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Fatality Rate Is Not Significantly Improving

I thought fatality rates were falling – but it turns out they are not really. Plus the recent continued surge is a headwind to overcome.

Davidson County, Tennessee

Davidson County is one of the worst counties in America for COVID growth. The data is 53x the level that caused the first lockdown.

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 7-9-2020ContinueContinue reading “Worst Large Counties 7-9-2020”

Analyzing Arizona – Poverty may be the key

All eyes seem to be on Arizona these days as this state has the highest rate of new cases per capita in the country at 222 per million per day. Taking a deeper dive, the counties with extremely high fatality rates (practically off the charts) are Santa Cruz, Navajo and Yuma – with respectively 22,ContinueContinue reading “Analyzing Arizona – Poverty may be the key”

Time to Pump the Brakes in at least 6 states

For the following states, the level of fatalities from COVID is too high – and is trending in the wrong direction. Not enough is being done.

100,000 Deaths

100,000 deaths is a grim milestone – but it could have been much worse – and there is reason for optimism … the stock market says so!