for a living. With goods smuggled from China getting more expensive, traders have begun hoarding commodities in the expectation of further price increases, he said.

Mr. Kim reported no civil disturbances but said the disruptions in border trade could hurt the national economy. More than 90 percent of North Korea’s official external trade goes through China.

“North Korea is under increasing stress because of the coronavirus outbreak in China,” said Leif-Eric Easley, a professor in the international studies division at Ewha Womans University in Seoul. “The revenue stream Kim was anticipating from tourism is running dry and the informal economy is suffering from draconian border and travel restrictions.”

“North Korea may be on lockdown now, but it will soon be in need of economic concessions,” he added.

That raises the possibility that Pyongyang could return to diplomacy — or resume weapons tests to strengthen its negotiating hand, analysts said.

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Coronavirus ‘Hits All the Hot Buttons’ for How We Misjudge Risk

Psychologists say that differing responses to coronavirus and the flu illustrate our shortcomings when it comes to evaluating danger.

By Max Fisher | Published Feb. 13, 2020Updated Feb. 14, 2020, 6:31 a.m. ET | New York Times | Posted February 14, 2020 |

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Shortly after the University of Washington announced that the school’s fourth suspected case of the new coronavirus had turned out negative, two professors, one of public policy and the other of public health, held a small dinner for students and faculty members.

Like everywhere else on campus, and in much of the world, the coronavirus was all anybody could talk about.

But one of the attendees, a public health student, had had enough. Exasperated, she rattled off a set of statistics.

The virus had killed about 1,100 worldwide and infected around a dozen in the United States. Alarming, but a much more common illness, influenza, kills about 400,000 people every year, including 34,200 Americans last flu season and 61,099 the year before.

There remains deep uncertainty about the new coronavirus' mortality rate, with the high-end estimate that it is up to 20 times that of the flu, but some estimates go as low as 0.16 percent for those affected outside of China’s overwhelmed Hubei province. About on par with the flu.

Wasn’t there something strange, the student asked, about the extreme disparity in public reactions?

Ann Bostrom, the dinner’s public policy co-host, laughed when she recounted the evening. The student was right about the viruses, but not about people, said Dr. Bostrom, who is an expert on the psychology of how humans evaluate risk.

While the metrics of public health might put the flu alongside or even ahead of the new coronavirus for sheer deadliness, she said, the mind has its own ways of measuring danger. And the new coronavirus disease, named COVID-19 hits nearly every cognitive trigger we have.

That explains the GLOBAL WAVE of ANXIETY.

Of course, it is far from irrational to feel some fear about the coronavirus outbreak tearing through China and beyond.

But there is a lesson, psychologists and public health experts say, in the near-terror that the virus induces, even as serious threats like the flu receive little more than a shrug. It illustrates the unconscious biases in how human beings think about risk, as well as the impulses that often guide our responses — sometimes with serious consequences.

How Our Brains Evaluate Threat

Researchers found that people use a set of mental shortcuts for measuring danger. And they tend to do it unconsciously, meaning that instinct can play a much larger role than they realize.

The world is full of risks, big and small. Ideally, these shortcuts help people figure out which ones to worry about and which to disregard. But they can be imperfect.

The coronavirus may be a case in point.

“This hits all the hot buttons that lead to heightened risk perception,” said Paul Slovic, a University of Oregon psychologist who helped pioneer modern risk psychology.

When you encounter a potential risk, your brain does a quick search for past experiences with it. If it can easily pull up multiple alarming memories, then your brain concludes the danger is high. But it often fails to assess whether those memories are truly representative.

A classic example is airplane crashes.

If two happen in quick succession, flying suddenly feels scarier — even if your conscious mind knows that those crashes are a statistical aberration with little bearing on the safety of your next flight. But if you then take a few flights and nothing goes wrong, your brain will most likely start telling you again that flying is safe.

When it comes to the coronavirus, Dr. Slovic said, it’s as if people are experiencing one report after another of planes crashing.

“We’re hearing about the fatalities,” he said. “We’re not hearing about the 98 or so percent of people who are recovering from it and may have had mild cases.”

That tendency can cut in both directions, leading not to undue alarm but undue complacency. Though flu kills tens of thousands of Americans every year, most peoples’ experiences with it are relatively mundane.

