VIRUS STATS WEDNESDAY

This week so far, the daily change in number of cases compared to the previous week:

·        Globally up 20%

·        USA up 212%

·        China and South Korea no change

Death rate change during same period:

·        USA is is up slightly

·        Very small increase globally, in China and South Korea

·        Worse: Italy and Iran

States with most cases by percentage of death

·        Washington 5.0%

·        Georgia 3.4%

·        Louisiana 3.3%

·        California 2%

·        New York, New Jersey, Michigan, Illinois, Florida and Massachusetts all under 1.5%

CORRECTION: The death rate for Germany is 0.6%

	1-Feb	1-Mar	7-Mar	14-Mar	21-Mar	25-Mar
CASES
Global		7169	21114	61513	266073	435006
China	11821	79968	80817	81021	81416	81605
Italy	2	1228	4646	17660	47021	69176
USA	7	62	213	1678	15219	55225
Spain						47610
Iran		593	4747	11354	19644	27077
Germany						22637
S Korea	12	3736	6767	8086	8759	9137
DEATH RATE
Italy		2.4%	4.2%	7.1%	8.6%	9.9%
Iran		7.2%	2.7%	4.5%	7.3%	7.7%
Spain						7.0%
Germanmy						4.9%
Global		1.4%	2.0%	3.6%	4.2%	4.5%
China		3.4%	3.8%	3.9%	3.9%	4.0%
S Korea		0.5%	0.7%	0.9%	1.2%	1.4%
USA			5%	1.1%	1.3%	1.5%
Last US flu epidemic						0.1%
Red/Green = worse/better than previous