Day 35: Holding My Breath for More Signs of the Top
COVID-19 Report As of Sunday, April 19, 2020 GA DPH NOON Consecutive day #3 of decreasing growth (14 needed) ▼ Confirmed COVID-19 Cases: 18,301 (+460) ▼ Daily Growth Rate: 2.5% (-1.2%) ▼ Weekly Growth Rate: 5.7% (+0.2%) ▲ % of Population Affected: 0.1744% (+0.0042) ▼ Hospitalized: 3,464 (+17) ▼ Beds Available: 8,322 ✓ (Last Day...
Day 34: Don’t Believe Press Summaries of Data Because There is Really No Drastic Change
COVID-19 Report As of Saturday, April 18, 2020 GA DPH 7PM Consecutive day #2 of decreasing growth (14 needed) ▼ Confirmed COVID-19 Cases: 17,841 (+647) ▼ Daily Growth Rate: 3.7% (-1.1%) ▲ Weekly Growth Rate: 5.5% (-0.4%) ▲ % of Population Affected: 0.1702% (+0.0061) ▼ Hospitalized: 3,447 (+123) ▲ Beds Available: 8,322 ✓ Deceased 677...
Day 33: Getting Better or Bad Numbers?
COVID-19 Report As of Friday, April 17, 2020 GA DPH NOON Consecutive day #1 of decreasing growth (14 needed) ▼ Confirmed COVID-19 Cases: 17,194 (+826) ▼ Daily Growth Rate: 4.8% (-4.5%) ▼ Weekly Growth Rate: 5.9% (-0.6%) ▼ % of Population Affected: 0.1641% (+0.0076) ▼ Hospitalized: 3,324 (+64) ▼ Beds Available: 8,322 ✓ Deceased 650...
Day 32: Is this Data Any Good?
COVID-19 Report As of Thursday, April 16, 2020 GA DPH 7PM Confirmed COVID-19 Cases: 16,368 (+1,381) ▲ Consecutive day #0 of decreasing growth (14 needed) ▲ Daily Growth Rate: 9.3% (+3.8%) ▲ Double Number of cases every 10 days ▲ Average Growth Rate (7-Days): 6.5% (+0.3%) ▲ % of Population Affected: 0.1565% (+0.0133) ▲ Estimated...
Day 31: Weekly Average Continues to Decline, but Numbers Continue to Climb
COVID-19 Report As of Wednesday, April 15, 2020 GA DPH Noon Confirmed COVID-19 Cases: 14,987 (+754) ▼ Consecutive day #1 of decreasing growth (14 needed) ▼ (NOTE: I made an error yesterday, and the number went up slightly then, not down, so yesterday this should have been 0 not 1.) Daily Growth Rate: 5.5% (-1.3%)...
Day 30: No Big Tuesday Bump, but Not Great
COVID-19 Report As of Tuesday, April 14, 2020 GA DPH Noon Confirmed COVID-19 Cases: 14,233 (+733) ▼ Consecutive day #1 of decreasing growth (14 needed) ▼ Daily Growth Rate: 6.8% (-0.4%) ▼ Double Number of cases every 15 days ▼ Average Growth Rate (7-Days): 7.0% (-2.1%) ▼ % of Population Affected: 0.1358% (+0.0087) ▲ Estimated...
Day 29: Easter’s Downward Trends Almost All Reversed Today
COVID-19 Report As of Monday, April 13, 2020 GA DPH Noon Total Confirmed: 13,315 (+863) ▲ Consecutive day 0 of lower # of increases (14 needed) ▲ Daily Growth Rate: 7.2% (double # of cases every 14 days) ▲ Average Weekly Growth Rate: 9.1% (-0.4%) ▼ Total Infected (Est.): 133,150 (+8,630) ▲ Contagious, No Symptoms...
Day 28: Happy Easter! (I will wait until Tuesday to feel good about the numbers today, but check out that daily rate of change!)
COVID-19 Report As of Sunday, April 12, 2020 GA DPH Noon Total Confirmed: 12,452 (+191) ▼ Consecutive day 2 of lower # of increases (14 needed) ▼ Daily Growth Rate: 1.4% (double # of cases every 71 days) ▼ Average Weekly Growth Rate: 9.5% (-0.4%) ▼ Total Infected (Est.): 124,520 (+1,910) ▼ Contagious, No Symptoms...
Day 27: Important Numbers Still Up; Daily Growth and Rate Down
COVID-19 Report As of Saturday, April 11, 2020 GA DPH Noon Total Confirmed: 12,261 (+778) ▼ Daily Growth Rate: 6.6% (double # of cases every 15 days) ▼ Average Weekly Growth Rate: 9.9% ✓ Total Infected (Est.): 122,610 (+7,780) ▲ Asymptomatic but Contagious (Est.): 98,088 (+8,383) ▲ Asymptomatic Ratio: 9 in every 1,000 Georgians ✓...
Day 26: Weekly Average Growth Rate Falls Below 10% but Numbers Up
As of Friday, April 10, 2020 GA DPH Noon Report Total Confirmed Cases: 11,482 (+917) Daily Growth Rate: 8.9% (double # of cases every 11 days) Estimated Total Infected: 114,830 Asymptomatic but Contagious: 89,705 (9 in every 1,000) Hospitalized: 2,351 (+156) Deceased 416 (+37) Morbidity Rate: 3.61% I decided to put a summary at the...
Day 25: Average Weekly Rate Continues to Fall while Total Over 10,000 and Increasing
I breathed a sigh of some relief today when the numbers showed a downward trend for the second day in a row (Fig 1, blue line) and the number of deaths was “only” 17 (Fig 1, red line). 178 more people are in the hospital since yesterday, but we still have the beds for them....
Day 24: Rate Decreased; Weekly Average Rate Continues to Decrease; Daily Total Down
After yesterday, I’m starting to see a weekly pattern in the data. Tuesday brings a spike that I was expecting Monday. Well, I bet the data gets there Monday, but is not published until Tuesday. So the weekend data inconsistencies are all shoved onto Tuesday. This sort of data shenanigans is going to play havoc...