#COVID19 Data: Nightly update of the sick and the dead.

Since tracking and analyzing data is what I'm best known for...and since I'm mostly stuck sitting in front of the computer all day whether I like it or not these days anyway...I've started my own daily COVID-19 spreadsheet.

Again, I'm not the one who compiled the data itself--many other teams with far better resources than I have are doing that--but I'm pulling their work together and adding some additional context, such as per capita info by state/territory.

I also include the partisan lean of every state, which may sound cynical or tasteless...unless you've been paying attention to the news of late. That's exactly how Donald Trump sees it; he's literally giving red states whatever resources they ask for (or more) while deliberately starving the blue states (or even some purple states if their governors aren't "nice" enough to him) or giving them scraps.

Nationally:

• 3.56 million Americans have been tested to date.
• 32,100 more tested positive today. Over 709,000 have tested positive to date.

• Another 2,500 Americans died of #COVID19 today. Over 37,100 have died to date.
• The apparent mortality rate increased again to 5.2% today as the death toll rate rises faster than testing.
• The U.S. death toll increased another 25% over the past 3 days.

New York:

• 573,000 New Yorkers have been tested to date (nearly 3% of the population)
• 7,700 more New Yorkers tested positive today. Nearly 234,000 have tested positive to date...1.2% of the population.
• Another 1,000 New Yorkers died today. Over 17,100 have died to date.
• New York's apparent mortality rate is 7.3%.

Michigan (my home state):

• 99,000 Michiganders have been tested to date.
• Another 760 Michiganders tested positive today. Over 30,000 have tested positive to date (3 per thousand)
• Another 134 Michiganders died today. Over 2,200 have died to date.
• Michigan's apparent mortality rate is 7.4%...the highest in the U.S. (except for the Northern Mariana Islands)

Other States/Territories:

• Wyoming and South Dakota both had 3-day case increases over 40% again today.

• Death tolls increased by 33% or more over the past 3 days in:
  • Wyoming
  • U.S. Virgin Islands
  • West Virginia
  • Connecticut
  • North Carolina
  • Virginia
  • Rhode Island
  • Massachusetts
  • Maine
  • Delaware
  • New Mexico
  • Maryland
  • Minnesota
  • Pennsylvania
  • New Hampshire
  • New Jersey
  • Indiana