Arizona Fatalities Rise … As predicted

Recall my June 18th post predicting Arizona deaths would rise to possibly 7 fatalities per million per day. Well Arizona is exceeding that with 8.4 fatalities per million per day. Arizona daily cases peaked on June 30th - so there is hope that fatalities will start to fall again - perhaps in a month. TheContinue reading "Arizona Fatalities Rise … As predicted"

States setting new fatality records so far in July

So much for the hot weather preventing covid. That theory has been fully disproven. Here are the states setting new records for COVID average deaths per day in July. StateMax Daily Av DeathsDateFPMTennessee227/9/201.88Florida1207/9/202.58Texas1197/8/202.37Arizona1017/7/205.72Mississippi447/7/205.36 FPM stands for fatalities per million of population based off these new numbers. Cumulatively these numbers are still a long way ofContinue reading "States setting new fatality records so far in July"

Memorial Day Madness – the point of US divergence

I think it can all be traced back to Memorial Day. Prior to that time - the US was enjoying a declining trend in cases and fatalities. It wasn't moving as quickly as some of the European countries - but it did not experience the same peak wave that affected those countries. Now, those EuropeanContinue reading "Memorial Day Madness – the point of US divergence"

Worst Large Counties 7-9-2020

The list of large counties (>100,000 population) which high levels of new cases diagnosed (>200 per million per day) continues to grow. 157 counties now meet those criteria. Since that list is too large to present easily on this website - here's a link to the documents in pdf and excel. worst large counties 7-9-2020Continue reading "Worst Large Counties 7-9-2020"

Worst Counties in America 7-5-2020

Here is the list of worst counties based on new cases per million. The criteria is all counties with population greater than 100,000 people. In the list below - all counties have over 400 new cases per day, per million of population. Arizona is not relinquishing it's spot as the new COVID epicenter of theContinue reading "Worst Counties in America 7-5-2020"