Friday:
• At 9:15 AM ET, The Fed will release Industrial Production and Capacity Utilization for May. The consensus is for a 0.4% increase in Industrial Production, and for Capacity Utilization to increase to 79.2%.
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• At 9:15 AM ET, The Fed will release Industrial Production and Capacity Utilization for May. The consensus is for a 0.4% increase in Industrial Production, and for Capacity Utilization to increase to 79.2%.
• At 10:00 AM, State Employment and Unemployment (Monthly) for May 2022
On COVID (focus on hospitalizations and deaths):
| COVID Metrics | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Now | Week Ago |
Goal | ||
| Percent fully Vaccinated | 66.8% | — | ≥70.0%1 | |
| Fully Vaccinated (millions) | 221.9 | — | ≥2321 | |
| New Cases per Day3 | 102,750 | 109,841 | ≤5,0002 | |
| Hospitalized3🚩 | 24,160 | 23,598 | ≤3,0002 | |
| Deaths per Day3 | 265 | 326 | ≤502 | |
| 1 Minimum to achieve “herd immunity” (estimated between 70% and 85%). 2my goals to stop daily posts, 37-day average for Cases, Currently Hospitalized, and Deaths 🚩 Increasing 7-day average week-over-week for Cases, Hospitalized, and Deaths ✅ Goal met. |
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This graph shows the daily (columns) and 7-day average (line) of deaths reported.
New cases have quadrupled from the recent low.
Average daily deaths bottomed in July 2021 at 214 per day.