Credit VDU Blog
# 8603
While the style of the Saudi daily MERS announcements has certainly improved under the guidance of their new Minister of Health (after a good start) the substance of these reports remains erratic and frustrating.
As an example, yesterday the report indicated `1 case that has not displayed any symptoms’ that was not included in the case tally – a deviation from earlier counting protocols - that if maintained, quickly could skew future case counts.
And for at least a week, the relationship of infected `contacts of existing cases’ has not been disclosed, effectively preventing us from tracking HCW or nosocomial infection. On the plus side, we do seem to be getting more timely reporting of cases.
Making sense of all of this isn’t easy, but Dr. Ian Mackay remains undaunted, and continues producing terrific charts and excellent observations. Today he looks at recent case counts trends and an apparent rise in the proportion of fatal cases (PFC) from Saudi Arabia.
Monday, 12 May 2014
MERS-CoV detections and deaths: is the war on MERS making headway?
For a few days now its felt as though we are seeing a more deaths in each Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA) Ministry of Health (MOH) report, than we had been for a while. All very precise language there.
Currently there are about 161 fatalities among the 571 MERS-CoV detection. According to those numbers, 28.2% of people testing positive for MERS-CoV have died.
