COVID 19 UPDATES: 12 / 5 / 2020

As the pandemic spreads to OUT OF CONTROL NUMBERS THAT WILL KEEP GETTING WORSE, we still have about 6 weeks of President Blunder and the GREAT HUMAN TRAGEDY that his COVID response could charitably be described as.

WORLDOMETER stats:

  • +235,272 new cases yesterday (new record)
  • +2,718 new deaths yesterday  (4th highest 1 day total)
  • 1.3 million cases in last 7 days
  • 14,497 deaths in the last 7 days (11,181 in the last 4 days alone)

JOHNS HOPKINS

America currently has a 7 day positive test rate of 10.3%.  5 states plus DC have a positive rate of 5% or less, and 28 states have a positive rate of 10% or greater.

  • Idaho, South Dakota, and Kansas have the highest positive rates
  • Kansas, Rhode Island, and Montana have the highest new case rates

COVID TRACKING PROJECT stats

  • Hospitalizations  101,276 (new record)
  • In ICU Ward  19,858 (new record)
  • On Ventilator  6,999 (71 short of May 7 record)

Data compiled by, snake-