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last updated 24 Sep 2024

I was updating this site following COVID rates worldwide since 2020, but stopped when the pandemic was declared over in 2023.

The The US ended the national emergency for Covid-19 in April 2023 and the World Health Organization (WHO) declared an end to the global Public Health Emergency (PHE) for COVID-19 in May.
I started updating some national and California data again in the summer of 2024 when the summer surge was earlier and higher than in 2023.

Contents:
Current trends for the things I update regularly.
National, California
N California: Davis, Sacramento, Woodland, Winters, Palo Alto, Napa, Santa Rosa

Old Data: Executive Summary | Timeline| Historical Data | News | World | US Historical | California Historical


United States and Northern California Current Trends
Click on charts to get the latest results.

United States:
Aug 23
The summer Covid-19 surge is continuing. In California, the recent COVID-19 wave posted some of the highest summer cases since 2022, according to the California Department of Public Health.

New Vaccines:
The Food and Drug Administration approved updated Covid-19 vaccines from Pfizer and one from Moderna on August 22, paving the way for the shots to soon land in pharmacies, doctors’ offices and health centers.
Representatives from the drug companies said that their shots were ready to ship immediately after approval. One from Novavax will come later.
They were available from CVS on August 28. Both vaccines target KP.2, a strain of the coronavirus that started to spread widely this spring. The variants that are most prevalent in the United States right now are very similar to KP.2, but differ substantially from last winter’s variants.and so the vaccines should protect against them.
Dr. Carlos del Rio, a distinguished professor of medicine at Emory University and expert on infectious disease said,
If you had it in the last three months, I would wait. There's no need to get a vaccine, because in a way you’ve been 'vaccinated' by the by the current strain.
You might consider waiting until September or October if you want maximal protection through the anticipated winter COVID-19 wave, as well as over the holidays.
On the other hand, if you haven’t recently had Covid, and especially if you’re 65 or older, or have underlying health conditions, I would get it as soon as possible,"

The exact side effects of a COVID-19 vaccine or booster will vary from person to person.
In general, the CDC says people may experience:

Test Kits:
The Antigen Rapid test kits you use at home are still good because the virus protein detected by antigen tests has not changed much over the last two years, unlike other parts of the virus that have undergone many mutations.
How long are the test kits good?
My Abbot BinaxNOW kits had an original expiration date of 24-01-14 but had a sticker on the box with a new date of 24-08-07 on the box.
My Pharmacy said if the control line (C) is pink/purple the test is good. If it is blue or not visible the test is invalid.
My iHealth kit with an expiration date of 25-09-12 still had a bright red control line almost a year later (24-8-25).

June 20
A summertime wave of COVID-19 infections is arriving earlier than last year across a growing share of the country according to the CDC.
Some Causes:


Recent Charts and Graphs:

The CDC web page is Updated Mondays and Fridays by 8PM ET
Click on images below to get the current data.

As of August 16, 2024, we estimate that COVID-19 infections are growing or likely growing in 27 states, declining or likely declining in 4 states, and are stable or uncertain in 17 states.

The rate is estimated using data on emergency department visits. Prior to May 10, 2024, the rate was estimated using data on hospital admissions. Preliminary internal comparisons showed that data on emergency department visits and hospital admissions produced similar Rt estimates.
Rt is a data-driven measure of disease transmission. Rt is an estimate on date t of the average number of new infections caused by each infectious person.



Wastewater Results for the Western and United States:

Testing for viruses in wastewater has become a standard for measuring the level of infections. We see fewer hospitalizations and deaths as the the effects of the virus have become less severe because of vaccinations, built up immunity, and other factors.
Wastewater testing results are more correlated with infection rates than other measures.
See SCAN


California

In California, the recent COVID-19 wave posted some of the highest summer cases since 2022, according to the California Department of Public Health.


Summer and Winter Surges
summer winter summer winter summer
2022 2022-23 2023 2023-24 2024
US 7/1-9/1 12/15 – 1/15 8/15 - 10/1 12/1 – 2/1 7/1-
Calfiornia 8/15 – 9/15 12/15 – 1/20 6/15 -
Davis, CA 5/15 -8/1 11/15 – 1/15 8/10 – 10/20 12/10 - 2-1 6/10 -

Some Northern California Localities Wastewater Statistics

Davis, Sacramento, Woodland, Winters, Palo Alto, Napa, Santa Rosa

See Healthy Central Valley together for Woodland, Winters, Esparto, ...
But they are all lumped together and hard to read.

The charts below with the SARS-CoV-2 title are from The Sewer Coronavirus Alert Network (SCAN), a new national wastewater monitoring system that monitors 10 different pathogens in municipal wastewater systems in major cities; Including SARS-CoV-2, Influenza, RSV, Norovirus, Hepatitis A and others.
See SCAN

Davis


Sacramento

Woodland

Winters
As of July 27, June 26 seems to be the last update.

Half Moon Bay seems to have stopped reporting in July.

Palo Alto

Pacifica - No data

Santa Rosa

Napa


National Wastewater Sewer Alert Network (SCAN) Levels For SARS-CoV-2 June 22, 2024

Executive Summary

Variants Dates Peak daily infection rate
per 100,000/
Daily Deaths per 1M
N. America Europe S. America USA
Alpha March 2020 - July 2021 47/8 39/7 33/11 76/11
Delta July 2021 - Nov. 2021 33/5 50/5 18/5 50/6
Omicron * December 2021 - 150/5 207/4 89/4 241/8
Cumulative thru Feb 14, 2023
% Infected 20.3% 33.2% 15.5% 30.4%
Deaths per Million 2,629 2,722 3,086 3,298
Average daily rates February , 2023
Daily New Cases per 100,000 6.6 6.6 3.1 10.1
Daily Deaths per Million 1.08 0.55 0.40 1.68
- North America includes Central America, the Caribbean and Greenland.
* The Omicron peak was on or before Jan 31, 2022 for the above.
Omicron infects different cells in the upper respiratory tract rather than in the lungs, which makes it more transmissible but less severe than the previous variants.
The death rates were slightly lower even though the infection rates 4 or more times higher, so the death per infection were about ¼ the rate of previous
Variants.

See Variant map and history


Brief Timeline

California Historical Data

Northern California Counties Cumulative to May 26, 2023
Cases per
100,000
Deaths per
100,000
Fully
Vaccinated
United States 32,366 352 70%
California 31,054 260 81%
Bay Area
Alameda 24,934 131 86.0%
Contra-Costa 26,500 141 86.2%
Marin 18,206 100 89.8%
Napa 26,037 125 79.4%
San Francisco 24,582 140 87.3%
San Mateo 25,813 98 87.7%
Sonoma 24,170 114 85.7%
Santa Clara 26,313 146 87.9%
Solano 28,370 109 71.2%
Greater Sacramento
El Dorado 21,253 132 64.4%
Placer 24,442 180 72.3%
Sacramento 27,583 239 71.8%
Sierra 12,765 171 54.1%
Sutter 29,836 251 62.0%
Yolo 25,936 211 75.4%
Source: Tracking the coronavirus in California ,| LA Times
US Historical Data
Oct 20, 2023
US States Cumulative Death Rates
Total Deaths
Death per million | worldmeter
1 Arizona * 4640
2 West Virginia 4602
3 Mississippi 4527
4 New Mexico * 4405
5 Arkansas 4389
6 Tennessee 4370
7 Michigan 4348
8 Alabama 4311
9 Kentucky 4294
10 Florida 4264
11 Louisiana 4142
12 New Jersey † 4091
13 Oklahoma 4083
14 Georgia 4075
15 Pennsylvania 4021
16 New York † 4015
17 Indiana 3986
18 Nevada 3948
19 South Carolina 3945
20 Rhode Island 3933
21 Missouri 3711
22 South Dakota 3652
23 Ohio 3638
24 Massachusetts 3626
25 Delaware 3580
USA Average 3565
26 Wyoming 3558
27 Kansas 3511
28 Montana 3473
29 Connecticut † 3465
30 Iowa 3422
31 Illinois 3315
32 North Dakota 3298
33 Texas 3282
34 Idaho 3068
35 Wisconsin 2878
36 Maryland 2823
37 Virginia 2782
38 North Carolina 2771
39 Minnesota 2755
40 Colorado 2671
41 California 2664
42 Nebraska 2617
43 Maine 2337
44 New Hampshire 2296
45 Oregon 2263
46 Washington 2121
47 District Of Columbia 2032
48 Alaska 2030
49 Utah 1696
50 Vermont 1489
51 Hawaii 1452
* Arizona and New Mexico have the highest percentage of Native Americans.
Mortality rates for Native Americans were 2.8 times as high as that for the white's according to a December, 2021 Princeton study.
Arizona - Native Americans make up 4.6% of Arizona's population, but 16% of those who have died of COVID-19.
If you discount the Native American numbers Arizona's death rate would be 4,040 which would put them at #13.

New Mexico - Native Americans make up 11% of New Mexico's population, but 50% of those who have died of COVID-19.
If you discount the Native American numbers New Mexico's death rate would be 2,463 which would it at #42.

† The tri-state area, New York, New Jersey and Connecticut, death rates were initially the highest.
New York, New Jersey and Connecticut were the first states to be hit hard in the Spring of 2020 with case rates 3-5 times higher than the national average. Hospitals were still learning how to treat it.
And they had increased exposure because of international travel to New York City and New York City commuters in New Jersey and Connecticut.

Deaths as a function of % of a state voting for Trump in 2020

There is a stronger correlation here than with vaccination rate
Probably because most Trump voters have 2 bad habits: 1. Not wearing masks in addition to 2. Not getting vaccinated.
The median for Biden voters is 1320 deaths per million; for Trump voters is 1890 deaths per million.
i.e. a 43% higher death rate for Trump voters.
With 332 million people in the US about half following Trump guidelines for COVID safety that is 94 million unnecessary deaths.
This is a simple analysis. Other variables should be considered. e.g. Many more Trump voters live in rural areas with lower healthcare availability.

Pro-Trump counties now have three times the COVID death rates. Misinformation is to blame | NPR Dec. 2021>


World Data:


Oceania [½ of 1% of the world population] includes Australia (59% of the population), Melanesia (Papua New Guinea, Fiji, Solomon Islands, ...), Micronesia (Marshal Islands, ...), and Polynesia (New Zealand, Samoa, ... )
Cumulative Case Rate:

Cumulative Death Rate: Dec 2023

Asia is low because of significant undercounting in China and India.

See also Surges
The WHO Western Pacific Region Oceania, notably New Zealand and Australia plus smaller island countries had the highest case rates in 2022, but they had the lowest case rates in 2020 and 2021. Other countries in the WHO's Western Pacific Region, South Korea, Japan, Taiwan had a similar pattern.
But they had the lowest cumulative death rates over the life of the pandemic, < 800 per million, compared to the US, Europe and South America which were mostly > 2,000.
See Omicron spread below.

These are charts I update more frequently, weekly or monthly or are more significant. You can click on most charts at this site to go to the current version at the source. Sometimes you may have to scroll down to find a specific chart.

So it is much lower than the 1918 flu where there were somewhere between 17 and 50 million deaths (0.9% - 2.8% of the population).


Historical Data:
Most of the information below is not currently being updated.
In May 2023 the CDC switched from counting cases to counting hospitalizations.
As of December 2023 the California department of health stopped reporting county data.
As of December 2023 US county hospitalization rates are still being reported in the CDC's map.
As of January 2024 I couldn't find any data from the WHO that included cases, hospitalizations or deaths for the US, Europe and South America.

The bottom Line - Deaths:
As of December 2023 the official reported world death count from COVID-19 is 7 million.
As of January 2023, taking into account likely COVID induced deaths via excess deaths (all deaths before COVID-19 vs deaths during COVID-19) suggests the pandemic has caused between 16 and 28.2 million deaths (0.2% - 0.4% of the world population).

So it is much lower than the 1918 flu which lasted from 1918 to 1920 where there were somewhere between 17 and 50 million deaths (0.9% - 2.8% of the population).

See Data Accuracy

Note: As of April 2023 many sources are only updating every several weeks.
As of August 7, 2023 the Americas Region stopped reporting COVID-19 stats to the WHO


Background:
I started this page when the media was reporting the total number of new cases. 1,000 new cases in California is not as significant as 1,000 new cases in Nevada.
I wanted to know the probability of running into someone with COVID in the grocery store, so started listing deaths per 100,000 and deaths which at the beginning were more accurate than new cases.
InIn May 2023 rates had dropped to around 2% of their highs and because with vaccinations symptoms were so mild that many cases were not being counted.
Hospitalizations, which were more accurate, were about 4% of their previous highs.
The CDC and many others made hospitalizations the statistic of choice, so many of the charts here were not being updated.
The best statistics were test positivity and wastewater testing which showed trends but couldn't be correlated with actual number of cases. There is more detailed information about the US and North Central California where most of my friends and family live.

