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<h6>Just for fun, here is a graph of daily numbers of cases logged in the US since I started this series in February.<br><br>My personal guess is that today's massive increase has more to do with a ramp-up in testing than the actual spread of the virus.</h6>
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As mentioned in previous posts, here is <A HREF="https://gisanddata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/opsdashboard/index.html#/bda7594740fd40299423467b48e9ecf6">a visualization tool</A> for mapping the cases of COVID-19 occurrences.
According to the site, this morning's worldwide number of reported cases was 3,871,718 with 1,296,175 recoveries, 270,404 fatalitiees, and 1,256,972 cases in the US. This represents 67,566 new cases in the United States (US), an increase of 43,432 over the day before. As [anticipated](/@remlaps-lite/the-daily-covid-chronicle-may-2-2020), it looks like the ramp-up in testing, may be increasing the observed number of new cases. This is the biggest single day increase in new US cases since I've been logging these numbers - by far.
In the US, reported cases include 195,036 recoveries, 75,670, and 55,956 cases with 3,589 deaths in my own state, Pennsylvania.
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<li><b><i>Steem</i></b> @meepins: <A HREF="/@meepins/us-covid-update-07-05-2020">US COVID Update (07-05-2020)</A></li>
<br><li><b><i>Steem</i></b> @thoureau: <A HREF="/@thoureau/coronavirus-9-studies-find-infection-fatality-rate-under-0-51">Coronavirus: 8 Studies find Infection Fatality Rate under 0.51%</A></li>
<br><li><b><i>Steem</i></b> @julianhorack: <A HREF="/@julianhorack/covid-19-lockdown-day-43-liberate-yourself-i-just-did">Covid-19 lockdown day 43 – Liberate yourself, I just did</A></li>
<br><li><A HREF="https://www.ted.com/talks/huang_hung_how_american_and_chinese_values_shaped_the_coronavirus_response?rss">How American and Chinese values shaped the coronavirus response | Huang Hung</A> - <b>Subtitle</b>: <i>To combat COVID-19, countries have enforced city-wide shutdowns, stay-at-home orders and mask mandates -- but the reaction (and adherence) to these rules has differed markedly in the East and West. In conversation with TED's head of curation Helen Walters, writer and publisher Huang Hung sheds light on how Chinese and American cultural values shaped their responses to the outbreak -- and provides perspective on why everyone needs to come together to end the pandemic. (Recorded April 16, 2020)</i></li>
<br><li><A HREF="https://www.thecollegefix.com/u-c-london-study-coronavirus-epidemic-could-have-begun-in-early-october/">U.C. London study: Coronavirus epidemic could have begun in early October</A> - excerpt:<blockquote>Yet the U.C. London researchers this week pushed the outer bound of the pandemic back even further, to as early as Oct. 6. The academics made that estimates in a study titled “Emergence of genomic diversity and recurrent mutations in SARS-CoV-2,” published in the journal Infection, Genetics and Evolution.</blockquote> also <A HREF="https://allianceforscience.cornell.edu/blog/2020/05/covid-pandemic-might-have-begun-as-early-as-october-experts-say/">Covid pandemic might have begun as early as October, experts say</A>. Here is the <A HREF="https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1567134820301829">source</A>.</li>
<br><li><A HREF="https://www.wired.com/story/gadget-lab-podcast-454/">How Will We Dine and Uber in the Post-Pandemic City?</A></li>
<br><li><A HREF="https://www.wired.com/story/the-pandemic-slams-main-street-were-trying-to-stay-alive/">The Pandemic Slams Main Street: 'We're Trying to Stay Alive'</A> - <b>Subtitle</b>: <i>An oral history of small business owners across the nation who are struggling to adapt—or closing up shop for good.</i></li>
<br><li><A HREF="https://www.technologyreview.com/2020/05/07/1001360/india-aarogya-setu-covid-app-mandatory/">India is forcing people to use its covid app, unlike any other democracy</A> - <b>Subtitle</b>: <i>Millions of Indians have no choice but to download the country’s tracking technology if they want to keep their jobs or avoid reprisals.</i></li>
<br><li><A HREF="https://www.technologyreview.com/2020/05/07/1000961/launching-mittr-covid-tracing-tracker/">A flood of coronavirus apps are tracking us. Now it’s time to keep track of them.</A> - <b>Subtitle</b>: <i>There's a deluge of apps that detect your covid-19 exposure, often with little transparency. Our Covid Tracing Tracker project will document them.</i></li>
<br><li><A HREF="https://www.marketwatch.com/story/coronavirus-costs-the-us-205-million-jobs-in-april-unemployment-soars-to-147-2020-05-08">Coronavirus costs the U.S. 20.5 million jobs in April as unemployment soars to 14.7%</A> - <b>Subtitle</b>: <i>Unemployment rate balloons to highest level since early 1930s</i></li>
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