Coronavirus (COVID-19) Discussion Thread

[SvennoJ]

We're mid week again, numbers are up, but most are still declining over all.

First, the world overview

Total daily reported cases around the world is holding steady, dipping with the weekends and going back up to the same level mid week. Europe and the USA are slowly heading down as other parts in the world pick up steam. The USA passed Europe in daily cases on April 21st and has been outpacing Europe since then. The gap is only 1300 cases (24.4K vs 25.7K) and reported deaths are still lower in the USA.
However when comparing NA with Europe, together with Canada and Mexico now coming up, the gap is a lot bigger. NA as a continent is set to overtake Europe at some point. For now USA's total case count is still almost 11 days behind Europe's
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Good news, another milestone was reached today. 1 million recovered. Of course likely a lot more have recovered already, but the official count stands at close to 1/3rd recovered of the 3.2 million total reported cases.


Corners of the world graph

Canada might have peaked now, it's pretty flat, stretching it out :/
Turkey is coming down already, however their reported deaths is so regular I'm questioning their reporting.
Australia, South Korea and China (for what we know) are doing really well.
Japan is doing well, going back down, Iran still on its slow also very regular glide down and Brazil is catching up on testing while the reported deaths are already in the four hundreds daily. Total opposite of Australia.


Europe, overall in decline, except Sweden and Russia.

I added Xs where the lock downs of the 5 big ones were implemented. Italy first, UK last.

The reported deaths for the UK were updated all the way back to March 20th, which put UK on top since April 8th.

Norway is only reporting 1 or 2 deaths a day now, almost completely done with it.
Sweden is very inconsistent in reporting deaths (infometer doesn't adjust for date of deaths, UK was an exception)
The Netherlands had a jump back up since counting and testing were at a low from the 3 day weekend and celebrations.
Europe is heading the right way, Russia doesn't seem to slow the downward momentum much, going well.


We have all this mostly reliable info now from Europe and NA which made up the largest portion of infections, but that will soon be over. Today, Europe plus USA still make up 66% of worldwide reported cases. However how many more cases will be missed in India, South Africa and South America.