Our Response to COVID-19: Information
Globally
Good evening,

July 17, 2020 -- As the work week is ending for many of us, the devastation of the COVID-19 pandemic continues its relentless acceleration throughout the world. Today the pale blue dot woke up having accumulated 14 million confirmed coronavirus infections, and, as the spread accelerates, we will reach 15 million cases on Tuesday. The United States is trending towards half a million cases a week, Brazil and India are still raging -- by the way, Brazil is no longer releasing testing data -- and many other central and south American countries are flaring up into full on raging fires: Mexico, Colombia, Argentina, and Bolivia are all peaking this today (Mexico was actually 23 cases below its week old peak), reporting very high positivity rates, which, as you all know by now, indicate severe under testing and, as we are discovering here in the US, nearly impossible contact tracing.

In the last seven days, the world has confirmed 1,564,497 new coronavirus infections which killed 36,597 of our brothers and sisters.
  • COVID-19 Global cases: 14,186,766 (+243,107)
  • COVID-19 Global deaths: 599,273 (+6,648)
  • COVID-19 Global death rate: 4.22%
  • COVID-19 Global tests* (est.): 287,867,747 (+2,721,913) 
  • COVID-19 Global positivity rate: 4.93%
  • COVID-19 Global single-day positivity rate: 8.46%

*:incomplete data set
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Note: Please forgive the occasional typos. I write these reports at the end of the work day and I have seen them creep in, undetected by my tired evening eyes. I hope they do not bother you as much as they annoy me.
Mexico data:

  • 331,298 cases (+7,257)
  • 38,310 deaths (+736)
  • death rate: 11.56%
  • 799,178 tests (+17,115)
  • positivity rate: 41.,45%
  • 1 day positivity rate: 42.40%
Colombia data:

  • 182,140 cases (+8,934) PEAK
  • 6,288 deaths (+259)
  • death rate: 3.45%
  • 1,159,562 tests (+46,055)
  • positivity rate: 15.71%
  • 1 day positivity rate: 19.40%
Argentina data:

  • 119,301 cases (+4,518) PEAK
  • 2,178 deaths (+66)
  • death rate: 1.83%
  • 519,281 tests (+11,053)
  • positivity rate: 22.97%
  • 1 day positivity rate: 40.88%
Bolivia data:

  • 54,156 cases (+1,938) PEAK
  • 1,984 deaths (+42)
  • death rate: 3.66%
  • 117,111 tests (+2,841)
  • positivity rate: 46.24%
  • 1 day positivity rate: 68.22%
In the US
  • COVID-19 USA cases: 3,769,592 (+75,144)
  • COVID-19 USA deaths: 142,064 (+947)
  • COVID-19 USA death rate: 3.77%
  • COVID-19 USA testing: 46,608,707 individual tests (+911,678)
  • COVID-19 USA positivity rate: 8.09%
  • COVID-19 USA single-day positivity date: 8.24%

The United States COVID-19 daily infections reports settle around 70,000, three days in a row.

In the last seven days, the United States has confirmed 475,655 new coronavirus infections and COVID-19 has killed 5,393 Americans. Texas reached its highest number of daily coronavirus deaths (+162) today, while most states released high numbers, including Ohio, itself setting a new daily record of new cases (+1,720). To the east of Ohio, Pennsylvania, then going south: Maryland and Virginia, are states that are rarely mentioned in this report, but all three have been showing worrisome sustained upward trends, however still halfway from their respective spring apexes. Then things get worse as one moves south through the Carolinas, Georgia, and end up in Florida, the national pandemic's epicenter. The last four states all reached near peaks today and contributed massively to the second worst daily report of 75,144 new COVID-19 infections and 947 related deaths in America.
Ohio data:

  • 72,321 cases (+1,720) PEAK
  • 3,119 deaths (+16)
  • death rate: 4.31%
  • 1,112,019 tests
  • positivity rate: 6.50%
  • 1 day positivity rate: 6.30%
Texas data:

  • 322,556 cases (+9,496)
  • 3,932 deaths (+162) PEAK
  • death rate: 1.22%
  • 3,067,620 tests
  • positivity rate: 10.51%
  • 1 day positivity rate: 12.57%
In California
Nearly a Thousand COVID-19 Cases Reported in California Day Cares
Source: nbcbayarea.com
It’s the phone call that child care facilities have been dreading since the pandemic began. Two siblings who attended Early Horizons in Sunnyvale had tested positive for COVID-19. 

“They didn’t have any symptoms,” said Antonio Labrador, the director of the center. The kids’ parents felt some symptoms on June 24 but dropped their children off at the day care anyway. 

When they felt sick the next day, June 25, the whole family got tested. Everyone was positive for the coronavirus. That meant that the kids could have been spreading the... READ MORE
California breaks its single day record confirming 9,892 new infections
  • COVID-19 California cases: 373,947 (+9,892) PEAK
  • COVID-19 California deaths: 7,611 (+122)
  • COVID-19 California death rate: 2.04%
  • COVID-19 California testing: 6,044,099 individual tests (+128,591)
  • COVID-19 California positivity rate: 6.19%
  • COVID-19 California single-day positivity rate: 7.69%
In the Central Valley
Today COVID-19 killed 13 more of our neighbors in the central valley; the victims lived in Fresno (+9) and Tulare (+4) Counties. The Madera County Department of Public Health announced this evening that, as of yesterday, 43 more residents are infected, bringing our county's total confirmed COVID-19 patients to 1,179 since the start of the pandemic. The seven counties breakdown is listed below.

This was a relatively better week in the central valley with fewer deaths and infections than were reported a week ago (although we do not have Madera's data for this last day of the work week). Dr. Rais Vohra, Interim Health Officer for Fresno County, did mention this evening, on camera, that Fresno hospitals are at 118% of capacity and that the county will soon open the Fresno convention center for patient overflows.

Over the last 7 days, the 7 counties confirmed 4,828 new infections and 41 COVID-19 related deaths. You can see the weekly progression since the onset of the pandemic in the seven counties in the graphs below, as well as the cases represented by the last week's additions as a percentage of the overall cumulative infections, per county.
Madera + 6 local counties

  • COVID-19 Mariposa: 35 cases, 1 death, 3,004 tests, 1.17 +% (positivity rate)
  • COVID-19 Merced: 2,403 cases (+90), 15 deaths, 20,932 tests, 11.48 + %
  • COVID-19 Madera: 1,179 cases (+43), 11 deaths, 13,826 tests, 8.53+%
  • COVID-19 Fresno: 9,565 cases (+441), 100 deaths (+9), 93,404 tests, 10.24 +%
  • COVID-19 Tulare: 6,683 cases (+203), 165 deaths (+4), est. 53,040 tests, 12.60 +%
  • COVID-19 Kings: 3,172 cases (+30), 41 deaths, 22,490 tests, 14.10 +%
  • COVID-19 Kern: 7,233 cases (+159), 105 deaths, 94,458 tests, 7.66 +%

7 counties together

  • COVID-19 7 counties cases: 30,270 cases (+957)
  • COVID-19 7 counties deaths: 438 deaths (+13)
  • COVID-19 7 counties death rate: 1.45%
  • COVID-19 7 Counties tests: 301,154 (est.)
  • COVID-19 7 Counties positivity rate: 10.05%
From our hearts to yours,

Fredo and Renee Martin
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