COVID-19 BIDEN+66*

*Updated with H numbers.

3/28/21, 9:25 pm,

"No data reported" by NYT for Hospitalizations today. The 7-day graph line looks clearly up.

Anyway,

14-day changes

+12% Cases. Very bad, of course. The Times article said this Nightmare Before Easter was predicted by scientists weeks ago. Oh! I just clicked on the link the Times provided and I remember that article because I roundly criticized it. "Across the United States, and the world, the coronavirus seems to be loosening its stranglehold." Oh God, and today's article that I reference so much is written by the same reporter, Apoorva Mandavilli. Folks, I just don't have faith in what Ms. Mandavilli writes. Be that as it may, I don't care much that this late March rise was predicted. It is President Biden's Job One to make that prediction wrong. He hasn't.

-6% Hospitalizations
-31%. Deaths.The Times article cited earlier today explained this continuing huge drop in Deaths when Cases have risen into + territory and Hospitalizations drop at smaller and smaller rates: "Because many of the highest risk people have been inoculated, hospitalizations and deaths may not show a steep rise along with infections."

7-day daily averages (through March 27 unless indicated)

61,583 Cases. Up.

39,500 Hospitalizations. Down.

984 Deaths. Up one.

2,711,611 Vax (through March 28). Up. While that is good, Dr. Fauci was quoted in the Times article as saying that the B.1.1.7 (British) variant and irresponsible reopening by, prominently, Florida, are responsible for the rise in Cases. The article quoted another expert as saying that although President Biden is vaccinating at a quick, and quickening, rate (see daily vax number below), we may be losing the race against B.1.1.7 as it is soo much more contagious. The Times has, in fact, pushed back it's projected 90% vaccinated (herd immunity) date by one day to July 24.

2.49% Deaths to Hospitalizations. Up.

Daily numbers (for March 27 unless indicated)

-Sunday is a reporting lag day-

60,382 Cases. Down. Down 15k. Bullshit. That is reporting artifact.

39,727 Hospitalizations. Down

780 Deaths. Down. Down 1.48 k. Bullshit. Reporting artifact.

3,281,956 Vax (March 28). Up.

Grade F (even without the H numbers, which sure looks like they’re up).