We are tracking 56 countries of interest based on size (generally population > 5 M) tourism, economy (G20), relationships with the U.S., and tracked by the The World Health Organization (WHO) out of 230 countries and territories tracked by worldmeter and 218 in Our World in Data and worldvision. The U.N. lists 193 countries plus 3 non members who have nation-hood rights (Vatican City, Taiwan, and Kosovo)
There are many smaller countries with higher rates.


Contents:
News   Summer 2023 Surge
Executive Summary
I've made copies of of all the charts I update regularly here. They may also appear in detail sections.
I divided it into three sections:
In August 2023 I add a new section Surges

Overview by phases (Variants)
Trends (new cases per day)
The bottom line (cumulative deaths per capita)


Objective
The Numbers:
World: Summary | Detail | India | Latin America | Asia | .Africa | UK - New Variant | Case Positivity Rate
United States:: Summary | Detail | Epicenters | U.S. Vaccination Progress
California: Summary | Detail | CA Current notes: | Tiers: | Vaccination Progress | California Timeline (historical)
| North Central California Counties | Holiday surge | Davis | Yolo County | Santa Clara County | 1918 Flu

Sources


News See older news below:

Surges

In May 2023 infection rates had dropped to around 2% of their highs and because with vaccinations symptoms were so mild that many cases were not being counted.
The CDC and many others have now made hospitalizations the statistic of choice.

We are seeing summer surge for the 3rd year, but of the 56 countries we are monitoring only South Korea, New Zealand Australia had more than 30 new cases per million at the end of July. (At the peak of the outbreak at the beginning of 2022, there were a dozen countries with an average of more than 1,000 new cases per million per day)

This can be attributed to:

There have been Winter surges regularly too.
Partly because of the same reason -- People are staying inside because of the weather,
and new variants were emerging.
See also Variant Surges

United States and Northern California Current Trends
The hospitalizations on Jan 1, 2024 were 80% of those a year earlier.

Note: The actual infection rate is probably closer to the Omicron hight. Fewer people are getting hospitalized because of mild symptoms due to vaccinations and immunity from exposure.

US County hospitalization rates:
This chart is no longer being updated.

California
The January 1st rate was 72% of the high of 22.3 on Jan 6 2022.

Some Counties I watch:

World:
Most places have stopped reporting new cases. The CDC has transitioned to hospitalizations as the primary measure, but the WHO still reports new cases .
The WHO dashboard shows a 50% increase global new cases in the month ended August 14 compared to the previous month, but it was 1.5% of the global highs.

New variant:
Aug 23 - A new variant, BA.2.86 (Pirola), with 36 mutations of the BA2 strain has been detected in Virginia, Michigan and Ohio, the UK, Israel, Denmark and South Africa.
BA.2.86's mutations include changes at key parts of the virus that could help the variant dodge the body's immune defenses from prior infections or vaccinations.



Some charts here are only updated every several weeks,
but you can click on the chart to get the current version.

As of January 2024 I couldn't find any data from the WHO that included cases, hospitalizations or deaths for the US, Europe and South america.

Cumulative Death Rate:

Asia is significantly low because of significant undercounting in China and India.
When you look at excess death rates comparing pre-covid deaths to post covid death the death count per million would go up by the following amount's.
Russia 1034.15
Peru 623.96
India 531.36
Mexico 513.11
South Africa 492.37
Italy 484.94
Brazil 426.24
United States 404.24
Portugal 379.66
United Kingdom 370.51
Spain 349.72
Germany 305.59
Click on the chart to get a current interactive version.
Chart with all countries listed above

The US cumulative death rate in May 2023 was 20% higher than Europe.
The US is 4% of the world's population but as of April 15, 2023 the US had 16% of world deaths.

By February 2023 about 70% of Americans were completely vaccinated while around 80% of Europeans were.

China seems to have stopped reporting, but they had severely undercounted in the past.
Russia reports 2,679 cumulative deaths per Million, but they have undercounted according to studies.

Number's are 7-day averages.
1,000 deaths per million is 0.1% of the population.
The numbers are significantly undercounted. The latest WHO report in May 2022 says there have been around 15 million cumulative cases way more that the 6 million reported.
An April 2022 CDC report showed that about 60% of Americans had been infected, while official cumulative case counts were 27%.
Wastewater counts in the summer of 2020 indicate actual case counts are 3-5 times higher than reported.
The general explination for this is:
1. More asymptomatic cases which are not reported.
2. People doing self testing with mild symptoms which are not reported.
See Data Accuracy

Asia and Africa account for 76% of the world population but only 23% of the deaths.
Oceana has one of the highest infection rates as of January 2022, because of an outbreak in Australia, but over the course of the virus they have the lowest total death rate, 148 per million, of any continent.

Cumulative Case Rate:

300,000 cases per million is 30%

Study: Home COVID tests in the US lead to vast undercount of cases, positivity rates | JAMA Network Open Jan 2023
See Data Accuracy

Chart with all countries listed above

There are multiple sources of data giving information about the number of SARS-CoV-2 infections in the population, but all have major drawbacks, including biases and delayed reporting. For example, the number of confirmed cases largely underestimates the number of infections, and deaths lag infections substantially, while test positivity rates tend to greatly overestimate prevalence.
From Estimating SARS-CoV-2 infections from deaths, confirmed cases, tests, and random surveys Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences July 2021


Oct 20, 2023
US States Cumulative Death Rates
Total Deaths
Death per million | worldmeter
1 Arizona * 4640
2 West Virginia 4602
3 Mississippi 4527
4 New Mexico * 4405
5 Arkansas 4389
6 Tennessee 4370
7 Michigan 4348
8 Alabama 4311
9 Kentucky 4294
10 Florida 4264
11 Louisiana 4142
12 New Jersey † 4091
13 Oklahoma 4083
14 Georgia 4075
15 Pennsylvania 4021
16 New York † 4015
17 Indiana 3986
18 Nevada 3948
19 South Carolina 3945
20 Rhode Island 3933
21 Missouri 3711
22 South Dakota 3652
23 Ohio 3638
24 Massachusetts 3626
25 Delaware 3580
USA Average 3565
26 Wyoming 3558
27 Kansas 3511
28 Montana 3473
29 Connecticut † 3465
30 Iowa 3422
31 Illinois 3315
32 North Dakota 3298
33 Texas 3282
34 Idaho 3068
35 Wisconsin 2878
36 Maryland 2823
37 Virginia 2782
38 North Carolina 2771
39 Minnesota 2755
40 Colorado 2671
41 California 2664
42 Nebraska 2617
43 Maine 2337
44 New Hampshire 2296
45 Oregon 2263
46 Washington 2121
47 District Of Columbia 2032
48 Alaska 2030
49 Utah 1696
50 Vermont 1489
51 Hawaii 1452
* Arizona and New Mexico have the highest percentage of Native Americans.
Mortality rates for Native Americans were 2.8 times as high as that for the white's according to a December, 2021 Princeton study.
Arizona - Native Americans make up 4.6% of Arizona's population, but 16% of those who have died of COVID-19.
If you discount the Native American numbers Arizona's death rate would be 4,040 which would put them at #13.

New Mexico - Native Americans make up 11% of New Mexico's population, but 50% of those who have died of COVID-19.
If you discount the Native American numbers New Mexico's death rate would be 2,463 which would it at #42.

† The tri-state area, New York, New Jersey and Connecticut, death rates were initially the highest.
New York, New Jersey and Connecticut were the first states to be hit hard in the Spring of 2020 with case rates 3-5 times higher than the national average. Hospitals were still learning how to treat it.
And they had increased exposure because of international travel to New York City and New York City commuters in New Jersey and Connecticut.

By August 2021 after 50% of the country had been vaccinated, New York, New Jersey and Connecticut's cumulative death rates were still in the top 10 states for death rates, but they were also in the top 10 for highest vaccination rates.
I spent 40 years in New Jersey and have a lot of friends there. They are generally very health conscious, so this bothered me and I looked a little closer.
If you look at death rates from September 2021 (after a 50% rollout of vaccinations) to October 2023 they have the lowest death rates.
Here's some data if you break the chart above into two time periods:
Top 10 cumulative death rates per million
Thru Aug 2021
(17 mos)
Sept 2021 –
Oct 2023
(26 months)
New Jersey 3005 West Virginia 2941
New York 2798 Kentucky 2632
Massachusetts 2632 Tennessee 2475
Mississippi 2608 Florida 2374
Rhode Island 2590 New Mexico 2285
Arizona 2536 Arkansas 2253
Louisiana 2478 Michigan 2217
Alabama 2399 Wyoming 2188
Connecticut 2330 Oklahoma 2164
South Dakota 2318 Arizona 2104
US 1903   US 1658
US per month 112 62
Lowest 10
Illinois 1256
New York 1217
Maryland 1188
Connecticut 1135
New Jersey 1086
Vermont 1066
Hawaii 1065
California 1028
Massachusetts 994
Utah 908
Even though the second period included the Omicron outbreak in January 2022 with the highest case rate, 5 times previous variants, the death rates were lower because of:
1. Omicron was less severe (virulent)
2. Vaccinations

See Case Fatality Rate (CFR)
and Data Accuracy

See also: A coronavirus mystery: Why New York was hit so much harder than L.A. County | LA Times, Aug 2023.
For every 1 million New York City residents, about 5,400 of them died from COVID-19. A higher rate than any state.
The comparable figure in L.A. County is about 3,540, about the average for the country.
The article doesn't point to any specific reason for the difference.


Vaccination Rates:

Percent of population with no vaccination. May 2023
Vaccine Tracker | USA Facts
1 Wyoming 40%
2 Mississippi 39%
3 Louisiana 38%
4 Idaho 37%
5 Indiana 36%
6 Tennessee 36%
7 Alabama 36%
8 Ohio 35%
9 West Virginia 33%
10 Montana 33%
11 Georgia 33%
12 Kentucky 32%
13 North Dakota 32%
14 Missouri 32%
15 Maine 31%
16 Arkansas 31%
46 Michigan 31%
17 Iowa 30%
18 South Carolina 30%
19 Alaska 28%
20 Nebraska 28%
21 Oklahoma 27%
22 Wisconsin 26%
23 Utah 26%
24 Kansas 25%
25 Texas 25%
26 Arizona 24%
27 Minnesota 22%
28 Nevada 22%
29 Illinois 22%
US Average 21%
30 Oregon 20%
31 South Dakota 19%
32 Florida 19%
33 Colorado 18%
34 Washington 16%
35 New Hampshire 15%
36 California 15%
37 Delaware 14%
38 Pennsylvania 12%
39 Virginia 11%
40 North Carolina 11%
41 Maryland 10%
42 Hawaii 10%
43 New Mexico 8%
44 New York 7%
45 New Jersey 7%
47 Connecticut <5%
48 District Of Columbia <5%
49 Massachusetts <5%
50 Rhode Island <5%
51 Vermont <5%

Death rate - vaccination rate chart
Not: The death rate values here are for Aug '21 , (when vaccination rates hit 50%) - Oct '23, are not the same as the values in the death rate table above which are all deaths over the course of the pandemic.

Chart Data

Deaths as a function of % voting for Trump in 2020

There is a stronger correlation here than with vaccination rate
Probably because most Trump voters have 2 bad habits: 1. Not wearing masks in addition to 2. Not getting vaccinated.
The median for Biden voters is 1320 deaths per million; for Trump voters is 1890 deaths per million.
i.e. a 43% higher death rate for Trump voters.
With 332 million people in the US about half following Trump guidelines for COVID safety that is 94 million unnecessary deaths.
This is a simple analysis. Other variables should be considered. e.g. Many more Trump voters live in rural areas with lower healthcare availability.


Source: KFF Health News


Major trends See The Bottom Line - Cumulative Death Rates below

World | United States: | California | North Central California

World
Regional Per Capita Rate of new infections:
Click on the charts to get the current version from the source.
 

- North America includes Central America, the Caribbean and Greenland.

- Oceania [½ of 1% of the world population] includes Australia (59% of the population), Melanesia (Papua New Guinea, Fiji, Solomon Islands, ...), Micronesia (Marshal Islands, ...), and Polynesia (New Zealand, Samoa, ... )


Omicron Spread:

I started this chart as the Omicron surge was growing to show how countries were following a similar pattern.
I kept it because they were generally indicative of Europe and North America.
I added New Zealand and Taiwan because they were traditionally the lowest rates in the world and were having a surge in March and May after the world Omicron variant surge in January.
New Zealand, Japan, S Korea and Taiwan which had been doing much better with cumulative death rates of less than 600 per million while Europe and North America were 4 times higher around 2,500 deaths per million.
Omicron infects different cells in the upper respiratory tract rather than in the lungs, which makes it more transmissible but less severe than the previous variants.

