498,879 total Deaths from COVID-19 in the U.S. since the first death on Feb. 6, 2020. So close to another grim milestone in this disaster, half a million Deaths. I don’t envision us officially, i.e. via Johns Hopkins, hitting 500k overnight but some, e.g. WaPo, are reporting it today, and if I left it go overnight I might not remember in the morning and miss marking it.
3.02% Deaths-Hospitalizations. Up. Bad.
-35% Deaths 14-day change. That is very good.
1,904 7-day daily Deaths average. That is down a miniscule amount (12/day) over the previous iteration. Any down is good. That is a down, ergo that is good.
1,821 Deaths reported on Feb. 20. Down (reporting lag). Good. Down vis a vis the average daily in the last week. Good.
-30% Hospitalizations 14-day change. That is good. Also, the gap with Deaths actually widened by one percent. That is good.
62,974 7-day daily Hospitalizations average. Down. Good.
-44% Cases 14-day change. Forty-four percent. Man. Good.
71,510 Cases reported on Feb. 20. That is down, that is good, that is also reporting lag. That and Feb. 18th’s number also bracket that bizarre, 106,355, number reported Feb. 19. There is some reason for that that is unexplained. It’s not real to have 69,266 Friday, 71,510 Sunday and 106,356 in between on Saturday. Nah-ah.
All in all I give today a goodish report card.
