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I'm continuing with the tradition of "Tier Tuesday" in checking Coronavirus statistics once a week, on Tuesday. ...Today is actually Wednesday, of course. That's on purpose. The point of Tier Tuesday was that policymakers could review fully reported statistics from Monday. Some jurisdictions don't report on Saturday, and many don't reports on Sunday. Monday's data was seen as completing the averages. But this past Monday was President's Day. Stats were artificially low due to many jurisdictions not reporting. Thus I waited 'til today.
As usual the primary statistic I look at is the 7-day average new case rate reported at The New York Times' Coronavirus in the U.S. page. The data retrieved 23 Feb 2022— which actually includes Wednesday's reports, yay for checking late in the evening!— shows some good news: in terms of new reported infections we are past the Omicron surge! The average new case tally of 76,667 on Wednesday is lower than at any time since Omicron became a factor in late November. It's the lowest since about Nov. 11.
As I've warned the past few weeks, though, this good news does not mean we are fully out of the woods. This lower-than-since-Omicron-arrived rate is still higher than last summer's low. Average daily rates in mid-June were below 12,000. The current average is more than 6x that. The death rate remains high, too, at nearly 2,000 a day. In terms of deaths it's like 9/11 occurring 4-5 times a week.
As usual the primary statistic I look at is the 7-day average new case rate reported at The New York Times' Coronavirus in the U.S. page. The data retrieved 23 Feb 2022— which actually includes Wednesday's reports, yay for checking late in the evening!— shows some good news: in terms of new reported infections we are past the Omicron surge! The average new case tally of 76,667 on Wednesday is lower than at any time since Omicron became a factor in late November. It's the lowest since about Nov. 11.
As I've warned the past few weeks, though, this good news does not mean we are fully out of the woods. This lower-than-since-Omicron-arrived rate is still higher than last summer's low. Average daily rates in mid-June were below 12,000. The current average is more than 6x that. The death rate remains high, too, at nearly 2,000 a day. In terms of deaths it's like 9/11 occurring 4-5 times a week.
