Wednesday, November 25, 2020

Are COVID-19 Infections Peaking? Report for the Week Ending November 21st.

 Last week, all but one state had a week-to-week increase in COVID-19 cases. This week six states showed decreases, including those with the most cases: North and South Dakota (1st and 2nd in most new cases per population last week), Iowa (3rd), Wisconsin (5th), and Alaska (14th). While having...

Thursday, November 19, 2020

The Coronavirus Pandemic Continues to Spread

I have been writing weekly reports for 22 weeks, since June 20th. Back then the nation experienced a lull in cases. Three states had weekly new case rates of over 1000 per million population with Arizona recently assuming first place with 2107. For the week ending November 14, 37 states have higher...

Sunday, November 15, 2020

The Coronavirus Death March: State Hospitalization Data

The current wave of COVID-19 cases in the United States greatly exceeds that of the summer peak. Arizona foretold the July wave. Its rate of new cases grew to be 3486 per week per million population, exceeding that of New York state in the early days of the pandemic. The numbers from the first...