Coronavirus update – May 1st
Bottom Line: This daily update is designed to put everything in perspective with straight-forward facts. No hyperbole, no misinformation, no nonsense. As we’re readying for Florida’s phase one reopening on Monday, with the exception of Broward, Miami-Dade and Palm Beach Counties, Michigan isn’t as their governor extended a stay-at-home order through May. With May underway we’re beginning to see a wide divergence in policy across the country. At least 31 states will be in phase one reopening by Monday. Related, on Thursday Dr. Anthony Fauci warned states to not “leapfrog” the federal guidelines, outlined in the President’s 3-Phase reopening plan. You have to really wonder about states like Michigan writing off the entire month of May. The guidelines operate in a series of 14-day timelines.
Here’s where we stand as of now...
Worldwide:
- 3,318,448 – 234,253 deaths –1,048,430 recovered
Nationally:
- 1,095,304 cases – 63,871 deaths – 155,737 recovered
We experienced over 95,000 additional diagnosed cases and more than 5,000 deaths worldwide Thursday. That’s a higher rate of new cases but about half the deaths of the prior day. The spike in cases and deaths are predominantly coming from Brazil and Russia. Notably, Russia’s Prime Minister has become the latest prominent politician to contract COVID-19. In the United States, we had over 30,000 new cases and 2,202 deaths on Thursday. The rate of new cases was slightly higher, through well below the trend line and peak, while the rate of deaths continued to decline yesterday.
There was good news on the closed case death rate existing April. After a brief increase mid-week, the closed case death rate dropped to 18%, its lowest rate since March 26th.This is down from the peak of 21%. There’s been a considerable lag in clearly recovered cases in Florida and around the world so there’s room for optimism that this rate will continue to significantly decrease with time. For the month of April, COVID-19 was the top estimated cause of death in the United States.