WHO's Western Pacific Region rates have been very low until Omicron. Their cumulative death rates over COVID have ranged from 460 - 650 per million, while the US and European cumulative death rates have ranged from 2,000 to 3,000.
My theory is that the western countries have gotten close the herd immunity (A CDC report in April 2022 says that almost 60% of the U.S. has been infected.) which kept their new infection rates down.


See WHO Regions below

U.S.: 106,376,396 cases; 32,146 cases per 100K

30,000 out of 100,000 is 30%.
CDC's Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, April 29, 2022 showed that almost 60% of people in the US had been affected.
Other studies by the WHO and wastewater testing showed similar undercounting.
Undercounting got worse during 2022 with vaccines resulting in asymptomatic cases and people doing self-testing.
See Data Accuracy.

China
Note: China numbers are low in the above chart and most public data because of undercounting in cases and deaths.
They are low in the chart below also.
As of Feb 8th, Jan 12 was the last update.

See China below.

Click on the map below to go the source where you can click on individual countries for their rates.

United States:

The U.S. will end it's COVID-19 Public Health Emergency (PHE) on May 11, 2023.

They no longer track new cases:

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Daily New Cases per 100,000 2022-2023 <
Jan
10
Mar
20
Apr
7
Apr
23
May
9
May
20
Jun
2
Jun
17
July
1
jul
18
Aug
18
Oct
1
Oct
19
Nov
9
Jan 6
2023
Feb 13
2023
Mar 23
2023
Northeast 302 9 14 24 36 49 33 25 26 31 24 20 18 17 25 12 6
Midwest 185 6 6 13 23 30 26 24 25 29 28 14 12 15 16 10 8
West 215 11 9 12 19 32 36 40 43 45 25 12 10 10 15 9 6
South 203 9 7 9 13 22 26 31 37 42 33 12 8 9 23 14 5


North Central California Counties:
Where my family and friends live.
Daily New Cases per 100,000 per day:

2021 2022 2023
06/05 1/7 4/2 5/27 11/11 12/10 1/13 2/1 3/3 4/26 5/18
United States 4.2 195 7 33 12 20 18 13 10 3.8 3.3
California 2.3 166 6 39 10 29 16 9 9 3.1 *
Bay Area
Alameda 9 50 10 28 15 7 12 3.5 3.9
Contra-Costa 50 9 28 16 7 15 3.8 3.3
Marin 60 2 19 11 8 9 3.1 0.0
Napa 1.4 149 6 37 2 19 14 10 9 3.7 2.7
San Francisco 167 14 59 16 27 14 8 12 3.5 3.4
San Mateo 1.3 174 11 61 14 28 14 7 9 3.7 3.2
Sanoma 182 8 46 6 17 13 6 8 3.4 2.8
Santa Clara 1.3 163 11 59 10 33 16 10 10 3.7 3.5
Solano 1.3 120 6 50 5 23 16 9 10 4.0 2.0
Greater Sacramento
El Dorado 30 10 19 10 5 5 3.0 2.1
Placer 1.3 91 4 34 8 19 11 7 8 3.5 3.3
Sacramento 0.3 117 7 38 10 21 11 9 10 3.9 3.7
Sierra 0 14 13 0 5 0 0 0.0 0.0
Sutter 99 8 29 6 16 16 5 6 4.3 3.9
Yolo 1.8 159 11 43 13 16 9 7 8 3.7 1.9
Davis 212† 4
* California stoped reporting new cases in May
Source: LA Times
See more detail for this taable at corona-detail
More North Central California information below


Variants
Aug 23 - A new variant, BA.2.86 (Pirola), with 36 mutations of the BA2 strain has been detected in Virginia, Michigan and Ohio, the UK, Israel, Denmark and South Africa.
There is a concern it could dodge the body's immune defenses from prior infections or vaccinations.


Source: Variant Proportions - Nowcast CDC

See Variants in Corona Facts here

Wastewater Testing
The CDC is gathering wastewater data from over 1,000 sites across the country.



California--



Peak average in January 2022 of 21,525 was 55 per 100,000. Tracking COVID-19 in California | NY Times


Summary
Some charts here are only updated every several weeks,
but you can click on the chart to get the current version.


North Central California where most of my friends and family are located.

Cumulative to May 26, 2023
Cases per
100,000
Deaths per
100,000
Fully
Vaccinated
United States 32,366 352 70%
California 31,054 260 81%
Bay Area
Alameda 24,934 131 86.0%
Contra-Costa 26,500 141 86.2%
Marin 18,206 100 89.8%
Napa 26,037 125 79.4%
San Francisco 24,582 140 87.3%
San Mateo 25,813 98 87.7%
Sonoma 24,170 114 85.7%
Santa Clara 26,313 146 87.9%
Solano 28,370 109 71.2%
Greater Sacramento
El Dorado 21,253 132 64.4%
Placer 24,442 180 72.3%
Sacramento 27,583 239 71.8%
Sierra 12,765 171 54.1%
Sutter 29,836 251 62.0%
Yolo 25,936 211 75.4%
Source: Tracking the coronavirus in California ,| LA Times


North Central California Counties:

"
Average new cases per day per 100,000 .June 2021 -

-

2021 2022 2023
06/05 1/7 4/2 5/27 11/11 12/10 1/13 2/1 3/3 4/26 5/18
United States 4.2 195 7 33 12 20 18 13 10 3.8 3.3
California 2.3 166 6 39 10 29 16 9 9 3.1 *
Bay Area
Alameda 9 50 10 28 15 7 12 3.5 3.9
Contra-Costa 50 9 28 16 7 15 3.8 3.3
Marin 60 2 19 11 8 9 3.1 0.0
Napa 1.4 149 6 37 2 19 14 10 9 3.7 2.7
San Francisco 167 14 59 16 27 14 8 12 3.5 3.4
San Mateo 1.3 174 11 61 14 28 14 7 9 3.7 3.2
Sanoma 182 8 46 6 17 13 6 8 3.4 2.8
Santa Clara 1.3 163 11 59 10 33 16 10 10 3.7 3.5
Solano 1.3 120 6 50 5 23 16 9 10 4.0 2.0
Greater Sacramento
El Dorado 30 10 19 10 5 5 3.0 2.1
Placer 1.3 91 4 34 8 19 11 7 8 3.5 3.3
Sacramento 0.3 117 7 38 10 21 11 9 10 3.9 3.7
Sierra 0 14 13 0 5 0 0 0.0 0.0
Sutter 99 8 29 6 16 16 5 6 4.3 3.9
Yolo 1.8 159 11 43 13 16 9 7 8 3.7 1.9
Davis 212† 4
* California stoped reporting new cases in May
Source:
LA Times
See more detail at corona-detail

† Davis typically had one of the 2 lowest rates of new infections in the 10 states and 12 counties in California that I follow. But in January 7 2022 it had the 2nd highest rate. I attribute that to 30,000 undergraduate students at UC Davis (30% of the population) who returned to Davis after the Christmas Hollidays, where they were exposed in family gatherings and mass transit on the trip back.

The Bay Area in California which has had the second lowest rate of California's 5 regions behind Northern California and in the Fall of 2022 it had the highest rate. See Bay Area vs other CA regions.
My theory is that as of August 2022 the Bay area has had the lowest death rate, less than half the other regions, so the population does not have a built up immunity from prior infections.

Counties where I and my family live:

Data from the previous week is Updated Thursdays
Note: When you click on the chart it will go to the California dashboard and fill in the county, but you have to scroll down and click on "Get County Data"" to get the updated chart.
As of May 11, 2023, the COVID-19 California Dashboard is no longer reporting aggregate cases; CDPH will continue to report sustainable and meaningful data that allow for timely monitoring of COVID-19
New cases are no longer reported. Poivity rates are shown here.


San Mateo County




Davis:

Yolo County no longer lists Davis Stats.

City Wastewater Data

Historic Wastewater Testing - Healthy Davis Together
Comparison of the Healthy Davis wastewater testing with CA cepartment of health results from the Omicron outbreak to November 2022.
The purpose is to show than many cases were not reported after the Omicon rates dropped.
Note: The Yolo Co. Dept. of Health stopped reporting data for Davis, so we have a little apples vs oranges situation, but Davis numbers tracked Yolo Co. numbers but were a little lower.


In January, Yolo County had 248 new cases per 100,000 reported and Davis had 212. Davis rates have traditionally been lower than Yolo County.
On Nov 7th Yolo County had 8 new cases reported per 100,000, 3% of the peak, but Davis wastewater counts were 23% of the peak.
So about 13% of cases are being reported.
The general explination for this is:
1. More asymptomatic cases which are not reported.
2. People doing self testing with mild symptoms which are not reported.

This along with an April, 2022 CDC report indicated that almost 60% of the U.S. population has been infected. means that as of June only about 10% of infections were being counted.

Although wastewater indicates a high level of infection at the end of August, Yolo county hospitalizations are 20% of what they were in January. California hospitalizations were 25% of January's.

Note: Wastewater results tend to be more variable than reported cases. See the national wastewater results above.


Links to County Dashboards.

California, San Francisco Co, Santa Clara, Santa Clara Co, San Mateo, Alameda Co, Alameda, Sierra, Yolo, Yolo Co, Napa, Sonoma, Solano, Sacramento, Placer, Sutter, Sutter Co, Solano County Public Health Dashboards, Coronavirus Report for Napa County, CA - LiveStories, Coronavirus (COVID-19) | Napa County, CA, Sacramento, Placer, Sarasota County, Florida | USAFacts, Washoe Co. NV

Other Links:
Coronavirus tracker | Mercury News

More N. Central California data


The Bottom Line - Cumulative Death Rates

Regional Cumulative Death Rates

These stats are not updated as frequently. Death rates are low compared to the first 2 years, so the the curve has flattened out.

See Undercounting - Actual Deaths below.


1,000 deaths per million is 0.1% of the population.
Asia is significantly low because of undercounting in China and India.01..lat

* Deaths are significantly undercounted. See Data Accuracy
Mexico and Russia were significantly undercounted in a May 2021 U. Washington Study below.
If you account for that, Russia would have 8,400 deaths per million, Mexico would have 4,700 deaths per million and India would have 3,600 deaths per million per a July 2021 Wall Street Journal report.
China could be up to 130
Deaths in other countries could be up to 40% higher.

Chart with all countries listed above

Cumulative Case Rate:

Study: Home COVID tests in the US lead to vast undercount of cases, positivity rates | JAMA Network Open Jan 2023
See Data Accuracy

Chart with all countries listed above


The US is leading developed countries with the death rate for Omicron:

Unvaccinated are 14 Times More Likely to Die From COVID | WebMD

US States:

US States Cumulative Death Rates
Total Deaths per million October 20, 2023.
Note: 4,000 deaths per million is 0.4%
Oct 20, 2023
US States Cumulative Death Rates
Total Deaths
Death per million | worldmeter
1 Arizona * 4640
2 West Virginia 4602
3 Mississippi 4527
4 New Mexico * 4405
5 Arkansas 4389
6 Tennessee 4370
7 Michigan 4348
8 Alabama 4311
9 Kentucky 4294
10 Florida 4264
11 Louisiana 4142
12 New Jersey † 4091
13 Oklahoma 4083
14 Georgia 4075
15 Pennsylvania 4021
16 New York † 4015
17 Indiana 3986
18 Nevada 3948
19 South Carolina 3945
20 Rhode Island 3933
21 Missouri 3711
22 South Dakota 3652
23 Ohio 3638
24 Massachusetts 3626
25 Delaware 3580
USA Average 3565
26 Wyoming 3558
27 Kansas 3511
28 Montana 3473
29 Connecticut † 3465
30 Iowa 3422
31 Illinois 3315
32 North Dakota 3298
33 Texas 3282
34 Idaho 3068
35 Wisconsin 2878
36 Maryland 2823
37 Virginia 2782
38 North Carolina 2771
39 Minnesota 2755
40 Colorado 2671
41 California 2664
42 Nebraska 2617
43 Maine 2337
44 New Hampshire 2296
45 Oregon 2263
46 Washington 2121
47 District Of Columbia 2032
48 Alaska 2030
49 Utah 1696
50 Vermont 1489
51 Hawaii 1452
* Arizona and New Mexico have the highest percentage of Native Americans.
Mortality rates for Native Americans were 2.8 times as high as that for the white's according to a December, 2021 Princeton study.
Arizona - Native Americans make up 4.6% of Arizona's population, but 16% of those who have died of COVID-19.
If you discount the Native American numbers Arizona's death rate would be 4,040 which would put them at #13.

New Mexico - Native Americans make up 11% of New Mexico's population, but 50% of those who have died of COVID-19.
If you discount the Native American numbers New Mexico's death rate would be 2,463 which would it at #42.

