Louisiana - notice it climbing the chart

[jberryhill]

Worldometer watchers no doubt have noticed the after-effect of Mardi Gras by now.

[hatrack]

1. More cases than Florida with about 1/5 the population

.

[captain queeg]

4. I was going to say wait for the spring break crowds, but I guess they are from all over

[hatrack]

5. Mardis Gras, I'd bet . . . which preceded Spring Break by about a month

.

[Phoenix61]

7. Mardi Gras was Feb 25th. Outside date to

show infection would be March 10th. More likely the effects of population density.

[hatrack]

8. True, but Mardis Gras isn't just Shrove Tuesday, it's weeks leading up to it

Plenty of parades and events.

[Phoenix61]

11. Those people would have gotten sick even

earlier. The current uptick is the result of something else. A doctor I heard stated obesity is a risk factor and LA has a huge problem with that. Maybe they are getting sicker and being identified because of that.

[blitzen]

12. Louisiana and Florida both have about 800 reported cases; Louisiana has tested 3500 people...

and I think Florida has tested significantly fewer. I'm not sure though, but a few days ago they had only tested 1500.

[BigmanPigman]

2. I love Carnival and was glad to hear Venice canceled theirs

but Nice, France didn't, neither did Brazil or the US. Something told me this was going to happen. Glad St. Patrick's Day was canceled. I guess there won't be an Easter Egg Roll at the White House or anywhere this year.

I wonder if churches will cancel services. Praying won't help you fight off germs that were shed by the guy on the pew next to you.

[Jarqui]

3. United States is climbing the charts

The last two days, passed Italy, adding 7,000+ cases per day (Italy is 6,000/day). Continued behavior by Trump and the GOP could get to 30,000 per day in the not too distant future. With Italy's 10% death rate (in part due to overload) that would be like a 9/11 every day.

Trump: 'We’re going to win so much, you’re going to be so sick and tired of winning'
https://billingsgazette.com/news/state-and-regional/govt-and-politics/trump-we-re-going-to-win-so-much-you-re/article_2f346f38-37e7-5711-ae07-d1fd000f4c38.html

Nostradumbass may have actually got one right.

[DrToast]

6. "Notice this thing that I'm not linking to?"

No, I didn’t notice it.

[jberryhill]

10. One of the best resources that has been discussed and linked quite a bit at DU lately

Is the Worldometers site.

Through the magic of the Google machine - which I highly recommend instead of following links to sites posted by people you don't know - punching in "worldometers" brings you to a site full of interesting statistics.

As a future recommendation, I would suggest that when you see people providing links to places you've never heard of, that you use Google that way instead of following links that are not known to you. It will save you grief some day.

World stats:

https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/

US stats:

https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/us/

If you have a tech/math background, you will appreciate the ease with which you can switch to log plots, instead of linear plots, for keeping an eye on what is an exponential phenomenon.

I hope you find that useful.

[Raine]

14. Thanks for the links 👍 nt

[DrToast]

15. Thank you for linking

It’s a common courtesy to link to something you want to discuss. Better late than never though.

[jberryhill]

16. It's also a common way to push malicious content

[backscatter712]

17. Yah, having a tech background, I do not like the look of those logarithmic plots...

[meadowlander]

18. The 70% death rate for resolved cases tells you everything you need to know about how much testing

we're actually doing.

It's 10% in the rest of the world. So the actual number of cases in the US is probably at least 7 times what is being reported.

[jberryhill]

19. No it doesn't

Fatal cases resolve faster than cases which linger for two weeks or more.

That’s simply a misreading of the data.

[backscatter712]

20. Yep - that's a statistical artifact.

The real death rate is probably somewhere around 1% if that.

[SiliconValley_Dem]

9. So is Florida. A couple of other southern states are just behind them as well