One more way to look at the weak US response to COVID-19
A poster here offered up this interactive map from Johns Hopkins about a month and a half ago and I have been tracking it daily ever since.
https://www.arcgis.com/apps/opsdashboard/index.html#/bda7594740fd40299423467b48e9ecf6
The data is updated several times each day. When I started watching it, the total number of cases was not even 2000. Today, at 7:30 a.m. CT, the current number of worldwide cases is 94,225. That number will change by lunch time. Or sooner.
The total number of deaths is 3,215, giving a death incidence of 3.41%, more than the 2% bandied about most frequently.
The total number of recoveries is impressive and it has been a huge change just in the last 10 days from about 10% recovered to 51,026 at this point in time. That is good news. Recovery incidence is 54%!
Looking at the US numbers is disheartening. We just had our 8th recovery since this started yesterday in Madison. There are 128 cases in the US with 9 deaths and only 8 recoveries. Percentages do not match the world average at all. Deaths: 7.0% and recoveries: 6.25%
We don't test enough people. We have an anti-science nut in charge of the effort, the hospitals don't have a plan in place, and our for-profit healthcare system is not getting people well, or helping them recover. Our system is crisis as opposed to wellness because no one wants to go to the doctor if it is going to cost them money they don't have.
The recovered person in Madison was sick for about 3 weeks. Not many people in the US get that kind of time off from work without losing their jobs or their pay.
You can use the map I posted to look at other places and check how they are doing as far as the number recovered or, unfortunately, succumbed to the illness.
There is no plan in the US hospitals. They defer to the CDC. And the CDC is muzzled by the idiotic Mike Pence. We can't run and panicking is not a good option. Please prepare. Please change your hygiene habits. Please bolster your immune system. Our future with this is not looking too good. We have to take care of ourselves and each other because our government is not going to help us.
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