The U.S. is now down to 37 36 34 33 32 31 new cases per 100K population per day, down from 38 at the end of last week 37 when I checked it a couple of days ago 36 four days ago 34 33 two days ago 32 three days ago.
Daily new hospitalizations have fallen below risen to just over fallen below risen to just over fallen to just under 6000 per day. finally fallen back below 5500 per day.
Deaths remain around 350 375 are now consistently above 400 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 8/16/2022, 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
There’s still no clear downward trend, as there had been at the ends of prior waves. We have a high-but-stable new case count.
BA.4 and BA.4 now account for more than 99% of new U.S. cases. That doesn’t appear to be changing any time soon.
Source: CDC COVID data tracker.
The world remains a mixed bag. Canada and the U.K. appear to have stable low new case rates. The U.S. and Europe (on average) have high stable new case rates. Australia and New Zealand are recovering from their recent very high new case rates. And South Korea now has more new cases per day than the U.S. did at the peak of last winter’s Omicron wave. Bear in mind that, as demonstrated in an earlier post, much of that international variation appears to be due to difference in testing and reporting, not necessarily to differences in the true new case rate.
Source: Our World in Data
