COVID-19 Biden+25 (reporting days)

Through 2/14:

14-day changes

-39% Cases

-28% Hospitalizations

-18% Deaths

7-day daily averages

91,130 Cases. Down.

74,034 Hospitalizations. Down.

2,593 Deaths. Down.

On Feb. 14 (a reporting weekend day)

64,938 Cases. Down.

1,088 Deaths. Down. Lowest since Nov.29.

Really good numbers. Do I read unenthused? No fireworks today. Look at these graphs from the Times:

                                                                      Cases

A complete fucking free fall since Jan. 8.

                                                                     Hospitalizations

First tracks, dry powder slaloming.

Deaths

A cruciate-tearing, leg-breaking, up-and-down, down-and-up rocky road.

In the week Feb. 8-14 under President Biden the dead are 3.4% of those hospitalized. In 46-1's last week, Jan. 14-20, the dead were 2.43% of those hospitalized. Thus as a proportion of those hospitalized the dead have increased under President Biden. I cannot understand it, I have read nothing explaining it, and it remains a black mark that darkens all other numbers. I don't celebrate black marks.