The Daily Dread - Tracking the spread, 9/13/20

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All times Pacific, source: Johns Hopkins/NBC News

At 8:41am - domestic data only
Confirmed cases US - 6,516,077 **
Deaths US - 194,854 *

* Yep. I was expecting this straight away.

** I didn't expect to see this one flip this quickly.

[Hugin]

1. There seems to be a decimal point missing from that toll.

Unless, that's the per day number. In which case I'm going to... Um, panic.

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2. I went back and double-checked the numbers from the photo I took

at that moment.

That's how I document this stuff. Grab a shot of it as soon as I see one of those graphics. Then copy down the numbers.

Ironically enough, now that we're up to an alarming 6,516,077 confirmed cases and 194,854 deaths (as of the last graphic I spotted), there's less of the rotating graphics we used to see at the right side of the TV screen all through the morning programming. It'd switch through two sets of maps of the US, countries with most cases, states with most cases, states with most recent cases (in the last 72 hours), and the world/US stats. I always went with that last one. But now things are simplified - even as the these numbers are astonishingly, hideously high. Nosebleed high.

[Hugin]

3. I noticed you'd updated the numbers.

Still horrifying.

Thanks!

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4. Hey, Hugin - I appreciate the backstopping.

When we do our Indivisible group's Call to Action email every weekend, I thank the heavens for the two women who serve as our editors! Man do they save us!

It's ALWAYS good to have an extra set of eyeballs on the work.

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5. Update -

At 8:41am - domestic data only
Confirmed cases US - 6,516,077
Deaths US - 194,854


At 2:21pm
Confirmed cases US - 6,524,187
Deaths US - 194,912