Post #1570: COVID-19 trend to 8/12/2022, now 32 new cases per 100K per day

 

The U.S. is now down to 37 36 34 33 32 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. Daily new hospitalizations have fallen below risen to just over fallen below risen to just over fallen to just under 6000 per day. Deaths remain around 350 375 400 per day. Continue reading Post #1570: COVID-19 trend to 8/12/2022, now 32 new cases per 100K per day

Post #1569: When the Rapture comes, will fetuses count as part of the 144,000?

Purely as a matter of probability, when the Rapture comes, at least one of the 144,000 will be pregnant. Unless pregnancy at the time of the Rapture automatically bars you from heaven.  Which would have to be God’s Own Catch-22, given the number of religions that frown on birth control. Continue reading Post #1569: When the Rapture comes, will fetuses count as part of the 144,000?

Post #1568: COVID-19 trend to 8/10/2022, now 33 new cases per 100K per day

 

The U.S. is now down to 37 36 34 33 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 two days ago. Daily new hospitalizations have fallen below risen to just over fallen below risen to just over 6000 per day. Deaths remain around 350 375 400 per day. Continue reading Post #1568: COVID-19 trend to 8/10/2022, now 33 new cases per 100K per day

Post #1567: COVID-19 trend to 8/8/2022, continued slow decline in new cases

 

The U.S. is now down to 37 36 34 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. Daily new hospitalizations have fallen below risen to just over fallen below 6000 per day. Deaths remain around 350 375 400 per day. Continue reading Post #1567: COVID-19 trend to 8/8/2022, continued slow decline in new cases

Post #1567: COVID-19 trend to 8/4/2022, continued slow decline in new cases

 

The U.S. is now down to 37 36 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.  Daily new hospitalizations have fallen below risen to just over 6000 per day. Deaths remain around 350 375 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 8/3/2022, 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

As I showed in prior posts, hospitalizations (and presumably deaths) remain concentrated among the oldest old, and hospitalizations remain disproportionately drawn from those who were never fully vaccinated.