The U.S. stands at 120 new COVID-19 cases per 100K population per day, down 34 percent in the past week. Cases have now fallen by more than 50 percent since the 1/16/2022 peak of the Omicron wave.
Data source for this and other graphs of new case counts: Calculated from The New York Times. (2021). Coronavirus (Covid-19) Data in the United States. Retrieved 2/3/2022, from https://github.com/nytimes/covid-19-data.” The NY Times U.S. tracking page may be found at https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/us/coronavirus-us-cases.html
At this point, I’ve run out of novel ways to say “new case counts are falling”.
That said, good news is under-reported. So let me toss in a few statistics on hospitals and hospitalizations.
New hospitalizations are falling. Percentage-wise, they haven’t fallen quite as much as new cases:
Source: Calculated from US DHHS unified hospital dataset.
Concerns about critical hospital staff shortages are receding. As interesting, fewer and fewer hospitals are even bothering to answer the question.
Source: Calculated from US DHHS unified hospital dataset.
The number of states where COVID-19 cases account for 30% or more of all ICU beds is now rapidly declining.
