Covid Cases on the Rise Again
Apr. 19th, 2022 05:47 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
canyonwalkerIt's Tier Tuesday so time to for a weekly check of Coronavirus statistics. I skipped last week because I was on vacation in Hawaii— and already backlogged with travel blogging that's still about 5 days behind. Let's catch up on Tier Tuesday now.
The news this week is that Covid-19 case rates are trending up again. That's frankly not surprising to me as they were flattening out 2 weeks ago and 4 weeks ago. When a rate is flattening out often the next logical change is that it reaches and inflection point and starts to reverse. Two weeks ago, Apr 4, the 7-day average new case rate stood at 27,454. Last week (Apr 11) it was 32,220. This week (Apr 18) it's 39,152. Statistics are from The New York Times Coronavirus in the U.S., retrieved 19 Apr 2022.
These are weekly increases of 17.5% and 21.5%. So not only are cases increasing now, they're accelerating.
The news this week is that Covid-19 case rates are trending up again. That's frankly not surprising to me as they were flattening out 2 weeks ago and 4 weeks ago. When a rate is flattening out often the next logical change is that it reaches and inflection point and starts to reverse. Two weeks ago, Apr 4, the 7-day average new case rate stood at 27,454. Last week (Apr 11) it was 32,220. This week (Apr 18) it's 39,152. Statistics are from The New York Times Coronavirus in the U.S., retrieved 19 Apr 2022.
These are weekly increases of 17.5% and 21.5%. So not only are cases increasing now, they're accelerating.
