Author Archives: Julian Fry

Things may be looking up for now. Seems that the US current levels of new cases at 358 per million per day are about 63% of the recent peak of 569 per million per day earlier this month. Its too early to call success on fatalities however. Below is the same chart – but withContinue reading “The US may have crested this COVID wave, but still has a very long way to go”

Many countries are delivering better results on COVID than the US. What can we learn from that? Clearly we are doing something wrong! Lets start with the big picture on the US. We see average daily deaths at 10.5 per million per day in Dec/Jan period – and currently on a significant upswing. Here’s theContinue reading “COVID Country Comparisons: How the US compares to other countries”

I’m trying a new info graphic here… let me know if you like it Number 1 in the country at the level of new cases per capita. For a population of 7 million people – 1.1m have now tested positive. Still nowhere near the level for herd immunity TN leads the country in pediatric cases;Continue reading “TN Remains #1 for new cases”

Mississippi; Florida and Louisiana have all set record peak daily death numbers so far this month MS had 124 on Sept 6th; Florida has 1,338 on Sept 2nd; and Louisiana had 223 on 1st Sept. Lets pull up the charts MS – currently 14 deaths per million per day Florida – 15.8 deaths per millionContinue reading “States setting new peak COVID deaths”

Some good news for Peru Peru leads the world in reported deaths per capita. As you can see from the table below – almost 2x the number of the second country in the table. Thats a total of almost 200,000 deaths on a population of 32 million people Improving trend Current fatalities are now justContinue reading “Peru – the worst impacted country in the world for COVID – shows sustained improvement”

How does a county of just 54,000 people manage to amass 184 covid deaths? That’s over 3,000 deaths per million – one of the highest in the country From the chart below – we can see peak deaths occurred in January at 46. Zero deaths in April and very few in May and June. TheContinue reading “Rural Tennessee: Carter County”

What’s behind Tennessee’s rise to the number 1 COVID hotspot in the country? The data might surprise you, it surprised me. I had thought the rise was consistent across the state. The answer is rural populations. Counties with populations greater than 200,000 have, so far, fared better than those with smaller populations. Marion county hasContinue reading “TN COVID: Its a rural problem driven by low vaccination rates”