COVID-19 day 117 : 📈 1,467,884 cases; 88,754 deaths : 16 May 2020
New visualizations, plus a closer look at Texas. Which country ranks at the top in per capita deaths? Hint: it's in Europe but not in headlines here. A "just the numbers” abbreviated weekend edition.
It’s day 117 since the first case of coronavirus disease was announced in the United States. I just discovered a U.S. states visualization that mirrors what the Financial Times does daily for countries.
A weekend abbreviated edition. Look for news summaries to return to your mailbox Monday morning!
🦠Saturday, Johns Hopkins reported 1,467,884 (1,443,397) cases and 88,754 (87,568) deaths in the US, an increase of 1.69% and 1.35%, respectively, since Friday. A week ago, the daily numbers increased by 2.65% and 2.02%, respectively. (I reported on Texas then, too.)
The seven-day average: 22,620 (22,781) cases and 1,423 (1,484) deaths
Percent of cases leading to death: 6.05% (6.07%).
Today’s case rate is 443.47 per 100,000; the death rate, 26.81 per 100,000.
One week ago, the case rate was 395.63 per 100,000; the death rate, 23.80 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.
🎦 Recommended viewing
In case you missed it, CNN has Saturday’s one-hour Graduate Together broadcast in bite-sized clips.
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
Texas, perhaps because of its physical and population size, remains a magnet for news organizations and headline writers.
And because Texas Gov. Greg Abbott (R) allowed the state stay-at-home order to expire on 30 April.
As the opening chart indicates, daily cases appear to be on an increase unrelated to vagaries common to daily reports (vagaries that have little to do with actual data).
This chart with a seven-day rolling average is a reminder that the steady increase in case numbers in Texas has been occurring for more than three weeks. However, the slope has increased in the past week.
The only thing clear about the death rate in Texas is that it is not trending down. However, the fact that there were two successive days with record deaths is cause for alarm.
⓶ Around the world
You are to be forgiven if you had no idea that Belgium was hit so hard by COVID-19. News organizations in Europe did report this but the case numbers (and population) were relatively small. So, drama won the headline day (as it is wont to do).
Where is Andorra, you might ask? It is an “independent principality situated between France and Spain in the Pyrenees mountains.” Again, small. Very small.
What I’ve not noted in this chart: which of these 20 countries have cases still on the rise. That would be Iran and Peru.
The average global data (which include cruise ships): 59.55 cases/100,000 and 4.01 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.
🌎 16 May
Globally: 4 425 485 cases (86 827 new) with 302 059 deaths (4 940 new)
The Americas: 1 909 483 cases (45 015 new) with 115 057 deaths (3 123 new)
Johns Hopkins interactive dashboard (11.00 pm Pacific)
Global confirmed: 4,635,830 (4,543,447 - yesterday)
Total deaths: 311,824 (307,715 - yesterday)
Recovered: 1,693,715 (1,637,250 - yesterday)
🇺🇸 16 May
CDC: 1,435,098 (22,977 new) cases and 87,315 (1,325 new) deaths
Johns Hopkins*: 1,467,884 (1,443,397) cases and 88,754 (87,568) deaths
State data*: 1,458,787 (1,4336,96 (1,407,507) identified cases and 83,015 (81,729) deaths
Total tested (US, Johns Hopkins): 11,077,179 (10,720,185)
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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