by Dean Paxton | Mar 16, 2021 | Current Count, News, News Briefs
USA Cases: 85711442 Cases today: 0 Deaths: 1031259 Deaths today: 0 Recovered: 82005303 Active: 2674880 Critical: 2488 Globally Cases: 531475749 Cases today: 247511 Deaths: 6310627 Deaths today: 363 Recovered: 502118129 Active: 23046993 Critical: 37602 It’s been...
by Dean Paxton | Jul 6, 2020 | News, News Briefs
Trump used the Fourth of July weekend to sow division during a global pandemic that has killed over 130,000 Americans, shirked his responsibility to contain the coronavirus, and promoted an updated version of his “American carnage” vision for the country. In a pair of...
by Dean Paxton | Jun 28, 2020 | News, News Briefs
The White House coronavirus task force held its first briefing in two months, as Pence took a victory lap, saying “We slowed the spread, we flattened the curve, we saved lives.” While Pence acknowledged that cases have been rising “precipitously” in some states, he...
by Dean Paxton | Jun 1, 2020 | Misc, News, News Briefs
On Friday, Trump took shelter inside an underground bunker for nearly an hour as protests continued outside the White House and across Washington, D.C. Trump was abruptly taken by Secret Service agents inside the Presidential Emergency Operations Center, an...
by Dean Paxton | May 31, 2020 | Misc, News, News Briefs
Police nationwide responded to protests against police violence by deliberately targeting demonstrators, journalists, and bystanders with pepper spray, tear gas, rubber bullets, and excessive use of force. The ongoing protests following the killing of George Floyd by...
by Dean Paxton | May 30, 2020 | News, News Briefs
Trump announces U.S. withdrawal from the World Health Organization. Alarmed health experts said the move will set back global efforts to fight the pandemicThe Trump administration’s initial distribution of remdesivir went to – in some cases – the wrong hospitals, to...
by Dean Paxton | May 21, 2020 | News, News Briefs
Mitch McConnell promised House Republicans that enhanced unemployment benefits enacted earlier this spring “will not be in the next bill.”The United States could have prevented about 36,000 deaths if social distancing had been put in place seven days earlier — about...
by Dean Paxton | May 21, 2020 | News, News Briefs, Site News, Site Updates
by Dean Paxton | May 7, 2020 | News, News Briefs
“Some of you may die, but it’s a sacrifice I am willing to make”- Lord Farquaad What now?Trump said his administration will urge the Supreme Court to overturn Obamacare, maintaining its all-out legal assault on the health care law amid a pandemic...
by Dean Paxton | May 6, 2020 | News, News Briefs
Case data from today and yesterday are kind of broken, this count isn’t accurate, in fact all the reporting sites have incomplete data for the past couple of days. It is probably time I level with all of you about what I think will happen. After 4 months of...
by Dean Paxton | May 5, 2020 | News, News Briefs
Sometimes it seems like the information changes from day to day and from one extreme to anotherThe crews from about 100 cruise ships around the world are still on board those ships, trapped, without pay, and they are starting to get sick… 100,000 peopleAs states...
by Dean Paxton | May 2, 2020 | News, News Briefs
White House blocks Fauci from testifying at House coronavirus hearing. A White House spokesman said it would be “counter-productive” for the health official to testify, adding that the Trump administration would work with Congress on testimony at a later date. There...
by Dean Paxton | Apr 30, 2020 | News, News Briefs
Current status in the US: USA Cases: 85711442 Cases today: 0 Deaths: 1031259 Deaths today: 0 Recovered: 82005303 Active: 2674880 Critical: 2488 Eric Trump promotes “quarantine wine” on the same day that his dad spares visas for vineyard workersBay Area...
by Dean Paxton | Apr 27, 2020 | News, News Briefs
‘No Evidence’ Yet That Recovered COVID-19 Patients Are Immune, WHO Says (NPR)Global coronavirus death toll could be 60% higher than reported. Mortality statistics show 122,000 deaths in excess of normal levels across 14 countries (Financial Times)U.S....
by Dean Paxton | Apr 21, 2020 | News, News Briefs
28,000 missing deaths: Tracking the true death toll of the coronavirus crisis. (New York Times)The Trump administration doesn’t have a plan to cover coronavirus treatment for the uninsured two weeks after pledging to have a plan. (Politico)The malaria drug widely...
by Dean Paxton | Apr 17, 2020 | News Briefs
Trump says he’s “Opening Up America Again.” He’s going to go for “Beautufully Low” numbered states firstA protest movement is taking hold targeting states that have extended social-distancing rules, closed schools, and restricted...
by Dean Paxton | Apr 16, 2020 | News Briefs
Trump cut off U.S. funding to the World Health Organization in response to the agency’s handling of the coronavirus pandemic. “We have not been treated properly” Bill gates says “That’s as bad as it sounds”The Democrats are calling it illegalThe CDC...
