Last week, the World Health Organization updated the classification of COVID-19 from an epidemic to a pandemic, seeing headlines around the world increasingly dominated by the spread of the virus, fatalities, government responses, and potential impacts on economies and societies. Today, John Hopkins University confirmed more than 200,000 cases worldwide, doubling in the past two weeks. Reports of transmission and fatalities have been regularly covered by the media, but interestingly, in reviewing news coverage, very few articles mention the numbers who have fully recovered, which upon writing, stood at over 83,000 patients.
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