Invitation to do the math for your state: COVID-19 cases as a a percent of the population

03/12/20 | daniel1212

[daniel1212]

Invitation to do the math for your state: COVID-19 cases as a percent of the population.

Below is a list of states per currently reported COVID-19 infections (by CNN, of 3-12-20) in comparison with population size (note that variations in reported cases are partly be due to how comprehensive testing can and has been done). Using an online calculator as here, (see second row under “Percentage Calculator in Common Phrases”, and remove commas in population figure), then 95 “is what percent of” 6949503 = 0.001367. Is this correct? And what correlations do you see that may be of interest?

In any case, I pray this works to bring souls to realize the need for repentance and mercy from God through faith in the risen Lord Jesus.

State	Population	COVID-19 cases	Percentage
Washington	7,614,893	373
New York	19,453,561	216
California	39,512,223	139
Massachusetts	6,949,503	95	0.001367
Colorado	5,758,736	33
Georgia	10,617,423	31
Florida	21,477,737	29
Illinois	12,671,821	25
New Jersey	8,882,190	23
Texas	28,995,881	21
Oregon	4,217,737	19
Pennsylvania	12,801,989	15
Iowa	3,155,070	14
Louisiana	4,648,794	14
Maryland	6,045,680	12
North Carolina	10,488,084	11
District of Columbia	705,749	10
Indiana	6,732,219	10
Nebraska	1,934,408	10
South Carolina	5,148,714	10
Wisconsin	5,822,434	10
Arizona	7,278,717	9
Virginia	8,535,519	9
Kentucky	4,467,673	8
South Dakota	884,659	8
Nevada	3,080,156	7
Tennessee	6,833,174	7
Minnesota	5,639,632	5
New Hampshire	1,359,711	5
Rhode Island	1,059,361	5
New Mexico	2,096,829	4
Ohio	11,689,100	4
Connecticut	3,565,287	3
Utah	3,205,958	3
Hawaii	1,415,872	2
Michigan	9,986,857	2
Oklahoma	3,956,971	2
Vermont	623,989	2
Arkansas	3,017,825	1
Delaware	973,764	1
Kansas	2,913,314	1
Mississippi	2,976,149	1
Missouri	6,137,428	1
North Dakota	762,062	1
Wyoming	578,759	1
Alabama	4,903,185	0
Idaho	1,792,065	0
West Virginia	1,787,147	0
Maine	1,344,212	0
Montana	1,068,778	0
Alaska	731,545	0

[daniel1212]

I thought this would be interesting, if accurate. In addition, with a total of 1,290 cases and the population for Fifty states + D.C. being 328,239,523, then is an infection rate of 0.000393 correct?

[crusty old prospector]

It’s tooooo hard.

[RubinBoomer]

PA now has 22 cases. That works out to be 0.0001718483%

[Sarah Barracuda]

Bottom line, we should move to Alaska :-)

[dp0622]

Some official in Ohio said 100,000 people likely have it there.

It’s a serious issue, this virus, but shouldn’t there be piles of corpses SOMEWHERE in the US if millions have it and may have had it for more than a month now?

Maybe it’s just getting started I dunno.

I guess we shall see.

[JoSixChip]

You can’t talk rationally with hysterical people, can’t be done. Give it a couple of weeks, when they and their loved ones realize they are still alive they will listen then.

[nbenyo]

The numbers are meaningless because only a handful of people are being tested.
It’s a scandal.

[SeekAndFind]

RE: I thought this would be interesting, if accurate. In addition, with a total of 1,290 cases and the population for Fifty states + D.C. being 328,239,523, then is an infection rate of 0.000393 correct?

Yes, but you cannot assume that all the table column numbers will be static like the first two columns.

The third column will be INCREASING in number for each row as more testing continues. Hence, the numbers in the fourth row will be increasing too.

[Cboldt]

-- then is an infection rate of 0.000393 correct? --

Unlikely that low. Plus there is no data on infection there. Only test rate (how many tests taken), and death rate (either per population, or per positive test).

[sanjuanbob]

One one hundredth of one percent. So far so good.

[BenLurkin]

The number infected figures are wrong.

[Diana in Wisconsin]

This evening, our Democrat Fear-Mongering (Never Let A Crisis Go To Waste!) Governor had decided that Wisconsin is NOT Open For Business and has cancelled just about everything the rest of us hold dear: The HS Boys Basketball Tournament!

Also, Beau and I are no longer kissing.

We are doing an elbow bump or a hip-bump. Just to be safe. ;)

Good Golly, the USA has gone INSANE!

[IWONDR]

“I thought this would be interesting, if accurate. In addition, with a total of 1,290 cases and the population for Fifty states + D.C. being 328,239,523, then is an infection rate of 0.000393 correct?”

not quite, as you left out two zeroes: the infection rate is 0.00000393.

[READINABLUESTATE]

Should I worry? Would it help?

[RubinBoomer]

The numbers are meaningless because only a handful of people are being tested.

Yeah, I get that. The PA DoH has only confirmed 2 positive cases. They 'presume' to have 20 more cases and there are 219 people "under investigation". (Geez, sounds like a crime.) 116 people are negative. I assume that 116 people tested negative, otherwise it would be over 12 million. But you can never tell with government lackeys.

[Diana in Wisconsin]

“...but shouldn’t there be piles of corpses SOMEWHERE in the US...”

There usually ARE when a Republican is President, LOL!

This is PSYOPS like I’ve never seen before.

Wake me when it’s over - next week. Yeesh!

[Teacher317]

And as Rush pointed out, 26 of the 38 deaths so far in the US were in one building in Seattle. That leaves 12 dead among 328,000,000 people. There are more living Daytona 500 winners than that. What are your odds of winning the Daytona 500? Higher than of dying of Covid-19 (outside of that Seattle nursing home).

[Telepathic Intruder]

Brian Williams will tell you there’s something like a million Coronavirus cases for each American, plus change.

[ealgeone]

No. We're in the early stages of this pandemic.

Now, it's possible nothing more comes of this, but the company I work for today allowed those who can to work from home.

If you knew my company they're usually the last ones to make this type of call.

[goodnesswins]

Seems calls or visits to doctor for “flu/virus” would be better as a denominator...or maybe separate them.