COVID-19 in other countries

The US had 4 Million new cases added during November, double the record set in October
Covid-19 Updates: The U.S. Passes 4 Million Cases in November Alone, Doubling October’s Tally

 

Just to clarify - 4M new cases for November - from 9M at the start of November to 13M now. However, there an additional 2M active cases.

That would be a daily new case count (just to clarify).

Edit: I've read one report that states that the 205,000 figure is because many states didn't report figures on Thanyksgiving on Thursday, leaving the reporting until Friday. Regardless, US cases are getting out of control, and will get a lot worse before they get better.

 

When processing the VirusChat stats, I was surprised to see Turkey jump up the rankings in a big way.

Looking at the charts - they've added huge numbers of cases in the last two days:



... however, this is incongruous with deaths, which have been growing consistently for the past several months:




... so it really does seem like they've been holding back on reporting their case figures for several months now.

You know what also happened less than two weeks ago in Turkey? The F1 Grand Prix - held there for the first time in 9 years and which attracted massive global media coverage.

I'm not trying to conflate these two factors - but it does make you wonder whether they deliberately held off updating their official stats until after the GP was held?

Could just be coincidence.

 

No there were no fans in attendance - the weather was really cold and miserable anyway.

I'm very curious to see yesterday's numbers - which should be published by JHU any minute now.

 

With many scientists suggesting the true numbers could be ten times higher than the reported numbers, and assuming many might have caught a mild case and either don't know they've had it, or didn't ever front up to a doctor or hospital, I wonder if that means rather than 12 million reported cases, it could be closer to 120 million cases?

If so, I wonder what that does to the projections?

I'd assume that could mean one third of the US population has had it?

The only person I know who's had it said she had mild symptoms. She isolated herself after flying in from Italy back in early March. Her two siblings on the same flight had it too. None of their extended family back in Italy had it. That plane full of people possibly had lots of cases, as the air-con was turned off (absolutely the wrong thing to do, but early days I guess they thought it would stop the spread through the plane, whilst it would have had the exact opposite affect).

 

Another 30,000 cases added yesterday in Turkey - that's 110,000 cases added in 3 days when their previous average was around 2K cases per day

 

Changes aren't just ingrained, they're political. Many would not a copy any changes made by Biden. Any attempt to enforce something like mask wearing might provoke strong reactions or more.

 

I wonder if some states might do as we've done here and close borders to control the virus in their own state? Anyone with a brain over there could see how the hard lockdown in New York City turned around a very bad situation. Cuomo is admired by many for doing what he did and reviled by just as many who oppose his politics.

But it worked. Blind Freddy can see that. But so many in the US cannot manage to see the nose in front of the faces.

 

New York's second wave is rapidly approaching the levels of its first - COVID-19 charts for New York, US



... however deaths have been well under control, which is probably why they are not rushing into more lockdowns




Illinois and Texas are currently seeing the highest number of deaths per day out of all the states.

 

They can certainly act to reduce the rate of growth - parts of Europe have done that quite successfully.

However, I do agree that getting it completely under control like we have in Australia, Singapore and NZ - is not going to be possible now - the cost (social / economic / political / etc) will be too great.

 

I was interested to know more about this, but I've had trouble trying to find more information. Do you have a reference please? Or at least, more specific information to see what the story is? I couldn't find anything from Fauci, if that's who you're talking about. Thanks!