Tue, 08/11/2020 - 11:45am

WALDO COUNTY — Dale Rowley, Waldo County’s Emergency Management Agency director, distributed the following Aug. 11 assessment of COVID-19 cases in Maine.

In it he noted: “Some bit of good news. Waldo County has no active cases and the vast majority of Mainers (99.7%) have not become infected from Covid19 in the last five months.”

Rowley compiled his data and attributed his sources below each graph.

Maine Population Data as of August 11, 2020 after five months of disease presence.

Maine Pop.	1,344,000	Fraction	Percent %	Remainder %	Note
Total Covid Positive to Date	4049	0.003	0.3	99.700	Those not tested positive to date
Current Infected	387	0.00028	0.0028	99.972	Those not current positive
Covid19 related deaths	125	0.000093	0.0093	99.997	Those not dead related to Covid19

https://www.maine.gov/dhhs/mecdc/infectious-disease/epi/airborne/coronavirus/data.shtml

USA Population Data as of August 11, 2020 after five months of disease presence.

USA Pop.	328,200,000	Fraction	Percent %	Remainder %	Note
Total Covid Positive to Date	5,023,649	0.015	1.5	98.500	Those not tested positive to date
Covid19 related deaths	161,842	0.00049	0.049	99.951	Those not dead related to Covid19

https://www.cdc.gov/covid-data-tracker/#cases

In reviewing the mask order compliance and death rates, there doesn’t appear to be a correlation.

The less densely populated States appear to have lower rates. However, this is not a study, but an observation of the data and is not proof one way or the other.

State	Mask State Order	Death rate per 100,000	Lowest Death Rates
Alabama	Yes	36	24
Alaska	No	4	2
Arizona	No	58	29
Arkansas	Yes	18	13
California	Yes	29	17
Colorado	Yes	33	23
Connecticut	Yes	124	38
Delaware	Yes	61	31
Florida	No	38	25
Georgia	No	40	26
Hawaii	Yes	2	1
Idaho	No	14	10
Illinois	Yes	62	32
Indiana	Yes	45	27
Iowa	No	29	18
Kansas	Yes	13	9
Kentucky	Yes	17	12
Louisiana	Yes	91	36
Maine	Yes	9	7
Maryland	Yes	59	30
Massachusetts	Yes	127	39
Michigan	Yes	65	34
Minnesota	Yes	30	19
Mississippi	Yes	63	33
Missouri	No	21	14
Montana	Yes	7	4
Nevada	Yes	32	22
New Hampshire	No	31	20
New Jersey	Yes	178	40
New Mexico	Yes	33	23
New York (No NYC)	Yes	80	35
New York City	Yes	281	41
North Carolina	Yes	21	14
North Dakota	No	15	11
Ohio	Yes	31	21
Oklahoma	No	15	11
Oregon	Yes	8	5
Pennsylvania	Yes	57	28
Rhode Island	Yes	96	37
South Carolina	No	40	26
South Dakota	No	17	12
Tennessee	No	18	13
Texas	Yes	29	17
Utah	No	11	8
Vermont	Yes	9	7
Virginia	Yes	27	16
Washington	Yes	22	15
West Virginia	Yes	8	6
Wisconsin	Yes	17	12
Wyoming	No	5	3