Today in US:
19,187 cases, 515 deaths

Cumulative:
123,313 cases, 2,211 deaths


[Edited on March 28, 2020 at 8:02 PM. Reason : ]

3/28/2020 7:54:02 PM

Given Florida's retirement population, I don't understand the projections in that link.

3/29/2020 4:48:31 AM

https://twitter.com/mkraju/status/1244259647097356290?s=21

Um... this is terrifying.

And from the guy who is the most trusted expert.

3/29/2020 9:50:53 AM

Trump is quite literally killing his coalition of would-be voters.

3/29/2020 11:12:48 AM

People are mostly dying in democrat places so even if those are his voters ( i don't seee the connection), he'd just be changing the popular vote. I would guess old people in cities are Biden's demographic.

3/29/2020 12:44:22 PM

CASES
Jan 22: 500
Mar 05: 100,000
Mar 17: 200,000
Mar 21: 300,000
Mar 24: 400,000
Mar 26: 500,000
Mar 28: 600,000
Mar 29: 700,000

DEATHS
Jan 22: 17
Mar 12: 5,000
Mar 19: 10,000
Mar 22: 15,000
Mar 25: 20,000
Mar 27: 25,000
Mar 28: 30,000
Mar 30: 35,000

3/29/2020 1:17:23 PM

Someone should plot this. It looks almost exponential.

3/29/2020 2:15:58 PM

Graphs are here, bruv, including for individual countries:

https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus

Go the USA page and see the graphs!

3/29/2020 2:54:04 PM

This is an interesting moving bar graph showing how the rates increased in different countries:

https://twitter.com/i/status/1244119212701990913

[Edited on March 29, 2020 at 2:55 PM. Reason : ]

3/29/2020 2:55:14 PM

3/29/2020 2:56:14 PM

^^ here is another one showing a different time period and also showing China

https://twitter.com/myworldmysun/status/1243892545643397122


[Edited on March 29, 2020 at 3:22 PM. Reason : ]

3/29/2020 3:20:58 PM

someone just died in mecklenburg co

3/29/2020 3:29:55 PM

The death rate for NC is interestingly low though, compared to other states that have the same level of infections.

3/29/2020 3:34:51 PM

Probably because of a lack of testing/reporting. Give it time.

CA and WA have somewhat flattened the curve, but good luck to NY/NJ/LA/FL/MI...

[Edited on March 29, 2020 at 4:01 PM. Reason : Hope my parents and sister and nieces and cousins and friends in NC are all safe]

3/29/2020 4:00:31 PM

damn dude, no love for your aunts and uncles??

3/29/2020 4:23:46 PM

german minister committed suicide over covid-19

spanish princess dies of covid 19

3/29/2020 5:09:32 PM

^^ none of them live in NC. Lucky them.

3/29/2020 6:03:38 PM

Lol the California guy acting like beaches haven't been packed there within the last week.

3/29/2020 6:13:23 PM

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/29/us/politics/coronavirus-liberty-university-falwell.html#click=https://t.co/OOMjf2GsSp

Liberty University opened back up. And people are getting sick. Not surprising!

3/29/2020 6:38:21 PM

Those who got sick obviously didn't give enough money to the church

3/29/2020 6:45:34 PM

this week is going to be extremely tough

3/29/2020 6:59:52 PM

aprils gonna be the worst.

3/29/2020 7:03:52 PM

It all depends.

The next 14 days in NYC are going to be pretty close to unthinkable. But given wide swaths of the Southeast who STILL aren’t mandating social distancing it’ll likely be more like 3-4 weeks until the peak.

3/29/2020 7:55:52 PM

I have noticed a really disturbing trends in some churches. Our pastor a few weeks ago was criticizing this whole thing because no one was in church. Read a few other articles of the same. It's almost stereo typical - church vs science. The 2000 year battle rages on.

[Edited on March 30, 2020 at 7:36 AM. Reason : s]

3/30/2020 7:35:55 AM

I expect we're all going to wake up Wednesday and find that this is just an elaborate April fools joke.

Easter egg on our face!

3/30/2020 8:28:31 AM

^^Oh my favorite are the people on my FB that are posting things like "how come I can go to Walmart but I can't go to church?!?"

[Edited on March 30, 2020 at 8:30 AM. Reason : .]

3/30/2020 8:30:08 AM

^^^A lot of them are feeling the pain financially, especially in older and smaller communities. Folks aren't tech savvy enough to Venmo or do online donations so the church is going to have a tough time paying the preacher.

The real shit part to me is that some churches (even some megachurches) are still holding service. One church had 3000+ in attendance I believe yesterday. What the ever loving fuck.

3/30/2020 9:10:52 AM

If you want some great graph comparisons of various countries infection rate, mortality rate and more check out John Burn Murdoch from Financial Times. He has been creating new charts on a daily basis to track this on a country by country basis.

https://twitter.com/jburnmurdoch

3/30/2020 9:15:42 AM

My uncle is a Methodist pastor in a small town church, and even they are utilizing FB Live for their sermons. They just had a few people in the fellowship hall - the band, pastor, and the person doing the FB'ing, and that was it. It's tough though because his congregation is pretty old, so a lot of them probably don't even have FB.

