COVID-19 UPDATE: Total USA cases fall to 18,790 (-3,862 past 2D). Korea CDC affirms immunity. Before fearing Memorial Day crowds--> FACT: 13 states open "prior to 5/1" have seen cases -29% since 5/1.

COVID-19 remains a global crisis and we realize that many people need to keep up with COVID-19 developments, particularly since we are moving into the more critical stage ("restart economy"), so feel free to share our commentary to anyone who has interest.Americans view Memorial Day weekend as the "start of Summer" and this weekend saw droves of Americans leave their homes and crowd at beaches, parks, streets, highways, restaurants, basically places outside their homes and involving a lot of movement.  And naturally, this brings apprehension, because movement = transmission risk.  But the past few days has been more a story of positive developments involving the re-opening.  Foremost, USA cases are down to 18,719, still not the lowest "official" print (17,653 on 5/11) but testing on 5/25/2020 was a new high at ~495k (up +60% in the past month) and positivity rate fell to a new low of 3.8%.  Moreover, 13 states have been open >3 weeks now (prior to 5/1) and these states have since seen daily cases fall 29% to 2,497 (see below).There were also positive developments on the healthcare front.  Perhaps the most important is the study by the Korea CDC (below), which shows there is actually no re-infection for any recovered patient in Korea.  I...

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