All right, time to look into #coronavirus updates.

Things are not good in many ways.

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Here's the latest global epidemic curve from @WHO .

Notice the huge swath from the Americas ("PAHO" = Pan American Health Organization).

https://www.who.int/docs/default-source/coronaviruse/situation-reports/20200724-covid-19-sitrep-186.pdf?sfvrsn=4da7b586_2

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Also India, whose infection rates just keeps building up.

"SEARO" = Regional Office for South-East Asia
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That national pattern is confirmed in the 91-DIVOC data by @profwade_ .

http://www.91-divoc.com/pages/covid-visualization/

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Death rates appear differently than infections.
America's deaths are rising, but more slowly than infections.

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Overall stats?

Global infections: 15,995,114
Deaths: 643,736

https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/ 

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Remember than many think these official stats are seriously undercounting the reality for a variety of reasons.

Let's say they're off by a factor of five.
Estimate global infections at 79,975,570.
Deaths: 3,218,680.

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Or try official stats being just 1/3rd of reality.

Total infections would be around 45 million and deaths closer to 2 million.

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For some perspective, here are stats from mid-February - worldwide!

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(Sorry - late, not mid-February)

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Back to the present: the Americas are leading the world in #Covid_19 deaths.

@FinancialTimes graphic:

https://www.ft.com/content/a26fbf7e-48f8-11ea-aeb3-955839e06441

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How's the US faring?

According to @CDCgov :

TOTAL CASES: 4,024,492

TOTAL DEATHS: 143,868

https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/cases-updates/cases-in-us.html

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That means about 1.2% of America is infected, as the US just broke 330 million people this month.

https://www.census.gov/popclock/ 

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Let's say reported cases and deaths are undercounted by 3.

Then we could estimate around 12 million infections and 431,604 deaths.

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If we break infections down by state, the big 3 are still very high: California, Texas, Florida.

Source: http://www.91-divoc.com/pages/covid-visualization/

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Death rates by state show a similar bad picture:

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@COVID19Tracking has a good thread on the unevenness of US data:

https://twitter.com/COVID19Tracking/status/1286793355742126080

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We can zoom in a bit and look at #Covid_19 data by county, thanks to the @nytimes (is nobody else doing this?)

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/us/coronavirus-us-cases.html?action=click&pgtype=Article&state=default&module=styln-coronavirus&region=TOP_BANNER&context=storylines_menu

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The NYT also slices this by per-capita infections, which looks fairly similar:

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