Saturday was the last full reporting day of the week so I thought we'd do a welfare check.
14-day changes
+51% Cases.
+3% Hospitalizations.
-34% Deaths.
7-day daily averages
46,582 New cases/day.Up 361/day from the April 16-22 iteration. March 4 is the most recent date with similar number. Previous to that July 23, 2021. The current number is well under the historical mean. Visualizing, the graph shows a more pronounced up-tail.
15,468 New hospitalizations. Up 225/day. Virtually the same as on April 5. The difference in both the Cases and Hospitalizations analogs is that
the earlier were downswings off Omicron, these are upswings from BA.2.A more meaningful comparison is long history. Hospitalizations--up 225/day--are at their lowest levels since April 2, 2020.
370 New deaths/day. Up 1/day. It follows that the nearest most-recent is April 16-22, 369. Less inanely, you have to go back to the all-time trough of the summer of 2021 to find near equals. On Aug. 2, 2021, in the beginning of Delta there were 364 deaths/day. The death interval perhaps is coloring the Death number slightly artificially rosy but in none of the most recent numbers is there evidence of a wave or surge.
