As I live and work in Northern Virginia, just a few miles outside of Washington, DC, the local situation is of interest to me, as I suspect it is to a few other readers. Again, all the data is from the Johns Hopkin’s website (which I gather is also maintained in the DC area), as of 9:26:51 AM: Johns Hopkins CSSE
The DC area is rather sprawling, with over 5 million people scattered across DC, Virginia and Maryland. Let me list the presence of virus by location. I list the number of cases from last week’s post followed by the number of cases this week. Population is the 2018 estimate from Wikipedia:
……………………………………………..Old……..New
………………………..….Population….Cases….Cases….Deaths
Washington D.C…………..702,445……..507…….1,211……..22
Arlington, VA…………..…..237,521……..104…..….237……….2
Alexandria VA………….…160,530……….30……….126
Fairfax County, VA……..1,150,795……..244….……532………2
Falls Church, VA……..…….14,772
Fairfax City, VA……..………24,574
Loudoun County, VA………406,850….…..87………..209……….1
Prince Williams C., VA..…468,011……….94………..236……….1
Manassas………………..….41,641
Manassas Park……………..17,307
Stafford Country, VA…….149,960……….24………….49
Fredericksburg, VA………..29,144…..……1…………….8
Montgomery C., MD……1,052,567……..447………..871………21
Prince Georges C., MD….909,308……..403………1,020……..27
Total……….…….………5,365,425……1,941………4,499……76
The number of cases has more than doubled in a week. Do not know if that is because of more spreading or better testing. There were 23 deaths recorded last week. Now it is 76.
The Mortality Rate for the area is 1.69% up from 1.18% last week. The population known to be infect is 0.08%. or one confirmed case for every 1,193 people. From my observations, most people are doing a reasonable job of self isolating. Probably easier to do in this more spread out suburban area than in some cities.
The Washington DC statistic area according to some also includes Warren, Clarke, Fauquier, and Spotsylvania Counties in Virginia, Jefferson County in West Virginia, Frederick, Howard, Charles and Calvert Counties in Maryland. I rarely go to these places. But of interest to me is Albemarle County, VA with 38 confirmed cases and Charlottesville, VA which has 23 confirmed cases and 1 death. Montgomery County, VA has 16 cases.
