Is this site legit to track the Coronavirus numbers? Worldometers.info

Thanks. I’ve never seen it before so didn’t know if it was reliable at all.

I noticed that too. You can play with the graphs a bit, but they can look super alarming if you don’t understand what your looking at.

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Currently shows 1,747 cases with 41 deaths in the US.

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Those overall numbers look right. There was a spike today in new cases, primarily out of New York State - they are in striking distance of Washington.

Also, I pretty much discount Washington State in calculating a real-time CFR from the snapshot of numbers.

The rest of the nation is under a 1% (right now) if you do that - ~10 deaths to 1300 or so cases (outside WA). Those numbers will continue to rise, but everyone fully expects the death rate to flatten out. How low it goes, ultimately? We will have to see.

The economic damage we face is unprecedented - I don't think we closed this much for this long after 9/11. Probably not since WWII have we diverted this many resources from direct economic activity to a national priority.

Thanks

Also got a DoD notam stating the same, that those websites have malware, or let’s call them a virus. Hehe trying to learn about a virus and your computer gets a virus

I’ve been using this one - from Johns Hopkins

JHU - arcgis.com



I see someone else posted it too

It's not JUST the incompetence. It's the sheer scale of the incompetence.

The numbers are simply gonna be BS. They only delineate known cases. There are so many folks with mild to no symptoms, that they aren't even going to the Dr. And very much unlike the Spanish flu, you instantly knew if you had that

Within 6 days of 1st detection of Spanish flu there were over 6,000 cases in just one Army camp. There aren't 6,000 cases in all 50 states after 2 months of COVID19

With that in mind the infection rate will spike, but the mortality rate will plummet to flulike levels, when all is said and done

That site has a lot of info.

Interesting that in the US there are 1 deaths each in SD, GA, NJ. 2 deaths in FL.

The rest are all CA (4) where the quarantined flights and cruise ships from Asia landed and WA (31) where a poorly run nursing home with a history of violations let it run rampant for several weeks.

5 total deaths outside of two outlier states.