The daily death toll has increased. How many people are dying per day now??

[shockey80]

In my state, New York, the death rate is going down. Is it Trump states were the death toll has increased? KARMA MOTHERFUCKER!

Fuck You Trump.

[rurallib]

1. Someone posted the other day that an American dies of Covid-19 every 42 seconds

That is quite a sobering thought.

[Igel]

2. Mostly states are holding steady.

The states where it was really bad are finally coming down. I think the daily decrease in deaths per day in NY is about the same number as the deaths per day in TX.


Wishing people to die or suffer isn't typically a liberal value. If it is, I'm in the wrong place.

[shockey80]

3. Typically is the key word.

[nitpicker]

4. The reporting swings widely from day to day

A better snapshot would be over three weekdays.

At 0500 Tuesday, JHU reported 68934 deaths.
At 0500 today, it was 75670.

That's a difference of 6736 reported deaths, or 2245 a day.

Right now it doesn't make much difference of a state is red or blue or purple polka-dot. Right now, what does matter is whether or not there are food processing plants, meat (or vegetable; Cuomo cited the Madison/Oneida greenhouse operation), in a location. Close quarters spreads the CV there, and on to the stores where everyone shops, and then on to the staff that takes CV into the nursing homes and prisons.

[genxlib]

5. This article from yesterday addresses that

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/05/06/opinion/coronavirus-deaths-statistics.html

Lots of graphs and statistics but the takeaway is that NYC is declining but everywhere else is spiking. The net result is that it looks like the Country as a whole is leveling off. But when you take away NYC numbers, you can really see the spike as evident for everywhere else.