{"id":8374,"date":"2020-07-08T12:53:11","date_gmt":"2020-07-08T19:53:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/?p=8374"},"modified":"2020-07-08T12:53:11","modified_gmt":"2020-07-08T19:53:11","slug":"encouraging-covid-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/2020\/07\/08\/encouraging-covid-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Encouraging COVID News?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Encouraging COVID news? I was chatting with Zee and wrote<br>&#8230;it&#8217;s encouraging to see that while the confirmed case rate in the US is climbing (<a href=\"https:\/\/aatishb.com\/covidtrends\/?location=Canada&amp;location=US\">https:\/\/aatishb.com\/covidtrends\/?location=Canada&amp;location=US<\/a>), the death rate in the US is declining (<a href=\"https:\/\/aatishb.com\/covidtrends\/?data=deaths&amp;location=Canada&amp;location=US\">https:\/\/aatishb.com\/covidtrends\/?data=deaths&amp;location=Canada&amp;location=US<\/a>) One idea is that since death occurs about 3 weeks after contracting the virus, the death-rate should follow the case-rate after about a 3 week delay. That doesn&#8217;t seem to be happening. I&#8217;m not sure why. What does this data mean?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"313\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/covid-1-600x313.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-8375\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/covid-1-600x313.png 600w, https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/covid-1-300x156.png 300w, https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/covid-1-200x104.png 200w, https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/covid-1-768x400.png 768w, https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/covid-1-1536x801.png 1536w, https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/covid-1-50x26.png 50w, https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/covid-1.png 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"311\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/covid-2-600x311.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-8376\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/covid-2-600x311.png 600w, https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/covid-2-300x156.png 300w, https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/covid-2-200x104.png 200w, https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/covid-2-768x398.png 768w, https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/covid-2-1536x796.png 1536w, https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/covid-2-50x26.png 50w, https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/covid-2.png 1919w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Encouraging COVID news? I was chatting with Zee and wrote&#8230;it&#8217;s encouraging to see that while the confirmed case rate in the US is climbing (https:\/\/aatishb.com\/covidtrends\/?location=Canada&amp;location=US), the death rate in the US is declining (https:\/\/aatishb.com\/covidtrends\/?data=deaths&amp;location=Canada&amp;location=US) One idea is that since death occurs about 3 weeks after contracting the virus, the death-rate should follow the case-rate after [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8374","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8374","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8374"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8374\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8374"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8374"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}