Data

It’s been a while since I did one of these. The biggest reason is that I suspect the data on cases are becoming unreliable. A lot of people may be self-testing at home and thus are not reporting the results, whether they have the virus or not. In addition, I read something today where a…

It looks like all around the world cases are rising. Image 1: Continent Cases as of 7/7/2022 All continents are going up, even Africa although you can’t see the rise. Europe is especially surging, with Italy, France and Germany (sort of) driving the surge. In Asia, it’s India and Israel at first but I think…

It’s been a while and it’s time to do an update on this coronavirus because my hometown is surging – not in an explosive way – but there are definite signs cases are going up. Fortunately, hospitalization and deaths remain quiescent. Hopefully I’m not jinxing this. First, before putting up my usual set of graphs,…

It’s been a while so it is time for an update on the coronavirus. The US has quietly been undergoing a tiny surge, nothing like back in January or February with the first Omicron, but there is a surge going on in the Northeast and Midwest. Note on sources of data: For graphics concerning continents…

For the most part, the US is very quiet with the exception of the Northeast. It looks like cases are rising in the Northeast, with a concomitant increase in hospitalizations. I’ve circled where I thought I saw a very slight curve upward in the moving average. The chart of the regions on the right of…

I wasn’t going to do a post tonight but last night, when pulling in the latest set of numbers, something shocking jumped out at me: China became part of the top 10 countries in the world with the most daily cases over the last 14 days. I never really seriously tracked China largely because I…