The U.S. now stands at 38 new COVID-19 cases per 100K population per day, down from a revised 39 from yesterday. Deaths appear to have risen to a steady 350 a day (up from 300 or so for the past couple of months), and hospitalizations for COVID have finally topped 6000 per day.
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 7/20/2022, 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
“Nothing much has changed” isn’t a headline you’re likely to read soon. And yet, that is what has changed in the U.S. pandemic.
For two years, it was a series of ups and downs. Wave after wave, and a succession of greek letters. But we’ve finally hit a flat spot. We’ve been stuck on Omicron for more than half a year now — it became the dominant U.S. variant just before Christmas 2021. And now, other than for variation caused by holidays, we’ve been stuck at the same new case level for two months.
