Our Response to COVID-19: Information
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March 19, 2020 -- The global trend is, unfortunately, turning for the worst. The last three days have confirmed over 500,000 new daily cases with numbers unseen since late January. Also striking are new daily records set in a few hot spot countries, notably in Brazil, Iraq, Ukraine, the Philippines, Hungary, Jordan, Palestine, and Kuwait. Brazil is now the second-largest infected nation, behind the United States, leading the world in new daily cases nine out of the last ten days, averaging over 75,000 new infections per day over the period, and still trending upward (89,409 new cases yesterday). India is also experiencing sharp flares, topping 40,000 new daily cases yesterday for the first time since November. Many countries in Europe are imposing new lockdowns in their most infected areas, including France, Italy, Germany, Greece, Ireland, the Czech Republic, Spain, Belgium, and Portugal, while Sweden’s new government powers are allowing its leaders to impose restrictions which the country had refused to observe in 2020. Some countries that had imposed curfews and partial lockdowns earlier this year are now slowly easing their restrictions: in the Netherlands and Denmark. Global deaths had been steadily declining week after week, since early February, but are now up 5% this week, while new cases have risen sharply 13% since last Friday. In the last seven days, 3,317,028 new covid-19 infections were confirmed word wide, while the virus and its new variants killed 62,346 people globally.
COVID-19 in the world today:
- COVID-19 Global cases: 122,920,322 (+554,288)
- COVID-19 Global deaths: 2,713,390 (+10,416)
- COVID-19 Global death rate: 2.21%
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COVID-19 Global testing*: 1,780,598,386 confirmed tests
- COVID-19 Global positivity rate: 6.90%
*: incomplete data set.
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The US saw a slowing decline in new covid-19 cases, with only 9,607 fewer new cases reported week-to-week. On Friday the 19th of March, the nation recorded 65,981 new coronavirus infections, and covid-19 killed 1,268 Americans in the last 24 hours. 19 states reported at least 1,000 new COVID-19 infections in the last 24 hours (2 more than had reported a week ago). In the last 7 days, covid-19 has killed 7,875 Americans (-19%) and infected 389,130 more of our neighbors (-2%). While California's descending numbers are encouraging, sharp upward trends are shaping up in New Jersey, Massachusetts, and Michigan, and noticeable rises or high plateaus are being traced in Virginia, Maryland, Pennsylvania, Florida, and New York. Yesterday, leading virologist Dr. David Ho, announced that a new B.1.526 variant is fueling 40% of the contagion in the state of New York (45% of the new infections in NYC). Researchers at Caltech and Columbia have determined that the corona spikes of the new variant may be resistant to the vaccines and the monoclonal treatments currently administered in the US. Watch this space.
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COVID-19 in the USA
- Cases: 30,425,787 (+65,981)
- Deaths: 554,104 (+1,268)
- Death rate: 1.82%
- Testing: 387,303,656 individual tests (+1,632,134)
- Positivity rate: 7.86%
- Single-day positivity date: 4.04%
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US top 5 infected states:
- California: 3,638,868 COVID-19 cases, 57,033 deaths
- Texas: 2,753,257 COVID-19 cases, 47,428 deaths
- Florida: 1,999,257 COVID-19 cases, 32,667 deaths
- New York: 1,820,272 COVID-19 cases, 49,620 deaths
- Illinois: 1,218,470 COVID-19 cases, 23,304 deaths
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This week, California's 19,912 new coronavirus infections total is 23% lower than it was last week, and 1,140 more Californians have died from covid-19 (10% fewer than had last week). The welcome declines in both categories are similar to what they were a week ago, resulting in more counties switching from Purple to Red spread status (widespread to substantial). More patience, diligence, vaccinations, and compassion are needed to beat the virus.
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- COVID-19 California cases: 3,638,868 (+3,270)
- COVID-19 California deaths: 57,033 (+211)
- COVID-19 California death rate: 1.57%
- COVID-19 California testing: 51,811,542 individual tests (+209,826)
- COVID-19 California positivity rate: 7.02%
- COVID-19 California single-day positivity rate: 1.56%
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The Madera County Department of Public Health COVID-19 Update:
3/19/2021: Reporting 14 cases from the public and 1 from Central California Women’s Facility (total 15 new cases) bringing the total number of reported cases to 15,788.
Of the 15,788:
- 444 active case (including 8 Madera County residents hospitalized in Madera County)
- 15,118 recovered (12 released from isolation)
- 226 deceased
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Including its prison population, Madera County is averaging 17 new cases per day (11 per 100K), with 121 new cases revealed over the last 7 days, as we aim to reduce the average down to a recently revised target of 16 cases per day (10 cases per 100K) over 7 days, as newly required to switch our county from purple to red -- "widespread" to "substantial" -- contagion risk.
Today, the seven local counties together reported 393 new infections and 8 new coronavirus deaths. In the combined 7 counties, COVID-19 has infected 320,783 people and has killed 4,269 residents of our region since it claimed its first central valley victim, in Madera, on March 26, 2020.
Our friends and neighbors are needlessly dying; many families are suffering. Science and the courage to follow its logic will solve this pandemic, any other discourse is inadequate.
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COVID-19 in Madera + 6 local counties (+% is the positivity rate)
- Mariposa: 400 cases, 7 deaths, 16,000 tests, 2.50+%
- Merced: 30,142 cases (+55), 428 deaths
- Madera: 15,788 cases (+15), 226 deaths, 211,726 tests, 7.47+%
- Fresno: 97,856 cases (+129), 1,546 deaths, 1,040,179 tests, 9.41+%
- Tulare: 48,770 cases (+30), 793 deaths (+2)
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Kings: 22,459 cases (+18), 237 deaths, 313,983 tests, 7.15+%
- Kern: 105,368 cases (+146), 1,032 deaths (+6), 449,952 tests, 23.42+%
COVID-19 in the 7 counties together
- 7 counties cases: 320,783 (+393)
- 7 counties deaths: 4,269 (+8)
- 7 counties death rate: 1.33%
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The new infections are still decreasing to the mid-October 2020 levels. However, the total of 84 new covid-19 deaths, for the week, remains stubbornly high, especially when compared to previous similar weekly case totals. In the last 11 weeks, more than half (2,149) of the total 4,269 covid-19 deaths and 102,796 (32%) of the total 320,783 infections recorded in the local counties have occurred since January 1, 2021.
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Keep observing the simple yet proven safety habits of physical-distancing, mask-wearing, and frequent hand-washing, that will help drive down new infections and new deaths, to a level low enough so as to give us a chance to reopen our schools for onsite education and thus, reopen our economy. Nothing else will work until we have massively administered a safe and effective covid-19 vaccine -- currently estimated by vaccinating up to 85% of the population -- to finally reach herd immunity.
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From our hearts to yours,
Fredo and Renee Martin
Workingarts Marketing, Inc.
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