The apparent rate of daily new COVID-19 cases popped up today. Most of that should be due to the usual data-reporting problems caused by holidays. By shifting the reporting of new cases by one day, we end up with a dip-and-a-blip in the plot of new cases. One seven-day period with too few cases, followed by one with too many. Today’s the day for too many cases to show up. We’ll know more about the true trend tomorrow.
Deaths and hospitalizations appear to remain on a slow downward trend. Currently, fewer than 350 COVID-19 deaths per day, fewer than 4300 new COVID-19 hospitalizations 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 9/13/2022, 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
