Leaders around the world are taking additional steps to combat the COVID pandemic. Our friends in Europe began a couple of weeks ago, now the state of Utah is getting into the action. Luckily, the measures taken here by Governor Herbert fall short of a hard lockdown, and are thus far less stringent than in other places.
Here are some resources for anyone who might be wondering where things actually stand here and elsewhere. Yes, cases are increasing everywhere, but how bad are things in reality? These interative graphics are from ourworldindata.org. This tool is incredible, enabling a dynamic look at many different countries, situations, and timelines. Check them out and make whatever changes curosity might suggest!
First is a look at the status of cases in the United States and several countries of Western Europe:
It looks pretty awful in a few places, but where do things stand with deaths, the saddest statistic of all? The curve is at present surprisingly flat in several places, including the US, due either to improved therapeutics or a decrease in the virulence of the SARS-CoV2 virus:
Finally, death rates (as measured by the Case Fatality Rate (CFR) not the Infection Fatality Rate (IFR), which would account for the MANY assymptomatic and perhaps infectious cases being found worldwide), are decreasing drastically around the world. Indeed, these are a fraction of what they were a few weeks ago:
