Archive for May 30th, 2020

What do American cheese, cereal and golf have in common?

May 30, 2020

Hint: The coronaviris is changing consumer behavior
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Let’s start with a confession…

Several years ago — Oct. 2006 to be precise –our family travelled to Hawaii for a friend’s wedding.

As luck would have it, an earthquake hit — and, the Oahu power grids was shut down. With no electricity, hotels started emptying their refrigerators, piling food in the conference rooms and inviting guests to 24-hour all-you-can-eat buffet.

I made a dash to one specific table on which was piled the biggest hill of American cheese I’d ever seen.

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I thought I had died and gone to heaven.

You see, as my family knows,  American cheese is one of my favorite foods.  Not just favorite cheese — favorite food.

I’m in what marketers call a micro-niche.

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May 30: C-19 Key NATIONAL Data

May 30, 2020

1,208 Daily New Deaths Worldometer
> 7-day average 1,168
> Peaked on April 21

320 NY+NJ+CT 21% of US Total

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REFERENCE: How will we know when we’ve turned the COVID-19 corner?

Cumulative Deaths 
104,542
Worldometer

IHME Model Cume US Death Projection:
131,967 by Aug. 4  Rev. DOWN 11,390 5/25
403 = Implied Daily New Deaths until Aug 4

Benchmark Cume US Death Projections
1,168 = Current 7-day moving average

183,966 = Implied Aug 4 total @ current run rate

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click to see C-19 Key STATES DataC-19 Data Reference Guide: ALL STATES and Data Recap: The BOTTOM 39

May 30: C-19 Key STATES Data

May 30, 2020

Total US Deaths = 104,542 317 per Million

NY+NJ+CT = 45,424  44% of US Total
   NY+NJ+CT = 10% U.S. Population

Top 12 Total = 81,961 78% of US Total
  Top 12 Average = 516 Deaths per Million
  Top 12 = 48% of U.S. Population

Bottom 39 Average = 132 Deaths/Million
For details see Data Recap: The BOTTOM 39

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State-by-State Data – Top 12

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C-19 Data Reference Guide: ALL STATES