TEXAS is NO. 1

[Stallion]

days not over but for the first time Texas has the most new cases than any other state with a little over 3600 today. That more than 1200 more than any other single day after 2 weeks of almost continuous new daily records. Congrats Governor Abbott for that brilliant decision to re-open BEFORE the peak

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

[SWBTATTReg]

1. Yes, I saw the governor of TX going on and on (I didn't listen to him 100%) but he seemed to ...

claim numbers weren't what they were, etc. I feel that he's going down the drain hole really fast here...especially when the virus does its own thing, regardless of what he says or do.

Be safe all in TX!

[Stallion]

2. Travis County (Austin) and Bexar County(San Antonio) Haven't Reported Yet

now over 3700

[marlakay]

7. I am concerned-my daughter and family

Live in San Antonio. She has been perfect since it started even getting groceries curbside but she just signed boys up at club pool, they did take everything away but pool and you bring your own chair but I am concerned about them touching handrails or getting to close to kids.

But I understand my daughter after 3 month of homeschooling and watching them do nothing but play games online.

I heard pools are pretty safe with chlorine.

[LisaM]

3. I was supposed to meet up with friends in Austin last weekend.

Needless to say, we postponed this some time ago, but one of our group who lives on Texas had already warned us not to come because the governor was being so lax, and I think that was in April.

[budkin]

4. So proud to live in Texas!

Christ.

[Ms. Toad]

5. Patience, grasshopper

There are 2 more hours in worldometers day . . . someone might beat Texas yet!

[Midnight Writer]

6. I bet a bunch of these Texans will travel north for Trump's big rally in Tulsa.

[Stallion]

8. ...and the Final Total is 4,412-Wow

[Ms. Toad]

9. Yup.

The closest competitor is California, with 3440.

If it moves like NY, it's about 15 days from a peak of over 10,000/day.

[herding cats]

10. They reallocated several cases apparently?

It's Texas trying to blame increases on prison testing on our current increase. Just my guess here.

I checked and this is either hidden or doesn't show in the mobile version, but another DUer told me me it was there on Worldometers below the graphs.

Texas: "The reported cases for June 16 include 2,622 new cases and 1,476 cases that were previously diagnosed among Texas Department of Criminal Justice inmates but that had not been reported by local health departments (887 from Anderson County and 589 from Brazoria County)."

[Ms. Toad]

11. They do that pretty frequently.

Thanks for the heads up that I will soon need to go back and update every number.

What happens is that initially the new cases show up on the day they are first counted. Then, as they figure out when they should have been diagnosed they retroactively adjust the daily numbers. This will be the second biggest retroactive adjustment I've needed to make. (The biggest was between 2 and 4,000 2-3 weeks ago). I had to adjust cases all the way back to March.

ETA: If you scroll down, it's in the June 16 updates in the World page. You have to drop it open to see the update.

[herding cats]

12. They enjoy making it difficult to accurately follow the numbers.

I haven't double checked yet, but I do believe the official count was still a record for Texas. Which they muddied up with this new method of reporting.

I know in my county cases are reported Willy-nilly. Several come in within a few days and others are so far out they're "recovered" before the state announced them.

I know of one case where a woman from a long term care facility was in an ambulance to another county due to her Covid-19 symptoms and died before arriving. Her postmortem testing was later done there and her death is in that county, officially.

[Ms. Toad]

14. You won't be able to tell until they reallocate the numbers.

We know what is subtracted from today's total - but we don't know where those will ultimately be added back in. The added cases will bump up some prior day totals.

For example, the last readjustment came close to moving the day we crossed 100,000 deaths one day earlier. This adjustment for Texas may move it back to May 24, since on May 25 (Memorial day) the total is now 100,025. If the Texas adjustment shifts 25 of its newly discovered cases before May 24 we will have crossed 100,000 on Sunday, rather than Memorial day.

[herding cats]

15. All very true.

I have a spreadsheet I update weekly which will need adjusting after this.

[Ms. Toad]

16. So do I.

I've got extra columns comparing each day to the same day of the prior week, a weekly average on a fixed day, the day to prior day comparison.

For Ohio I'm running new cases, new hospitalizations, new deaths, and new ICU numbers, 7 day averages for each, 1 day change for each, and 7-day change for each (and then tracking how many of those go up each day to see if I can get a better handle on what is going on. Last week's markers were a bit better. This week's are looking worse.

It doesn't take much time to update - except when we get a situation like Texas and the readjust the 100-ish datapoints I've already got recorded.

[uponit7771]

13. WHOA !!! That's NYs avg and Texas is bigger than NY