Still no states reporting record high new cases of COVID, according to the Johns Hopkins site, and only three states are out of the blue but way below record levels). On the World Map the US is reporting fewer than 200,000 new cases per day, the lowest since before the holidays. And we’re mingling with other countries, now, like Germany, Russia, France, and Brazil.
| Case count update as of | 2/11/2022 | 03:16 GMT |
|---|---|---|
| Worldwide: | ||
| Total cases | 406,370,212 | |
| Dead | 5,808,759 | |
| Recovered | 326,117,582 | |
| In the US: | ||
| Total cases | 79,052,681 | |
| Dead | 939,427 | |
| Recovered | 49,435,538 | |
| Differences since yesterday: | ||
| Worldwide: | ||
| Total cases | 2,714,534 | |
| Dead | 12,892 | |
| Recovered | 2,413,253 | |
| In the US: | ||
| Total cases | 228,288 | |
| Dead | 3,505 | |
| Recovered | 218,184 | |
| Yesterday’s Numbers | ||
| Worldwide: | ||
| Total cases | 403,655,678 | |
| Dead | 5,795,867 | |
| Recovered | 323,704,329 | |
| In the US: | ||
| Total cases | 78,824,393 | |
| Dead | 935,922 | |
| Recovered | 49,217,354 |
Dang! Good news all around
On the Johns Hopkins Coronavirus map all states are in the blue, meaning no increasing trends in new reported Coronavirus cases. No states are anywhere near having new record highs of daily reported COVID cases. That blip from the beginning of January (in most of the country) is receding off to one side like a blip on an EKG monitor.
The US as a whole is still decreasing in the number of daily reported cases We’re now down below 200,000 cases per day. We are actually lower in full numbers of (7-day averaged) reported daily cases than Germany (which is, I guess, bad news for Germany, in which the case numbers seem to still be rising).
The $1.9 million in pandemic aid would have gone a long way in Cochise County, a rural borderland where a winter of infections swamped hospitals. There was money for tracking cases. Testing in remote ranching towns. Funds fortifying the Arizona county’s strained health department.
But the county’s Republican-controlled board of supervisors stunned many residents and health care workers by voting last month to reject the federal money, becoming one of the rare places in America to turn down Covid-19 assistance from Washington.
“We’re done,” said Peggy Judd, one of two Republican supervisors who voted against accepting the money. “We’re treating it like the common cold.”
The vote transformed what would usually be a rote line on a government agenda into an emotional flashpoint in this county of 125,000 people where life is shaped by the southwestern border, rhythms of ranching and, now, a pandemic that has killed 522 residents.
To conservatives, rejecting the money felt like a high-desert declaration of independence, even if their rural county does rely on a host of other federal spending and jobs provided by the Fort Huachuca Army base.
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My bold.
We could end this whole thing right now if Fauci, the CDC, and Joe Biden would just show some leadership and declare that COVID is officially the same as the common cold. <Bangs gavel!> Done!
Well, it looks like the US will hit 1 million dead in official stats by mid-March. Will it be a time to seriously reflect on the past two years and the systemic social and political failures that underlie that number being so high or, given that vaccines etc seem to be having some effect, will everyone treat it as having having breasted the tape and got to the end and already mentally consigned 2020-21 to history?
The US remains 18th globally in fatalities at 2814 deaths per million, while the global average is 750, so about 4 times as deadly [the usual reporting caveats aside]. Of those 17 countries with a higher death toll, a dozen are in a contiguous cluster in the Balkans-Eastern Europe.
| Case count update as of | 2/12/2022 | 04:12 GMT |
|---|---|---|
| Worldwide: | ||
| Total cases | 408,921,759 | |
| Dead | 5,820,711 | |
| Recovered | 328,800,903 | |
| In the US: | ||
| Total cases | 79,228,628 | |
| Dead | 942,006 | |
| Recovered | 49,626,604 | |
| Differences since yesterday: | ||
| Worldwide: | ||
| Total cases | 2,551,547 | |
| Dead | 11,952 | |
| Recovered | 2,683,321 | |
| In the US: | ||
| Total cases | 175,947 | |
| Dead | 2,579 | |
| Recovered | 191,066 | |
| Yesterday’s Numbers | ||
| Worldwide: | ||
| Total cases | 406,370,212 | |
| Dead | 5,808,759 | |
| Recovered | 326,117,582 | |
| In the US: | ||
| Total cases | 79,052,681 | |
| Dead | 939,427 | |
| Recovered | 49,435,538 |
What source are you looking at? Not challenging you, but i might want to go poke around it.
The data comes from Worldometers’ covid-19 page. I use the global data table.
A few tips - its worth clicking the ‘Yesterday’ and ‘2 days ago’ tabs near the top left corner - as the current day’s numbers are still being compiled, and there always seems to be some late adjustment of the numbers.
