Not sure if you've ever faced a similar dilemma, but I am
at the crossroad of my endeavor of keeping track of daily Covid-19
cases for the past 696 days.
My
records started on 2/24/2020, when we only had 53 confirmed cases and
no death in the U.S. Since then, I have been diligently keeping track of
the new cases and deaths every day, with only one 10-day gap in June
2021 when we were out in the mountains of Glacier National Park.
Per Johns Hopkins, as of today, 1/29/2022, the recorded stats are as follows:
Global Total:
Total confirmed cases = 370,389,005
Total daily new cases = 3,662,115
Total deaths = 5,652,122
United States:
Total confirmed cases = 74,067,514
Total daily new cases = 639,081
Total deaths = 882,881
United States as a % of Global Total:
Total confirmed cases = 20%
Total deaths = 15.6%
United States as a % of Global Total in 1918-1919 Spanish Flu:
Total deaths = 1.4% (with US deaths at about 675,000)
Not
sure what I should do next. Right now, it seems unthinkable to abandon
the historical database at this point. However, does it make sense to
keep on going -- when Covid is transitioning into a flu?
Have you encountered similar situations where you started a project and couldn't let it end because you've become so attached to it???
