Category Archives: COVID

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 theContinueContinue reading “Worst Counties in America 7-5-2020”

At this point, what has Arizona got to lose? Its really hard to see what’s happening in the USA – and in particular states like Arizona. As widely reported – Arizona has been shooting up the league table for new cases of Covid – since early June. By the end of June, also the endContinueContinue reading “Arizona cases & deaths surge….. and says no to contact tracing app from Apple & Google”

Starting with an assumption that all cases in the last 2 weeks are contagious – we get these startling stats on which states have the most contagious populations. We hope this population (after all they have been tested postive), are self isolating – but there is also an unknown population of untested, asymptomatic people. AnyhowContinueContinue reading “The award for most contagious goes to…”

Although the US has the highest number of COVID deaths there are often some very uneven comparisons. Like comparing the US to Spain, or Italy. The fact is the US is 5 times bigger than those countries so we would expect our numbers to be higher. We can make a more even comparison by comparingContinueContinue reading “Complacency Kills: Eye off the Prize”

By now we know that to get the best view of the COVID data we have to identify the specific locations that are creating the excess number of cases that together are keeping the overall US case count too high. This post focuses on the 35 worst counties in America – those with populations ofContinueContinue reading “Worst COVID Counties”

The short term prediction for COVID fatalities, across the South, is not good.