May 14 COVID-19 Update

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on 2020-05-14 in tags: COVID-19, Daily Update

Nova Scotia Update:
0 new deaths
0 new hospitalizations (9 total)
0 new ICU cases (4 total)
2 new cases (1026 total)
554 tests done
39 more recoveries (909 total)
66 active cases (-39, 6% of cases are active, 94% are concluded)

NS has 0 new deaths today. 45/51 (88%) NS deaths are from Northwood and 49/51 (96%) are from long term care in general (11 different facilities are now reporting cases, 3 with active cases). Outside of LTC, the story is the same - NS continues to perform very well day after day with no deaths and limited, if any new cases. Yesterday, 554 tests were completed with just 2 new cases reported. 94% (+4%) of ALL cases since day 1 are now concluded. As of today, there are just 66 active cases in TOTAL, including LTC.

DATA DISCREPANCIES:
Based on today's report, it would appear the data has been reconciled with Northwood and is no longer a day behind. This has to be the case as yesterday just 6 recoveries were reported but today, Northwood active cases declined by 35, and today 39 recoveries were reported so this now HAS to be from the same time frame. I will wait for Northwood to update their data today and if all looks good, I will do a best estimate for yesterday's data to then bring it up to date for today. As it stands, there looks to be just 22 cases active outside LTC as of today.

- NS has 51 deaths, making the death rate 51/1M population
- Canada's rate sitting at 141/1M
- Global rate is 38.4/1M
- US rate is 256/1M
- Austria rate is 71/1M
- Spain is 574/1M
- Sweden is 338/1M

Notable points for today:
- Spain's rate of increase is slightly higher today but still well under 1%, for the 12th straight day.
- Austria with just 1 death, has maintained an increase under 0.5% for 5 days in a row and under 1% for 11 straight days.
- The rate of increase in Canada is back to around 2.5%, and 6 days in a row under 4%.
- The US rate of increase maintained itself just over 2%, and are at 6 days in a row under 3%.
- Sweden had a large increase today, now well over 4% and their highest daily death toll since April 23