
Covid versus Flu – Covid19
By Ross Thrasher How does COVID-19 compare to influenza? The Centers for Disease Control (CDC) estimates that 12,000 to 61,000 American deaths annually since 2010 can be blamed on the ...
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Testing – Covid19
by Ross Thrasher My previous posts have included some rather basic analyses of the www.worldometers.info data on COVID-19. I have focused mainly on total cases and deaths in various countries, ...
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Worldwide Spread Continues – Covid19
by Ross Thrasher Measuring and predicting the progress of COVID-19 is not an exact science, as explained in this informative website: https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/a-comic-strip-tour-of-the-wild-world-of-pandemic-modeling/ According to worldometers.info, the pandemic shows no sign ...
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Cases Increase while States Begin to Open in the US – Covid19
by Ross Thrasher Worldometers.info reports 3.3 million worldwide coronavirus cases as of today, April 30, and 233,000 deaths. The USA has topped 63,000 fatalities from COVID-19, and on Monday exceeded the ...
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Reflections on a Pandemic – Covid19
by Ross Thrasher No numbers this time, just some rambling thoughts about how some good could emerge from the pandemic that is strangling our world. In spite of denialism and ...
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Cases Consistently Increasing Daily – Covid19
Rosco Reports by Ross Thrasher The COVID-19 virus continues its relentless march around the globe, with total cases consistently increasing daily by around 80,000 and deaths by several thousand per ...
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The Positivity Rate – Covid19
Rosco Reports IV by Ross Thrasher Today's international coronavirus totals: 2.4 million cases and 165,000 deaths. The USA represents nearly one-third of these cases and almost one-quarter of the fatalities ...
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The Coronavirus Curve – Covid19
Rosco Reports III by Ross Thrasher On April 15 the global tally of coronavirus cases passed the two-million mark, growing by 80,000 daily. 25% of these have recovered and 6.5% ...
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Canada-USA Comparison – Covid19
Rosco Reports II by Ross Thrasher The penetration of this pandemic into all jurisdictions is quite remarkable. Case in point: the American states and Canadian provinces, not one of which ...
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