News in Numbers
The number of daily travelers through Seattle Tacoma International Airport in March. Before the coronavirus pandemic, there were about 55,000 daily travelers through the Washington airport.
The amount of aid that five state governors are requesting from Congress to help state and local governments manage the economic damage from the coronavirus.
The estimated number of additional people that visited Georgia the week after the state’s shelter-in-place orders were lifted on April 24. Ninety-two percent of those drivers came from four neighboring states: Tennessee, Alabama, South Carolina and Florida.
The amount that Uber lost in the first quarter of the year as ride-hailing and travel significantly decreased amid coronavirus fears. The company will offload its scooter business, Jump, and is laying off 3,700 full-time workers.
The total job losses since mid-March that have been attributed to coronavirus and the subsequent lockdown. The unemployment numbers for April will be released today, May 8.
The number of years since the last time that the New York subway system was shut down overnight. The system was closed for thorough disinfecting, and will close each night for the foreseeable future from 1 a.m. to 5 a.m. for more disinfecting.
The number of coronavirus cases in the Navajo Nation. Officials have administered a total of 14,351 tests within the community.
The number of nasal swabs, a necessity for COVID-19 testing, that Dr. Jeffrey James is 3-D printing daily at Augusta University’s dental college where he teaches. Dr. James originally had a single printer that produced 300 nasal swabs daily but then was asked to increase the production by Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp. Now there are seven printers that run all day to meet the daily amount.
The number of public events (including sports, concerts, races — individual, series and tours) verified by the Washington Post as cancelled, postponed or rescheduled because of the coronavirus even as states work toward reopening local economies.
The number of daily participants on Zoom meetings but not the number of daily users, which is what was previously reported by the video conferencing company. “This was genuine oversight on our part.”
The annual rate at which the U.S. economy shrank last quarter amid the coronavirus pandemic. The Congressional Budget Office estimates that the economy will continue to plunge at a 40 percent rate during this quarter.
Proportion of Americans opposed to opening the economy if the coronavirus virus is not fully under control, compared to those in other developed economies — the United Kingdom and Canada (70 percent), followed by Mexico (65 percent), Spain and Australia (61 percent) and the United States (59 percent).
The fine that Facebook agreed to pay to the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) over the 2018 Cambridge Analytica data breach. The settlement amount was approved last week by a federal judge and is the largest in the FTC’s history.
The number of unemployed workers that filed for benefits in Florida between March 19 and April 21. There were only 13,002 claims filed during all of 2019.
The number of Americans who have filed for jobless aid in the last five weeks, a number only comparable to those of the Great Depression in the 1930s. The government reported that 4.4 million workers applied for unemployment benefits just last week.
The low estimation of how much Seattle, Wash., is projected to lose in tax revenue this year as a result of the coronavirus shutdown.
When Facebook will lift its company ban on gatherings of more than 50 people. The company is requiring its workers to continue working from home through May, and plans to allow employees to return to work in slow waves after that.
The number of malware and phishing emails related to the coronavirus that Google saw each day during the first week of April.
The amount of Paycheck Protection Program low-interest loans for which 1.5 million U.S. companies have applied in response to the economy-stopping coronavirus.
The estimated number of unemployment claims that have been filed in the past month. Some economists predict the unemployment rate could rise to 20 percent by the end of the month.
The amount that Illinois has paid in the past month for medicine and personal protective equipment to help slow the spread of the coronavirus.
The proportional drop in driving direction requests from California's Bay Area in the two months ending April 12 based on data from Apple Maps to better understand the effectiveness of stay-at-home and social distancing orders across the world. Apple will report data from 63 countries and regions.
The record highest combined age of the two major-party presidential candidates. The 2020 number breaks the previous record set in 2016.
The amount lost due to coronavirus-related consumer fraud during the first nine days of April. The Federal Trade Commission reported that only $4.8 million was lost during the first three months of the year.
The number of conspiracy-supporting posts that appeared in 24 hours on Twitter and Reddit. The messages were a part of a coordinated campaign that were attempting to link the introduction of 5G with the rise of coronavirus in countries worldwide.
The number of testing locations in Oklahoma. Governor Kevin Stitt is asking more residents to be tested for COVID-19 while the state still has ample resources to do so easily.
The TSA daily national passenger tally of scanned airline passengers on Monday versus a month earlier.
The number of coronavirus tests that the drive-thru testing site at Georgia Institute of Technology will be able to administer per day.
The number of Zoom daily users during the month of March as thousands of workers were sent to work remotely in an effort to slow the spread of coronavirus. The new number is double that of daily users Zoom had in December 2019.
The number of seasonally adjusted initial unemployment claims as of March 28, as reported by the U.S. Department of Labor. This is the highest level of seasonally adjusted initial claims in history.
