The US now has 43.5% of all documented active cases in the world

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

https://www.bing.com/covid/local/unitedstates?form=msntrk

Heckuva job Trumpy

[ffr]

1. Records throughout the economic sector are being broken too, but not in a good way.

Everything tRump and republicans touch, dies.

[SoonerPride]

4. It's a race to see if he kills the country or the Republian party first

One of those two won't make it.

[jimfields33]

2. Interesting to go state by state and see who has the numbers by percentage

[Newest Reality]

3. Oh, but wait...

Oh, but wait, there's more!

Our worse states will be helping to spread the virus now. If you have one next door to yours, see if you can get a mask on it or wear one when you fact that direction. If you are surrounded by them, my condolences. They don't get the science thing--it is way TOO complex--and I hear that dying for the economy is patriotic act.

I haven't checked yet, but does that correlate with those welfare states that live off the blue ones? Does the Welfare State King, McConnell have any information or a comment on that? Maybe he's busy riding in his Cadillac?

[Jarqui]

5. but only 4.2% of the world's population ....

and guess what?

With the reopening of states, the numbers will go up!

[Hortensis]

6. Out of 4.25% of the world's population?

Quite a trick, but guess much of the trick is in the word "documented."

The Johns Hopkins Dashboard currently has the planet at 3,017,806 and us at 979,077. Notably OUR estimate has been adjusted upward to include new "probables" from deaths originally attributed to other causes, like heart attack in someone with heart disease -- and COVID-like symptoms.

Btw, it's still not been established that getting COVID-19 confers immunity, even temporary.


https://coronavirus.jhu.edu/map.html

[SlimJimmy]

7. I'm sure China's numbers are accurate. Right?

[Hortensis]

8. :) Oh, RIGHT! Sure! Johns Hopkins and others guess their best.

[ProfessorGAC]

9. Putting Them In A Bind

They're smart enough to assume China, Russia, & Iran are lying.
But, they can't possibly know how big the lies are.
I've been saying for a bit, that we need to take China's numbers, multiply by 5, then add a zero.
Russia & Iran are at least lying to that degree.

[SlimJimmy]

13. I agree. Their numbers can't be trusted.

By a factor of at least five.

[Calista241]

10. Correlation does not imply causation.

Trump can be blamed for a lot of shit, but viruses do not care about politics.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

11. Of course he didn't cause the virus

But the response so far has been well short of what's needed. In the mean time he's either tried to blame others or live in denial and act like he's doing a great job.

[Rae]

12. Is that because we're testing more though?

I haven't seen the testing numbers for each country in months.

[SlimJimmy]

14. We've tested more in raw numbers. But the percentage

of population might be lower than other countries. Hard to tell without current stats.

[Rae]

15. It would be interesting

to compare the per capita tests to the per capita positives. And then extrapolate the per capita hospitalizations and death rates. You would think that information is available.

[SlimJimmy]

16. I've tried to find something on the net. But no luck yet.

[Rae]

17. As we test more, more positives will be reported

That's to be expected. The numbers really to watch are the those cases requiring hospitalization.

[SlimJimmy]

18. That's true. I also want to see the released from hospital numbers.