† The tri-state area, New York, New Jersey and Connecticut, death rates were initially the highest.
New York, New Jersey and Connecticut were the first states to be hit hard in the Spring of 2020 with case rates 3-5 times higher than the national average. Hospitals were still learning how to treat it.
And they had increased exposure because of international travel to New York City and New York City commuters in New Jersey and Connecticut

36 Virginia 2,779
37 Maryland 2,763
38 North Carolina 2,761
39 Minnesota 2,683
40 Colorado 2,625
41 Nebraska 2,592
42 California 2,591
43 Oregon 2,260
44 Maine 2,251
45 New Hampshire 2,233
46 Washington 2,091
47 District Of Columbia 2,029
48 Alaska 2,007
49 Utah 1,664
50 Vermont 1,489
51 Hawaii 1,331
52 Puerto Rico 1,738
Note: 1,000 deaths per 1 Million is 0.1%

* Arizona and New Mexico have the highest percentage of Native Americans.
Mortality rates for Native Americans were 2.8 times as high as that for the white's according to a December, 2021 Princeton study.
Arizona - Native Americans make up 4.6% of Arizona's population, but 16% of those who have died of COVID-19.
If you discount the Native American numbers Arizona's death rate would be 4,040 which would put them at #13.

New Mexico - Native Americans make up 11% of New Mexico's population, but 50% of those who have died of COVID-19.
If you discount the Native American numbers New Mexico's death rate would be 2,463 which would it at #42.

Source: Worldmeter

Correlation beween Vaccinations and Deaths January, 2023
10 Hign and 10 Low states with % Fully vaccinated with a booster.
Average cumulative death rate for those 2 groups.
The death rate was 50% higher for those states with a low vaccination rate.
StatesTop 10
vaccination rates
Bottom
10 vaccination rates
Average Vaccination rate 45.8% 24.5%
Average deaths per million 2,470 3,617
Vaccination Rates from NY Times


Vaccinations Jan 12, 2023
Percent of the Population 5 Years of Age and Older with an Updated (Bivalent) Booster Dose Reported to CDC

California:


Cumulative Deaths:

California County Cumulative Deaths per 100,000 by Region - May 5, 2022
United States - 306 deaths/100K, California 230 deaths/100K
Bay Area
median 104
Monterey 171
Santa Clara 119
Alameda 113
Contra Costa 113
Marin 113
Napa 104
Solano 101
Sonoma 99
San Francisco 98
San Mateo 98
Santa Cruz 96
Greater Sac
median 149
Sutter 240
Amador 216
Sacramento 203
Butte 192
Placer 158
Yuba 155
Yolo 143
Sierra 133
Nevada 127
El Dorado 109
Plumas 69
Colusa 97
Alpine
N. California
median 213
Shasta 357
Tehama 309
Siskiyou 241
Glenn 236
Lassen 226
Lake 213
Del Norte 180
Trinity 163
Mendocino 143
Humboldt 108
Modoc 90
S. California
median 221
Imperial 505
San Bernardino 335
Los Angeles 319
Inyo 310
Riverside 264
Orange 221
Ventura 176
San Luis Obispo 168
San Diego 157
Santa Barbara 155
Mono 42
San Joaquin
median 284
Tuolumne 332
Tulare 315
Stanislaus 308
Merced 296
Kings 292
San Joaquin 292
Fresno 276
Kern 266
Calaveras 261
Madera 232
Mariposa 198
San Benito 156
Source: California Coronavirus Map and Case Count - The New York Times

End of Executive Overview


World Summary:

Regional Per Capita Rate of new infections:

Regional Cumulative Death Rates

- North America includes Central America, the Caribbean and Greenland.

- Oceania [½ of 1% of the world population] includes Australia (59% of the population), Melanesia (Papua New Guinea, Fiji, Solomon Islands, ...), Micronesia (Marshal Islands, ...), and Polynesia (New Zealand, Samoa, ... )

China
In early December 2022, China suddenly reversed its "zero Covid" policy. That set off a wave of infections that has swept across the nation, overwhelming hospitals and funeral parlors.


They stoped reporting in January, so we don't know the current status.

With China's population of 1.45 billion, 9,300 cases on January 6 is 6 cases per million.
See The WHO China COVID Dashboard which says there were 34,610 new cases (28 per million) on January 6.
I don't know why the number of cases reported on worldmeter and the cases per million on Our World in Data are lower than the WHO numbers.
28 new cases per million is relatively low, which doesn't account for the large number of hospitalizations. The US had 154 new cases per day per million on Jan 6 and Europe had 130.
The World Health Organization (WHO) has criticized China for not being forthcoming with statistics and not following WHO guidelines for counting deaths since the beginning of COVIE-19 .
China's population is 37% rural, which might account for some lower averages, but not that large a difference. I could not find any data for infection rates in urban places like Shanghai, Wuhan and Bejing.
See China Estimates Covid Surge Is Infecting 37 Million People a Day at Bloomberg December 23rd.

China's current wave appears to be dominated by two main Omicron subvariants already circulating in other parts of the world: BA.5.2 and BF.7 (which is actually short for BA.5.2.1.7). Both BA.5.2 and BF.7 are from the same Omicron lineage, and have been bubbling along in North America, Europe, other parts of Asia and Australia since mid-to-late 2022.
Local reports indicate that BF.7 is the dominant subvariant currently circulating inside China, with a shorter incubation period, faster transmission rate, and stronger resistance to immunity than previous strains the country has seen.
In the US, BF.7 has dropped from 7% of cases in October 2022 to 2.2% in January 2023.
Could China's COVID-19 outbreak lead to the next variant of concern? Experts say it's not time to panic yet | ABC.net.au

All Countries: Total cases per day


WHO reports

Regions:
It defaults to total cases. You have to click on cases and select "new_cases" to see trends.

Enlarge
Source: Epidemic Intelligence from Open Sources (EIOS)
Europe



Regional Stats and some countries of interest.
Jan 14, 2023
We are tracking 56 countries of interest based on size (generally population > 5 M) tourism, economy (G20), relationships with the U.S., and tracked by the The World Health Organization (WHO) out of 230 countries and territories tracked by worldmeter and 218 in Our World in Data and worldvision. The U.N. lists 193 countries plus 3 non members who have nation-hood rights (Vatican City, Taiwan, and Kosovo)
Rates in some smaller countries have a higher rate.

Place Popu-
lation
M
Cases Deaths Cases Deaths
Total Total % of
popu-
lation
New
/100K
Total
/1M
Europe 748 102,488,473 1,568,273 13.7% 150 2,097
UK 68 15,066,395 151,612 22.2% 183 2,230
Germany 84 7,885,229 116,098 9.4% 76 1,382
France 65 13,569,675 126,721 20.8% 421 1,941
Italy 60 8,356,514 140,548 13.8% 279 2,327
Russia ‡ 146 10,747,125 319,911 7.4% 125 2,191
Ireland 5 1,078,181 6,035 21.5% 423 1,202
Israel 9 1,718,989 8,298 18.5% 393 892
S. America 435 42,651,273 1,197,438 9.8% 61 2,753
Brazil 214 22,927,203 620,847 10.7% 32 2,901
Columbia 52 5,475,904 130,731 10.5% 57 2,514
N America* 595 77,705,633 1,273,825 13.1% 148 2,141
United States 334 66,209,535 872,086 19.8% 236 2,611
Mexico 131 4,302,069 301,107 3.3% 22 2,302
Canada 38 2,717,982 31,317 7.1% 97 820
Asia 4,461 89,335,098 1,269,492 2.0% 9 285
China 1,439 104,745 4,636 0.01% 0 3
India † 1,391 36,850,962 485,780 2.6% 12 349
S. Korea 51 687,984 6,281 1.3% 7 123
Taiwan 24 17,692 851 0.1% 0.3 35
Africa 1,341 10,425,479 233,744 0.8% 3 174
South Africa 60 3,552,043 93,117 5.9% 11 1,552
Botswana 2 237,678 2,514 9.8% 47 1,039
Oceania 42 1,803,984 4,921 4.3% 250 117
Australia 26 1,632,958 2,627 6.3% 423 101
New Zealand 5 15,001 52 0.3% 1 10
1,000 deaths per million is 0.1% of the population.
* Central America, the Caribbean and Greenland are considered part of North America.


Number of deaths are significantly undercounted.
    Estimated % counted
United States 63% 
Mexico        35%
W. Europe     70-80%
Russia        18%

See estimated actual death counts at U. Washington Study below.
The major countries (population > 10 million) with the highest death rate are.

Peru    6,002  Bulgaria 4,331  Hungary 3,868  
Czechia 3,242  Romania  3,041  Brazil  2,874

‡ If you adjust for the undercounting in Mexico and Russia their rates would be:
Mexico 4,862 deaths per million
Russia 8,358 deaths per million

Regional Death Rates: S. America 2,732; N. America 1,999; Europe 1,968
Asia, Africa and Oceana all have less than 300 deaths per million.
New Zealand, Australia, South Korea and Taiwan all had less than 100 deaths per million.

A Wall Street Journal Report in July 2021 says that the actual death count in India is is between 3.4 and 4.7 million, 10 times higher than the 400,000 reported.
With a population of 1.4 billion that would give India over 3,000 deaths per million and raise Asia's deaths per Million to over 1,000.


Because Asia and Africa account for 76% of the world population but only 23% of the deaths we dont compute a world rate. There are smaller countries in Asia and Africa who's infection and death rates are similar to other developed countries.

See World Countries Cumulative Cases and Deaths below
See US States Cumulative Deaths below


Vaccination Rate:

Data Accuracy

The most complete study to date was released by the World Health Organization (WHO) on May 5th 2022
A World Health Organization (WHO) study shows that the full death toll associated directly or indirectly with the COVID-19 pandemic (described as excess mortality) between 1 January 2020 and 31 December 2021 was approximately 14.9 million, more than double the official death toll of 6 million.
They measured the increase in the death toll, which was COVID-19 directly (due to the disease) or indirectly (due to the pandemics impact on health systems and society). e.g. lack of access to ERs and intensive care.

Excess mortality includes deaths associated with COVID-19 directly (due to the disease) or indirectly (due to the pandemics impact on health systems and society).
Most of the excess deaths (84%) are concentrated in South-East Asia, Europe, and the Americas.
The production of these estimates is a result of a global collaboration supported by the work of the Technical Advisory Group for COVID-19 Mortality Assessment and country consultations. with over 30 researchers from around the world.

See more from the WHO.
The pandemics true death toll | economist

Study: Home COVID tests in the US lead to vast undercount of cases, positivity rates | JAMA Network Open Jan 2023
Previous Studies:

Almost 60% of U.S. Has Been Infected by COVID-19, CDC Says;
Researchers looked at the presence of coronavirus antibodies to estimate the rate of infection.
During September 2021February 2022, a convenience sample of blood specimens submitted for clinical testing was analyzed every 4 weeks for anti-N antibodies. the median sample size per 4-week period was 73,869 .
It indicated 57.7% of Americans had been infected.
Official infections reported were 80.5 Million or 24% of the population, i.e. only 42% of infections were reported.
See WebMD
The report was published in the CDC's Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, April 29, 2022

Davis, CA Wastewater testing indicates that in June 2022 only 20% of cases were reported compared to January 2022.
The general explination for this is:
1. More asymptomatic cases which are not reported.
2. People doing self testing with mild symptoms which are not reported.
See

"COVIDs true death toll: much higher than official records" | Nature March 10, 2022 compares data at the end of 2021 from The pandemics true death toll | The Economist Jan 31, 2022 and The University of Washington's Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME)

The pandemics true death toll | The Economist May 2022

OFFICIAL COVID-19 DEATHS PER 100,000 ESTIMATED EXCESS DEATHS PER 100,000 ESTIMATE V OFFICIAL
Asia 1,431,831 30.6 6.4m to 15m 140 to 330 +700%
Europe (incl. EU) 1,828,826 244.2 3.1m to 3.3m 410 to 430 +70%
Africa 253,293 18.4 1.1m to 3.3m 79 to 240 +1,000%
Latin America and Caribbean 1,694,146 257.2 2.4m to 2.7m 370 to 410 +50%
European Union 1,083,086 242.2 1.2m to 1.4m 280 to 300 +20%
North America 1,039,020 280.1 1.2m to 1.4m 320 to 370 +20%
Oceania 11,225 26.0 1.9k to 30k 4.5 to 70 50%
By Country: (Examples)
OFFICIAL
COVID-19 DEATHS
PER 100,000 ESTIMATED
EXCESS DEATHS
PER 100,000 ESTIMATE V OFFICIAL
India 524,181 37.6 2.2m to 9.7m 160 to 700 +1,000%
Russia 369,644 253.3 1.2m to 1.3m 820 to 890 +200%
United States 998,997 300.1 1.2m to 1.3m 350 to 400 +20%
Pakistan 30,375 13.5 390k to 1.1m 170 to 500 +2,700%
Indonesia 156,396 56.6 360k to 1.1m 130 to 410 +400%
Brazil 664,750 310.6 770k to 820k 360 to 380 +20%
Mexico 324,465249.1 670k to 760k 520 to 580 +100%
Bangladesh 29,127 17.5 260k to 760k 160 to 460 +1,800%
China 5,203 0.4 330k to 1.9m 23 to 130 +8,500%
Poland 116,164 307.3 180k to 190k 480 to 500 +60%
Turkey 98,870 116.3 180k to 490k 210 to 580 +300%
Britain 177,088 259.6 140k to 160k 210 to 230 20%
Germany 137,184 163.5 110k to 130k 130 to 160 10%
Italy 164,846 273.1 200k to 230k 320 to 380 +30%
Peru 212,968 638.4 220k to 220k 660 to 670 +4%

According to a May 2021 study by the University of Washington's Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME),
reported deaths are significantly lower than actual deaths. Around the World they are half the actual rate.

