Month: July 2020

Today's edition frames how the USA's COVID death rate compares with other highly developed countries (our death rate is 78% higher). We also portray each state's weekly progression of COVID tests, cases, and deaths through the month of July. July…

This edition assesses the COVID death rate in the United States in a global context. The cumulative COVID death rate in the USA to date is 6.6 times higher than the rest of the world's collective rate. Of the 160…

This edition of the 5 slide series contains our tabulations of this week's COVID progression. By all key measures, this has been a troubling week in terms of the pandemic worsening. New deaths were 22% higher in the week of…

This week's edition of the 5 Slide Series tracks recent COVID-19 trends. We have summarized the weekly progression of cases, tests, and deaths through July 8 at the national, state, and county levels. 72% of the US population resides in…

This edition of our 5-slide series quantifies-- in numerous ways-- the disturbing resurgence of COVID-19. In 46 states, for example, the number of new cases emerging during June 23-30 surpassed the number from the prior week. The number of new…