April 11 Recap
Issue 17
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Summary
Worldwide: 1,795,183 confirmed cases and 109,951 deaths; 411,830 recoveries
USA now at 533,115+ cases, which is still a 6%+ growth rate
Spain at 166,019 (3.1% growth), Italy at 152,271 (3.2%), France at 129,654 (4%), and Germany at 125,452 (2.5%)
Good places to find numbers and other Covid-19 info:
US testing tracking (US daily totals, as well as numbers broken out by state)
🇺🇸 US news
At a glance:
Total confirmed cases at 533,115 (29,938+ more cases), 20,580 deaths
New York (181,144 cases & 8,627 deaths), New Jersey (58,151 & 2,183), and Michigan (23,993 & 1,392) lead in case numbers
Massachusetts (22,860 & 686), California (22,409 & 633), and Pennsylvania (21,804 & 501), are the next three states.
Louisiana (20,014 & 806), Illinois (19,180 & 677), and Florida (18,986 & 446) are next. Texas rounds up the top ten with 13,205 cases and 267 deaths.
Testing total at 2,665,666 (up 136,384 from yesterday)
State and Local News
Illinois (19,180 & 677) reported its second highest daily total of deaths thus far, 81. The Governor says they are seeing a flattening of the curve, but cautions against complacency.
The much touted 15-minute rapid tests produced by Abbott are not hit making their mark. Except for Detroit, which has bought many devices and cartridges for itself, most states only received 15 devices and 120 cartridges (one cartridge per test). That’s 120 total tests per state, which is nothing when compared to the 136,000+ tests done today.
San Francisco’s Department of Public Health, together with researchers and students from UCSF, will start doing contact tracing and testing. Massachusetts and some Texas counties have started doing some contact tracing already.
Trends
💊Some good news, hopefully
💉Places in California see low positive rates (UCSF is seeing 5%). California as a whole is reporting ~12%. New York is seeing a lot higher.
Other news
🏜️Burning Man will take place virtually this year
🌐 International News
🇸🇬Singapore (2,299 cases & 8 deaths) just confirmed 191 new cases. Social distancing enforcement has issued more than 3,000 written warnings on Saturday. Starting tomorrow, first offenders who do not observe social distancing will be issued fines of 300 Singaporean Dollars (instead of a warning). Masks have been distributed to every household, and is now mandatory on public transport. Cramped foreign worker dormitories have been a big source of infections
🇮🇷Iran (71,686 & 4,474) has been a one week-long lockdown, and is gradually lifting restrictions starting Saturday, April 11, the first day of the work week.
🇻🇪Many Venezuelans (175 & 9) are returning home. With many South American countries in partial or total lockdowns, the informal economy has been wiped out. Those that work in the informal economy, which consists of many Venezuelans, have no choice but to go home.
Interesting Things
⚕️Cool site doing daily coronavirus updates. It seems more focused on the medical side of things. I will be checking it frequently.
📊 Nice website focusing on the data and statistical side of things. Has handy charts on what the doubling time of deaths and cases are in a variety of countries.
🐦 Uh, bird flu emerging in the US? Read the room, dude, not a good time!
Quaran-tweet of the Day
This is a work in progress, so please PLEASE let me know at dailycovid19updates@gmail.com if you have any suggestions, and/or see anything that is wrong or missing. You can also tweet me @julienchien
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