Corona Virus Peak Watch Thread

The graph of Active Cases clearly shows how we flattened the curve, then we opened the economy back up, and the curve took off again:

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How high it goes is all up to how seriously we treat the pandemic.

Are we Americans able to outsmart a bug that is one ten thousandth the size of a grain of salt?

Taiwanese can do it.

Do our atrocious results reflect the price of having the freedom to be stupid and inconsiderate of others?
 
Active Cases still rising. No peak yet!

-We need more people to take this seriously and end the risky behavior.

There is still too much transmission of the disease going on. The pandemic continues to grow in the USA.
 
Sunday

8-9

USA

Total Cases 5,199,444

New Cases +47,849

Total Deaths 165,617

New Deaths +534

Total Recovered 2,664,701

Active Cases 2,369,126

Serious, Critical 17,812

Tot Cases/1M pop 15,698

Deaths/1M pop 500

Total Tests 65,433,251

Tests/1M pop 197,556
 
Another nearly fifty thousand Americans tested positive yesterday.

Actually, they probably took their tests last week, or the week before, and it took this long for them to find out.
 
Monday

8-10

USA

Total Cases 5,251,446

New Cases +49,800

Total Deaths 166,192

New Deaths +569

Total Recovered 2,715,934

Active Cases 2,369,320

Serious, Critical 17,589

Tot Cases/1M pop 15,855

Deaths/1M pop 502

Total Tests 66,178,615

Tests/1M pop 199,803
 
The number of Americans who died yesterday roughly equals the loss of life in the Titanic Disaster.

About 1500 lives lost.
 
Tuesday

8-11

USA

Total Cases 5,305,957

New Cases +54,519

Total Deaths 167,749

New Deaths +1,504

Total Recovered 2,755,348

Active Cases 2,382,860

Serious, Critical 17,339

Tot Cases/1M pop 16,019

Deaths/1M pop 506

Total Tests 66,942,357

Tests/1M pop 202,106
 
Hey...

We had another dip in the number of Active Cases yesterday.

Have we finally reached the big peak?

Time will tell.

Previously when this happened, we later found out it was only a glitch. Just a teaser.

Maybe some reporting got held up. And then after those figures are released, the overall number of Active Cases shoots back up again.

What we would really like to see would be the curve do a gradual bend towards leveling off. We want to see the curve starting to flatten out.

You know, like it began to do before we foolishly decided the danger was all gone and opened back up too soon?

The curve was just beginning to level off. We were 'flattening the curve.'
 
PoliTalker said:
Here's a sad statistic...

Deaths per million in the whole world: 96

Deaths per million in the USA: 511
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When I look at that Worldometer/coronavirus page, it amazes me to watch new cases drop in places where the idiot govt. finally instituted masks and social distancing policies. While meanwhile, in states with other idiot governors who DON'T, the new cases are horrendous.
 
In the UK- of which I am an avid political observer- they have ' changed the way to count virus deaths ' in order to bring down the shocking total. I kid you not.
 
Wednesday

8-12

USA

Total Cases 5,360,302

New Cases +54,345

Total Deaths 169,131

New Deaths +1,386

Total Recovered 2,812,603

Active Cases 2,378,568

Serious, Critical 17,320

Tot Cases/1M pop 16,183

Deaths/1M pop 511

Total Tests 67,551,161

Tests/1M pop 203,940
 
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Hello moon,

moon said:
In the UK- of which I am an avid political observer- they have ' changed the way to count virus deaths ' in order to bring down the shocking total. I kid you not.
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The way around that is to compare death rates to previous years where there was no pandemic.

They can play games and claim this person or that already had a condition, so it wasn't really the virus that killed them? And we know that's BS. If the virus accelerates the deaths in fragile lives then it is the virus doing that.
 
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