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Every morning, Coronavirus Watch gives you one single, well-organized page of links to the best journalism, analysis, and practical resources to help you navigate the current global crisis. This site is updated every night by the curation team at AccuRadio. If you find it valuable, we hope you’ll make a visit a key part of your morning routine!
What you’ll find on this website:
Note that we have recently added a new analysis of Covid-19 cases and deaths per country on a population-adjusted basis at the very bottom of this page.
Yesterday (Thu. 4/15), documented Covid-19 cases to date globally surpassed over 2 million people, an increase of 98,936 persons; that means that the total to date again grew 4% yesterday. Both the U.S. overall and New York State in particular saw mild to moderate declines in both cases and deaths, but Canada saw a record number of new cases (1,727) and a huge leap in new deaths (to 185). In fact, Canada’s 18% one-day increase in total deaths was the highest of all major countries.
For a look at which U.S. states and which countries have been most affected on a per-capita basis (using data through 4/13), scroll to bottom of this page (or click the “Data by country and U.S. state” link above). (Data source: Worldometers.info.)
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Here are some ways you could be of service to others during this shared time of crisis:
- Sew cloth face masks to donate to your friends and neighbors.
- Track down N95 face masks and deliver them to local hospitals.
- Check in with neighbors who are living alone — even if you don’t know them well! — to see how they’re doing and if they need any help.
- Organize a Teddy Bear Hunt (click link for details) for local children.
- Call or write your elected representatives in Congress and urge them to speed up stimulus payments to the most-needy.
- Order a take-out or delivery meal from one of your favorite local restaurants to help them stay in business.
- Buy a gift card, for future use, from one of your favorite local shops.
- Teach a senior citizen or a person suffering from loneliness how to use video chat (e.g., FaceTime, Alexa, Zoom, or Skype video).
- If you have an RV (recreational vehicle), lend it to a medical professional who fears sleeping at home because he or she might expose their family to the virus.
- Donate blood. The need is high, and blood donation centers are open throughout the country, practicing safe distancing and sanitized donation practices.
Also, see some excellent suggestions (including non-profits that need donations) from The Washington Post here. Have other suggestions? Please share them here! (Reader suggestions so far have included teaching the non-tech-savvy how to order groceries online and how to pay bills online…)
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The following table shows U.S. states and territories ranked not by total cases (where states with large populations largely top the list), but rather by total cases per million residents, which we believe is a far more meaningful number.
Using data through Monday, April 13th, the table below shows the state of New York has the highest number of Covid-19 cases to date per million state residents (9,973, which is up from 8,232 four days earlier), but that the count of total cases grew only 3% on April 13th. New York has also has seen the most deaths to date per million residents (513, which is up from 360 four days earlier), with that number having grown 7% on April 13th.
Note that California, while in the news regularly due to its large population, ranks well below the national average in both cases and deaths per million residents. (Data source Worldometers.info/coronavirus.)
How countries rank (detailed version)
This table of world countries is sorted in descending order of total Covid-19 cases identified to date (see the column under “CASES” labeled “Total cases”). Note that while the U.S. ranks #1 in total cases, it only ranks #14 in terms of total cases per million population (see the adjacent column labeled “Total cases/1M pop”). Similarly, the U.S. ranks #1 in total identified deaths to date, but it’s only #13 in terms of deaths per million population.
Conclusion: It isn’t fair to say, as some have been saying, that the U.S. has “the world’s worst outbreak” of Covid-19 — at least not on a population-adjusted basis.
That said, there is cause for concern in that the U.S.’s percentage growth in deaths yesterday (see the column under “DEATHS” labeled “Total deaths/1M pop”) was 10% and Canada’s was 16% — higher than any of the other top countries in this ranker. (Math note: A consistent 10% means that a count will double every week; a consistent 15% means that a count will double every five days.)
Another math note: Although the White House task force has been bragging about the number of U.S. tests that have been conducted to date, as a percentage of the population the U.S. ranks only in 35th place among countries, with only .9% of its population having been tested so far.
Data source: Worldometers.info, using data through April 14th.
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