COVID-19 BIDEN+192 (JULY 31)

POJO finally hit his vaccination target, 70%. Now, he had hoped to hit it by July 4 so he's almost one month late but, you gotta be proud of the three slave states for finally stepping up.

The numbers are still, grim. The 14-day change in cases is +148%, although that is down by three percentage points from the July 29 iteration. Average daily cases in the last seven days are 78,357, wiping out nearly all the president's efforts. Not since February 16 have cases been higher. Hospitalizations are up +73%, a week's daily average of 40,626. They were last higher May 4, substantially more recent than cases. Reasonable to think that the vaccines took the punch out of the virus. Deaths are +13, up from 301 July 30 to 308, but down from July 28th and 29th. The deaths graph looks totally differently from c's and h's, it looks mournful, which is joyful. H's mostly have increased according to their two-three week schedule from infection. The train has not quite made its full length past Death Station, however. The C-D interval is three-four weeks. Cases had just about bottomed out at 12,541 on June 30 and three weeks ago they were at 17,983,on the clear ascent but had just starting. When the 50k and 60k and 70k of more recent days work their way through, deaths gonna rise!