There have been no significant changes that I can see since yesterday. The totals are growing, as expected, but the trend lines haven't significantly changed. Note that I've changed the scale on the upper chart (and will continue to do so as the totals change). The part to hammer home is that even though the confirmed number of cases is growing, the death rate is remaining steady or declining. Globally, 99.2% if those infected survive; in the U.S. it's about a 99.8% survival rate.
One final thing I should have noted is past posts is that 'serious' cases (which I take to be hospitalizations) and 'recoveries' are seriously lacking in the U.S. data (go to the Coronavirus Dashboard website to see). If there are so few 'serious' cases -- 60 nationwide -- then why all the hype about shortages of ventilators and hospital beds? There's a certain ripeness for conspiracy theorists, but I'm always mindful of Occam's Razor -- simple incompetence is the most likely answer (17,650 of the 25,239 confirmed cases are from the 6 states that have been Democrat strongholds for nearly forever).
That said, the comment isn't relevant to the data in the charts above.
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