I have been following Covid 19 stats on the Worldometer site for months now. Every

[dugog55]

night on TV (Brian Williams @ 11pm ET) his numbers have pretty much matched the WO site. However, the last week or so there has been a widening discrepancy between the WO numbers and those he is reporting. Numbers I assume are from HHS now that they taken that job from the CDC.

Yesterday the WO site has the US cases just under 4.4 million, the HHS has them at 4.2 million. Same with the deaths, WO has the US just under 150K, the HHS has them at 146K.

I believe the WO site has the more accurate numbers while the HHS site is cooking the books to make it look like the virus is waning. State numbers from Florida and Texas also look suspicious. No other time since this pandemic has started have cases numbers dropped without some strict policies put in place. Neither of these states have implemented anything other than "you should wear a mask", and yet their numbers have dropped daily in the last 5-7 days.

[Mike 03]

1. Arizona's new cases have been dropping too. I don't know the reason, but one

possible good reason might be that regardless of what the governors are telling people to do, they are actually taking it seriously and changing their behavior accordingly.

Of course, it could be a lack of testing or some nefarious cause too. I'm still hearing way too many cases of people unable to get tested, or unwilling to wait in long lines in 100 degree temperatures, or waiting two weeks for results.

[hlthe2b]

2. HHS is only taking over the hospitalization/utilization numbers; Case & fatality numbers still come

through state health/local departments and on to CDC

[forgotmylogin]

3. All stores I go to in north county St. Louis have signs "mask required to enter"

And pretty much everyone I've seen is wearing one finally.

I just saw one tiny baby sitting in a shopping cart who had their mask pulled down and hanging from her ear while her (also masked) mom was checking out, other than that, this weekend was full compliance everywhere I went.

[Chemisse]

4. I think most news sites are using the John Hopkins numbers.

I check the WorldOMeter site daily too. I've never had good luck with the John Hopkins dashboard site (not user friendly, imo), but The Washington Post uses them and posts the data daily for free. (Scroll down to the big graph and toggle between deaths and cases). So I look at that every day too. It seems a little less than WO pretty much consistently.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2020/national/coronavirus-us-cases-deaths/?itid=lk_inline_manual_3

The only data that HHS has taken over - as far as I know - is the hospitalizations. I believe they get their other data from John Hopkins as well.

This site gathers data from various places and says a bit less than 4.4: https://coronavirus.1point3acres.com/en/about.

[ProfessorGAC]

5. Same Here

I look at the JH site daily.
They get their data directly from the states at the county level.

[mahina]

7. Please keep these posts coming.

Thank you for this useful info.