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(1) STATISTICS WATCH FOR FRIDAY 4/10/20
Yesterday, confirmed COVID-19 cases to date globally grew to 1,603,284 people, an increase of 85,234 persons — meaning that the total again grew 6% in just one day. (Good news: This is down from 8-9% per day at the end of last week.) In the U.S., new cases per day have have been holding at about 33,000 and deaths per day have been holding at just under 2,000 for the past three days. New York saw a very slight decline in daily deaths per day, although its number of cases per day went back up to Wednesday’s level.
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(6) HOW YOU CAN HELP OTHERS
Getting stir-crazy? Genuinely concerned about other people? (Want to earn Good Place points?) Want to set a good example for your kids?
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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One of the best ways you can support the small businesses in your local community is to order a take-out or delivery meal from one of your favorite local restaurants.
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(11) EXCLUSIVE ANALYSIS
How U.S. states rank on a PER CAPITA basis
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 Thursday, April 9th, the table below shows New York has the highest number of COVID-19 cases to date per million state residents (8.232, which is up from 6,724 three days earlier), and that the count of total cases grew 7% on April 6th. New York has also has seen the most deaths to date per million residents (360, which is up from 243 three days earlier), with that number having grown 13% on April 9th.
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 through 4/9/20; data source Worldometers.info/coronavirus.)
| Total cases/1M pop | April 9th increase | Total deaths/1M pop | April 9th increase | ||||
| New York | #1 | 8,232 | 7% | #1 | 360 | 13% | |
| New Jersey | #2 | 5,745 | 8% | #2 | 191 | 13% | |
| Louisiana | #3 | 3,920 | 7% | #3 | 151 | 8% | |
| Massachusetts | #4 | 2,773 | 13% | #6 | 74 | 16% | |
| Connecticut | #5 | 2,732 | 11% | #5 | 106 | 13% | |
| D.C. | #6 | 2,225 | 6% | #8 | 47 | 19% | |
| Michigan | #7 | 2,160 | 6% | #4 | 108 | 12% | |
| Rhode Island | #8 | 1,634 | 19% | #9 | 41 | 23% | |
| Pennsylvania | #9 | 1,450 | 11% | #15 | 28 | 15% | |
| Washington | #10 | 1,323 | 3% | #7 | 62 | 6% | |
| Illinois | #11 | 1,281 | 9% | #10 | 41 | 14% | |
| Delaware | #12 | 1,273 | 8% | #18 | 24 | 21% | |
| Colorado | #13 | 1,121 | 10% | #11 | 41 | 17% | |
| Georgia | #14 | 1,057 | 7% | #12 | 40 | 11% | |
| Maryland | #15 | 1,030 | 12% | #19 | 23 | 11% | |
| Vermont | #16 | 1,005 | 4% | #13 | 37 | 0% | |
| Indiana | #17 | 957 | 7% | #14 | 37 | 21% | |
| Nevada | #18 | 840 | 6% | #16 | 27 | 13% | |
| Florida | #19 | 817 | 7% | #22 | 18 | 15% | |
| Idaho | #20 | 802 | 10% | #28 | 14 | 33% | |
| Mississippi | #21 | 756 | 13% | #17 | 25 | 13% | |
| Tennessee | #22 | 697 | 6% | #29 | 14 | 19% | |
| Utah | #23 | 649 | 7% | #49 | 4 | 0% | |
| New Hampsh | #24 | 610 | 4% | #25 | 16 | 17% | |
| Alabama | #25 | 583 | 14% | #26 | 16 | 16% | |
| Missouri | #26 | 581 | 3% | #27 | 15 | 7% | |
| South Carolina | #27 | 563 | 9% | #30 | 14 | 6% | |
| South Dakota | #28 | 517 | 14% | #43 | 7 | 0% | |
| California | #29 | 510 | 6% | #31 | 14 | 12% | |
| Wisconsin | #30 | 499 | 5% | #21 | 19 | 8% | |
| Virginia | #31 | 480 | 11% | #33 | 13 | 45% | |
| Ohio | #32 | 473 | 7% | #23 | 18 | 10% | |
| New Mexico | #33 | 473 | 14% | #41 | 8 | 6% | |
| Arizona | #34 | 434 | 11% | #34 | 13 | 11% | |
| Oklahoma | #35 | 430 | 10% | #20 | 20 | 1% | |
| Maine | #36 | 420 | 4% | #35 | 12 | 14% | |
| Wyoming | #37 | 411 | 4% | #52 | 0 | 0% | |
| Texas | #38 | 410 | 14% | #42 | 8 | 14% | |
| Iowa | #39 | 405 | 11% | #38 | 9 | 7% | |
| Arkansas | #40 | 383 | 6% | #44 | 7 | 17% | |
| Kansas | #41 | 380 | 6% | #32 | 14 | 11% | |
| North Carolina | #42 | 376 | 7% | #45 | 7 | 19% | |
| North Dakota | #43 | 358 | 7% | #46 | 7 | 25% | |
| Montana | #44 | 340 | 7% | #48 | 6 | 0% | |
| Kentucky | #45 | 327 | 8% | #24 | 18 | 8% | |
| Oregon | #46 | 324 | 7% | #37 | 11 | 16% | |
| Alaska | #47 | 318 | 4% | #39 | 9 | 0% | |
| Hawaii | #48 | 311 | 2% | #50 | 4 | 20% | |
| Nebraska | #49 | 298 | 9% | #47 | 7 | 17% | |
| West Virginia | #50 | 286 | 8% | #51 | 3 | 25% | |
| Minnesota | #51 | 225 | 8% | #40 | 9 | 28% | |
| Puerto Rico | #52 | 202 | 10% | #36 | 12 | 67% | |
| Average | 1,416 | 8% | 50 | 13% |
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Priorities right now to slow the spread of COVID-19:
(1) We all need to be doing rigorous social distancing to help flatten the curve (i.e., reduce the coming strain on our hospital systems) — now including wearing cloth face masks (but save the “N95” medical-grade versions for health care workers!) when out in public.
(2) Major hotspots (e.g., NYC, New Orleans) urgently need more medical personnel, hospital rooms and beds, N95 face masks and other personal protection equipment (PPE), and, most importantly, ventilators.
(3) No one seems to be thinking about this, but we need to do what we can now to prevent this virus from spreading into poorer countries (in which social distancing in cities might be nearly impossible and hospitals are already under-resourced), where it could have a death toll in the tens of millions.