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On March 14th, 2020, I began posting COVID-19 updates to my facebook page, regarding the status of the COVID-19 pandemic. I have used data from worldometer as a primary source for daily and cumulative data, with frequent supplementation from various national and local sites.  Notables this week: new cases continued to fall sharply in both the USA and worldwide deaths remained about the same both in the USA and worldwide This blog post compiles the period of January 25th through 30th, 2021. see  https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/  for more January 25 | January 26 | January 27 | January 28 | January 30 JANUARY 25 100,000. Today's counts Location Total Cases Cases Today Total Deaths Deaths Today World 100.28 million 454,381 2.150 million 9,835 USA 25.86 million 152,054 431,407 1,912 Per worldometer tallies, the world passed the 100 mi...

On March 14th, I began posting COVID-19 updates to my facebook page, regarding the status of the COVID-19 pandemic. I have used data from worldometer as a primary source for daily and cumulative data, with frequent supplementation from various national and local sites.  Notables this week: death counts set new records worldwide but fell in the USA cases numbers declined sharply in both worldwide and in the USA hospitalizations fell sharply in the USA A new President took office in the USA, signaling a change in Federal policy for handling the virus This blog post compiles the period of January 18th through 23rd, 2021. see  https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/  for more January 18 | January 19 | January 20 | January 21 | January 22 | January 23 JANUARY 18 Today's counts Location Total Cases Cases Today Total Deaths Deaths Today World 96.02 million 483,993 2.050 million ...

Election Day 2020, outside the precinct: Quiet and peaceful On Election Day in 2016, I walked to my polling place, over a couple streets and down a bike path from my home. I took a snapshot of the empty bikepath. Just a thing of tranquility, with leaves on the ground, a reminder of, as I said at the time, "what my America looks like today." The before times photo, as it were. I've spent some time this evening re-reading what I wrote then :  "Ever since Brexit I felt that Donald Trump was likely to win the election. There were too many single-issue (or nearly single-issue) voters: The voters who would vote Pro-Life. The voters who would vote Gun Rights. The voters who would vote Supreme Court (often in support of Pro-Life or Gun Rights or "Religious Rights"). Too many disaffected, who wanted to hear that magic word: "change." They were going to vote for him so long as he seemed to speak for them, even if he was personally a scoundrel or worse, even...

On March 14th, I began posting COVID-19 updates to my facebook page, regarding the status of the COVID-19 pandemic. I have used data from worldometer as a primary source for daily and cumulative data, with frequent supplementation from various national and local sites.  Notables this week: death counts set new records this week in the USA and worldwide cases numbers declined both worldwide and in the USA World deaths surpassed 2 million, while USA deaths surpassed 400,000 China reported its first COVID-19 death in 8 months This blog post compiles the period of January 10th through 16th, 2021. see  https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/  for more January 10 | January 11 | January 12 | January 13 | January 14 | January 15 | January 16 JANUARY 10 Today's counts Location Total Cases Cases Today Total Deaths Deaths Today World 90.74 million 639,054 1.943 million 9,251 ...

On March 14th, I began posting COVID-19 updates to my facebook page, regarding the status of the COVID-19 pandemic. I have used data from worldometer as a primary source for daily and cumulative data, with frequent supplementation from various national and local sites.  Notables this week: cases and deaths set new records this week in the USA and worldwide The UK implemented another full lockdown as the new strain helped propel new records there The USA surpassed 300,000 cases and 4,000 deaths on a single day for the first time The Capitol riot has the potential to be another super-spreader event This blog post compiles the period of January 4th through January 9th, 2021. see  https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/  for more January 4 | January 5 | January 6 | January 7 | January 8 | January 9 JANUARY 4 Today's counts Location Total Cases Cases Today Total Deaths Deaths Today World 86.14 ...

On March 14th, I began posting COVID-19 updates to my facebook page, regarding the status of the COVID-19 pandemic. I have used data from worldometer as a primary source for daily and cumulative data, with frequent supplementation from various national and local sites.  Notables this week: cases and deaths were up this week in the USA and worldwide roll-out of the vaccines in the USA proceeded at a pace that was far slower than expected The USA recorded nearly 6.5 million new cases in December, and more than 80,000 deaths This blog post compiles the period of December 27th, 2020 through January 2nd, 2021. see  https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/  for more December 27 | December 28 | December 29 | December 30 | December 31 | January 1 | January 2 DECEMBER 27 Today's counts Location Total Cases Cases Today Total Deaths Deaths Today World 81.20 million 437,079 1.772 millio...