According to the Financial Times, coronavirus cases are growing faster in the US than in any other country.
It’s day 65 since the first case of coronavirus disease was announced in the United States. Johns Hopkins reports 69,018 (55,222) cases and 1,042 (797) deaths, an increase of 96 and 150 percent, respectively, since Sunday.
Look at Singapore, South Korea. Those lines are… flattening. Guess what they did? Tested, quarantined/isolated, locked down.
When did the US have 100 identified cases? Day 42, on 02 March.
- And 200 identified cases? Day 45 (232).
- And 400 identified cases? Day 48 (530).
The Financial Times daily trends chart shows the growth rate for identified cases. The x-axis represents the number of days since the 100th case. US cases are growing faster than any other country that they are tracking. This could be an artifact of our extremely delayed start in testing (which is still not widespread) but may also reflect delayed social distancing measures.
Remember, avoid nominal data comparisons. What do the per capita numbers look like?
- Italy: 1,224 deaths/million and 1,230 cases/million
- Spain: 78 deaths/million and 1,059 cases/million
- Iran: 25 deaths/million and 322 cases/million
- France: 20 deaths/million and 392 cases/million
- Switzerland: 18 deaths/million and 1,259 cases/million
- USA: 3.15 deaths/million and 209 cases/million
- China: 2.34 deaths/million and 58 cases/million (these are suspect)
A reminder that the alarm bells are incessant but officials are wearing both ear plugs and ear muffs when the subject is COVID-19 in our prisons and jails.
The rapid growth at Rikers makes the otherwise terrifying curve in NYC and New York State look nearly flat. #FreeThemNow pic.twitter.com/8dQLiBjs8g
— Molly Griffard (@MollyGriffard) March 25, 2020
Domestic situation (and testing)
Domestically, New York is our hot spot.
My god – New York is surpassing every other epicenter hotspot – now on track to double up every day. Slowing it down to doubling every 2 days would be actually improvement right now. #COVID19 pic.twitter.com/4iob2iQF4e
— Eric Feigl-Ding (@DrEricDing) March 25, 2020
Tests remain an issue.
It would help if we had a COVID-19 test available everywhere, but we don't and tRump refuses to take any from China. Why would he want China to get the profits and not himself? Like China is actually making any kind of money to save its people.🤨 https://t.co/4rEPY8Ktts
— Robert W Brinson (@rwbrinson) March 25, 2020
Politics: “Wuhan virus” and reelection
The Trump Administration, ignoring its own medical team (the CDC), continues to refer to COVID-19 the “Wuhan virus” or the “China virus.” This classic Trump rhetorical style became an impediment to the G7 agreeing upon a joint statement about the crisis.
Despite being hard hit states, the White House has not released disaster unemployment funds for California, New York or Washington.
A story that is not getting enough attention: The White House has yet to release disaster funds for New York, California and Washington State: https://t.co/iTl0pFTBd4
— Blake Hounshell (@blakehounshell) March 25, 2020
President Trump interjects complaints about media coverage as a negative factor in his re-election campaign.
The LameStream Media is the dominant force in trying to get me to keep our Country closed as long as possible in the hope that it will be detrimental to my election success. The real people want to get back to work ASAP. We will be stronger than ever before!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) March 25, 2020
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