by Dean Paxton | Apr 14, 2020 | News, News Briefs
President Trump wanted to sign each of the $1,200 stimulus checks issued to Americans. Since that is not “allowable” under present IRS rules, his name will appear in the “Memo” section of each check. This will delay delivery of the checks by...
by Dean Paxton | Apr 14, 2020 | News
Today, we launched the Projection Data page. After trying several times to build a model that do some predictive analysis, we came into a method that is simple, straightforward and seems to work. Today the model projected 589,436 total cases and 25,497 total deaths in...
by Dean Paxton | Apr 12, 2020 | News Briefs
He Could Have Seen What Was Coming: Behind Trump’s Failure on the VirusThe ‘Red Dawn’ Emails: 8 Key Exchanges on the Faltering Response to the CoronavirusThe French doctors who wanted to test vaccines on Africans and Western medicine’s dark historyTrump pushes even...
by Dean Paxton | Apr 11, 2020 | Site News, Site Updates
Here are some of the changes we’ve made in the past few days: Improved the Maps pageAdded a Flourish wheel chart listing many detailsUpdate the chart listing the actions taken in each stateUpdated the Raw Data page to include links to data in .csv (comma...
by Dean Paxton | Apr 7, 2020 | Site News, Site Updates
Today we’ve made several updates to the site Added two new maps. The old map was good, but provided very little detail that wasn’t available elsewhere in the site.Added Impact By Country section which has several selectable positionsSimplified the charts...
by Dean Paxton | Apr 1, 2020 | Misc
Thanks fipilele
by Dean Paxton | Mar 30, 2020 | Misc, News
Source: https://www.cagle.com/monte-wolverton/2020/03/social-distancing-your-choice
by Dean Paxton | Mar 30, 2020 | Current Count, News
Source: https://github.com/kuang/covid-19-by-us-county Additional Data: https://www.nytimes.com/article/coronavirus-county-data-us.html
by Dean Paxton | Mar 28, 2020 | News
Here is a handy chart to share with the deniers…
by Dean Paxton | Mar 28, 2020 | News, Site Updates
We’ve searched several data sources around the world and compiled a listing of each state, what action they have taken, and when they first took any form of action. Most states have closed schools and many have enacted various states of restrictions. Unless...
by Dean Paxton | Mar 27, 2020 | News
Airlines warn government aid ‘not a cure’ for coronavirus travel plunge “American Airlines Group Inc. — which is not shown in the chart but is included in overall figures — led the pack, with negative cumulative free cash flow during the decade while...
by Dean Paxton | Mar 26, 2020 | News Briefs
Escape from Florida: My 2,400-km drive back to the sanity of Canada – Stephen Maher: In Florida, the beaches were open, people filled bars, and many just couldn’t seem to grasp ‘why everyone is panicking’The US now leads the world in Covid-19...
by Dean Paxton | Mar 25, 2020 | Site News, Site Updates
Since we’ve come back online, after a brief outage yesterday, we’ve made several improvements and changed several things about the way we represent the data: We’ve further hardened our security and added a privacy policy.We’ve pulled some of...
by Dean Paxton | Mar 24, 2020 | News, Site News
Fought all day with denial of service attacks, brute force login attempts, and just about every kind of other attack, including compromising some of the data sources (which we’ve changed). I didn’t realize how valuable information about the virus would be...
by Dean Paxton | Mar 24, 2020 | Current Count
Until we put our data sources back together, we’ll post manual updates. Coronavirus Cases: 395,583 Deaths: 17,234 Recovered: 103,736
by Dean Paxton | Mar 24, 2020 | Site News
Statement: So for now, as of about 01:00AM EST, one of the data providers that we use was compromised (hacked). We’re pulling down the site until we can secure a new data source. We’d rather that we don’t have a site for the moment, than we would put...
by Dean Paxton | Mar 23, 2020 | News, Site Updates
We’ve done a few things to make improvements such as refined the data that shows on the front page and added some new pages. We updated the data sources so that the page loads a little fasterWe removed some of the charts that were only tracking the first 20 days...
by Dean Paxton | Mar 21, 2020 | News
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/03/20/us/coronavirus-model-us-outbreak.html
by Dean Paxton | Mar 21, 2020 | News
The University of Washington Virology Division has set up a dashboard to track patient test results. Looks like they are updating it daily. http://depts.washington.edu/labmed/covid19/
by Dean Paxton | Mar 20, 2020 | News
Health care workers are taking to social media channels to spread information faster and more effectively. Here we have a doctor who has learned how to serve four patients from a singe ventilator: Thanks...
by Dean Paxton | Mar 20, 2020 | Site Updates
So for the moment, we’ve refined what data we do have. Hopefully, we are presenting it as it is, rather than presenting a conclusion and representing the data in order to support that conclusion. The site will go through several iterations until we reach the...
by Dean Paxton | Mar 19, 2020 | Site Updates
Welcome to https://www.covidtotals.com/ We are concerned, trying to find as much information as possible, and needed to build a single dashboard that would give high-level, as well as detailed information at a glance. For now, we’re going with data provided by...
