388,531 Killed by Trump; 23.3M Infected by Trump

Passed Cleveland (54th largest city),are just about even with Wichita (53rd) and by the end of Friday will likely have surpassed New Orleans (52nd).

New reported daily Death record set Jan. 12. I apologize for not marking that.

4,462 Reported Killed by Trump on the 12th. Trump had only topped 4k reported Deaths in one day twice before, on Jan. 7 and 8. This is substantially higher then those. 3,959 Killed by Trump on Nov. 13.

I'll be curious to see if the Times has any data anomaly for the 12th. Let us see...

No, none at all. The last four iterations of the seven-day Deaths average are anomaly free and are 3,250-3,350. The seven-day Cases average has dropped in the last five iterations from a Jan. 8 high of 259.5k to 246.3k Jan. 13.

The Times 14-day changes:

+34% Cases
+8% Hospitalizations
+45% Deaths

I have noticed this but have not commented on it previously. It is a little weird to me that Cases and Deaths are well, well into mid-double digits while hospitalizations have risen comparatively modestly. I can't think of an explanation for this except a very ominous one: that maybe hospitals are at capacity and people are dying before ever getting admitted. I HAVE NOT READ ANYTHING TO THAT EFFECT so it's speculation to try to make sense of the percentages.

However it is, the acute existential crisis at the moment is the Jan. 16-20 coup frisson. Even COVID is secondary right now. Don't envy Joe Biden a bit, not an iota.