by Calculated Risk May 24, 2024 7:11 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.“I don’t track hospitalizations anymore, but three weeks ago hospitalizations were at their lowest point of the pandemic.
| COVID Indicators | ||||
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| now | week Before |
goal | ||
| Deaths per week | 374 | 471 | ≤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).
The weekly death toll has fallen from a recent peak of 2,561 and is now below the low of 491 at the start of the pandemic last July.
And here’s the graph I’m looking at: COVID in wastewater As of May 11:
This appears to be a leading indicator of COVID hospitalizations and deaths.
Nationwide, COVID-19 in wastewater has fallen more than 90% since its holiday season peak in late December and is near last year’s lows, suggesting the weekly death toll will continue to fall. However, there has been a slight increase recently, especially in Western countries.
