COVID-19 Case Trends

Discussions center on analyzing trends in COVID-19 cases, hospitalizations, deaths, and testing rates, primarily in the US, with debates on whether numbers are rising, falling, or misleading due to testing variations, often sharing data from sources like Worldometers and CDC.

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ksdale • May 18, 2020 • View on HN

Doesn't this also show daily case counts trending upward for the past month?

d23 • Jul 13, 2020 • View on HN

https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/us/They seem to be spiking again, and the slope appears to be a lot steeper than last time.

sci_prog • Apr 9, 2020 • View on HN

I'm hoping it's just bad tests in the first place.https://covid19usa.io/Edit: Adding my website for tracking coronavirus cases over time in USA state and counties. Original Show HN here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22778152

xivzgrev • Apr 2, 2020 • View on HN

yes, but it lags 2-3 weeks behind confirmed cases

arp242 • Nov 6, 2024 • View on HN

The dip is probably COVID; it's not really an increase, more return to norm.

eanzenberg • Apr 19, 2020 • View on HN

Usually better to look at underlying data:https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nvss/vsrr/COVID19/index.htm

droopyEyelids • Mar 15, 2020 • View on HN

Sounds like you may not have heard about the importance of "flattening the curve" yethttps://www.statnews.com/2020/03/11/flattening-curve-coronav...

leereeves • Mar 27, 2020 • View on HN

Are you using the latest numbers? More tests are being done every day now in the US than had been done total about a week ago, and we're up to 520,000 tests.https://twitter.com/COVID19Tracking/status/12432908485082603...

danielscrubs • Aug 30, 2021 • View on HN

I see a lot of smack talking and not much in numbers. Let's change that: https://ourworldindata.org/covid-cases#weekly-and-biweekly-c...

croddin • Feb 27, 2020 • View on HN

Yes but the New York numbers are for a year, the Hubei numbers are for about 2 months and are increasing.