Monday, September 7, 2020

Post-Sturgis: Time To Check In On Wuhan Flu AKA Covid-19 -- September 7, 2020

The usual disclaimer applies.

Texas, North Dakota, and South Dakota have each had a recent spike in cases. That's to be expected. I would be surprised if otherwise.

  • North Dakota: back to playing high school football
  • South Dakota: never shut down; recent Sturgis rally
  • Texas: re-opening, as planned

Following the Sturgis rally, August 7 - August 16, 2020:

  • estimated attendance: 250,000
  • one death has been associated with the rally
    • a 60-year-old Minnesota man, "underlying medical conditions"
  • 1 / 250,000 = 4 / 1 million
  • NY state: 1,702 deaths / 1 million

Link here to coronavirus stats by state.

Wrong link. Sorry. Here's the correct link.  

Be sure to set the search criteria to "yesterday."

Then, deaths / one million population.

In a league of their own:

  • New Jersey: 1,812
  • New York: 1,700
  • Massachusetts: 1,324
  • Connecticut: 1,253
  • Louisiana: 1,096

Not far behind:

  • Rhode Island: 996
  • Mississippi: 868
  • DC: 866
  • Arizona: 717
  • Michigan: 681

That rounds out the top 10. Others, ranking and deaths / one million population:

  • US: with 584 deaths / million -- sits between Pennsylvania (614) and Georgia (569)
  • Texas at #19: 475
  • New Mexico at #22 with 383; for all the press it gets, NM actually doing quite well;
  • Minnesota at #27 with 338; with perhaps the most strict lock down rules in the US;
  • North Dakota at #39 with 205
  • South Dakota at #41 with 196, despite Sturgis and all that traffic between Rapid City and Sioux Falls;
  • Oregon at #45 with an incredible low figure of 114 deaths per million population;

Where it all started:

  • Grand Princess Ship with three deaths total
  • Diamond Princess Ship with no deaths

Of note:

  • Navajo Nation: 522 total deaths to date; denominator not provided;

For all the attention they get, cruise ships look pretty safe, and then one has to factor in the average age of those on ship.

One of several reasons I don't follow cases: link here.


Unless she is in a "family burial plot," she is self-quarantining.

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