Just click on any top row heading to get an ordered list. I’ve found the most meaningful comparison is Deaths / Million population, although for small countries - eg San Marino, Gibraltar - two sick people immediately puts them into the covid Premier League, so maybe ignore any country with less than half a million people.
Click on the country name to get country-specific data.
Not intending to hijack, but where is @Snowboarder_Bo ? The suspension should have been over with a week ago.
No idea. I don’t think he’s been back. I only started because I wasn’t sure he’d be back. If he does return, I will happily let him take over again.
Very precipitous drop between yesterday and today. I’m hoping that’s good news.
| Case count update as of | 2/13/2022 | 03:28 GMT |
|---|---|---|
| Worldwide: | ||
| Total cases | 410,746,161 | |
| Dead | 5,828,716 | |
| Recovered | 330,862,527 | |
| In the US: | ||
| Total cases | 79,293,924 | |
| Dead | 942,944 | |
| Recovered | 49,759,394 | |
| Differences since yesterday: | ||
| Worldwide: | ||
| Total cases | 1,824,402 | |
| Dead | 8,005 | |
| Recovered | 2,061,624 | |
| In the US: | ||
| Total cases | 65,296 | |
| Dead | 938 | |
| Recovered | 132,790 | |
| Yesterday’s Numbers: | ||
| Worldwide: | ||
| Total cases | 408,921,759 | |
| Dead | 5,820,711 | |
| Recovered | 328,800,903 | |
| In the US: | ||
| Total cases | 79,228,628 | |
| Dead | 942,006 | |
| Recovered | 49,626,604 |
Things do seem to be trending downward, but the precipitous drop is almost certainly because of the weekend. Many places seem to only report cases and deaths on weekdays. If you look at the graph on the worldometer site you can see the that every 5 days there’s a dramatic “decline” in cases and deaths over the weekend, then it shoots back up on Monday.
Ah, yes, I’d forgotten about that.
I don’t know if this has been posted: link to the Cochrane webpage, which is a British not-for-profit clearing house on medical information, desigened to get the most accurate info out to the public. They have a special COVID page:
The wife will make her first trip to Thailand in 2-1/2 years next week. The way it’s set up now since she’s fully vaccinated with a booster, she has to spend the first night in an approved hotel, take a Covid test, and if it shows negative, she can leave the next day. Then she has to return to the same hotel to spend her fifth night and take another Covid test.
There’s been a small Covid scare among her family though. After a family get-together almost three weeks ago, her brother’s wife’s sister tested positive. The rest of the family has been testing negative ever since, but out of an abundance of caution, they’re going to pay for my wife to spend nights two through four at the hotel. If they’re all still negative after her fifth night, then she’ll stay with them.
| Case count update as of | 2/14/2022 | 01:54 GMT |
|---|---|---|
| Worldwide: | ||
| Total cases | 412,171,667 | |
| Dead | 5,834,095 | |
| Recovered | 332,703,940 | |
| In the US: | ||
| Total cases | 79,325,576 | |
| Dead | 943,411 | |
| Recovered | 49,836,893 | |
| Differences since yesterday: | ||
| Worldwide: | ||
| Total cases | 1,425,506 | |
| Dead | 5,379 | |
| Recovered | 1,841,413 | |
| In the US: | ||
| Total cases | 31,652 | |
| Dead | 467 | |
| Recovered | 77,499 | |
| Yesterday’s Numbers | 2/13/2022 | 03:28 GMT |
| Worldwide: | ||
| Total cases | 410,746,161 | |
| Dead | 5,828,716 | |
| Recovered | 330,862,527 | |
| In the US: | ||
| Total cases | 79,293,924 | |
| Dead | 942,944 | |
| Recovered | 49,759,394 |
Some people are fond of saying that Covid-19 is like the flu. There is some strong evidence that it’s more like syphilis. So says a study of US veterans.
Interesting. I just got back from Ghana. Their procedure is that you get a test in the airport immediately upon landing. The results come back in about 30 mins. If you are negative, you are good to enter without further restriction. I’m not sure what happens if you test positive.
You have to get a same day negative test to come back to the United States. If you fail (which happened to a friend) you have to stay five days and get tested again.
All US states are in the blue om the Johns Hopkins site, indicating no rising trends on daily reported COVID cases, although I do have to note that Maine experienced a new record high in Daily Reported COVID Cases (7-day average) on Friday, February 11, with 1114 cases. That’s an outlier – all the other states experienced their peaks a week or more ago, most of them over a month ago.
Globally, the US is doing much better. We’;re down well below 200,000 cases daily, and our seven-day averaged daily case numbers are exceeded by those of Russia, France, Germany, and Brazil – the first time I can recall that the US hasn’t been in first or second place since the COVID pandemic started almost two years ago (except for a brief period last July).
Where do you stay? Who pays for it?