Africa passes Europe for new daily cases. In the US so-called "second wave" states, new cases are high but stable, and the case-fatality rate continues to fall.
Covid-2019
Covid-2019
Thursday, July 9, 2020
America keeps testing, and America keeps finding positives. But the test-positivity rate is stable, and days-to-double fatalities keeps extending everywhere but Arizona.
Covid-2019
Wednesday, July 8, 2020
New daily cases at a new high, in the US and world-wide. They're still probably undercounted, with so many asymptomatic ones. Yet case-fatality rates continue to fall. If there is a lagged effect here, so far so good.
Covid-2019
Tuesday, July 7, 2020
The paradoxical new normal of Covid-2019 continues -- new cases continue to "spike," "surge," "soar," "skyrocket" and other scary-sounding words beginning with "s". But mortalities continue to fall. By now, if they were going to rise, they would have.
Covid-2019
Monday, July 6, 2020
It continues to be a blessing that global fatalities are staying so low, even as reported cases continue to rise. Brazil leads yesterday's mortality count at only 602, with the US in fourth place at only 271.
Covid-2019
Sunday, July 5, 2020
The numbers are getting so big it's easy to lose context. So-called "second wave" states Florida and California are in the top five for new cases, but also in the top five for fewer new cases than the day before.
Covid-2019
Saturday, July 4, 2020
The four so-called "second wave" US states hang in there at last week's high levels of cases, with no alarming growth in fatalities except for Arizona. Test positivity rates are rising more, mostly, in other states now.
Covid-2019
Friday, July 3, 2020
New cases fall in four of the five so-called "second wave" US states. So far, all the new cases are simply not turning into fatalities.
Covid-2019
Thursday, July 2, 2020
New cases in the US reported above 50,000. But here, and everywhere else in the world, case-fatality rates are falling, and days-to-double-deaths are lengthening even in India.
Covid-2019
Wednesday, July 1, 2020
Poster-child "second wave" state Texas posts new high for new cases -- but also best in the US for new recoveries, and not even on the top-ten for hospitalizations or fatalities.