Near as I can tell, the U.S. remains at somewhere around 29 new COVID-19 cases per 100K population per day, down a bit over the last seven days. Monday’s Juneteenth holiday seems to have put the same sort of kink in the data as other Federal holidays.
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 6/22/2022, 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
Basically, no change.
In other non-news, the latest variants BA.4 and BA.5 now account for about a third of new U.S. COVID infections. If anyone cares about this, it surely has escaped my notice.
Source: CDC COVID data tracker, accessed 6/22/2022
In complete non-news, the CDC still has not updated its February seroprevalence survey estimate. At this point — roughly a month overdue for an update — I can only surmise that they’ve chosen to shut that down. So I would not expect to see any further hard estimates of the actual count of persons infected in the U.S. Which means there will be no way to determine any estimate of the true number of U.S. infections going forward.
Finally, if we look internationally a bit, we can see that Australia and New Zealand remain around 100 new cases / 100K / day, the U.S. and Great Britain are in the 20’s of cases, and Canada is below 5 / 100K / day.
Source: Our world in data.
