Coronavirus in the United States - news and thoughts

Digging into the numbers, they either found a couple or are getting delayed reporting. Brazoria County, just south of Houston, announced about 1/3 of their total today, and, even more ridiculously, Anderson County in East Texas announced almost 90% of their cases today. That looks like it might be a mistake or a very serious contact tracing given the population of the county (1.5% of the entire county was announced to have Covid today).

 

I think it was previously unreleased prison inmate data but I could be wrong.

 

maybe, due to the good weather in those states over memorial day compared to the rest of the country it encouraged too many crowds

 

That would make sense.

 

California Texas and Florida has nearly 11k cases combined today.

 

Well, he got elected President so a pretty good case could be made for “enough”.

 

add in arizona and it's about 13,000 ,more than half the country total, so looking at the glass half full, get those 4 states back to normal numbers and the rest looks good.

 

United States Coronavirus: 2,208,389 Cases and 119,132 Deaths - Worldometer
Scroll down to the detail at the bottom:

Texas: "The reported cases for June 16 include 2,622 new cases and 1,476 cases that were previously diagnosed among Texas Department of Criminal Justice inmates but that had not been reported by local health departments (887 from Anderson County and 589 from Brazoria County)." [source]

 

well that makes today's texas numbers better, does not say much though for how they account and report the numbers, but thats just me and my penchant for accuracy.

 

North Carolina chipped in a not so healthy 980.

 

wonder if some of the numbers for today were dump ins from the weekend?tuesday has usually been the day the weekend low numbers catch up, if so, tomorrows numbers should be interesting, are they going to drop or remain the same?

 

No you don't.

 

Really appreciate your contributions here. Thanks.

 

Doesn't matter. Spread the numbers in Florida evenly over the last 4 days, and the average is over 2000 cases and the highest it has bee.

 

Looking at the current rates of increase in states, there seems to be an interesting trend. There may be a connection between case trends and statewide intelligence. These are mere observations, so take it for what it's worth. I'm using two sources for state intelligence rankings:
50 states ranked by intelligence scores
https://worldpopulationreview.com/states/average-iq-by-state/

Top 10 in increases
State...................Intelligence rank........IQ rank
California..............34...............................48
Texas...................39...............................30
Florida..................46...............................39
Georgia................38...............................40
Louisiana..............43...............................49
North Carolina.......42...............................29
Arizona.................41...............................43
Alabama...............47...............................46
South Carolina......45...............................38
Utah....................24...............................24
Average...............39.9............................38.6

The three least intelligent states (Hawaii, Nevada, Mississippi) are also on the rise, but didn't make the top 10. Six of the bottom 10 states in IQ are on the rise.

Top 10 in decreases
State...................Intelligence rank........IQ rank
New York..............17...............................26
New Jersey............9................................12
Illinois..................15...............................31
Massachu..............1.................................1
Penn....................26...............................21
Michigan...............21...............................27
Maryland...............20..............................32
Virginia.................13..............................17
Conn.....................4................................9
Ohio.....................18..............................18
Average................13.4...........................19.4

The only "cross-over" in intelligence exists among Pennsylvania (26) and Utah (24). Otherwise, all states with the largest decreases were ranked more intelligent than the states with highest increases. Rising states North Carolina (29) and Utah (24) ranked higher in IQ than Illinois (31) and Maryland (32).

The averages are telling. They suggest that at the moment, states with the more intelligent people are declining, while states with generally less intelligent people are on the rise.

 

In before folks accuse you of calling them dumb.

 

Well, if you want accuracy you do. I am making no case either way, just mentioning that it is a factor when comparing graphs.
Is it wrong to ask if it is apples to apples?

 

They can accuse if they wish, but they would be wrong . Obviously, a state ranking is not indicative of any individual here. There is potentially some interesting dialogue about state intelligence rankings and developments. Maybe this is a trend or perhaps it's an anomaly.