Wednesday, August 19, 2020

Day 201: Even the Pepperoni

The Brazilian news reports that Brazil has exceeded our death rate; however Worldometers still has them nine deaths per million behind us, with 111,000 deaths total. Neither death rate tops the charts; the big performers there are Belgium and Peru (plus nominal country San Marino at #1).

USA Today reports that our latest shortage is pepperoni. So far it's only driven up the price for pizzerias, who, thus far, have not passed the costs on to their customers.

Massachusetts' cases are up about a quarter of a percentage point today. It's cities and towns day, for which event we've corrected some text on last week's maps and are still working on rearranging this week's.

P.S. After discovering and correcting an error in the raw data, PlagueBlog presents the state of the Commonwealth (modulo any remaining errors):
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