Tracking Covid

 

Tracking Covid

 I started tracking Covid-19 cases and deaths in a spreadsheet in mid-March of 2020, just as it was beginning to spread.  I chose the Worldometer as a source of Covid statistics for the U.S. and the world, and the New York Times data for U.S. states, counties and cities, which dove-tailed with the Worldometer data. In addition to the overall U.S. and the world, I tracked locations of interest to my extended family, namely Dallas, Texas, Eastern New York State and Western Massachusetts.

 I am ending this process as of September 30, 2022, because Covid is pretty much under medical, (if on political) control, and some of the areas that I’ve been tracking hardly report numbers any more.  In retrospect, I probably should have written a routine to automate data transfer to my spreadsheets, rather cutting and pasting for about 10 minutes every day.  But, so be it.

 On March 12, 2020, there were 1,282 Covid case in the U.S., and 17 deaths.  On September 30, 2022, these numbers for the U.S. were 98,166,904 cases, and 1,084,282 deaths.

For the world, there were 129,800 Covid cases and 4,800 deaths on March 12, 2020, and 622,586,038 Covid cases and 6,547,878 deaths on September 30, 2022.

 Ray Gruszecki

September 30, 2022