The number of COVID-19 cases continues to climb in the United States. As of July 18, 2020 the total is 3.68 million with a record 75,821 new cases reported yesterday. So far, just over 1% of the population has been infected and there have been 141,000 deaths. That's an average death rate of about 1000 per day.
Even though the infection rate has increased, the death rate has stayed about the same. I suspect this is because doctors have found ways to save more people. Still, this virus is going to be around for a while and we are far from a point were we can relax our efforts to control the spread.
In the charts on the left you can see the new cases in the US. Below that is an overlay of Minnesota and Wisconsin. If the trend continues, Wisconsin will catch up to Minnesota very soon. Wisconsin shows 47% fewer deaths than Minnesota. That is most likely because of the higher infection rate that Minnesota had in May. The numbers in these two states are far better than what we see in California, Texas, and Florida. These states reported over 36,000 new cases and 432 dead in just one day on 7/17/20.
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