Gatepost News Staff
By Donald Halsing, News Editor
By Kathleen Moore, Design Editor
Week of 3/27/2020 | Massachusetts | United States | World |
Population | 6,892,503 | 329,438,850 | 7,639,073,466 |
Infections | 1,838 | 54,453 | 292,142 |
Deaths | 15 | 737 | 12,784 |
Infection rate per 1,000 | 0.2667 Or 0.03% | 0.1653 Or 0.02% | 0.0382 Or 0.004% |
Death rate per infection per 1,000 | 8.1610 Or 0.8% | 13.5346 Or 1.4% | 43.7595 Or 4.4% |
Death rate per capitaper 1,000 | 0.0022 Or 0.0002% | 0.0022 Or 0.0002% | 0.0017 Or 0.0002% |
Top five cases by scope
MassachusettsCases by county | United States Cases by state | WorldCases by country |
1. Middlesex (446) 2. Suffolk (342) 3. Norfolk (222) 4. Essex (177) 5. Worcester (129) | 1. New York (26,358) 2. New Jersey (3,675) 3. California (2,511)4. Washington (2,460)5. Massachusetts (1,838) | 1. China (81,498)2. Italy (53,578) 3. Spain (24,926) 4. Germany (21,463) 5. Iran (20,610) |
Calculations were made using data from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control, World Health
Organization, WCVB Channel 5 Boston, and the U.S. Census as of noon March 26.
About 4.4% of people who contracted COVID-19 worldwide have died.
Four thousandths of a percent of the world’s population has contracted the virus, and 0.0002% of the world has died from COVID-19.
In Massachusetts, almost 2,000 people have contracted the virus. Middlesex County has the highest number of cases in relation to all other counties.
Fewer than 1% of people in Massachusetts who contracted the virus died as a result.
In the United States, over 50,000 people have contracted COVID-19. The majority of cases are in New York state.
Fewer than 2% of people in the United States with Coronavirus have died from it.
Worldwide, almost 300,000 people have contracted COVID-19. China has the greatest number of cases.
Fewer than 5% of people around the world who had the virus died as a result.
The Gatepost will continue to monitor the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic and publish a weekly analysis of the latest data.