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.