203,362 new cases: 2828 deaths Source: Worldometer

[SamKnause]

[regnaD kciN]

1. I am SO TIRED of people citing World-O-Meter...

...instead of verified sources like the CDC numbers. Seriously, World-O-Meter is about as reliable for medicine as NewsMax is for politics. They're an ad hoc group that seems to just throw whatever numbers they want out there, without any concern for consistent time frames. I also remember, early on in the pandemic, them presenting death/recovery numbers that indicated a fatality rate of 36%, which turned out to be more than eighteen times higher than reality.

[Takket]

2. they pull their numbers from state websites.......

example:

https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/usa/michigan/
https://www.michigan.gov/coronavirus/0,9753,7-406-98163_98173---,00.html

They are a reliable source of data.

[Ms. Toad]

3. The are the most timely,

reliable, aggregation site available. Johns Hopkins used to be, but they haven't been for months.

Worldometers documents the original source their numbers come from. The numbers match the source. When there are unexplained changes, they document the reasons for those changes (like the change in the CDC criteria for a COVID diagnosis). They routinely update their information based on changes reported to the source material (I just updatedmy spreadsheet - and they have added corrected numbers back to March.)

I have only caught an error once, and that error was corrected within a few minutes of being posted, with an explanation of the correction. Unlike some other sites that have let obvious errors go uncorrected for days (and then correct them without explanation).

The site is easy to maneuver and find the relevant information - and the source from which it came.

I've been tracking this disease since early January, and worldometers is my go to site for all of the above reasons.