Some examples Estimated % counted. See below.
United States 63%
Mexico 35%
W. Europe 70-80%
Russia 18%

Actual Total Deaths (estimated)
-Countries with the highest actual (estimated) death rates, March 2020 to May 2021
Country Estimated
Actual
Total
Reported
Total
Reported
% of Actual
Deaths
per M
Death
Rate
Rank*
Pop M
3 Mexico 617,127 217,694 35% 4,746 19 130
4 Brazil 595,903 408,680 69% 2,787 10 214
5 Russian Federation 593,610 109,334 18% 4,066 17 146
6 United Kingdom 209,661 150,519 72% 3,075 12 68
7 Italy 175,832 121,257 69% 2,912 11 60
8 Iran 174,177 72,906 42% 2,051 6 85
9 Egypt 170,041 13,529 8% 1,635 4 104
10 South Africa 160,452 54,390 34% 2,676 8 60
11 Poland 149,855 68,237 46% 3,963 15 38
12 Peru 147,765 62,739 42% 4,547 18 33
13 Ukraine 138,507 46,737 34% 3,184 13 44
1 United States 905,289 574,043 63% 2,722 9 333
14 France 132,680 105,506 80% 2,029 5 65
15 Spain 123,786 85,365 69% 2,647 7 47
16 Germany 120,729 83,256 69% 1,437 3 84
17 Indonesia 118,796 47,150 40% 438 1 271
The IHME report also listed some smaller countries with a high death rate.
Here are some with the highest death rates.
Czechia 41,446 29,574 71% 3,910 14 11
Hungary 38,787 28,919 75% 3,970 16 10
Bulgaria 38,640 16,905 44% 5,600 20 7
* Rank of actual deaths per 100,000 from lowest to highest for only the countries listed in the IHME report.

Note: There are several other smaller countries with higher total death rates.
e.g. Bosnia and Herzegovina - 6010; Azerbaijan - 6730
1,000 deaths per 100,000 is 1% of the population.

A Wall Street Journal Report in July 2021 says that the actual death count in India is is between 3.4 and 4.7 million, 10 times higher than the 400,000 reported.
With a population of 1.4 billion that would give India over 3,000 deaths per million and raise Asia's deaths per Million to over 1,000.

"Estimating excess mortality due to the COVID-19 Pandemic a study by Researchers at the University of Washingtons Institute of Health Metrics published in the Lancet March 10, 2022 . They found,
"Although reported COVID-19 deaths between Jan 1, 2020, and Dec 31, 2021, totalled 5.94 million worldwide, we estimate that 18.2 million (95% uncertainty interval) people died worldwide because of the COVID-19 pandemic (as measured by excess mortality) over that period. The global all-age rate of excess mortality due to the COVID-19 pandemic was 120.3 deaths per 100000 of the population, and excess mortality rate exceeded 300 deaths per 100,000 of the population in 21 countries. The number of excess deaths due to COVID-19 was largest in the regions of south Asia, north Africa and the Middle East, and eastern Europe. At the country level, the highest numbers of cumulative excess deaths due to COVID-19 were estimated in India (4.07 million), the USA (1.13 million ), Russia (1.07 million ), Mexico (798), Brazil (792000), Indonesia 736,000 , and Pakistan 664,000"

At Estimating global, regional, and national daily and cumulative infections with SARS-CoV-2 through Nov 14, 2021: a statistical analysis - The Lancet, Published in April 2022,
They looked at global data from the start of the Pandemic to November 2021 with information from The Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) and others, they estimate that over 40% of the global population was infected at least once by Nov 14, 2021.

Dr Scott Gottlieb, former FDA commissioner, said on "Face the Nation", April 2022,
"We are probably only picking up 1 in 7 or 8 infections, because people are using home tests which never get reported."


See Modern East Asian DNA hints at an ancient coronavirus outbreak | Science News

More World Data


United States:


CDC Map

See State Death Rates
See US Epicenters
Pro-Trump counties now have three times the COVID death rates. Misinformation is to blame | NPR Dec. 2021

"Coronavirus Updates"" in the Washington Post Dec 19, 2022 reported that the rates are up nationwide.

A contributing factor was Public sentiment toward vaccines and mask mandates are some of the contributing factors to the death rate.
One study found people living in more conservative areas of the United States were more likely to die from deaths linked to covid-19.

"Covid death rates were 26 percent higher in areas where voters lean conservative."


More United States Data
California:

California County Cumulative Deaths per 100,000 by Region - May 5, 2022
United States - 306 deaths/100K, California 230 deaths/100K
Bay Area
median 104
Monterey 171
Santa Clara 119
Alameda 113
Contra Costa 113
Marin 113
Napa 104
Solano 101
Sonoma 99
San Francisco 98
San Mateo 98
Santa Cruz 96
Greater Sac
median 149
Sutter 240
Amador 216
Sacramento 203
Butte 192
Placer 158
Yuba 155
Yolo 143
Sierra 133
Nevada 127
El Dorado 109
Plumas 69
Colusa 97
Alpine
N. California
median 213
Shasta 357
Tehama 309
Siskiyou 241
Glenn 236
Lassen 226
Lake 213
Del Norte 180
Trinity 163
Mendocino 143
Humboldt 108
Modoc 90
S. California
median 221
Imperial 505
San Bernardino 335
Los Angeles 319
Inyo 310
Riverside 264
Orange 221
Ventura 176
San Luis Obispo 168
San Diego 157
Santa Barbara 155
Mono 42
San Joaquin
median 284
Tuolumne 332
Tulare 315
Stanislaus 308
Merced 296
Kings 292
San Joaquin 292
Fresno 276
Kern 266
Calaveras 261
Madera 232
Mariposa 198
San Benito 156
Source: California Coronavirus Map and Case Count - The New York Times

North Central California Counties

North Central Califronia Counties Map
Counties where I have friends and family.
Cumulative to May 26, 2023
Cases per
100,000
Deaths per
100,000
Fully
Vaccinated
United States 32,366 352 70%
California 31,054 260 81%
Bay Area
Alameda 24,934 131 86.0%
Contra-Costa 26,500 141 86.2%
Marin 18,206 100 89.8%
Napa 26,037 125 79.4%
San Francisco 24,582 140 87.3%
San Mateo 25,813 98 87.7%
Sonoma 24,170 114 85.7%
Santa Clara 26,313 146 87.9%
Solano 28,370 109 71.2%
Greater Sacramento
El Dorado 21,253 132 64.4%
Placer 24,442 180 72.3%
Sacramento 27,583 239 71.8%
Sierra 12,765 171 54.1%
Sutter 29,836 251 62.0%
Yolo 25,936 211 75.4%
Source: Tracking the coronavirus in California ,| LA Times

The 10 counties who voted for Biden in 2020 averaged a total of 1,203 deaths per million over the course of the virus as of March 12, 2022 compared to the 2 counties who voted for Trump which average averaged 1,870 deaths per million (55% higher).

* Sierra County had only 12 new cases from Feb 15, 2021 to July 4, 2021 with a 7 day average of close to 0.
At the beginning of july, the beginning of September and middle of October they had an outbreak raising the 7-day average to 3 cases per day making the rate per 100,000 100 cases per day.
With a population of just over 3,000 a small outbreak results in a high rate (new cases per 100,000)
But their cumulative death rate since the beginning of the pandemic is the lowest of all counties represented here.

New Cases per day per 100,000
For reference, in January California had over 100 new cases per day per 100,000 and Los Angeles Co was over 150.


More California Data
End of Summary
Related Notes::Facts about covid-19 | Safety Prevention | What is the real number of infected people? | Sources | Good Twitter feeds

World Stats:


Coronavirus Dashboard | ncov2019.live

* New cases and deaths are 7-day moving-averages to adjust for the impact of administrative delays to reporting new data over weekends.


Click on Charts to go to the current version.
You can mouse over charts there to get more information.

Numbers are significantly undercounted. See estimated actual counts above.


NY Times Map
COVID-19 International Travel Recommendations by Destination | CDC

Note: We have limited our statistics to the 122 countries with more than 5 million population. There are smaller countries with higher per-capita rates.

% Vaccinated:

Aug 29
39.3% of the world population has received at least one dose of a COVID-19 vaccine.
Only 1.6% of people in low-income countries have received at least one dose.

Those who are vaccinated are about six times less likely to contract the virus and 14 times less likely to die from it.

COVID World Vaccination Tracker | NY Times
Vaccine doses vs % vaccinated. The Pfizer and Moderna vaccines require 2 doses to be fully vaccinated. So, in the US on July 14 there were 101 doses per 100 administered, but only 48% were fully vaccinated.

Deaths:

New Cases driven by largest countries.

Spikes in Daily Cases:(Excluding the US and India)
Fomn

Cumulative Deaths World

Note: A report published by Arvind Subramanian, the Indian governments former chief economic advisor, and two other researchers at the Center for Global Development and Harvard University said the actual number of deaths in India was likely between 3 million to 4.7 million between January 2020 and June 2021. This is 10 times higher than the 400,000 reported, so would put India at the top of the list of death rates.

1,000 deaths per million is 0.1% of the population.

World Total Deaths:

* A July 20th report suggests that India alone could actually have 4 million deaths instead of the 460,000 reported, increasing the world total to 8 Million.
See Indias Covid-19 Death Toll Is Likely in the Millions WSJ

Most estimates for the 1918 Flu range from 17 -50 million with , with a couple of higher and lower estimates.


Actual Total Deaths (estimated)
According to a
May 2021 study by the University of Washington's Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME), reported deaths is significantly lower than actual deaths.
Around the World they are double what is reported.

-Countries with the highest numbers of actual (estimated) total COVID-19 deaths, March 2020 to May 2021
Country Estimated
Actual
Total
Reported
Total
Reported
% of Actual
Actual
Deaths
per M
Death
Rate
Rank*
Pop M
1 United States of America 905,289 574,043 63% 2,722 9 333
2 India 654,395 221,181 34% 470 2 1391
3 Mexico 617,127 217,694 35% 4,746 19 130
4 Brazil 595,903 408,680 69% 2,787 10 214
5 Russian Federation 593,610 109,334 18% 4,066 17 146
6 United Kingdom 209,661 150,519 72% 3,075 12 68
7 Italy 175,832 121,257 69% 2,912 11 60
8 Iran 174,177 72,906 42% 2,051 6 85
9 Egypt 170,041 13,529 8% 1,635 4 104
10 South Africa 160,452 54,390 34% 2,676 8 60
11 Poland 149,855 68,237 46% 3,963 15 38
12 Peru 147,765 62,739 42% 4,547 18 33
13 Ukraine 138,507 46,737 34% 3,184 13 44
14 France 132,680 105,506 80% 2,029 5 65
15 Spain 123,786 85,365 69% 2,647 7 47
16 Germany 120,729 83,256 69% 1,437 3 84
17 Indonesia 118,796 47,150 40% 438 1 271
The IHME report also listed some smaller countries with a high death rate.
Here are some with the highest death rates.
Czechia 41,446 29,574 71% 3,910 14 11
Hungary 38,787 28,919 75% 3,970 16 10
Bulgaria 38,640 16,905 44% 5,600 20 7
* Rank of actual deaths per 100,000 from lowest to highest for only the countries listed here.

Note: There are several other smaller countries with higher total death rates.
e.g. Bosnia and Herzegovina - 6010; Azerbaijan - 6730
100 deaths per 100,000 is 0.1% of the population.

23 Countries of Interest - Infection Rates
We are tracking 56 countries of interest based on size (generally population > 5 M) tourism, economy (G20), relationships with the U.S., and tracked by the The World Health Organization (WHO) out of 230 countries and territories tracked by worldmeter and 218 in Our World in Data and worldvision. The U.N. lists 193 countries plus 3 non members who have nation-hood rights (Vatican City, Taiwan, and Kosovo)
Rates in some smaller countries have a higher rate.


