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

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The latest US figures. Comparing to the previous 7 days, new cases took a breather this week, up just 0.13% after two weeks of substantial increases. And deaths resumed their decline for the present, down 16.4%.

Scientist continue to warn these are early days of a fourth surge and government mostly continues to ignore them.

+------------+-------+---------+------------------+-------------+-------------------+
|Date        |Deaths |New cases|1 in x total cases|1 in x deaths|1 in x active cases|
+------------+-------+---------+------------------+-------------|-------------------+
|Wed Mar 31  | 1,189 |  70,265 |         11       |      588    |         48        |
|Thu Apr 01  |   968 |  77,251 |         11       |      587    |         48        |
|Fri Apr 02  | 1,018 |  70,496 |         11       |      586    |         48        |
|Sat Apr 03  |   800 |  70,343 |         11       |      585    |         48        |
|Sun Apr 04  |   297 |  47,450 |         11       |      585    |         48        |
|Mon Apr 05  |   524 |  57,674 |         11       |      584    |         48        |
|Tue Apr 06  |   906 |  62,283 |         11       |      583    |         48        |
+------------+-------+---------+------------------+-------------|-------------------+
|Weekly total| 5,702 |  455,762|   (avg 815 deaths/day, 65,109 new cases/day)       |
+------------+-------+---------+------------------+-------------|-------------------+

Total deaths as of Apr 6: 570,260
Record deaths: 4,491 on Jan 12
Record new cases: 307,607 on Jan 08