I know what this is about. It's summer and the entire country is open. Cases are still down a strong 29% over two weeks. I don't know what that's about. How can the two-week be down such a huge number when two seven-days are up?
Hospitalizations lag Cases and Deaths lag Hospitalizations and you'd never know there was any correlation from the H and D 7-day averages recently. The H-number is on the same smooth powdery slalom run down; D's are still an unskiable, boulder-strewn course but down the last two iterations of the 7-day metric. Hospitalizations are down 22% over two weeks ago, Deaths -23%.
599,768 cumulative Dead in the U.S. at this moment. We'll cross the 600k threshold in the morning of the 14th.
