COVID-19 # 68

Mexico:

I’m very worried about the pandemic in Mexico.
This is the test positivity rate of the country. Pretty much linear growth, now at 56.7%.
This means the country confirms a case for every 1.76 test they do.

The source is our #COVID19 profile for #Mexico https://t.co/LbsZ5RS6uj pic.twitter.com/pn0sk6pPmd

— Max Roser (@MaxCRoser) June 21, 2020

New York City, at its worst, was over 55% positives for the 2 weeks around April 1st. This result is for the whole country of Mexico.

There has been some hemming and hawing that Mexico isn't doing that many tests. And this is true: they had about 4,700 positives yesterday, so they must've tested about 8K people. But that's roughly how many test NYC was doing around April 1st too.

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Chile:

Chile has 5-6 thousand new patients daily. System can't handle it. We will soon be in the Italian scenario. https://t.co/xED9k2ZUFE

— Crawford Kilian (@Crof) June 21, 2020

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Arizona:

Since last Sunday, 20% of the reported tests in Arizona have come back positive.

Right next door in New Mexico, only 2.5% of tests are coming back positive. pic.twitter.com/CnAuYgvpUD

— The COVID Tracking Project (@COVID19Tracking) June 20, 2020

Arizona is doing about 15K tests per day, so about twice as many as Mexico, or NYC (when it was just starting to ramp up testing).

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Brazil:

Set a record today for most positives in a single day, surpassing a record set by the U.S. in April.

FWIW: the U.S. is still getting daily numbers of positives that are running at about 80% of the record rate. That's the big slack off people believe in.

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Southwestern Utah:

Our numbers were not updated today. Sometimes that can be a very bad sign.