See also COVID-19 pandemic by country and territory - Wikipedia

Countries with the highest peak infection rates.
We are tracking 56 countries of interest based on size (generally population > 5 M) tourism, economy (G20), relationships with the U.S., and tracked by the The World Health Organization (WHO) out of 230 countries and territories tracked by worldmeter and 218 in Our World in Data and worldvision. The U.N. lists 193 countries plus 3 non members who have nation-hood rights (Vatican City, Taiwan, and Kosovo)
Rates in some smaller countries have a higher rate.
You can click on the chart to go to the current interactive version, where you can move the sliders at the bottom to zero in on a specific time period and hover over a date to get the list of values on that date.
You can add countries by entering it in the upper left.

Per Million:

Peak 7-day average new cases per Million
Note: There is under-counting of deaths by a factor of 3 in several countries, so case counts are probably low also.
Country Date New Cases
North America Jan 12, 2021 470
Europe Nov 2, 2020 370
South America June 3, 2021 334
Asia May 5, 2021 107
Africa Jan 11,2021 24
Belgium Oct 30, 2020 1,536
Ireland Jan 10, 2021 1,323
Portugal Jan 28, 2021 1,264
Israel Sept 14, 2021 1,254
Czechia 10/27/20 1,200
Hungary 03/26/21 960
Botswana 08/07/21 946
United Kingdom Jan 10, 2021 881
France Nov 3, 2020 832
Austria 11/14/20 806
Spain Jan 26, 2021 791
United States Jan 11, 2021 757
Argentina june 1, 2021 728
Turkey Apr 21, 2021 714
Nambia 06/30/21 695
Italy Nov 13, 2020 578
Italy Nov 13, 2020 578
Columbia June 6, 2021 527
Sweden May 4, 2021 500
Costa Rica May 18, 2021 483
South Africa Jan 11, 2021 321
Germany Dec 22, 2020 306
Peru 04/13/21 297
India May 6, 2021 282
Canada Apr 16, 2021 232
Russia May 13, 2021 193
Mexico Dec 24, 2020 81

Total:

Note: There are small countries (< 5 Million population) with more cases and deaths per million.
See Worldmeter and click on headings to sort.

Reported deaths (below) range from 34% to 70% of actual deaths according to the U. of Washington. See above. Worldwide they are double of what is reported.


According to a May 2021 study by the University of Washington's Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME), reported deaths is significantly lower than actual deaths.
Around the World they are double what is reported.

The IHME report only included some of the countries with large numbers. Actual (estimated) total COVID-19 deaths, xgxg020 to May 2021
Country Estimated
Actual
Total
Reported
Total
Reported
% of Actual
Deaths
per M
Bulgaria 38,640 16,905 44% 5,600
Mexico 617,127 217,694 35% 4,746
Peru 147,765 62,739 42% 4,547
Russian Federation 593,610 109,334 18% 4,066
Hungary 38,787 28,919 75% 3,970
Poland 149,855 68,237 46% 3,963
Czechia 41,446 29,574 71% 3,910
Ukraine 138,507 46,737 34% 3,184
United Kingdom 209,661 150,519 72% 3,075
Italy 175,832 121,257 69% 2,912
Brazil 595,903 408,680 69% 2,787
United States of America 905,289 574,043 63% 2,722
South Africa 160,452 54,390 34% 2,676
Spain 123,786 85,365 69% 2,647
Iran 174,177 72,906 42% 2,051
France 132,680 105,506 80% 2,029
Egypt 170,041 13,529 8% 1,635
Germany 120,729 83,256 69% 1,437
India 654,395 221,181 34% 470
See more about excessive deaths above.

Omicron Spread

Source: What omicron's fast spread could mean | NPR Dec 10

Source: Worldmeter

Why Does the Pandemic Seem to Be Hitting Some Countries Harder Than Others? | The New Yorker Feb. 22, 2021
Summary Here.
Other countries -
See also: OurWorldinData
Source: COVID-19 pandemic death rates by country - Wikipedia
892 in the US is about 0.1%

Test Positivity Rate
Experts advise looking at three measurements together: number of cases, case positivity rates and number of deaths to understand what is going on.
Test Positivity Rate is important because a high positivity rate probably means that the case count is low. See Positivity Rate.
WHO guidelines want it to be below 5%. When a positivity rate is higher, epidemiologists start worrying that means only sicker people have access to tests and a city or region is missing mild or asymptomatic cases.


Testing and Positivity | Johns Hopkins

See Positivity Rate for more.

Daily tests per thousand


See More International Stats


United States:

United States:

See Epicenters
CDC COVID Data Tracker

COVID was the leading cause of death in the United States in January 2021:

Provisional Death Counts for Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) | CDC
The average percent of COVID-19 deaths from Mar. 21, 2020 to May 22, 2021 was 14.4%.
That made it #3 behind heart disease (28%) and cancer (25%) as cause of death.
Note: These are the 2019 rates for heart disease and cancer.
They may be lower in 2020 because people weakened from these diseases may have succumbed to COVID first. I don't know how the CDC counts someone who dies of heart disease because of stress from COVID.
See Cause of Death

See 1918 Flu

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US States Cumulative Death Rates
Total Deaths per million per million Apr 20, 2023
Oct 20, 2023
US States Cumulative Death Rates
Total Deaths
Death per million | worldmeter
1 Arizona * 4640
2 West Virginia 4602
3 Mississippi 4527
4 New Mexico * 4405
5 Arkansas 4389
6 Tennessee 4370
7 Michigan 4348
8 Alabama 4311
9 Kentucky 4294
10 Florida 4264
11 Louisiana 4142
12 New Jersey † 4091
13 Oklahoma 4083
14 Georgia 4075
15 Pennsylvania 4021
16 New York † 4015
17 Indiana 3986
18 Nevada 3948
19 South Carolina 3945
20 Rhode Island 3933
21 Missouri 3711
22 South Dakota 3652
23 Ohio 3638
24 Massachusetts 3626
25 Delaware 3580
USA Average 3565
26 Wyoming 3558
27 Kansas 3511
28 Montana 3473
29 Connecticut † 3465
30 Iowa 3422
31 Illinois 3315
32 North Dakota 3298
33 Texas 3282
34 Idaho 3068
35 Wisconsin 2878
36 Maryland 2823
37 Virginia 2782
38 North Carolina 2771
39 Minnesota 2755
40 Colorado 2671
41 California 2664
42 Nebraska 2617
43 Maine 2337
44 New Hampshire 2296
45 Oregon 2263
46 Washington 2121
47 District Of Columbia 2032
48 Alaska 2030
49 Utah 1696
50 Vermont 1489
51 Hawaii 1452
* Arizona and New Mexico have the highest percentage of Native Americans.
Mortality rates for Native Americans were 2.8 times as high as that for the white's according to a December, 2021 Princeton study.
Arizona - Native Americans make up 4.6% of Arizona's population, but 16% of those who have died of COVID-19.
If you discount the Native American numbers Arizona's death rate would be 4,040 which would put them at #13.

New Mexico - Native Americans make up 11% of New Mexico's population, but 50% of those who have died of COVID-19.
If you discount the Native American numbers New Mexico's death rate would be 2,463 which would it at #42.

† The tri-state area, New York, New Jersey and Connecticut, death rates were initially the highest.
New York, New Jersey and Connecticut were the first states to be hit hard in the Spring of 2020 with case rates 3-5 times higher than the national average. Hospitals were still learning how to treat it.
And they had increased exposure because of international travel to New York City and New York City commuters in New Jersey and Connecticut * Arizona and New Mexico have the highest percentage of Native Americans.
Mortality rates for Native Americans were 2.8 times as high as that for the white's according to a December, 2021 Princeton study.
Arizona - Native Americans make up 4.6% of Arizona's population, but 16% of those who have died of COVID-19.
If you discount the Native American numbers Arizona's death rate would be 4,040 which would put them at #13.

New Mexico - Native Americans make up 11% of New Mexico's population, but 50% of those who have died of COVID-19.
If you discount the Native American numbers New Mexico's death rate would be 2,463 which would it at #42. Note: 1,000 deaths per 1 Million is 0.1%
Source: Worldmeter


Vaccinations Jan 12, 2023
Percent of the Population 5 Years of Age and Older with an Updated (Bivalent) Booster Dose Reported to CDC


See Positivity Rate.
The epicenters keeps changing:
The first confirmed case relating to the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States was announced by the state of Washington on January 21, 2020. Washington made the first announcement of a death from the disease in the U.S. on February 29 Washington had the highest absolute number of confirmed cases (500) and the highest number per capita (7 cases per 100,000)of any state in the country, until it was surpassed by New York state on April 10.

I moved back to California from New Jersey a couple of years ago. In April my friends in New Jersey had 10 times the chance of encountering a person with COVID-19 than I did in California. In July the numbers have flipped with California having 6 times and Florida 12 times the incidence of NJ.
By the end of November the average rate for the whole country was 5 times higher than it was in April.
In July 2020 because of their new case rates and population, Florida, Texas and California accounted for 19% of all new cases in the world and more than a third of the new cases in the U.S. with a total of 27,574 new cases per day recorded.
Case rates in those states droped by 2/3 in September.
in January 2021 the U.S. accounted for 34% of all new cases in the world.
In April 2021 the world hit a record of 823,439 new cases, 41% from India.
See World leaders.

States with rates 50% higher than the national average are in bold.
In January there were only a couple of outliers so we bolded the top 10.
State Daily New Cases per 100,000
Spring
2020
Peak
Jul 15 Sep 8 Oct 8 Nov 2 Dec 2 Jan 4
2021
Feb 3 Mar 3 Apr 7 Jun 6 Jul 17 Aug 14 Sep 9 Oct 5 Nov 12 Dec 20 Jan 14
2022
Feb 12Apr 8
US 10 20 10 15 24 50 66 45 19 19 4 9 39 44 30 23 47 243 71 9
New York 51 4 6 7 10 37 71 53 32 34 3 3 21 27 29 35 80 324 41 21
New Jersey 39 4 6 8 18 46 49 51 34 47 3 4 19 22 20 15 74 289 34 18
Connecticut 30 20 64 253 14
Michigan 16 6 11 35 72 27 17 14 70 4 2 14 23 40 37 63 183 53 7
Pennsylvania 13 18 53 56 42 20 33 4 2 16 28 37 37 57 219 44 6
California 3 20 11 8 10 37 96 42 11 7 2 6 31 16 10 16 19 300 88 8
Florida 6 56 13 12 20 39 62 46 25 24 9 30 101 66 19 7 40 286 88 8
Arizona 4 51 8 9 19 62 112 64 16 9 5 12 38 38 38 47 40 232 97 10
Texas 3 37 13 13 20 38 63 70 25 10 4 9 50 62 27 10 23 214 76 9
Idaho 37 16 28 45 70 50 55 84 28 18 101 138 3
North Dakota 13 38 60 139 89 26 24 55 81 64 41 217 121 5
South Dakota 27 55 134 100 48 43 42 36 39 222
Wisconsin 14 15 43 80 70 44 53 52 69 274
Iowa 24 29 66 64 43 45 41 48 158
Utah 20 13 33 55 86 85 43 7 16 31 44 40 0 304
Montana 12 42 77 79 36 84 46 0 126
Nebraska 14 29 60 93 50 25 44 0 207
Wyoming 25 61 93 38 9 14 45 80 43 0 163
Minnesota 12 20 46 115 34 34 49 64 56
Rhode Island 15 42 114 96 51 35 28 23 120 486 25
New Mexico 14 38 88 59 50 52
Indiana 18 44 87 71 64
Nevada 16 27 75 68 23 35 0
Ohio 67 64 47 37 79 230
Tennessee 72 93 40 19 56 74 0 94
Kansas 85 36 14 41 54 271
Oklahoma 84 52 15 54 59 0
Arkansas 86 51 28 5 34 74 56 0 297
Georgia 80 51 28 12 54 73 0
South Carolina 75 67 21 61 92 41 0 291 112
North Carolina 68 52 23 15 49 36 0 255
Colorado 25 10 6 54 0 260 26
Washington 7 8 9 0 110 12
Missouri 31 45
Louisiana 26 126 50 0 271
mississippi 12 110 65 0 231 156
Alabama 14 81 77 0
Alaska 83 121 59 0 258 170 28
W. Virginia 85 75 43 0 135
Kentucky 89 57 21 0 154 12
Vermont 58 82 286 27
New hampshire 42 90 74 11
Illinois 80 233 12
Maine 70 150 15
Massachusetts 80 303 20
Delaware 342 9
West Virginia
Connecticut 14

Source: Covid in the U.S.: Latest Map and Case Count - The New York Times Pro-Trump counties now have three times the COVID death rates. Misinformation is to blame | NPR Dec. 2021


See Epicenters
State and City cases and deaths per capita
I've looked at places where I have friends and family or places which were considered hot spots in the news.
Covid-19 Vaccinations: County and State Tracker - The New York Times

California

Click on Charts to go to the current version.


Regions:

California Regions ranked by new cases per 100,000 May 24, 2023

See the See Timeline for a history of infection rates and the tier system October 2020 - June 2021 (Alpha surge).


