RSS Feed by Calculated Risk on 8/15/2021 03:03:00 PM
Sunday, August 15, 2021
August 15th COVID-19: 2nd Worst Wave Continues
Note: Cases and Deaths are not updated on Sundays.
The 7-day average cases is the highest since February 5th.
The 7-day average hospitalizations is the highest since February 14th.
The 7-day average deaths is the highest since May 14th.
This data is from the CDC.
According to the CDC, on Vaccinations.
Total doses administered: 356,433,665, as of a week ago 351,400,930. Average doses last week: 0.72 million per day.
| COVID Metrics | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Today | Yesterday | Week Ago | Goal | |
| Percent fully Vaccinated | 50.7% | 50.6% | 50.2% | ≥70.0%1 |
| Fully Vaccinated (millions) | 168.4 | 168.1 | 166.5 | ≥2321 |
| New Cases per Day3🚩 | 119,523 | 117,301 | 103,422 | ≤5,0002 |
| Hospitalized3🚩 | 66,428 | 66,206 | 52,507 | ≤3,0002 |
| Deaths per Day3🚩 | 544 | 511 | 449 | ≤502 |
| 1 Minimum to achieve "herd immunity" (estimated between 70% and 85%). 2my goals to stop daily posts, 37 day average for Cases, Currently Hospitalized, and Deaths 🚩 Increasing 7 day average week-over-week for Cases, Hospitalized, and Deaths ✅ Goal met. | ||||
IMPORTANT: For "herd immunity" most experts believe we need 70% to 85% of the total population fully vaccinated (or already had COVID).
KUDOS to the residents of the 6 states that have achieved 60% of total population fully vaccinated: Vermont at 67.0%, Massachusetts, Maine, Connecticut, Rhode Island and Maryland.
The following 19 states have between 50% and 59.9% fully vaccinated: New Jersey at 59.7%, New Hampshire, Washington, New York State, New Mexico, Oregon, District of Columbia, Virginia, Colorado, Minnesota, Hawaii, California, Delaware, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Iowa, Nebraska and Florida at 50.3%.
Next up (total population, fully vaccinated according to CDC) are Illinois at 49.7%, Michigan at 49.6%, South Dakota at 47.9, Ohio at 47.3%, Kentucky at 46.7%, Arizona at 46.4%, Kansas at 46.4%, Alaska at 46.2%, Utah at 45.8%, and Nevada at 45.8%.
Click on graph for larger image.This graph shows the daily (columns) and 7 day average (line) of hospitalizations reported. Note that the shaded area will probably be revised up.
This data is from the CDC.
