Note: Mortgage rates are from MortgageNewsDaily.com and are for top tier scenarios.
Due to changes at the CDC, weekly cases are no longer updated.
For deaths, I’m currently using 3 weeks ago for “now”, since the most recent two weeks will be revised significantly.
Hospitalizations have quadrupled from a low of 5,150 in June 2023.
Hospitalizations are far below the peak of 150,000 in January 2022.
| COVID Metrics | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Now | Week Ago |
Goal | ||
| Hospitalized2🚩 | 21,597 | 20,050 | ≤3,0001 | |
| Deaths per Week2 | 1,464 | 1,545 | ≤3501 | |
| 1my goals to stop weekly posts, 2Weekly for Currently Hospitalized, and Deaths 🚩 Increasing number weekly for Hospitalized and Deaths ✅ Goal met. |
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This graph shows the weekly (columns) number of deaths reported.
Weekly deaths have tripled from a low of 485 in early July. Still weekly deaths are far below the weekly peak of 26,000 in January 2021.
And here is a new graph I’m following on COVID in wastewater as of Dec 28th:
This appears to be a leading indicator for COVID hospitalizations and deaths.
COVID in wastewater is at the highest level since January 2022 (about half that peak), and that suggests deaths will likely increase significantly over the next several weeks.