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Coronavirus Growth in Western Countries: April 3 Update

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Here’s the officially reported coronavirus death toll through April 3. The raw data from Johns Hopkins is here.

25 thoughts on “Coronavirus Growth in Western Countries: April 3 Update”

  1. MontyTheClipArtMongoose

    I am now 50% marked by the beast. Pfizer inoculation no. 1 completed. I am in the recombobulation area of the Oregon Convention Center right now; can depart at 15.01.

      1. MontyTheClipArtMongoose

        Not yet. But have never had a sore arm after any flu shot, either.

        I was just happy neither homeopath supremacists nor #whitepower patriots targeted the facility while I was there. Heart of Antivaxxxia, & all.

  2. golack

    Morning talk shows mentioned that the variants are taking off in the hot spots. Both the New York variant and B1117 spread much more easily. The latter has been shown to be more lethal, and, one of the guests mentioned, it attacks children. They get infected and can spread the disease. That is bad.

    The holiday will throw the numbers off a bit. TX cases dropped some, MI has kept shooting up. We'll see how things hold up by the end of this week.

    1. MontyTheClipArtMongoose

      "Michigan has kept shooting up".

      Reminds me: I wanted to tell the RN/CNA giving me the shot to "tie me off, shoot me up". I didn't. I will forever be ashamed I didn't.

    2. HokieAnnie

      Another hot spot is Vancouver, BC - there's an outbreak in Whistler, BC (suburbs) of the Brazilian variant. Somehow the outbreak spread to the Vancouver Canucks. 20 people on the team are in COVID-19 protocol, some due to close contact but 14 players of the 20 with some of the players seriously ill though none yet requiring hospitalization, apparently some required IV treatments for dehydration. And it's spread to family members.

      It's looking like the Canucks might not be able to finish their season messing up the Scotia North Division. But the NHL apparently has contingency plans to use winning percentages to figure out who makes the playoffs.

      1. MontyTheClipArtMongoose

        A Canadian based franchise hasn't taken home the Cup since 1993.

        It doesn't matter.

        (That said, I was rooting for the Flames in 2004, in hopes of some hardcore Canadian skank on Canadian skank porn in celebration, courtesy the Flames Girls.)

        1. HokieAnnie

          And sadly the Canucks in 1994 are the last time any Canadian franchise won the Cup though Canadian teams have made the finals since, the last one being the Senators in 2007.

  3. ey81

    It's amazing what the UK has done. Brexit has turned out to be the single most intelligent political decision of the post-Cold War era.

      1. rick_jones

        I come now, it is a universal truth that:
        Correlation in Confirmation is Cause
        Correlation in Contradiction is Coincidence

        If I could work-in another word starting with ‘C’ I’d call it the Rule of the Seven C’s...

        1. MontyTheClipArtMongoose

          The Rule of 7C* that I remember is "be right, be wrong, but don't be a can of corn".

          *My "house" in seventh grade. The rule was from my inveterate Minnesota Vikings fan pre-algebra teacher's class.

    2. Midgard

      Lol, Brexit is irrelevant. Not much rise of death in northern Europe, matter of fact, a far below UK in terms of total deaths. Try harder when you post.

    3. Mitch Guthman

      I think that’s an assertion that needs a bit of elaboration. Even on Covid-19 the English have mostly been behind the curve. Their one claim to fame is a higher vaccination rate.

      But apart from a debatable case that the English are doing slightly better on vaccines at the moment, Boris seems to have trashed both exports and the City of London. The only new money coming in is totally the black money which is turning Mayfair into a ghost town.

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