Coronavirus update – April 28th
Bottom Line: This daily update is designed to put everything in perspective with straight-forward facts. No hyperbole, no misinformation, no nonsense. If you’re looking for optimism you can find it. Eight more states took steps towards reopening Monday and there’s still no indication of an escalation of cases in states who began the process last week. All encouraging. Meanwhile the CDC issued new social distancing guidelines for our pets for the duration of the pandemic. The CDC said our pets should only come in contact with us. This means not having them interact with other animals or people outside of our homes - maintaining six feet of distance from others. This recommendation comes on back of two domestic cats testing positive with the coronavirus last week. Meanwhile, a new study out of China, suggests the likelihood of COVID-19 becoming a seasonal virus is around 97%. This is consistent with the warnings issued from the CDC last week.
Here’s where we stand as of now...
Worldwide:
- 3,072,863 – 211,738 deaths – 924,578 recovered
Nationally:
- 1,010,507 cases –56,803 deaths – 139,162 recovered
On Monday we crossed two ominous milestones. Three million world-wide cases and one million in the United States. Otherwise the news was generally better than recent days. We experienced over 76,000 additional diagnosed cases and more than 4,700 deaths worldwide Monday. There’s improvement around much of the world, however cases are continuing to spike in Brazil and Russia. Russia’s now 8th in cases and seeing the fastest growth in the world. In the United States, we’ve had over 23,000 new cases and 1,388 deaths over the past day. Those are the lowest daily totals for the US in over two weeks and backs the notion that the peak is behind us.
One of the most positive developments over the past week, which continued Monday, was the improvement in closed case death rate. With nearly 1.1 million “closed COVID-19 cases” the death rate remained 19% for the second consecutive day after recently peaking at 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 remains the top estimated cause of death in the United States.