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calimary

(81,466 posts) Wed May 20, 2020, 03:44 PM May 2020

The Daily Dread - Tracking the spread, 5/20/20

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The Daily Dread - Tracking the spread, 5/20/20 (Original Post) calimary May 2020 OP

Updated with corrected confirmed cases figures calimary May 2020 #1

Another update - calimary May 2020 #3

Over 93,000 because we don't know where it is, who can spread it, who is safe. Hermit-The-Prog May 2020 #5

Excellent expert, [whose name I didn't get], on MSNBC with Katie Tur. empedocles May 2020 #2

Yeah. I saw that. calimary May 2020 #4

Sure seems that way. Trying to get my head around that. If you have some things empedocles May 2020 #6

calimary

(81,466 posts)

1. Updated with corrected confirmed cases figures

Reply to calimary (Original post)

Wed May 20, 2020, 04:19 PM

May 2020

All times Pacific, source: Johns Hopkins/NBC News

Sorry for the late start...

At 8:58am
Confirmed cases worldwide - 4,925,129
Deaths worldwide - 324,396
Confirmed cases US - 1,543,705
Deaths US - 92,790

11:05am
Confirmed cases worldwide - 4,928,832
Deaths worldwide - 324,624
Confirmed cases US - 1,547,408
Deaths US - 93,018

At 1:11pm
Confirmed cases worldwide - 4,930,682 (not 882)*
Deaths worldwide - 324,691
Confirmed cases US - 1,549,258 (not 458)*
Deaths US - 93,085

*There was a discrepancy here - as of an hour earlier - a difference of two hundred in each of the sets of confirmed cases. I went with the lower numbers which have been consistent during several rotations within the 1pm hour.

calimary

(81,466 posts)

3. Another update -

Reply to calimary (Reply #1)

Thu May 21, 2020, 12:37 AM

May 2020

At 8:58am
Confirmed cases worldwide - 4,925,129
Deaths worldwide - 324,396
Confirmed cases US - 1,543,705
Deaths US - 92,790

11:05am
Confirmed cases worldwide - 4,928,832
Deaths worldwide - 324,624
Confirmed cases US - 1,547,408
Deaths US - 93,018

At 1:11pm
Confirmed cases worldwide - 4,930,682 (not 882)*
Deaths worldwide - 324,691
Confirmed cases US - 1,549,258 (not 458)*
Deaths US - 93,085

At 8:02pm - only domestic data available
Confirmed cases US - 1,556,603
Deaths US - 93,740

Hermit-The-Prog

(33,414 posts)

5. Over 93,000 because we don't know where it is, who can spread it, who is safe.

Reply to calimary (Reply #3)

Thu May 21, 2020, 03:52 AM

May 2020

The ignorance and incompetence and selfishness of the GOP is killing us.

empedocles

(15,751 posts)

2. Excellent expert, [whose name I didn't get], on MSNBC with Katie Tur.

Reply to calimary (Original post)

Wed May 20, 2020, 04:28 PM

May 2020

We need to look beyond masks, curve flattening, testing, tracing, to make hard choices - what we can effectively do. 60% +, of the population is likely to be infected.

'The worst of the virus is ahead of us'.

calimary

(81,466 posts)

4. Yeah. I saw that.

Reply to empedocles (Reply #2)

Thu May 21, 2020, 12:39 AM

May 2020

And this evening, what Andrew Zimmern called "an extinction event" for restaurants - an estimate that 60-80 percent that won't make it.

Did somebody somewhere say "game-changer"?

empedocles

(15,751 posts)

6. Sure seems that way. Trying to get my head around that. If you have some things