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Coronavirus Growth in Western Countries: February 24 Update

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Here’s the officially reported coronavirus death toll through February 24. The raw data from Johns Hopkins is here.

7 thoughts on “Coronavirus Growth in Western Countries: February 24 Update”

  1. iamr4man

    I don’t understand why the number of deaths is going up. The 7day average of cases was trending down 2-3 weeks ago (they currently seem to be plateauing) and I would think that deaths thus be trending down. Hope this doesn’t mean the current version of the virus is more deadly.

    1. DaBunny

      Agreed, this is disturbing.

      Perhaps clutching at straws, but I heard that SoCal (maybe just LA) reported a large backlog of deaths recently. On the order of 1000 more deaths. Is it possible that kicked Johns Hopkins' data out of whack? If those all came through as deaths occuring this week??

    3. golack

      Winter storms disrupted reporting, especially in TX. There numbers were down by >200 I'd guess, and are just getting back to normal now. So the decline in deaths was too steep, and now it bounces back up to what would have been the trend line as normal reporting is restored. I expect a data dump to account for the disruption shortly, then deaths will appear to spike up for a little bit.

  2. MontyTheClipArtMongoose

    I usually thank Biden for killing 500,000 Americans on these posts, but today I will return to noting the similarity of the Estados Unidos de America & Estados Unidos Mejicanos graphs, & how El Jefe's Right-Fauxpulism & AMLO's Left-Fauxpulism have led to the same health outcomes.

  3. golack

    Back to only one state below 10 new cases/100K/day. Oregon is still staying low for now. Maine bounced back above that level. Other states that were getting within spitting distance have bounced back up too. Seems like everyone eased up just a week or two early. If we're lucky, we'll be seeing the affect of vaccination programs showing up soon. Maybe not in overall number of cases so much, but in hospitalizations and deaths. The drops we've been seeing have mainly been due to social distancing and mask wearing.

  4. ey81

    I fear that our vaccination efforts have come just a little too late for the newer, more contagious strains of COVID. The UK, which approved vaccines two weeks earlier, may win the battle while we lose. You can blame the FDA for the delay here. Maybe next time there's a national pandemic they could work over Thanksgiving weekend? A boy can dream.

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