Walz dons a mask, House leader flips the bird

[TexasTowelie]

Gov. Tim Walz on Tuesday signaled he may prepare easing his state-home order, originally issued through Friday, April 10, as the latest tally of COVID-19 infections and deaths appear to show Minnesota’s efforts to slow the spread are working.

“We are seeing pretty strong indications we are pushing that curve back. We’re bending it a little bit, and we are giving ourselves exactly what we needed to do to give ourselves time to reassess where we’re at,” Walz said during his daily media briefing, which took place as Minnesota lawmakers met again for their latest emergency action on COVID-19.

Despite promising signs that Minnesota’s aggressive actions to stop the exponential spread of the virus is paying dividends, Walz will be the literal face of pandemic — he said he will wear a mask in public, based on guidelines issued by the federal Centers for Disease and Prevention: “It’s important to do that. I will be wearing it, and asking my family to do so.”

Even as Minnesotans are approaching the end of Walz’s two-week stay-home order and the first term DFL governor touts the policy’s success, the full economic fallout of the unprecedented actions are still unknown.

Read more: https://minnesotareformer.com/2020/04/08/walz-dons-a-mask-house-leader-flips-the-bird/

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1. On Apr 8, Walz extended the stay-at-home until May 4. And the daily new case count is generally

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increasing.

On Walz extending the order:
https://minnesota.cbslocal.com/2020/04/08/coronavirus-updates-the-latest-covid-19-headlines-from-april-8-2020/

On the daily new case and new death count:

It's true that the percent increase in the daily new case count has been declining, though the daily new case count itself is still growing. I don't know where the history is on new cases, I've been daily recording them and spreadsheeting them.

Unfortunately I don't have daily deaths spreadsheeted (although I've recorded them) but this has a graph with the data behind each point can be obtained by hovering your mouse over the point.

https://covid19.healthdata.org/united-states-of-america/minnesota

Here's what I've recorded since 3/21 (I have back to 3/13).

Each ()'s has a trio of numbers: date, cumulative total cases, and cumulative total deaths.

cumulative total cases includes deaths and recovered as well as active cases.

(Sat 3/21: 137,1), (Sun 3/22: 169,1), (Mon 235,1), (Tue 262,1), (Wed 287,1), (Thu 346,2), (Fri 398,4), (Sat, 441,5),
(Sun 3/29: 503,9), (Mon 576,10), (Tue 629,12), (Wed 689,17), (Thu 742,18), (Fri 789,22), (Sat 865,24),
(Sun 4/5: 935,29), (Mon 986,30), (Tue: 1069,34), (Wed: 1154,39), (Thu: 1242, 50), (Fri: 1336,57) (Sat: 1427, 64)
(Sun 4/12: 1536, 70)

Well, here's the daily new deaths beginning Monday 3/30 through Sunday 4/12:

1, 2, 5, 1, 4, 2, 5, 1, 4, 5, 11, 7, 7, 6

so maybe it's plateauing...

Rolling average of 4:

2.25, 3.00, 3.00, 3.00, 3.00, 3.00, 3.75, 5.25, 6.75, 7.50, 7.75,

The first number is Avg(1, 2, 5, 1) = 2.25,
The 2nd number is Avg(2, 5, 1, 4) = 3.00,
The 3rd number is Avg(5, 1, 4, 2) = 3.00,
and so on