COVID-19 Daily Analysis
April 5, 2020
1 min readApr 5, 2020
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Recorded at 1:15pm PST
Data
Global cases: 1.260M
Global recovered: 258K
Global recovery rate: 20.5%
Global deaths: 68K
Global lethality rate: 5.4%
US cases: 331K
US recovered: 16.8K
US deaths: 9.4K
US lethality rate: 2.8%
Percentage of US population infected: approx. 0.1%
Takeaways
- Global cases have stopped accelerating (Δ +73K)
- Global recovery rate is falling (Δ -0.2%)
- Global lethality rate is stabilizing (no change)
- US cases have stopped accelerating (Δ +30K)
- US lethality rate continues to climb (Δ +0.1%)
- The US infection index (ratio of infected) is approx. 1 in 1,000
- The NYC infection index is approx. 1 in 132
Observations
- Case counts may be slowing down, but it’s too early to tell.
Data source: Johns Hopkins CSSE ARCGIS global dashboard
https://www.arcgis.com/apps/opsdashboard/index.html#/bda7594740fd40299423467b48e9ecf6