Covid Case Rates Still Dropping Gradually
Apr. 5th, 2022 05:09 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
canyonwalkerIt's Tier Tuesday so time for my weekly check of Covid statistics. I missed doing an update last week as I was busy with stuff ("stuff" being mostly T-Mobile f*cking idiots) so I'll cover both weeks today. That said, it's almost the same story both weeks. Covid case rates continue to drop, but slowly. The curve is flattening out.
As of Monday, April 4, the seven-day average new case rate in the US was 27,573 (per The New York Times "Coronavirus in the US", retrieved 5 Apr 2022). That is down 5.5% from March 28th's average of 29,157 one week ago and 6.1% below March 21st's 29,363 two weeks ago.
For just the state of California the daily new-cases average was 2,357 as of April 4 (ibid). That's a 20% drop from 2,948 a week earlier on March 28 and 44% down from 4,200 on March 21.
On a per-capita basis the latest averages are 8.3 daily new cases per 100k population nationwide and 6.0 for California.
The good news/bad news situations remains that even though cases continue to decline gradually they're leveling off at 2.5x last summer's low. The US touched a low rate of 11,284 average daily new cases on June 23, 2021, before the delta variant appeared. The recent death rate of 663/day remains at about 2.5x last summer's low, too.
As of Monday, April 4, the seven-day average new case rate in the US was 27,573 (per The New York Times "Coronavirus in the US", retrieved 5 Apr 2022). That is down 5.5% from March 28th's average of 29,157 one week ago and 6.1% below March 21st's 29,363 two weeks ago.
For just the state of California the daily new-cases average was 2,357 as of April 4 (ibid). That's a 20% drop from 2,948 a week earlier on March 28 and 44% down from 4,200 on March 21.
On a per-capita basis the latest averages are 8.3 daily new cases per 100k population nationwide and 6.0 for California.
The good news/bad news situations remains that even though cases continue to decline gradually they're leveling off at 2.5x last summer's low. The US touched a low rate of 11,284 average daily new cases on June 23, 2021, before the delta variant appeared. The recent death rate of 663/day remains at about 2.5x last summer's low, too.