3/30/2020 10:47:10 AM

^Oh yea I have some friends that are pastors and whatnot and they have been doing online services with Facebook and one with Zoom. That I have no issue with whatsoever because as you said its like 3-5 people in the church. But the ones that are like, "The Lord will protect you, come to church service as usual" so they can get that offering plate circling through are the ones that I have a special disdain for.

3/30/2020 10:51:43 AM

Yea. I read where the mega churches are still going strong.

3/30/2020 11:23:56 AM

How many disaster movies have we seen where hospital tents were erected in Central Park

3/30/2020 11:26:03 AM

I think all of them.

3/30/2020 11:55:50 AM

Personally I've seen zero with that scenario.

3/30/2020 11:56:48 AM

^

3/30/2020 12:07:01 PM

^^^^

3/30/2020 12:11:24 PM

Well, maybe not Central Park, but the image is still pretty striking.

From WRAL:

12 p.m.: The formal wear clothing company Brooks Brothers is converting their operations in New York, Massachusetts and North Carolina from making ties and dress shirts to making masks and gowns. They are now making 150,000 masks a day, the company reports.

The North Carolina factory is located in Sampson County.

3/30/2020 12:34:18 PM

wow i'm surprised they had any factories in the US.

3/30/2020 1:40:47 PM

https://www.thedailybeast.com/hillsborough-sheriff-to-arrest-rodney-howard-browne-megachurch-pastor-who-flouted-virus-rules?ref=author

3/30/2020 2:03:59 PM

curve has flattened in New Orleans/Louisiana
https://twitter.com/Crimealytics/status/1244671384309170176/photo/2

https://www.accuweather.com/en/us/new-orleans/70112/march-weather/348585?year=2020

Quote :

"There are 4,025 cases in Louisiana and 1,480 in Orleans Parish as of 12 PM. That's +13.7% and +9.6% respectively relative to yesterday. Orleans Parish has increased by 10.9%, 4% and 9.6% over the last 3 days. http://council.nola.gov"

[Edited on March 30, 2020 at 2:22 PM. Reason : ]

3/30/2020 2:21:57 PM

How is it flattening if the percentage Change in 24 hours is higher than the 3 day average

3/30/2020 2:30:12 PM

Graph looks linear to me. Fake news?

3/30/2020 2:40:52 PM

Idk its just in last 24 hrs is like 14% increase and you said 3 day average was like 10.5%. I might not have read correctly

3/30/2020 2:54:56 PM

the slope is definitely decreasing. there will be variations day to day but it is more about the trend. The slope has gradually decreased for several days, so that should constitute as a flattening.

I'd be happy to see this carry across the nation over the next two weeks.

3/30/2020 3:17:25 PM

There are a ton of variables, not the least being testing rate.

New Orleans area will likely see their curve flatten far sooner than a place like Florida simply because Mardi Gras was earlier and that was the main source of community spread.

Nationally, Easter at the absolute earliest from what I’ve read from experts will be the peak and more likely 7-10 days after that.

3/30/2020 3:25:32 PM

^ peak in new Orleans?

Peaks will be different everywhere.

3/30/2020 4:16:03 PM

My uncle posted this to Facebook and got a bunch of likes

Quote :

" MOST CHRISTIANS DO NOT BELIEVE THAT THEIR LORD AND SAVIOR JESUS CHRIST CAN CURE ANY DISEASES. HOUSES OF WORSHIP, THE HOUSE OF THE LORD, ARE CLOSED. WE PREACH THAT JESUS IS THE LIGHT OF THE WORLD, YET WE DONT BELIEVE THAT HE CAN CURE THIS SICKNESS. NOW, IS THE TIME TO TEST YOUR FAITH. NOT THOSE WHO SAY “LORD LORD SHALL ENTER THE KINGDOM OF THE LORD, BUT THOSE WHO DO THE WORK OF THE LORD.” OPEN UP YOUR CHURCHES AND PRAY IN HARMONY ASKING GOD WITH ONE SINCERE ROARING VOICE REBUKING KING CORONA IN THE NAME AND BLOOD OF YOUR GOD LORD AND SAVIOR JESUS CHRIST. NOW IS THE TIME TO WORK ALL YOUR MIRACLES, NOT SHUTTING DOWN THE LORD’S HOUSE. GOD WANTS TO SEE HOW YOU ALL WILL REACT IN TIMES OF THIS DEADLY CRISIS. ITS A TEST. DON’T FAIL THE LORD BY CLOSING YOUR PLACE OF WORSHIP, AND LET THE DEVIL WINS. TRUST GOD NOT MAN. MAN WILL ALWAYS FAIL YOU."

3/30/2020 5:00:47 PM

I guess being a moron runs in the family

3/30/2020 5:37:32 PM

Quote :

"REBUKING KING CORONA"

3/30/2020 6:32:29 PM

^ 55 likes and 36 amen comments

3/30/2020 9:07:08 PM