Being told how dangerous flu is does little to change this, studies find. The brain’s risk assessment approach simply overwhelms rational calculation — a source of endless consternation to health officials trying to raise flu vaccination rates.

“We’re conditioned by our experiences,” Dr. Slovic said. “But experience can mislead us to be too comfortable with things.”

Biases, Shortcuts and Gut Instincts

The coronavirus also taps into other psychological shortcuts for assessing risk.

One involves novelty: We are conditioned to focus heavily on new threats, looking for any cause for alarm. This can lead us to obsess over the scariest reports and worst-case scenarios, making the danger seem bigger still.

Maybe the MOST POWERFUL SHORTCUT of all is EMOTION.

Assessing the danger posed by the coronavirus is extraordinarily difficult; even scientists are unsure. But our brains act as if they have an easier way: They translate gut emotional reactions into what we believe are reasoned conclusions, even if hard data tells us otherwise.

“The world in our heads is not a precise replica of reality,” Daniel Kahneman, a Nobel Prize-winning economist, wrote in a 2011 book. “Our expectations about the frequency of events are distorted by the prevalence and emotional intensity of the messages to which we are exposed.”

In extreme cases, this can lead to a “crowding-out effect,” Dr. Bostrom said, as our emotional impulses overwhelm our cognitive faculties. The coronavirus hits a number of those triggers, often quite hard.

ONE IS DREAD.

If a risk seems especially painful or disturbing, people tend to raise their estimate of how likely it is to happen to them. Reports on the coronavirus often feature upsetting imagery: unhygienic food markets, city-scale lockdowns and overcrowded hospitals.

Another trigger is a threat that is not fully understood. The less known it is, the more people may fear it, and overestimate its threat.

Threats that feel out of control, like a runaway disease outbreak, prompt a similar response, leading people to seek ways to reimpose control, for instance by hoarding supplies.

Risks that we take on voluntarily, or that at least feel voluntary, are often seen as less dangerous than they really are. One study found that people will raise their threshold for the amount of danger they are willing to take on by a factor of one thousand if they see the risk as voluntary.

If that number sounds high, consider that driving, a danger most take on voluntarily, kills over 40,000 Americans every year. But terrorism, a threat imposed on us, kills fewer than 100.

There are countless rational reasons that terrorism provokes a sharper response than traffic deaths. The same goes for a fast-spreading and little-understood outbreak versus the familiar flu.

And that is exactly the point, psychologists say.

“All of these things play on our feelings,” Dr. Slovic said. “And that’s the representation of threat for us. Not the statistics of risk, but the feelings of risk.”

Making Choices

All those emotions can have real consequences.

Consider the response to the partial meltdown of the nuclear plant at Three Mile Island, in Pennsylvania, in 1979. Though the incident caused no deaths, it led to public demand to turn from nuclear power to fossil fuels whose impact on air quality, alone, is thought to cause thousands of premature deaths every year.

That calculus confounded old-school economists, who saw it as irrational. One leading nuclear power expert called it “insane.”

But it also helped give rise to new psychological models for how people measure risk.

“Our feelings don’t do arithmetic very well,” Dr. Slovic said.

That can be especially true when judging low-probability, high-risk threats like nuclear war, terrorism — or dying from the coronavirus or the flu.

Our minds tend to either “round down” the probability to “basically zero” and we underreact, Dr. Slovic said. Or we focus on the worst-case outcome, he said, which “gives us a strong feeling, so we overreact.”

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Types of Data Science Statistics vs Data Science

“A data scientist is someone who is better at statistics than any software engineer and better at software engineering than any statistician.”

A very complex mess that disrupts the minds of good businessmen, students and many others. Many people are thrown into both aspects because they have the same qualities and the same function. Therefore, to remove the confusion of this word, this blog will help to separate data and data.

Data lightning is usually a matter of learning from data, which is a matter of data. Data power is generally called the evolution of data, work-based and calculated.

Data science vs statistics are conditions for a narrow approach to data science, and data has boundary ideas that carry the original. To develop some analyst perspective, this white paper supports the main tent perspective on data research. We therefore analyze how development methods associated with data research today identify the current measurement index.

