2,254 Killed Saturday, Dec. 5. Hard for me at least to make sense of that, a sharp drop from Friday's 2,607. Saturday is a reporting day. It's Sunday and Monday that are not.
213,875 new Cases reported out on Saturday. Also down, not as steeply but clearly down.
Don't know what to expect from NYT's seven- and fourteen-day averages. Let's take a look...
The Cases seven-day average (191,524) for (Nov 29-Dec. 5) is incrementally not as vertical as was last night's iteration.
The Deaths seven-day is still vertical (2,180).
The 14-day:
+14% Cases
+27 Hospitalizations
+48% Deaths.
Grim City, bruh, Bad, really bad.
What are we gonna see for Sunday and Monday outta Hopkins? The chalk would be a drop in both Cases and Deaths, even from Saturday's drop. That would be three straight drops in Deaths if Sunday's is, four straight if Monday too. Dudes, there's no way Deaths are going to drop four straight frigging days in this climate. So three, tomorrow? Man, those drops Friday and Saturday are emphatic. We're on a yo-yo and the yo-yo is just gonna snap back up above Saturday? I can't see that so I'm predicting a third straight day of drops in Deaths.