In Depth Analysis: CalculatedRisk Newsletter on Real Estate (Ad Free) Read it here.

Friday, August 18, 2023

Aug 18th COVID Update: New Pandemic Low for Deaths

by Calculated Risk on 8/18/2023 08:01:00 PM

Mortgage RatesNote: Mortgage rates are from MortgageNewsDaily.com and are for top tier scenarios.

Due to changes at the CDC, weekly cases are no longer updated.

After the first few weeks, the pandemic low for weekly deaths had been the week of July 7, 2021, at 1,690 deaths (until recently).  

Recently hospitalizations have been increasing from a low of 5,146.

COVID Metrics
 NowWeek
Ago
Goal
Hospitalized2🚩8,0116,858≤3,0001
Deaths per Week2457479≤3501
1my goals to stop weekly posts,
2Weekly for Currently Hospitalized, and Deaths
🚩 Increasing number weekly for Hospitalized and Deaths
✅ Goal met.

COVID-19 Deaths per WeekClick on graph for larger image.

This graph shows the weekly (columns) number of deaths reported.

The last few months have seen a positive trend.

For deaths, I'm currently using 3 weeks ago for "now", since the most recent two weeks will be revised significantly.