Texas Cases Climbing

One of the largest states to reopen – Texas – continues to see an increase in the number of new cases per day.

In fact you can see that out side of April 9, the last 4 days have represented the highest new cases per day.

The questions are a. will this trend continue? and b. Do political leaders care? If it does and they do, this will have serious repercussions for our economic recovery.

More generally, it seems that the US has many people that are social distanced out. Even in the hardest hit areas – NJ and NY – people are going out as soon as they can.

Finally Passing the Test

Cases continue to run way above Italy’s +14 day pace. However, there is some good news on the graph today.

US vs. Italy (+14) new cases

The good news is that FINALLY testing is catching up. For the first time we have positive cases less than 5% of total tests. And testing is going up and cases are going down.

The next question is will this trend continue as states try to reopen.