Few random numbers.
You broke 1k dead for 7-day average on 21st. Last time you did it on an upswing was 7th of November.
You're at 22k for ICU. Last time 1st of December.
You're hitting 15% for positive tests on 16th. Last time you did that was April last year with about a 1/5 of total tests. The previous peak was 8th of January with 14%.
For cases you're at 150k. Last time it was in 15th of November when you tested about 1,5x people.
Basically nothing is indicating that any of those numbers are going down. You don't seem to have huge benefit from vaccinations or ability to treat the sick better. By all accounts you're worse off compared to last year. To a degree that's also true about Europe, but last year you were a month behind and now you're way ahead.
I don't know if there's any kinda valley or plateau before spring.
Also everyone's ICU and death numbers are jumbled. Guessing younger people don't die as fast so they keep padding the ICU figure. What's weird is that US doesn't have same kind of disparity with hospitalized to ICU ratio compared to last year.
You broke 1k dead for 7-day average on 21st. Last time you did it on an upswing was 7th of November.
You're at 22k for ICU. Last time 1st of December.
You're hitting 15% for positive tests on 16th. Last time you did that was April last year with about a 1/5 of total tests. The previous peak was 8th of January with 14%.
For cases you're at 150k. Last time it was in 15th of November when you tested about 1,5x people.
Basically nothing is indicating that any of those numbers are going down. You don't seem to have huge benefit from vaccinations or ability to treat the sick better. By all accounts you're worse off compared to last year. To a degree that's also true about Europe, but last year you were a month behind and now you're way ahead.
I don't know if there's any kinda valley or plateau before spring.
Also everyone's ICU and death numbers are jumbled. Guessing younger people don't die as fast so they keep padding the ICU figure. What's weird is that US doesn't have same kind of disparity with hospitalized to ICU ratio compared to last year.
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