Covid-2019 - 2020-08-03

New cases are suddenly collapsing almost everywhere, even Africa and Brazil, and in all four US sunbelt hotspot states (all of which now lead the US in declining case trend). Considering the diversity of public health response around the world and around the US and the synchrony of the case collapse, we reaffirm our view that the virus is on its own schedule that isn't much affected by what we do or don't do to try to control it.