Covid-2019 - 2020-07-16
Date:
Friday, July 17, 2020
Summary:
A new high for daily tests in the US at 831,000, and the positivity rate is stable in the mid-8's. The US case-fatality rate continues to fall, among the lowest in the world, and a small fraction of Europe's hard-cases Italy, Spain, France and the UK -- even better than EU top-performer Germany. Global new cases make a new high at 256,000, more than three times China's cumulative cases. Yet the economies of the world continue to re-open, treating these large numbers with less panic than they used to treat larger ones.