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Statistics:

Word numbers are defined by the American Statistical Association (ASA), which defines the uncertainty of large data as lightning that learns, takes steps, communicates and controls. But this definition is not perfect, and most statisticians disagree with this definition. This is the starting point for difficult genetics. It seems to be a set of definitions provided on the front page of Markward (1987) and Wild (1994), by Chambers (1993), "The Beaver Statistics", "The Beaver Statistics", "The Wide Fielder", by Brown and Case (2009) and "The Wide Fielder", and Han and Dosoyanaka (2012)

There are two basic ideas for statistics: "fluctuations and uncertainty." There are many problems in our daily lives where results are uncertain in the electricity market. Similarly, uncertainty can be understood in two types, for example.

Uncertainty occurs, but the outcome of the problem has not yet been defined.

For example, we don't know if the weather is good tomorrow.

This is another form of uncertainty because the results have already been defined, but we do not know.

For example, you don't know if you have passed a competition test

There are several types of Statistics:

Analysis of variance

Kurtosis

Skewness

Regression analysis

Variance

Mean

Data Science:

Data science is an object that provides systematic, logical and meaningful information that is used in complex data and large amounts of data. In other words, data lightning is a study of information that is derived from the information described, and can be converted into a valuable instrument of business and IT strategy.

Drilling all the large unorganised and structured data to know the model can help to improve system control and efficiency, cost, identify new market opportunities and improve the organization's ambitious power.

Data visual programming combines skill, domain skills and statistical and mathematical data to extract the logical forms of data. Data scientists set up artificial intelligence (AI) systems that work for the human intelligence requirement without using other functions, videos, images, audio and machine learning algorithms. These systems can help entrepreneurs to increase their business value.

Nate Silver was named as a statistician, familiar with the statistics. He and many other statisticians argue that data science is another statistical name, not a new field in data analysis.

Some argue that data is different from the data-specific data because it focuses only on digital data-specific technologies and problems. Some people say that data power is not an essential part of the data.

In other words, David Donohoe says that data is similar to data based on the size of a data set or the use of computing, and is the foundation of data science programs that mislead analysis and statistical training with multiple product details. Therefore, it describes data data as areas affected by traditional data.

Types of Data Science

Data Engineers

Actuarial Scientist

Mathematician

Software Programming Analysts.

Statistician

Business Analytic Practitioners

Machine Learning Scientists

Comparison of Data Science vs Statistics

Title

Data science

Statistics

Concept

1. It uses advanced statistics and mathematics to obtain current data from big data.

2. It Supports scientific computing techniques.

3. A large-scale development which includes programming, knowledge of business models, trends, and more.

4. It Includes Business models, machine learning and different analytics processes.

1. It uses different statistics algorithms and functions on kits of data to find values for the current problem.

2. It is the science of data.

3. statistics use to rank or measure an attribute

Meaning

1. It fully Extracts the insight information from structured data or unstructured data.

2. An interdisciplinary field of scientific methods.

3. It is the same as data mining algorithms and processes and systems use.

1. Designs data gathering, analysis, and representation for more evaluations.

2. It is the branch of MathematicsIt presents the several ways in designing data.

3. Implement programs for designing experiments

Application areas

1. Finance

2. Engineering, Manufacturing

3. Market analysis

4. Health care system etc.

1.Astronomy

2. Psychology

3. Industry

4. Biology and physical sciences

5. Economics, population studies

6. Commerce and trade etc.

Basis of Formation

1. It Helps in decision making

2. To resolve data associated problems

3. Design huge data for analysis towards understanding courses, patterns, styles and business execution

1. It Helps in decision making

2. Design data in the kind of Graphs, charts, tables

3. Understand techniques in data analysis

4. To create and express real-world problems based on data

Some Basic comparison of Statistics vs Data Science on the basis of work

Title

Data science

statistics

Mode

Consultative

Reactive

Inputs

A Business problems

Data file, Hypothesis

Data Size

Gigabytes

Kilobytes

Nouns

Data Visualization

Tables

Output

Data App/ data product

Report

Star

Hilary MasonNate Silver

G.E.P BoxTrevor Hastie

Tools

R, Python, Hadoop, Linux, Awk

SAS, Mainframe

Data

Distributed, Messy, Unstructured

Pre-Prepared, Clean

Works

In team

solo

Focus

Prediction(what)

Interference(Why)

Latency

Seconds

Weeks

Conclusion:

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