by Calculated Risk on 8/25/2023 08:09:00 PM

Note: 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Due to changes at the CDC, weekly cases are no longer updated.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 almost doubled from a low of 5,150.

COVID Metrics
	Now	Week Ago	Goal
Hospitalized2🚩	9,401	8,100	≤3,0001
Deaths per Week2🚩	551	497	≤3501
1my goals to stop weekly posts, 2Weekly for Currently Hospitalized, and Deaths 🚩 Increasing number weekly for Hospitalized and Deaths ✅ Goal met.

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

Weekly deaths have increased slightly from a record low of 467 in early July.

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