“If the United States had begun imposing social distancing measures one week earlier than it did in March, about 36,000 fewer people would have died in the coronavirus outbreak, according to new estimates from Columbia University disease modelers.” https://t.co/Fm1QGn55uW
— Sahil Kapur (@sahilkapur) May 21, 2020
Staggering fact. The US has 4.25% of the world’s population. Yet we have 32% of the world’s COVID cases, and 28% of the world’s deaths.
— Ed Solomon (@ed_solomon) May 16, 2020
New stats from NJ show a massive spike in deaths compared to 2019 — thousands higher than official number of fatalities linked to COVID
— Ryan W Briggs (@rw_briggs) May 6, 2020
Experts called the spike “catastrophic” and suggest the impact of the virus was worse than feared. w/@byJoeHernandez https://t.co/Q4jvrQ9Gts
.@NickKristof — The true US death count from #COVID19 already is over 100,000 https://t.co/X6FohB9Q5f pic.twitter.com/7EXncrdaYJ
— David Beard (@dabeard) May 14, 2020
“Using an apples-to-apples comparison, we can say that the coronavirus has already killed eight times as many people as the flu. By the time we get data for the entire season, the difference appears likely to be at least tenfold,a full order of magnitude.” https://t.co/Uwo3PlGRIM
— Shawn Donnan (@sdonnan) May 2, 2020
Sometimes the simplest data visualizations are the most informative. I made this graph yesterday from the @JHUSystems global data.
— Eric Topol (@EricTopol) May 2, 2020
It shows the US 8X expected cases, 6.5X expected deaths on a population basis. Underreporting of deaths is systemic; for that the US is no exception. pic.twitter.com/36C8Fe7el9
Sad! 