Okay Class

For today's lesson, we will drill down into what the hey is going on with our neighbours to the south, in the good old US of A.

Even though the US is in relatively good shape compared to the rest of the world....

[As always, click the graphs to zoom in.]

[There it is in the, relatively good, lower left part of the graph.]

....when you drill down into the state by state details, some big differences appear.

No surprise that New York is leading the US virus parade.  By a long way.

Which countries could be compared?

Well, Italy & Spain are well off the charts to to upper right (the not good section).

But New York is doing worse than both Switzerland and Iran (added below in red).

I guess New Yorkers don't take kindly being told what to do, to practice "social distancing".

Of course, things have been moving very quickly recently, when less than three weeks ago, during a March 11th press conference, New York's mayor, Bill de Blasio, told people to not avoid restaurants, not avoid normal things that people do.  "If you’re not sick, you should be going about your life.” 

But things changed quickly. Three days later he closed their schools and then the bars and restaurants.  But maybe by then that old horse had left the barn.   Dunno. 

And, of course, New Orleans didn't cancel Mardi Gras, so Louisiana is paying the price. 

Anyway, here are yesterday's Canadian stats....

Are new cases leveling out? too soon to tell.

Could be just slower testing.

But at least a lot better than many places in the world.

And if you are in Ontario - even with all the freaking out lately - we are in a lot better shape than most of the provinces.....

[The red line is the Canadian average of 144.]