Cumulative Deaths:

Bay Area Region vs Other Regions

A LA Times report said that in January 2022 the death rate in southern California was 3 times higher than the Bay Area.

The Bay Area in California has traditionally had the second lowest rate of California's 5 regions behind the Northern California region and was usually lower than the State rate. As of May 2022 the Bay Area cumulative death rate over the life of COVID was about half the other regions. See above.
In May 2022 the Bay Area had the highest rate.

I had a theory that the regions which had higher rates in the past have developed a herd immunity. However, that has not held up in the last half of 2022 where the Bay Area and Southern California have been trading off for the highest rate.
My new theory is that areas with the highest inter-state and international visitors are affected first. That was the case in the North East states also.

The CDC sampled blood for antibodies from September 2021 to February 2022 and concluded that almost 60% of Americans had been infected, which is much higher than the 24% of cases reported, so we would be approaching heard immunity numbers. However the frequent mutations in the omicron variant messes up the heard immunity theory.

North Central Califronia Counties Map

See county data below.

CA Current notes:
See News from the Governor's Office - Coronavirus COVID-19 Response
Vaccination News below
More links below.


Tracking COVID-19 in California - ca-gov


Holiday surge: 2020

The increase of infections after holidays confirms the dangers of personal social gatherings.
There is a drop in infections durring the holidays because of reduced testing. Johns Hopkins University reported a high of more than 2 million tests a few days before Thanksgiving as people prepared to travel, but that number had dropped to less than 1.2 million tests on Thanksgiving Day.
California Links:
COVID-19 | California Department of Public Health
ASC Building Products   News Releases 2020 | CDPH.ca.gov
covid19.ca.gov
  About COVID-19 restrictions - covid19.ca.gov
  Blueprint for a Safer Economy - covid19.ca.gov

California | The COVID Tracking Project



North Central California Counties

Average new cases per day per 100,000 .

2021 2022 2023
06/05 1/7 4/2 5/27 11/11 12/10 1/13 2/1 3/3 4/26 5/18
United States 4.2 195 7 33 12 20 18 13 10 3.8 3.3
California 2.3 166 6 39 10 29 16 9 9 3.1 *
Bay Area
Alameda 9 50 10 28 15 7 12 3.5 3.9
Contra-Costa 50 9 28 16 7 15 3.8 3.3
Marin 60 2 19 11 8 9 3.1 0.0
Napa 1.4 149 6 37 2 19 14 10 9 3.7 2.7
San Francisco 167 14 59 16 27 14 8 12 3.5 3.4
San Mateo 1.3 174 11 61 14 28 14 7 9 3.7 3.2
Sanoma 182 8 46 6 17 13 6 8 3.4 2.8
Santa Clara 1.3 163 11 59 10 33 16 10 10 3.7 3.5
Solano 1.3 120 6 50 5 23 16 9 10 4.0 2.0
Greater Sacramento
El Dorado 30 10 19 10 5 5 3.0 2.1
Placer 1.3 91 4 34 8 19 11 7 8 3.5 3.3
Sacramento 0.3 117 7 38 10 21 11 9 10 3.9 3.7
Sierra 0 14 13 0 5 0 0 0.0 0.0
Sutter 99 8 29 6 16 16 5 6 4.3 3.9
Yolo 1.8 159 11 43 13 16 9 7 8 3.7 1.9
Davis 212† 4
* California stoped reporting new cases in May
Source: LA Times
See more detail at corona-detail

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Bay Area & Sac Area (partial) County Case Rates:


County stats

Both numbers are probably low because of many cases not being reported.
See Davis Wastewater Testing below.

Cumulative to May 26, 2023
Cases per
100,000
Deaths per
100,000
Fully
Vaccinated
United States 32,366 352 70%
California 31,054 260 81%
Bay Area
Alameda 24,934 131 86.0%
Contra-Costa 26,500 141 86.2%
Marin 18,206 100 89.8%
Napa 26,037 125 79.4%
San Francisco 24,582 140 87.3%
San Mateo 25,813 98 87.7%
Sonoma 24,170 114 85.7%
Santa Clara 26,313 146 87.9%
Solano 28,370 109 71.2%
Greater Sacramento
El Dorado 21,253 132 64.4%
Placer 24,442 180 72.3%
Sacramento 27,583 239 71.8%
Sierra 12,765 171 54.1%
Sutter 29,836 251 62.0%
Yolo 25,936 211 75.4%
Source: Tracking the coronavirus in California ,| LA Times

Data from the previous week is Updated Thursdays
Note: When you click on the chart it will go to the California dashboard and fill in the county, but you have to scroll down and click on "Get County Data"" to get the updated chart.
As of May 11, 2023, the COVID-19 California Dashboard is no longer reporting aggregate cases; CDPH will continue to report sustainable and meaningful data that allow for timely monitoring of COVID-19

Hospitalzations are now used by the CDC instead of caes.
Some Counties I watch:
Note: As of December 1 the California Department of Health has stopped publishing county data.
The LA Times has county data at Tracking COVID-19 in California, You need to search for counties individually.
Note: I think the number below is total people in the hospital because of COVID not new people per day, so it is higher than the table below.
December 5
Entity Hospital-
ized
Patients
per 100K
14-day
change in
Positive
patients
california 4.0 +10.9%
Yolo 2.3 +67%
San Mateo 3.0 +38%
Placer 12.6 +8%
Sacramento 5.1 +16%
solano 5.5 +56%
Napa 3.8 0%
Hospitalization Rate per 100,000 Sept 9
Entity current low high Current
% of high
U.S. 0.81 0.27 6.02 12%
Calif 0.99 0.38 5.16 19%
Yolo 1.22 0.13 1.40 87%
San Mateo 1.06 0.23 3.11 30%
Placer * 3.32 1.31 9.1 35%
Sacramento 1.26 0.57 6.26 16%
Solano 1.09 0.75 8.87 10%
Napa 1.39 0.38 5.20 27%
Positivity
Sutter 29.0% 3.7% 31.0% 94%
* Placer must be counting all hospitalizations not just COVID.
Total cases now is probably a higher percent of the peak than hospitalizations because more people have immunity from vaccines or esposure, so fewer of infected people are going to the hospital.
Sutter doesn't report hospitalizations

New cases are no longer reported. Positivity rates are shown here.




Sources: [7-day average case count]

* LA Times may report total for 7-days not the per-day-average.

Yolo Co. Covid-data-tracker| CDC


Davis:

Yolo County no longer lists Davis Stats.

City Wastewater Data

San Mateo Cities cases per day and cumulative per 100,000 Jan 23, 2023
This data was discontinued if February 2023.
Area Total
cases
per 100K
Last
14 days
per 100K
US 31,030 14
California 30,260 10
San Mateo Co. 24,910 9
Colma 73,040 27
Broadmoor 27,810 21
Ladera 15,310 14
San Bruno 24,840 11
Millbrae 19,210 11
South San Francisco 27,410 11
Woodside 17,670 10
Burlingame 20,090 10
Portola Valley 13,980 9
Daly City 26,660 9
North Fair Oaks 34,690 9
Pacifica 19,340 9
Redwood City 24,670 9
Atherton 17,440 8
Belmont 19,000 8
Brisbane 21,610 8
San Carlos 19,250 8
Emerald Hills 17,520 8
Hillsborough 15,870 7
Menlo Park 22,210 7
San Mateo 22,260 7
East Palo Alto 40,830 6
Half Moon Bay 18,570 6
Foster City 15,970 5
Midcoast Region 15,180 4
West Menlo Park 15,910 1
La Honda 8,960 n/a
Loma Mar 8,720 n/a
Pescadero 21,000 n/a
Princeton 3,400 n/a
* Midcoast Region - The area between Pacifica and Half Moon Bay including, Montara (2,909), Moss Beach & Seal Cove (3,236), Princeteon-by-the Sea (297), El Granada (5,483), and Miramar.


Bay Area Wastewater
Sewer Coronavirus Alert Network (SCAN) tracking - Stanford


Links to County Dashboards.
California, 
Sacramento
Yolo,
San Mateo


Solano County Public Health Dashboards, 
Coronavirus Report for Napa County, CA - LiveStories, 
Coronavirus (COVID-19) | Napa County, CA, 
Sacramento, 
Placer, 
Sarasota County, Florida  | USAFacts, 

Washoe Co. NV

Other Links:
Coronavirus tracker | Mercury News

Other

Old News

  • November 2023- A new strain, HV.1, was responsible for about a quarter of new coronavirus cases as of late October, rising to the highest prevalence of any strain circulating in the U.S.
    The strain is still a subvariant of omicron – as is every strain that’s in circulation. It’s a descendent of EG.5 (eris), which is the second most common variant in the U.S. at nearly 22% ,
    Given how similar HV.1 is to EG.5, the updated coronavirus vaccines are expected to work on the new strain.
  • October - I added a vaccination vs death rate chart.
  • Sept 11 - The Food and Drug Administration approved new COVID boosters. The CDC recommends them for everyone aged 6 and up. They should be available this week.
    The new boosters are a much closer match to currently circulating variants than prior vaccines, say federal health officials. They're updated versions of the existing Moderna and Pfizer-BioNTech vaccines and have been formulated to target a relatively recent omicron subvariant called XBB.
    The CDC says the updated vaccines should work against currently circulating variants of the SARS-CoV-2 virus—many of which are descended from or related to the XBB strain. The two strains, EG.5 and XBB.1.5, are not identical, but they're pretty close to XBB.
    The omicron variant is like a big family, and its known family members – BA.2, BA.2.86 and XBB.1.5 – are all branches – or lineages and sublineages – on the same tree.
    See Variants for the sublenage tree.
  • Sept 5 - Research has shown that current vaccines are efective against BA.2.86 (Pirola).
    It has been detected in Michigan, New York, Ohio, Texas and Virginia.
  • Aug 23 - A new variant, BA.2.86 (Pirola), with 36 mutations of the BA2 strain has been detected in Virginia, Michigan and Ohio, the UK, Israel, Denmark and South Africa.
    BA.2.86's mutations include changes at key parts of the virus that could help the variant dodge the body's immune defenses from prior infections or vaccinations.
  • August 20 - COVID-19 is still a pandemic according to the World Health Organization.
    Average U.S. Hospital admissions went up 3 1/2 times from 0.27 per 100,000 on June 24 to 0.74 per 100,000 on Aug 26. This is still only 12% of the highest rate of 602 per 100,000 in the January 2022 Omicron Surge.
    The hospitalizations in Jan 1, 2024 were 80% of those a year earlier.
    There also hasn’t been an increase in Covid-related deaths, which tends to lag behind a rise in hospitalizations.
    Currently EG.5 is the dominant strain with 20% of cases.
    See Surges
  • May 15 - Most places stopped counting new cases. The CDC counts hopsitalizations; California counts Test positivity rate.
  • May 5 - WHO declares an end to the COVID-19 global health emergency. Three years and 2 months after it was declared a Pandemic.
    They have recorded close to 7 million deaths from COVID-19, though the real death toll from the pandemic may be three times that.
    The death rate in the US for COVID-19 was 0.3% of the population.
    The death rate for the 1918 FLu (H1N1) was 0.7% of the population.
    See Pandemics
  • April 18 - CDC simplifies COVID-19 vaccine recommendations, allows older adults and immunocompromised adults to get second dose of the updated vaccine.
  • April 10 - The US ended the national emergency for Covid-19. It will not affect the end of the separate public health emergency scheduled for May 11.
    The national emergency allowed the government to take sweeping steps to respond to the virus and support the countrys economic, health and welfare systems.
    The WHO will decide whether to extend the "Public health emergency of international concern" (PHEIC) in its quarterly meeting at the end of April.
  • Feb 28, 2023 California ends the COVID-19 State of Emergency.
    Californias COVID emergency is over today. What happens next? | SF Chronicle
    Californias COVID-19 State of Emergency ends today. What does it mean for you? | UC Davis Health
  • April 1 - Most major countries and regions now have < 10 new cases per 100,000 per day. However, New Zealand, South Korea and Australia have 15-30 new cases per 100K. In the first 2 years of the pandemic they have had much lower rates than the rest of the world and their cumulative death rate is less than half of the rest of the world.
  • Feb 15, 2023 We still have a pandemic. The XBB.1.5 variant is spreading. It accounts for 80% of new cases in the U.S. and is in 38 countries now. It is more contagious but appears to be less severe than previous strains.
    However, the infection rates have have gone back down to the October 2022 lows following the holiday surge.
    The WHO Pacific region (S. Korea, Japan, Taiwan, New Zealand, Australia) still has the highest infection rate, but they are down from their Summer-Fall 2022 highs.
    Weekly change in new cases is down in all WHO regions, Europe, Americas, Western Pacific, South-East Asia, Eastern Mediterranean, and Africa.
    Europe and South America show a slight increase in the last month at Our World in Data.
    China has stopped reporting, so we don't know the status of the surge there since they dropped their "Zero Covid" policy at the end of December 2022.
    The U.S. will end it's COVID-19 Public Health Emergency (PHE) and National Emergency on May 11, 2023.
  • Dec 31, 2022 A new variant XBB.1.5 now accounts for 28% of new cases in the US and is rising fast.
    XBB.1.5 seems to be more contagious. So far there is no indication it was more serious or harmful than previous Omicron variants.
    See US Variants below
  • Dec 25 2022- In early December, China suddenly reversed its "zero Covid" policy. That set off a wave of infections that has swept across the nation, overwhelming hospitals and funeral parlors.
    See China below .
  • Nov 11 2022- New cases in Japan have increased 66% and South Korea have increases 37% over the last 2 weeks.
  • Oct 29 - New variants BQ.1, BQ.1.1 and BA.4.6 now account for 37% of new cases in the U.S. BA.5 is still the most prominent variant.
    See US Variants below
    The U.S. COVID-19 public health emergency (PHE) declaration will end on May 11.
  • Oct 21 - A new variant, XBB, a descendant of two different BA.2 variants is emerging.
    XBB, in addition to competitor BQ.1.1, escape antibody immunity.
    XBB has been reported by 26 countries.
    Last week, Singapore's health ministry said its rise in cases over the past month is mainly due to the Omicron XBB subvariant.
    As of Oct 25th Singapores new cases were down 10% over the previous 2 weeks.
    See: Global COVID-19 cases down, but rising in Western Pacific | CIDRAP (Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy)

    The european surge of BA.2.75 seems to have peaked.

