COVID-19 Daily Analysis

May 12, 2020

Andrew Coomes
2 min readMay 12, 2020

Recorded at 12pm PST

Johns Hopkins CSSE Global COVID-19 Dashboard

Data

Global cases: 4.229M
Global deaths: 289K
Global case-fatality ratio: 6.8%
US cases: 1.358M
US deaths: 81.6K
US case-fatality ratio: 6%
Percentage of US population infected: 0.41% (roughly 1 in 245)
Percentage of NYC population infected: 2.1% (roughly 1 in 47)

Trends

  • Global case growth is accelerating (Δ +81K)
  • Global case-fatality ratio is stabilizing (no change)
  • US case growth is slowing (Δ +21K)
  • US case-fatality ratio is increasing (Δ +0.1%)

Observations

  • The outbreak continues to stabilize overall, with linear global case growth, and slowing case growth in the US.
  • Despite minor daily fluctuations, the case-fatality ratios remain fairly stable at just under 7% globally, and 6% in the US.
Daily Cases: Global (left) and US (right)

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