Having looked at the trends in testing and cases of Coronavirus for Cambria County, Pennsylvania, and the US for the past few months, I have little new observations to make from last week except for:
- The number of tests being conducted per day in Cambria County is increasing for the county but the number of new cases per day in the county has leveled off.
- Although the testing rate has increased, we can see from the graph above that:
- the county lags behind the city, state, and the U.S.
- the city lags behind the state and U.S. (except for zip code 15201)
- the state lags behind the U.S.
- This week the state department of health changed how it reports the number of deaths in the state as the number of deaths has surpassed 5,000. It makes it harder for me to put the numbers together for my Google Sheets but not impossible. The chart above shows how the case mortality for the state has surged past the U.S. rate. I don’t have information on how the state compares to the other states in the case mortality rate.
- The state unemplyment rate for April 2020 rose to 15.1% which was up from 5.8% in March and 4.7% in February. The state rate was higher than the U.S. rate of 14.7%.
- The April rates for Cambria County have not been released yet. For March it was 7.4% up from 5.7% in February.
The county is now in the yellow phase and may return to the green phase after June 2. COVID Cast from Carnegie Mellon University predicts that the number of new cases will be decreasing for the near future. It remains to be seen what will happen to the number of cases once restrictions are dropped.
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