June 19, 2021
#stayhomebewell
It doesn’t matter whether you’re sick of it or you just don’t care, but this is what is going on. Like it or not.
There is a mix of good news and bad news.
The good news is that the number of Unresolved cases is continuing to decline, both in the United States and throughout the rest of the world collectively.
The blue line depicts the number of Unresolved cases in the rest of the world, and the orange line represents that figure in the United States. This is the number that has direct relevance to the number of people who may be hospitalized and may die, and to those who may infect others. The decline in both data sets is the best news we can hope for.
The bad news is that, for reasons I cannot identify or imagine, the United States’ portion of the world’s Unresolved COVID-19 cases continues to rise. That is, although the total number of Unresolved cases throughout the world peaked at 18,653,659 on January 24, 2021 (this is not depicted in the graph above, in case you were looking for it; it would be the sum of the two points of 9 million U.S. and 9.5 million Rest-of-World), the U.S. represented 48.6 percent of all active infections at that time, then peaked at above 51 percent from February 15 to March 04, 2021.
For the next two months, the U.S. portion of the total global number of infections decreased, bottoming at 35.4 percent on May 09. Since that date, the U.S. portion has again been on the increase, and currently stands at 44.0 percent. Considering that the greatest numbers of new cases are being seen in countries such as India, Brazil, Colombia and Argentina, where, presumably, vaccines are in far shorter supply than they are in the United States, I don’t know why this should be.
P.S. I don’t know why this should be the case, but when viewing these posts on a mobile phone, one can use the “pinch-and-expand” gesture to zoom in on the graphics, in order to see all of the detail. On a laptop, however, using the magnifier or the ctrl+scroll seems to merely increase the font size of the text, while failing to zoom in on the images. So, as it happens, if you’re interested and reading this on a laptop/desktop, you’ll have better luck looking at it on your phone.