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rgbecker

(4,820 posts)
4. 6383 deaths world wide, 1830 in US. Today as of 8:00 PM EST
Sat Apr 18, 2020, 08:08 PM
Apr 2020

Worldometer

None the less. Trump is an idiot.

doc03

(35,297 posts)
6. The site has note that says this includes probable deaths but the total matches CNN hopefully
Sat Apr 18, 2020, 08:17 PM
Apr 2020

they have made a mistake. But they have been right on the money the last month or so that I have track them.

rgbecker

(4,820 posts)
8. I see a big increase because of the change in the reporting criteria.
Sat Apr 18, 2020, 08:34 PM
Apr 2020

The daily deaths have been in the 2000 range and on the 17th increased 3 fold to 6000+. The note says this when they switched to the new criteria...which is here:

2. As of April 14, 2020, CDC case counts and death counts include both confirmed and probable cases and deaths. This change was made to reflect an interim COVID-19 position statementpdf iconexternal icon issued by the Council for State and Territorial Epidemiologists on April 5, 2020. The position statement included a case definition and made COVID-19 a nationally notifiable disease.

A confirmed case or death is defined by meeting confirmatory laboratory evidence for COVID-19. A probable case or death is defined by i) meeting clinical criteria AND epidemiologic evidence with no confirmatory laboratory testing performed for COVID-19; or ii) meeting presumptive laboratory evidence AND either clinical criteria OR epidemiologic evidence; or iii) meeting vital records criteria with no confirmatory laboratory testing performed for COVID19.

Thanks for the link/reference to CDC site.

I've been using Worldometer which brings the numbers real time, as reported.

Bernardo de La Paz

(48,964 posts)
7. Worldometer takes time to consider how to integrate outlier data
Sat Apr 18, 2020, 08:32 PM
Apr 2020

There have been a number of block updates of data that are adjustments based on officials being able to go back and more carefully define data.

Generic Brad

(14,272 posts)
5. He's a selfish, murderous lunatic
Sat Apr 18, 2020, 08:16 PM
Apr 2020

Somebody please take his car keys away. He's going to drive us off a cliff.

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