More 'good' news from the statistics.
The best way I can put it is that overall, not everywhere and every day, things are getting worse more slowly.
In a nutshell, death counts around the world grew 12% over yesterday, compared to a 19% average for the days since the outbreak started. And that is a consistent trend of slowing acceleration.
Death counts in the Italy/France/Spain cluster similarly grew slower than usual, at 11% day over day, compared to an average of 19% day over day that we've seen over the days of the pandemic. And that is also the continuation of a trend of 'things getting worse more slowly.'
Neither of those was a stand-alone day. They were part of a longer term trend. So that's good.
The hope is that eventually the 'getting worse more slowly' will move to 'actually getting better.'
The threat to that is America - deaths are ramping up here, and that could move the global numbers back up.
I'm not watching case counts but I probably should...now that the virus has established a beach head, that kind of data might be more useful now, as a forecasting tool.