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canyonwalkerPeriodically I look check in on statistics about the spread of Covid-19 cases locally and in the US. My favorite site for numerical charts and statistics is the New York Times. I start with their page, California Coronavirus Map and Case Count. Here's their daily new case rate for California as of today, March 23:
In this chart you can see that California's new case rate, with the 7-day moving average marking with the dark red line, has continued tapering down. Elsewhere on the page is a table indicating that the 7-day average per 100,000 residents is currently 7. That's a huge improvement from a few months ago, during the December/January "third surge" [link to my blog on the topic], when the rate was near 100. You can see the difference, visually, in the trend in the chart above.
What about the rest of the country? Well, there's been improvement, but not so much recently. Here's the chart from the Times's corresponding page, Coronavirus in the U.S.: Latest Map and Case Count:
You can see that while the US has come down from the peak of the January surge, nationwide the trend of improvement leveled off. Nationwide the new case rate is almost as bad as during last summer's "second surge". With vaccinations helping reduce the current number that's not exactly good.
Well, at least in California it's good. Our per-100k case rate of 7 is less than half the nationwide rate of 16. And that rate of 7 puts California among the safest handful of states in the country. The safest state, Hawaii, is only slightly lower at 6.
In this chart you can see that California's new case rate, with the 7-day moving average marking with the dark red line, has continued tapering down. Elsewhere on the page is a table indicating that the 7-day average per 100,000 residents is currently 7. That's a huge improvement from a few months ago, during the December/January "third surge" [link to my blog on the topic], when the rate was near 100. You can see the difference, visually, in the trend in the chart above.
What about the rest of the country? Well, there's been improvement, but not so much recently. Here's the chart from the Times's corresponding page, Coronavirus in the U.S.: Latest Map and Case Count:
You can see that while the US has come down from the peak of the January surge, nationwide the trend of improvement leveled off. Nationwide the new case rate is almost as bad as during last summer's "second surge". With vaccinations helping reduce the current number that's not exactly good.
Well, at least in California it's good. Our per-100k case rate of 7 is less than half the nationwide rate of 16. And that rate of 7 puts California among the safest handful of states in the country. The safest state, Hawaii, is only slightly lower at 6.
