Environmental News For The Week Ending 13December 2019
This is a collection of interesting news articles about the environment and related topics published last week. This is usually a Tuesday evening regular post at
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Note: Because of the high volume of news regarding the coronavirus outbreak, that news has been published separately:
Summary:
New US Covid cases were at a record 247,737 on Friday on the worldometers site that I watch; that would be nearly 40% of all the new infections reported worldwide on that day as per that site.However, the Johns Hopkins dashboard is showing a record 1,489,000 new Covid infections worldwide on that date, more than double any previous one day total..I have to assume that s in error, and my best guess would be that somehow the data was entered twice, and they ll eventually correct it.Regardless, whatever the a
The U.S. new cases 7-day rolling average is 15.4 % HIGHER than the 7-day rolling average one week ago. U.S. deaths due to coronavirus are now 17.4 %
HIGHER than the rolling average one week ago. U.S. hospitalizations due to COVID-19 are now 6.2 %
HIGHER than the rolling average one week ago. Today s posts include:
U.S. Coronavirus New Cases are at a record 231,775
U.S. Coronavirus deaths are at a record 3,309
U.S. Coronavirus hospitalizations are at a record 108,044
The 7-day rolling average rate of growth of the pandemic shows new cases improved, hospitalizations again improved, and deaths improved
Millions of Pfizer vaccine doses to be shipped immediately after F.D.A. approval