All my various postings tracking the COVID-19 pandemic through the end of 2022.
Contrary to every formal prediction, the U.S. Omicron wave continues to fade away. Today the U.S. stands at 12 new COVID-19 cases per 100K population per day, down one from a couple of days ago.
Continue reading Post #1606, COVID-19, now down to 12/100k/day
The slow post-Labor Day decline in new U.S. COVID-19 cases continues. The U.S. is now at 13 new COVID-19 cases per 100K population per day, down one from last week.
Continue reading Post #1604, COVID-19, now down to 13/100k/day
… but France and Germany appear to be starting theirs.
The U.S. remains at 14 new COVID-19 cases per 100K population per day, same as the end of last week. The downward trend continues, it’s just so slow that it now takes several days to drop another whole case from the daily count.
In particular, in the U.S., there’s no winter wave yet, but the state-level trends seem to be separating by cold/warm states, a bit. Which would be the first indication of a winter wave. So … eh, it’s too soon to tell. But we’re about due for a wave to start, if we’re going to have one.
Deaths are closing in on 300 a day, down from a steady 350 for the past few months. Hospitalizations continue to fall, and currently are at 3200 per day, down a few hundred from the end of last week.
Continue reading Post #1603, COVID-19, no US winter wave yet, but …
Another few days, another little drop in the U.S. rate of newly reported COVID-19 infections. The U.S. now stands at 14 new COVID-19 cases per 100K population per day, down two from just two days ago.
Deaths remain around 350 per day. Hospitalizations are now under 3600 a day.
Continue reading Post #1600, COVID-19, the decline accelerates.
The U.S. now stands at 16 new COVID-19 cases per 100K population per day, down one from the end of last week.
Deaths remain around 350 per day, heavily concentrated among the oldest old.
Hospitalizations are now around 3700 per day. That’s down by about 1000 in the past month, and 2000 in the past two months.
The situation continues to improve slowly. The big unknown now is whether there will be a winter wave, as there was in the past two years.
Continue reading Post #1599, COVID-19, down another one since last week
The U.S. now stands at 17 new COVID-19 cases per 100K population per day, unchanged from three days ago.
Deaths remain around 350 per day. Hospitalizations have finally fallen below 4000 per day.
The slow post-Labor Day decline in new cases continues.
Continue reading Post #1598, COVID-19, ending the data week at 17 new cases per 100K per day
The U.S. now stands at 18 17 new COVID-19 cases per 100K population per day, down one two from the end of last week.
In short, the slow post-Labor Day decline in newly diagnosed cases continues.
Deaths and hospitalization remain where they were, around 350 and 4`100 per day, respectively.
Continue reading Post #1596, COVID-19, now 17 cases per 100K per day
The U.S. now stands at 18 new COVID-19 cases per 100K population per day, down one from the end of last week.
Which is good, as the President seems to have said that the pandemic is over.
Still incurring about 350 deaths a day, and just over 4100 new hospitalizations per day.
Continue reading Post #1595, COVID-19, now 18 cases per 100K per day
The slow post-Labor Day decline in reported new U.S. COVID-19 cases continues. The latest reading rounds to 19 new case per 100K per day, down from 21 just a couple of days ago.
Still under 400 deaths a day, hospitalizations stand at 4300 per day. Continue reading Post #1593, COVID-19, finishing out the data week at 19 new cases per 100K per day.
The U.S. stands at 21 new cases per 100K per day, up one from the end of last week. That said, by eye, the overall slow decline in new cases appears to be continuing.
We still have about 350 deaths and 4500 new hospitalizations per day. Continue reading Post #1588, COVID-19, still looks like new cases are slowly declining