Daily Deaths reported by Johns Hopkins yesterday, Dec. 22, were a humongous number, 3,410, more than double the number reported on Dec. 21 and second only to the Dec. 16 all-time high of 3,682. 1) That is reporting backlog. Tuesday is the first day of the reporting week. This is Christmas week however. A lot of people are off work. Today's figures will be reported tomorrow, Christmas Eve. There's just no way there are going to be as many reporters volunteering Christmas Eve than say, last Thursday. The blippity-blop of the numbers this week has been more confusing than usual. They remind me of the reporting around Thanksgiving. I don't know if they're entirely trustworthy. I provided NYT's 14-day changes this morning. They are more trustworthy than the daily numbers, obviously, they continue a recent trend of smaller increases, true, but they still rely on the same volunteer reporting. I don't know for sure how Britain collects their stats but I would be surprised if it's on a voluntary basis.
Daily Cases reported by Hopkins rose a tick from Dec. 21, which rose a tick from Dec. 20, to 195,033.
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