According to the Center for Disease Control (CDC), a pandemic is defined as “an event in which a disease spreads across several countries and affects a large number of people.” From the 2019-2020 global pandemic, many changes have to be made to one’s everyday life. These include wearing a mask when out in public, allowing six feet in between each other, and washing the hands as much as possible or drowning them in Germ-x. As annoying as all of these precautions are, one must follow them in order to keep themselves and others safe from these unknown times.

Since April 14, 2020, the case and death counts of COVID-19 included both confirmed and probable cases in the CDC’s numbers for this pandemic. Since it is nearly impossible to count all the cases, the CDC’s numbers will never be completely accurate. The CDC works their best to keep the numbers up to date and sometimes has to wait for states to report their numbers in order to show the most accurate results at that point in time.

As of December 16, 2020 at 10:16am Central Time, the United States was ranked number one in the world for the most number of cases. Below is a table showing more information regarding cases of the United States:

Here is a table for case information regarding the state of Nebraska as of 10:18am Central Time on December 16, 2020. Nebraska was also ranked number 35 for the highest number of cases in the United States.

More information about cases can be found here: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/us/coronavirus-us-cases.html?name=styln-coronavirus&region=TOP_BANNER&block=storyline_menu_recirc&action=click&pgtype=LegacyCollection&impression_id=71f732d1-3fad-11eb-9bc8-378d68cdbceb&variant=1_Show  

As the times change and numbers continue to go up, please, please, please respect the guidelines that the CDC places out in addition to the guidelines where you live! Everyone wants to be out of this pandemic and be able to go back to a “normal life.”

Citations: 

“Coronavirus Cases:” Worldometer, www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/.

Center for Disease Control and Prevention. 2019, data.cdc.gov/ Case-Surveillance/ United-States-COVID-19-Cases-and-Deaths-by-State-o/9mfq-cb36