I was thinking about writing about the Gabby Petito case but events here in Cambria County have trumped (no pun intended) that and put it on the back burner. COVID deaths have been rising again in the county. On Oct 23 the county reached 500 deaths. Eleven days later we have reached 521 for an […]
This week, Cambria County reached the grim milestone of 19,000 corona virus cases and 500 deaths since the pandemic began. Currently, the state has reported that 47.59% of the county’s population (children included) has received the first two doses with the current 7 day average for the first two shots at 77.7 per day. This […]
This weekend, the State of Pennsylvania only released case and hospitalization numbers, not death and vaccination numbers. I assume that this is because of the Columbus (or Indigenous People’s) Day is a state holiday. This provides an opportunity to reflect on the state of the corona virus pandemic. The state has started to provide numbers […]
The 11th anniversary of this blog has snuck up on me with all my other tasks in life. I have still been tracking the coronavirus numbers in Cambria County with alarm. The pandemic has preoccupied my posts since the first case was reported here on March 23, 2020 so I thought I would take a look at […]
A follower of my blog named Jay Wiedwald shared some graphs showing how the counties immediately surrounding Cambria have been adversely affected by corona virus. Jay is a former resident of Johnstown who lived in Moxham. He includes Bedford, Blair, Cambria, Indiana, and Somerset counties as Johnstown and the surrounding counties ad “Halo” counties. […]
There have been many news reports on Coronavirus surges in the U.S. recently, especially among the unvaccinated in the south. The graph above shows that Cambria County is experiencing its 5th surge in COVID-19 cases. The first surge was in the Spring of 2020. The second was from late July to early August of last […]
The news media has recently reported on President Biden’s calling Cuba a failed state. There have been demonstrations there due to the corona virus pandemic. The Cuban president responded by pointing out that the 60 year embargo of Cuba has exacerbated shortages of medical supplies and other basic resources. I thought I would compare how […]
Coronavirus cases have slowed over the 4th of July holiday so I thought I would take a look at how they are now distributed throughout Cambria County. This is what the distribution of cases in the county looked like in the image below on Dec 13 when the rise in cases and deaths was at […]
I couldn’t stay away from the Coronavirus pandemic in the area for long. On January 19, In This Together: Cambria County held a candlelight vigil next to the Stone Bridge in Johnstown in honor of the 340 who died from the virus since the pandemic began here on March 23. There was one candle for […]
PBS has a good series on how medicine has learned to fight pandemics. This particular episode focuses on how data is used to understand and limit pandemics. It starts with how William Farr used data to track a cholera outbreak. I’ve embedded this episode here for your enjoyment and information. **Related Posts** Income and Life […]
