The Coronavirus Is Plotting a Comeback. Here’s Our Chance to Stop It for Good.-NYT, Apoorva Mandavilli
Don’t call it a comeback, ‘cause it’s been here for a year.
No, it is still strangling; in fact it is strangling more efficiently in the last week than in the four weeks previous. I don’t know what Mandavilli is looking at to make the “comeback” prospective, not the trends in her own newspaper. The “comeback” is a week old.
Cases are down 34% in the last two weeks, not as much as previously; Hospitalizations are down 30%, and Deaths -16%. So Hospitalizations decrease is nearly double Deaths, see D-H rate increase.
Deaths have risen in six of the last seven iterations of the Times 7-day daily average. In the Feb. 24th they stand at 2,188. Hospitalizations (57,306 ave./day) are down. Combined with the Deaths average that pushes the D-H rate up to 3.81. 46-1’s rate his last week was 2.43. Hospitals are not caring for the sick as effectively as they once did and more people are dying. Cases are up (68,603 ave./day) for the fourth straight iteration of the 7-day.
Another wave may be coming, but it can be minimized-NYT, Mandavilli.
Another “wave” is here and it has not been “minimized” in the last week.
3,230 Americans were reported Killed by COVID-19 on President Biden’s thirty-fifth day in office. That is the highest reported total in two weeks, since Feb. 10. Cases are up for the second day, to 74,502 but are still at levels not seen so low since October, 2020. That is the one piece of good news. We can say, in sum, that fewer Americans are testing positive under President Biden but that more of those who do are getting sicker and more of those are dying. It has not been “stopped,” nor minimized—it has gotten worse in the last week.
