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Last edited Mon Aug 10, 2020, 02:54 AM - Edit history (1)
From: https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2020/aug/10/coronavirus-live-news-us-infections-pass-500000-as-greece-sees-highest-ever-daily-cases
The US death toll stands at 162,919, according to the Johns Hopkins University tracker, with cases at 5.04m. The US population is 328.2m:
Link to tweet
Text:
And one in every 65 Americans has tested positive for coronavirus
Quote Tweet: Steven Dennis @StevenTDennis
1 out of every 2,000 Americans alive at the start of the pandemic has now died with COVID.
10:07 PM · Aug 9, 2020
Meanwhile, as we reported almost 54,000 new cases on August 8th.....
and.....
New Zealand has reported its 101st day in a row with no recorded community transmission of Covid-19 from an unknown source. All 21 active cases of the coronavirus have been diagnosed in travellers returning to New Zealand from other countries; all of them are in quarantine at the governments managed isolation facilities. There were no new cases of the coronavirus recorded in the quarantine hotels on Monday.
KY......... .......... ..........
PoindexterOglethorpe
(25,895 posts)says 165,617 Americans have died. It also says there are 331,214,010 people in this country. I wonder why there are those relatively small differences.
BigmanPigman
(51,627 posts)I used to think it was the GMT that they use for the start of each new date but that isn't it. It usually balances out somehow though.
Delmette2.0
(4,169 posts)World Odometer. JH also uses slightly different hours.
And, New Zealand that had Lockdown immediately after learning about COVID hasn't had a new case in 100 days.
But they have a real leader, Jacinda Ardern
KY_EnviroGuy
(14,494 posts)I just added two notes to the OP in that regard.
Hope you have a good week!......
KY........
Cha
(297,655 posts)I wish the same good week for you, too!
John Fante
(3,479 posts)We reported 989 deaths on Saturday. Europe, with a population of 741 million, reported 331, with 56% of those deaths coming from Russia and the UK.
If you had told me back in March that the United States would have a worse death rate than Italy by early September, I would have called you a liar. But that's exactly what's going to happen...and we have the worst president in history to thank for that.
progree
(10,918 posts)And just about everything I read says that experts believe the actual number is 5X to 10X higher than the number testing positive -- if 5X that's 1 in 13. If 10X that's 1 in 6.5 or 2 in 13
KY_EnviroGuy
(14,494 posts)no telling how many asymptomatic case there has been, are here now, and will be in the future.
KY