I find myself tuning out cases and instead am watching death totals almost exclusively.
Cases appear to be too convoluted by continual changing in testing (# tests administered kept going up in the past 2 weeks, backlogs in labs getting results mess with reporting, etc). We need it to keep increasing...just hard to tell where we are at with that data.
The deaths tell the story although the reporting there isn't clean immediately either (there are a lot of revisions so you almost have to wait a couple days to have confidence in daily totals, especially in places like NY were there are a lot of them).
Places like California demonstrate that social distancing is proving really effective in slowing and flattening this thing. LA and SF could have easily been in the position NY is in right now. It's maddening to see states and people not taking it seriously yet as it will only extend how long the rest of us are in for.
Hopefully I've already had it and just don't know it...I feel like we'll finally come out of quarantine and I'll immediately get sick....
Good points - I don't watch anything by itself -More specifically, . . I watch trends and velocity