I haven’t posted this in a while: Comparison of US to Italy and the EU lining up the peaks.
Bottom line: The U.S. is way, way, way, way behind reducing cases. In fact, the 7 day average of cases is rising the last few days.
The effects are yet to be seen, but I can imagine this will continue to drive consumers to stay at home and may lead to new closures.
More and more states are starting to reopen here in the US. Even California will begin “Stage 2” reopening Friday (May 9). Let’s see how we are doing compared to Italy.
It’s pretty clear we are running well behind Italy in terms of curbing cases of COVID-19 in the US.
The potentially more concerning part is testing. While testing has ramped up, it is no where near the number of tests that the U.S. would need for test and trace.
The only good news is that for 5 states that have reopened, while the total number of cases remains near the peak, there has not been an explosion in new cases.
We’ll see what happens as states reopen.