I’m going to continue to check in on the rate of newly diagnosed COVID-19 cases, from time to time. It’s unchanged from a couple of weeks ago, at 15 new cases per 100K population per day.
Per the CDC, we’re seeing about 550 COVID-19 deaths per day, and about 4500 COVID-19 hospitalizations per day. The deaths number is up quite a bit from a few months ago, but winter is hard on the frail elderly. My take on it is that COVID now sits alongside various forms of pneumonia as a common terminal illness for the oldest old.
The only other thing of note is that there’s a lot of variation across the states. A lot of the Rocky Mountain states are in the neighborhood of 5 /100K / day, a lot of the East Coast is still around 20 / 100K / day. No idea if that’s real or just variation in propensity to test.
I have rebased my graphs to being with 1/1/2023.
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 1/24/2023, 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
The U.S. flu season continues to fade. The CDC flu map is now mostly green.
Source: CDC fluview
