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Hello! Here's my occasional thread on coronavirus stats globally.
Today:
- The West heads back into crisis.
- Deaths rising in the US, Europe and the UK.
- Cases growth largely unchecked.
- Sweden: ICU patient numbers rising.
Today:
- The West heads back into crisis.
- Deaths rising in the US, Europe and the UK.
- Cases growth largely unchecked.
- Sweden: ICU patient numbers rising.
Big picture: Global cases went over 500K daily for the first time. Growth is steepening.
Deaths went over 7000 per day, and the death rate is steepening.
Deaths went over 7000 per day, and the death rate is steepening.
Globally, the third wave is already worse than the second.
US: Cases in the third wave are the worst of the three already. Growth heading toward vertical.
Deaths are now routinely over 1000 per day, again.
Deaths are now routinely over 1000 per day, again.
Texas, for example: Hospital admissions moving back up to peak levels.
India: Continued good progress on cases and deaths.
Brazil: Signs of trouble. After months of progress, cases took a step up again.
Too early to say if deaths will follow.
Too early to say if deaths will follow.
Russia: Cases still climbing but the pace has slowed a little.
Deaths have crossed 300 per day and look to be heading toward 400.
Deaths have crossed 300 per day and look to be heading toward 400.
France: Still no evidence that France has got a handle on case growth.
Deaths averaging just under 250 per day.
Deaths averaging just under 250 per day.
Spain: Very grim.
Cases and deaths growing unchecked.
Cases and deaths growing unchecked.
Argentina: Some evidence that Argentina may have turned the corner.
Deaths have hit a plateau.
Deaths have hit a plateau.
Colombia has lost its grip on new infections and is heading into a second wave.
Deaths rising again toward the 200 per day level.
Deaths rising again toward the 200 per day level.
UK: Case growth largely unchecked although maybe there’s a sign of a peak? Too soon to tell.
Deaths have crossed 300 per day.
Deaths have crossed 300 per day.
UK: Hospitals are one-third of the way back to the peak they were at in the spring.
Current patients: 10,000+.
On ventilation: 957.
Current patients: 10,000+.
On ventilation: 957.
Mexico enters a second wave with deaths rising again.
Sweden: Steep climb in cases.
Deaths (lagging indicator) remain in single figures.
ICU admissions low but rising.
Deaths (lagging indicator) remain in single figures.
ICU admissions low but rising.
You can look up your own country at Worldometers. https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/#countries
Europe's COVID-19 outbreak is worsening from disaster to catastrophe, as the US scrambles to contain its third wave https://www.businessinsider.com/europe-coronavirus-outbreak-france-germany-lockdowns-us-close-behind-2020-10?utmSource=twitter&utmContent=referral&utmTerm=topbar&referrer=twitter
