520K dead, but things are getting better
The pace of deaths and cases is declining rapidly. The numbers are still incredibly high, but they are going down. We haven’t had a day with over 200K cases in over a month and we’ve had nearly 2 weeks of cases under 100K. That has not happened since October. However, since deaths lag cases, deaths will continue to surpass 2,000 a day, though we hit our peak a few weeks ago. But these should begin to decline even further.
Deaths
10K: April 4th
20K: April 10th (6 days to reach total)
40K: April 19th (9 days)
60K: April 29th (10 days)
80K: May 9th (10 days)
100K: May 26 (17 days)
120K: June 18th (23 days)
140K: July 15th (27 days)
160K: August 4th ( 20 days)
180K: August 22nd (18 days)
200K: September 15th (24 days)
220K: October 12th ( 27 days)
240K: November 5th (24 days)
260K: November 20th (15 days)
280K: December 3rd (13 days)
300K: December 11th (8 days)
320K: December 18th (7 days)
340K: December 27th (9 days)
360K: January 3rd (7 days)
380K: January 9th (6 days)
400K: January 15th (6 days)
420K: January 21st (6 days)
440K: January 28th (7 days)
460K: February 3rd (6 days)
480K: February 10th (7 days)
500K: February 17th (7 days)
520K: February 25th (8 days)
Currently averaging 20K deaths every 12.84 days (doesn’t include the time to reach first 20K). Death rate is decreasing. We are still at a record breaking pace of deaths. With cases staying at 50-75K cases a day, the death rate is going to stay elevated for a while.
Total Cases:
100K: March 27th
1M: April 27th (31 days)
2M: June 7th (42 days)
3M: July 6th (29 days)
4M: July 21st (15 days)
5M: August 6th (16 days)
6M: August 27th (21 days)
7M: September 18th (22 days)
8M: October 11th (23 days)
9M: October 27th (16 days)
10M: November 6th (10 days)
11M: November 13th (7 days)
12M: November 19th (6 days)
13M: November 25th (6 days)
14M: December 1st (6 days)
15M: December 6th (5 days)
16M: December 10th (4 days)
17M: December 15th (5 days)
18M: December 19th (4 days)
19M: December 24th (5 days)
20M: December 29th (5 days)
21M: January 3rd (5 days)
22M: January 7th (4 days)
23M: January 11th (4 days)
24M: January 15th (4 days)
25M: January 20th (5 days)
26M: January 26th (6 days)
27M: February 2nd (7 days)
28M: February 11th (9 days)
29M: February 25th (14 days)
Case growth is slowing down quickly. We haven’t seen a slowdown like this since October. The big variable is, how do the variants impact case growth and will we be able to vaccinate enough people to mitigate the variant growth?
I use www.worldometers.info/…
Other sources:
Nytimes: 505,642
Washington Post: 506K
Covid Tracking project: 495,070
CNN: 507,465
NBC: 508,954
IHME: 503,654
Johns Hopkins: 505,900
CDC: 501,181
CDC Vaccine Tracker: covid.cdc.gov/...