  • Oct 1 - Europe is experience a new surge with a 33% increase in new cases in the last 2 weeks. This time the ongoing COVID-19 wave is being propelled by sub-lineages of the Omicron variant, notably BA.2.75 and BA.5, with each dominant sub-lineage of Omicron showing clear transmission advantages over the previously circulating viruses.
  • Sept 1 - The CDC and FDA authorize new Omicron BA.4 and BA.5 specific variants of COVID-19 booster vaccines from Moderna and Pfizer.
  • August 11 - The CDC loosens COVID guidance, because the majority of people have some imminity and are unlikely to become severely ill.
    Eliminates
    6 foot guidance.
    Quarantine rule for unvaccinated
  •                                                       (Click on chart to update)
    August 5 - Despite all the news about a BA.5 surge most regions are now seing decreases in the new case rate. In the last 2 weeks the US new case rate dropped 20% and Europe dropped 30%. However case rates in the US are still 3 times what they were on Apr 1 and Europe is double what it was on June 1, still well below peaks in January.
    All world regions except Asia were down. In the US the Northeast, West and South were down, the Midwest was up slightly; California was down 24%; and all all California regions are down.
    US Wastewater Surveillance sites are also generally showing a decline.
  • July 5 - The BA.5 strain, the most contagious one so far, now accounts for more than 50% and BA.4 over 20% of cases in the U.S. according to the CDC. New case counts have not increased much but there is a rise in hospitalizations and test positivity rate. See U.S. data
    "BA.5 is able to evade previous immunity, said Dean Blumberg, chief of pediatric infectious diseases at UC Davis Childrens Hospital. So, breakthrough infections with people who had previous infections are common.
    Note: only a fraction of new cases are being reported. See below.
    David Montefiori, a professor at the Human Vaccine Institute at Duke University Medical Center, said " BA.4 and BA.5 havent been found to cause more severe disease.
    Rather, rises in hospitalizations observed in some places more likely have to do with fading vaccine protection."
    How to protect yourself from COVID subvariant BA.5 | UC Davis.
    and Covid: Omicron subvariants BA.4 and BA.5 escape antibodies from vaccination and prior infection, studies suggest - CNN

  • June, 2022 - The CDC sampled blood for antibodies from September 2021 to February 2022 and concluded that almost 60% of Americans had been infected. Official counts showed only 24% infected, so only 43% were actually reported.

  • June 10 - U.S. drops Covid testing requirement for international travelers.

  • May 12 - The CDC's official death count from COVID hits 1 million. Other reports said it hit a million several weeks ago. The actual total is much highr.
    I compared the wastewater results for Davis, CA, with reported cases in January and August. It indicated about the same thing.
  • May 5, 2022 - New estimates from the World Health Organization (WHO) show that the full death toll associated directly or indirectly with the COVID-19 pandemic (described as excess mortality) between 1 January 2020 and 31 December 2021 was approximately 14.9 million, more than double the official death toll of 6 million.
    See Data Accuracy below.
  • May 2 - The BA.2.12.1 Omicron Variant is spreading. It already makes up nearly 60% of cases in the Northeast US , according to estimates by the CDC. BA.2.12.1 may be 20% to 30% more infectious than BA.2.

  • May 5, 2022 - The Bay Area in California which has had the second lowest rate of California's 5 regions behind Northern California and in the Fall of 2022 it had the highest rate. See Bay Area vs other CA regions.
    My theory is that as of August 2022 the Bay area has had the lowest death rate, less than half the other regions, so the population does not have a built up immunity from prior infections.

  • Apr 18, 2022 - Although cases continue to rise in the northeast and some other places, Dr Scott Gottlieb, former FDA commissioner and Dr Anthony Fauci do not think is the start of a major outbreak.
    A court case in Florida says the CDC cannot issue mask mandates for transportation.
    TSA says they will not enforce the mask mandate.

    Dr Scott Gottlieb, former FDA commissioner, said on "Face the Nation",
    "We are probably only picking up 1 in 7 or 8 infections, because people are using home tests which never get reported.

  • Apr 9 - The majority of US cases are the BA.2 variant. The only significant change in cases is a 60% increase in the Northeast over the last 3 weeks.
    Mask mandate for plains extended until May 3.
  • Mar 3 - The world death count hit 6 million
  • Feb 24, 2022 - The BA.2 variant of Omicron is about 30% more transmissible than the original Omicron variant, BA.1, and it is now causing about 1 in 5 Covid-19 cases worldwide.
    It has a low hospitalization rate like BA.1.
    WHO said "They are monitoring countries that have detected BA.2, but so far the subvariant hasnt caused a fresh surge in cases."" Globally, Covid cases have plunged 21% over the past week.
  • Dec 20, 2021 - The Omicron variant accounts for 3/4 of all new cases in the US and is in 40 states.


  • 2021
  • Nov 26, 2021 - South Africa announced a new COVID variant, Omicron
    It infects different cells in the upper respiratory tract rather than in the lungs, which makes it more transmissible but less severe than the previous variants.

    As of December 4th The Omicron variant had been detected in at least 38 countries but no deaths have yet been reported.

  • Nov 1, 2021 - Coronavirus death toll hits 5 million worldwide
  • Sept 8, 2021, 2021 - New cases among children and teenagers have reached the highest weekly level since the pandemic's start, at more than 250,000 for the week ending Sept. 2 more than a fourth of all new cases that week in the U.S.
  • July 27 - CDC Advises Masking Indoors even for vaccinated people In Counties With Substantial Or High Coronavirus Spread.
    2/3 of counties in the country have substantial or high rates.
    See New mask guidance
  • July 20, 2021 - Indias Covid-19 Death Toll Is Likely in the Millions | WSJ
    India has officially recorded more than 414,000 coronavirus deaths, but scientists and researchers have said that number undercounts the real toll.
    They estimate the actual number of deaths is between 3.4 and 4.7 million.
  • July 11, 2021 - US Infection rates are over 50% higher than June lows although still only 10% of what they were in January.
    In part it is blamed on the July 4th weekend, but also on vaccine resistance in parts of the country. Nationally, 55.6% of all Americans have received at least one COVID-19 shot. The five states with the biggest two-week jump in cases per capita all had lower vaccination rates: Missouri, 45.9%; Arkansas, 43%; Nevada, 50.9%; Louisiana, 39.2%; and Utah, 49.5%.
  • July 7, 2021 - Coronavirus death toll hits 4 million worldwide as the Delta variant spreads.

    North America and Europe are still well off their highs of 450 and 350 cases per million per day.
    Africa's cases cases are concentrated in 6 countries, Tunisia, Nambia, South Africa, Botswana, Libia and Zambia, where the combined case rate is 350 per day per million.

  • June 14 - The CDC declared the Delta variant a "variant of concern," a designation given when there is increased evidence of factors such as transmissibility or severity or reduced effectiveness of vaccines or treatments. See the Delta variant in facts.
  • June 14 - The CDC declared the Delta variant a "variant of concern," a designation given when there is increased evidence of factors such as transmissibility or severity or reduced effectiveness of vaccines or treatments. See the Delta variant in facts.
  • June 3 - The W.H.O. warned of a surge of new infections in Africa, which could set off a third wave for the continent as winter arrives.
  • June 1 A new surge in Latin America has been attributed to the spread of the Brazil variant.
  • May 31 - 42% of the US population are fully vaccinated.
    52% of the California population are fully vacinated.
    8% of Canadians are fully vaccinated.
    Fully vaccinated in Europe: UK 37%; Spain 19%; Italy 19%; Germany 17%; France 16%; Russia 8%
    According to the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) Only 3% of the regional population in Latin America are fully vacinated. as of May 19.
    Vaccination rate by country | Americas Society-Council of the Americas June 1
    Chile 44%; Brazil 11%; Argentina 6%; Columbia 6%;
  • May 9 - New cases in india levels off and the world's new cases is declining.
  • April 21- India India had 265,000 new cases per day driving the world total over 800,000 new cases. The previous country high was the US which had 251,000 new cases per day on January 8th.
  • April 16 - The COVID death toll freached 3 million deaths worldwide.
                1918 Flu - 17-50 million deaths
  • March 15 - Surge in Michigan, Minneasota and the North East US
  • March 10 - Cases are increasing in Europe and Latin America.
  • March 11 - The WHO declares COVID-19 a pandemic
  • January 2020 - The WHO declares the coronavirus outbreak to be a public health emergency of international concern. Risk-Assessment
    Joshua SA. Weitz at Georgie Tech developed a tool to assess the risk that one (or more) individuals in a group was infected which was documented in nature research in October, 2020.
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    You specify the group size and an ascertainment bias of 5 or 10. i.e. actual infections are 5 to 10 times higher than what is reported and get a risk probability.
    See COVID-19 Event Risk Assessment Planning Tool

    Objective:
    I was tired of the media only reporting total cases, it's meaningless for me. 1,000 new cases in Nevada is significant, 1,000 in California is not.
    I want to know the probability of meeting someone in the grocery store with coronavirus. To get that I need the Attack Rate, how many people are infected per 100,000 population.
    I have gone thru several iterations concentrating on death rates in the beginning because case rates were unreliable from the lack of testing.
    In "Substantial underestimation of SARS-CoV-2 infection in the United States" | Nature Communications Sept 2020, They estimate the actual number of infections from February to April, 2020 was 3 to 20 times higher than the number of confirmed cases.

    But it turns out only 18% - 80% of actual deaths are counted.
    See U. Washington study.

    I eventually found web sites that were reporting most of data I was interested in, shown here, you can click on charts to get current versions.

    We are concentrating on trends now from the world down to some towns in California. Where are the outbreaks, relative size of the them, history of safety plans etc..
    Also listing death rates, hospitilazions and positivity rate where possible.
    See more at rational.

    Joshua SA. Weitz at Georgie Tech developed a tool to assess the risk that one (or more) individuals in a group was infected.
    See Risk Assessment

    We are concentrating on trends now from the world down to some towns in California. Where are the outbreaks, relative size of the them, history of safety plans etc..
    Also listing death rates, hospitilazions and positivity rate where possible.
    See more at rational.


    Rational:
    I started counting cases, but at the advice of my, Son, a medical journal editor, I changed this to report deaths which is likely more accurate than cases.
    Case numbers are under reported because of a lack of testing, pre-symptomatic, and non-symptomatic people, which vary by location.
    There are issues with death counts too, but fewer than with case counts.
    See Deaths vs Cases.
    After the Surge in the Southwestern US at the end of June, I started counting cases again, because of better testing and the 2 week lag between cases and deaths. Also the death rate is going down,

      There are other measurements that would be helpful in understanding the progress of the epidemic in different places, such as the number of new hospitalizations, the number of tests administered or the number of people showing any symptoms of respiratory illness. But confirmed coronavirus cases and deaths, however incomplete, are the most useful daily statistics currently available at a local level everywhere in the country.
    Hospitalizations and deaths lag cases by one to two weeks.


    Sources:

    Some twitter feeds I found useful:
    Coronavirus: The Most Essential People To Follow On Twitter During The COVID-19 Outbreak | Forbes
    (2) Bob Wachter (@Bob_Wachter) / Twitter Chair, UCSF Dept of Medicine
    Eric Topol (@EricTopol) / Twitter physician-scientist, author, editor, Sripps
    @DrTomFrieden Former Director @CDCgov

    Other Links:
    Terms - Glossary
    Case Fatality Rate