COVID-19 day 116 : 📈 1,443,397 cases; 87,568 deaths : 15 May 2020
Which US state has the highest per capita case rate for COVID-19? Which country? A "just the numbers” late edition
It’s day 116 since the first case of coronavirus disease was announced in the United States. This is a “just the numbers” late edition*. However, I now have per capita data for every country/region in the WHO reports.
🦠Friday, Johns Hopkins reported 1,443,397 (1,417,889) cases and 87,568 (85,906) deaths in the US, an increase of 1.80% and 1.93%, respectively, since Thursday. A week ago, the daily numbers increased by 2.15% and 2.00%, respectively.
The seven-day average: 22,781 (22,988) cases and 1,484 (1,462) deaths
Percent of cases leading to death: 6.07% (6.06%).
Today’s case rate is 436.07 per 100,000; the death rate, 26.46 per 100,000.
One week ago, the case rate was 387.89 per 100,000; the death rate, 23.32 per 100,000.
Note: numbers in (.) are from the prior day and are provided for context. I include the seven-day average because dailies vary so much in the course of a week, particularly over a weekend.
* It was a hard week for the family and last night my body said nope. Health but not COVID-related.
Sections (no jump links, sorry!)
1, Around the country; 2, Around the world; 3, Case count; 4, What you can do and resources
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⓵ Around the country
As the chart below makes clear, early federal government focus on people returning from China ignored the primary entry point in the United States from abroad: New York City.
“Knowing the number of flights coming into New York from Italy, it was like watching a horrible train wreck in slow motion,” said Adriana Heguy, director of the Genome Technology Center at New York University’s Grossman School of Medicine.
… research indicates that a wave of infections swept from New York City through much of the country before the city began setting social distancing limits to stop the growth. That helped to fuel outbreaks in Louisiana, Texas, Arizona and as far away as the West Coast.
Per capita case data, 15 March 2020
US median data (50 states + DC): 233.4 cases and 9.39 deaths per 100,000.
⓶ Around the world
You might expect there to be a strong correlation between cases per capita and deaths per capita. This chart discourages that line of thinking.
Per capita case data, 15 March 2020.
The average global data (which include cruise ships): 58.36 cases/100,000 and 3.95 deaths/100,000.
⓷ Case count
There is a lag between being contagious and showing symptoms, between having a test and getting its results. The virus was not created in a lab and the weight of evidence is it was not released intentionally. Although early reports tied the outbreak to a seafood (“wet”) market in Wuhan, China, analyses of genomic data in January suggested that the virus might have developed elsewhere.
🌎 15 May
Globally: 4 338 658 cases (90 269 - new ) with 297 119 deaths (5 073 - new )
The Americas: 1 864 468 cases (44 915 - new) with 111 934 deaths (2 813 - new)
Johns Hopkins interactive dashboard (11.00 pm Pacific)
Global confirmed: 4,543,447 (4,444,670 - yesterday)
Total deaths: 307,715 (302,493 - yesterday)
Recovered: 1,637,250 (1,588,858 - yesterday)
🇺🇸 15 May
CDC: 1,412,121 (27,191 new) cases and 85,990 (2,043 new) deaths
Johns Hopkins*: 1,443,397 (1,417,889) cases and 87,568 (85,906) deaths
State data*: 1,4336,96 (1,407,507 (1,382,304) identified cases and 81,729 (80,084) deaths
Total tested (US, Johns Hopkins): 10,720,185 (10,341,775)
View infographic and data online: total cases and cases and deaths/100,000.
* Johns Hopkins data, ~11.00 pm Pacific.
State data include DC, Guam, the Northern Mariana Islands, Puerto Rico and the US Virgin Islands
⓸ What you can do
Stay home as much as possible, period.
Digestive problems may be a symptom.
Resources
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