Traffic to gyms is down 90% across the United States. Activity at schools is also down 90%, while churches are down 84%. Government offices, on the other hand, are down only 51%.
And factories? They’re down 58%.
A map of the US with the most-affected areas of Coronavirus or COVID-19
The data is from Openpath, which operates access control technology for businesses and organizations. The company tracked over five million door unlocks since February 24 to build a map of who’s continuing to go to work, and who’s staying home.
In late March, Americans were driving 40% less. Today, it’s as much as 70% less. But that’s not spread evenly across the country.
Building door opens at workplaces are down only 1% in Nebraska. In Georgia, they are down 37%. That compares to 71% fewer accesses at workplaces in Texas, 87% fewer in Michigan, and 89% fewer workplace door opens in Massachusetts.
California was down 81%. New York was down 87%.
“The need for a national mandate rather than a state by state decision is very apparent,” says Kieran Hannon, chief marketing officer at Openpath.
Nationally, the company is seeing only a quarter of the building accesses it saw six weeks ago, at 26%. That’s down 7% just in the last week. Government buildings are down least of all, just 51%, as government workers struggle to continue to provide services.
While Nebraska and Georgia might have a higher percentage of workers who are classified as essential and must go into work, both states don’t score well on Unacast’s social distancing scoreboard either: getting a C+ and a C, respectively, as of April 9.
Nebaska’s governor has said that the state does not need to issue a stay-at-home order. The state currently has 568 COVID-19 cases, with 49 new in the last day, and 14 deaths. Georgia governor Brian Kemp instituted a shelter-in-place oder on April 1, well after other states such as California.
Georgia now has 10,566 COVID-19 cases according to Coronavirus.app, with 665 in the past hour, and 378 deaths. Its 1,005 cases per million residents is above California’s 499, but well below New York’s 8,194 per million.
Nebraska is at a much lower 295 cases per million.
While California and New York residents are not going to work, it may be a case of too little, too late. California added almost 1,000 cases over the last 24 hours to top out at almost 20,000. And New York added over 9,000 to bring its total to a staggering 160,108.
If New York was a nation, it would rank second in total cases just ahead of Spain.
One good thing according to Hannon: where people are being asked to honor local shelter-in-place regulations, they’ve continued to do so.
