August 14, 2020

COVID Blog August 14, 2020

August 14, 2020/ Josie Nguyen

August 14, 2020
Tung Nguyen, MD
Professor of Medicine, University of California San Francisco (UCSF)
President, PIVOT-The Progressive Vietnamese American Association

As of August 13, 2020, there are nearly 21 million people who had COVID-19 and nearly 750,000 deaths worldwide. In the US, there are nearly 5.3 million infections and more than 167,000 deaths. In the first 14 weeks of the pandemic, when we thought things were going badly, there were 2 million infections. In the last 8 weeks, we have an additional 3.3 million infections. California, Florida, and Texas all passed the 500,000 cases threshold already.

COVID Blog June 20, 2020

June 20, 2020/ Josie Nguyen

June 20, 2020

As of June 20, 2020, there are over 8.4 million people diagnosed with COVID-19 and over 445,000 deaths worldwide. In the US, there are over 2.2 million infections and more than 118,000 deaths.

The number of cases is surging in many states, particularly those in the South and Southeast. In Oklahoma, which has been in the news because of the planned Trump rally on 6/20, there were 450 new cases on Thursday, 150 more than the previous high earlier in the week. California had several days this week with over 5000 new cases, the most during the pandemic. Florida and Arizona also had the highest number of cases to date. As I’ve mentioned before, tracking # of hospitalizations is a good way to distinguish between increasing number of cases due to testing or due to new infections. In Texas, the number of people hospitalized with COVID is approaching 3000 per day, doubling what it was 3 weeks ago.

COVID-19 Blog - 05/29/20

May 29, 2020/ Josie Nguyen

As of May 29, 2020, there are over 5.6 million people diagnosed with COVID-19 and nearly 346,000 deaths worldwide. In the US, there are over 1.7 million infections and more than 101,000 deaths. To put this in perspective, in 3 months, COVID-19 has killed more Americans than in any wars except World War I, World War II, and the Civil War. The CDC is reporting a forecast that we will have 115,000 deaths by June 20, 2020, which is approximately the number of Americans who died in World War I.

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