A quick look at the global covid status hows that India has successfully brought its COVID numbers down; but South America remains the worst hit continent – using official WHO numbers. Mongolia is also trending higher – with currently 300 cases per million per day (but based off a low overall population of approximately 4m).
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Across the US – the vaccination impact is showing clearly. All states are at very low levels for new covid cases.
Fatalities have still not fully come down in Michigan; West Virginia or Georgia– but should do so very soon based on the current case data
Perhaps the best way to show the solid improvement across the whole US – is a stat I was tracking since early COVID which is the ‘worst counties’ in America list. Today there are only 4 counties on the list. In late December 2020 there were 572
The critiera is population greater than 100,000 and new cases per million greater than 200. Here are the 4 counties.
| State | County | New Cases per million | New Fatalities per million | County Pop |
| Colorado | Mesa | 363 | 6 | 154,210 |
| Missouri | Greene | 222 | 1 | 293,086 |
| Texas | Webb | 1294 | 2 | 276,652 |
| Texas | Bell | 865 | 2 | 362,924 |
With numbers this low across the US, travel season is back! Get out there and visit a National Park…. we did just recently and they have never appeared to be more popular
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