It's Tier Tuesday so time for a weekly check of Coronavirus statistics. The main metric, average daily cases per 100,000 population, has continued to decline. A week ago it was 81,823. Today it stands at 58,986. This is not only a 28% decline in one week but a 93% decline from the peak of 805,062 on January 15. Figures are per New York Times ( Read more... )

I'm continuing with the tradition of "Tier Tuesday" in checking Coronavirus statistics once a week, on Tuesday. ...Today is actually Wednesday, of course. That's on purpose. The point of Tier Tuesday was that policymakers could review fully reported statistics from Monday. Some jurisdictions don't report on Saturday, and many don't reports on ( Read more... )

It's Tuesday* so it's time for my weekly check of Coronavirus statistics. ...Today is actually Wednesday, of course, but I'm going by the latest statistics reported as of Tuesday. The headline news, reflected in many actual headlines, is that the rate of new Covid-19 cases is way down over the past month. But don't let the simplistic headline fool ( Read more... )

It's "Tier Tuesday" as California reporters used to say when California had a Covid risk tier system and updated it every Tuesday. I like the weekly cadence for checking the latest Coronavirus statistics. It keeps me updated at a regular interval without the risk of "doomscrolling" by reading about Coronavirus infections, deaths, etc. too ( Read more... )

The Covid-19 new case rate has been dropping lately. A look over at The New York Times Coronavirus in the U.S. page shows that in a little over two weeks the daily new-case average has dropped by half ( Read more... )

One week ago the US hit a new record in the ongoing Coronavirus pandemic: over 1 million new cases reported in a single day. I noted at the time that the Jan. 3 tally of 1,018,935 (it's been adjusted upwards a tad since I published my Jan 4. blog) was a bit of a statistical anomaly; it was on a Monday following a holiday weekend. Some states don't ( Read more... )

The Coronavirus shattered another record yesterday (Jan. 3) as more than 1,000,000 new cases were reported in the US in a single day. If you follow any kind of news you've probably already seen/heard this reported multiple times. Tuesday's tally of 1,017,376 cases nearly doubles the previous one-day record of 585,013- set just 4 days earlier, on ( Read more... )

"It's not like March 2020," I've been seeing in numerous headlines about Coronavirus over the past 24 hours. The president even said it in a speech today. The point of the comparison is to reassure the public that 1) the risks of Coronavirus today aren't as bad as they were in March 2020, and that therefore 2) drastic measure such as shutdowns are ( Read more... )

It's in the news this evening that the US has passed 800,000 deaths from Coronavirus. I clicked through a few articles and went to one of my favorite data sources to learn more, and... it's not pretty. It's pretty sad, actually. The grim milestone of 800k dead is only the start of the sad story.

If I was going to distill this sad story into a one- ( Read more... )

Earlier this week the CDC added several more countries to its list of "Level 4: COVID-19 Very High" travel risk. Example coverage: CNN.com article 13 Sep 2021. This came two weeks after Canada and several European countries were moved from Level 2 to Level 3. CNN.com article 30 Aug 2021. The full, latest lists are available at Covid-19 Travel ( Read more... )