by Calculated Risk September 20, 2024 6:44 PM
Note: Mortgage interest rates are Mortgage News Daily These are for top level scenarios.
For deaths, the most recent three weeks are subject to significant revisions, so we are currently using four weeks ago as the “current” number.
Note: “Beginning May 1, 2024, hospitals will no longer be required to report COVID-19 hospitalizations, hospital capacity, or hospital occupancy data.“So I don’t track hospitalizations anymore.
| COVID Indicators | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| now | week before |
goal | ||
| Deaths per week 🚩 | 1,139 | 1,022 | ≤3501 | |
| 1My goal to stop posting every week is 🚩 Deaths are increasing every week ✅ Goal achieved. |
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This chart shows the number of reported deaths by week (column by column).
Our weekly death count reached our original goal to stop posting, but as the number of deaths has again exceeded our goal, we will continue posting.
The weekly death toll has nearly quadrupled from a low of 302 in early June.
And here’s the graph I’m looking at: COVID in wastewater As of September 19th:
This appears to be a leading indicator of COVID hospitalizations and deaths.
COVID in wastewater is now declining.
