Coronavirus spreads. But don't panic! (topical thread)

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CNN:

At least 56 intensive care units in Florida hospitals reached capacity on Tuesday, state officials said. Another 35 hospitals show ICU bed availability of 10% or less, according to the Agency for Health Care Administration in that state.

ABC News:

More than 60,000 new cases of COVID-19 were identified in the United States on Tuesday, according to a count kept by Johns Hopkins University.

It's the first time the United States has reached or crossed the 60,000 threshold of newly diagnosed cases in a 24-hour reporting period.

I've been using worldometer.info/covid but of late their numbers have begun to diverge from other counts. Of late though they've slowed way down. For example on Tuesday they reported 55,442 new cases, not > 60K.


At the same time Hopkins counts > 126K deaths, but worldometer nearly 135K.

Doesn't exactly give confidence in the precision, although the gross numbers of both sites are about equally horrific.