Update on COVID19 cases

Published by Christopher Schwarz on

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.

US and Italy compared over time. Italy +14 days

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.

Number tests per day in the U.S.

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.

Reopen State cases per day. Orange line is the 5 day moving average

We’ll see what happens as states reopen.