The Daily Dread - Tracking the spread, 5/29/20 - Broken Minneapolis Day {:(
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The news is dominated by the Nightmare in Minneapolis.
So I will list the last sets of data from yesterday/last night:
At 2:13pm
Confirmed cases worldwide - 5,712,675
Deaths worldwide - 356,740
Confirmed cases US - 1,720,455
Deaths US - 101,523
I didn't see anything new til 8:03pm, and only the domestic figures.
Confirmed cases US -1,726,174
Deaths US - 101,961
The only data I've seen for today was earlier this morning when my husband had CNN on - and they were still running the COVID data graphic on right. That CNN data does not directly match the NBC News data that runs on MSNBC, even while both data sources cite Johns Hopkins as the medical source. CNN cites only Johns Hopkins University as its source. MSNBC's is Johns Hopkins/NBC News.
At 7:43am, Pacific time this morning, CNN showed the following:
Total cases globally - 5,844,499
Deaths - 361,119
Total cases in the United States - 1,722,419
Deaths - 101,622
That's THIS MORNING, shortly before 8am. In CNN's numbers, you can certainly see the trends are the same. The exact count is slightly different. THIS MORNING, for example, CNN's domestic death figures aren't where the last MSNBC figures were, last night - 101,961 (MSNBC, 8:03pm last night). CNN's this morning (101,622) don't match. They aren't even to last night's MSNBC level yet. But I note the differences that do indicate the same things: upward motion, and degree of upward motion. That's what led me to say, earlier this week, that we wouldn't hit the 100-thousand death mark til sometime Tuesday, NOT Monday, as some on the air were saying. The rate of increase throughout the day strongly suggested we shouldn't expect the rate of increase overnight to jump, as significantly as it would need to, to get to 100-thousand.
I don't have enough info to explain the MSNBC/CNN discrepancy fully, or what difference it makes when you factor in NBC News with the Johns Hopkins info - an attribution CNN obviously does not have. I don't know what additional research or input NBC News brings to the overall picture. And I don't know how it's factored in on the MSNBC numbers.
Just making at least that much clear.
I happen to prefer the MSNBC coverage. Could be bias on my part because I used to work at NBC. But I've watched NBC News coverage of all kinds of events since the Kennedy assassination and state funeral in November 1963 with Chet Huntley, David Brinkley, Frank McGee and Sander Vanocur. My parents liked that channel, so that's what they had on the TV. I grew up with Huntley/Brinkley anchoring the network news at dinnertime. We watched while eating dinner in front of it, every evening. It was a nightly ritual.
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