#COVID19 Data: Nightly update of the sick and the dead.
Mon, 04/20/2020 - 9:39pm
Since tracking and analyzing data is what I'm best known for...and since I'm mostly stuck sitting in front of the computer all day whether I like it or not these days anyway...I've started my own daily COVID-19 spreadsheet.
Again, I'm not the one who compiled the data itself--many other teams with far better resources than I have are doing that--but I'm pulling their work together and adding some additional context, such as per capita info by state/territory.
Nationally:
- 4.0 million tests have been completed in the U.S. (changing the wording here since some of these could be the same person being tested multiple times).
- 28,100 more Americans tested positive today. Over 792,000 have tested positive to date (2.4 per thousand)
- Another 1,900 Americans died today. Over 42,500 have died to date (1.3 per thousand).
- The U.S. Case Fatality Rate (CFR) now stands at 5.4% (someone pointed out that I've been misusing the term "mortality" since that would mean dividing into the entire population; CFR divides into total COVID-19 cases only.
- I've decided to switch my "% increase" measurement from 3 days to one week (7 days) going forward. The U.S. case count has increased 35% over the past week, and the total U.S. death toll has increased by 80%.
New York:
- 634,000 tests have been completed on New Yorkers to date (3.3% of the population)
- 4,900 more New Yorkers tested positive today. Over 252,000 have tested positive to date (1.3% of the population).
- 631 more New Yorkers died today. Nearly 19,000 have died so far. Put another way, nearly 1 of every 1,000 New York residents.
- New York's CFR is 7.5%, second only to the Northern Mariana Islands and Michigan.
- New York's cases have increased 29% over the past week. The death toll has risen 88%.
Michigan (my home state):
- 114,000 tests have been completed on Michiganders to date (1.1% of the population)
- 576 more Michiganders tested positive today. Exactly 32,000 have tested positive to date (3.2 per thousand).
- 77 more Michiganders died today. Nearly 2,500 have died to date.
- Michigan continues to have the highest CFR of any state at 7.7%.
- Michigan's cases have increased 25% in the past week. Our death toll has increased 54%.
Other States/Territories:
- As noted above, I've decided to change my "rate increase" measurement from 3 days to 7 days (one week) going forward. With that in mind, 10 states have seen their death tolls double or more in the past week, along with the U.S. Virgin Islands:
- West Virginia
- Pennsylvania
- Maryland
- Connecticut
- Massachusetts
- Rhode Island
- Minnesota
- District of Columbia
- Virginia
- Wyoming
- No states actually doubled their case count over the past week, but five states came close: North & South Dakota, Nebraska, Ohio and Iowa.
- My primary data source (WorldoMeters.Info) also started tracking federal prisoners today; they put the numbers at 804 infected and 22 having died of COVID-19 to date.