2,732 new daily Deaths reported Jan. 30, 2021.
Both are down significantly That is expected; today, Sunday, is a reporting weekend day, as are Mondays. I do expect, however, that the NYT's 7-day daily averages and their 14-day percentage changes will be down, and more than has been the case, in all three categories, Cases, Hospitalizations, Deaths, and neither of those metrics will be affected by reporting artifact. Let us see...
Yes, they are. Deaths are down for the fourth consecutive 7-day iteration, to 3,147. The Cases 7-day daily average is down for the twenty-third straight iteration to 151,038. No reporting artifact there! And the 7-day Hospitalizations ave. is down for the nineteenth straight iteration to 105,691. Real progress, +'s and -'s, real progress under Biden.
Let's check the 14-day changes.
-33% Cases. Cases are just in free fall. It seems every iteration sees another one-third drop.
-18% Hospitalizations.
-5% Deaths.
To state the obvious, the disparity between Hospitalizations and Deaths continues and I still have no idea why. However, even the Deaths 14-day change is at least creeping down a percent or two. I don't think it has been as much as -5% recently. *Actually, it was -5% on Jan. 25. Beat me whip me.
This is a good report, folks. *It's still a good report.
