News/Technical Data and Statistics

General News on Numbers and Stats

• COVID-19 IS OFFICIALLY KILLING MORE AMERICANS THAN ANYTHING ELSETHE VIRUS IS NOW KILLING MORE AMERICANS THAN HEART DISEASE, CANCER, OR ANYTHING ELSE.
  

Data Analysis and Visualization

Articles and visualization tools designed to help laypersons understand the relevance of statistics relating to the pandemic

• Covid vs. US Daily Average Cause of Death: March 1 - April 4, 2020
• Coronavirus vs. Every 2000s Epidemic (March 19 update) Fatality comparison - Video: Comparing every epidemic since 2000 fatality rates - useful to cite for those saying other ones were worse.
• Covid Act Now - State by State data for deadlines for action for statewide action: Nothing vs "Social Distancing" vs "Shelter-in-Place" orders
• Is the US 'flattening the curve'?
• Worldometers.com
• NCOV2019 Live Data
• John Hopkins Medical Center COVID-19 Dashboard
• Coronavirus Near Me
• CoronaClock Live - timing of new infections, deaths and recoveries in the US based on CDC and WHO statistics
• YouTube: (LIVE) Coronavirus Pandemic: Real Time Counter, World Map, News
• Financial Times: Coronavirus tracked

Video Explanations for Math-Noobs like Me

• What This Chart Actually Means - Video: Explanation of exponential growth and why we're seeing the numbers relating to C19

Data Collection

• The COVID Tracking Project - The COVID Tracking Project collects information from 50 US states, the District of Columbia, and 5 other US territories to provide the most comprehensive testing data we can collect for the novel coronavirus, SARS-CoV-2. We attempt to report positive and negative results, pending tests, and total people tested for each state or district currently reporting that data.

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