New cases double in one week
I have two observations on the numbers. First, new cases this past week were almost exactly double those of the previous week; thank you, Omicron! However, new deaths fell from the previous week. Thanks for that, too, Omicron! Of course, deaths are a lagging indicator, and they will certainly go up in the next few weeks – but even then, nowhere near in the same proportion to cases that they did under Delta. Meanwhile, just about 100% of ICU admissions and Covid deaths are now among the unvaccinated, including children. So it’s safe to say that daily Covid deaths would be in the low hundreds now, if everyone were vaccinated who could be.
Second
observation: We can now do the first year-to-year pandemic comparison. New deaths
in 2021 jumped 39% over 2020. Of course, since vaccination was essentially available
to everyone in the US for at least half of 2021, total deaths should if
anything have been lower. But as we know, a lot of people resisted getting
vaccinated (and many still are), and the Delta variant proved much more
transmissible (and at least as deadly) as the older variants that it displaced.
So instead of deaths going down last year, they went up, and by a lot.
Presumably,
that won’t happen this year, but at over 400,000 new cases every day in the
past week, it’s very hard to say that Covid deaths this year will be anywhere
near the annual death toll from the flu: 15-50,000. Note that 400,000 daily new
cases is double the figure from last week, and close to three times the
previous daily record set last September. The average daily new cases since the
start of the pandemic is probably about 40,000 – itself quite a high number.
The numbers
These numbers were
updated based on those reported on the Worldometers.info site for Sunday, January
2.
Month |
Deaths
reported during month/year |
Avg. deaths per
day during month/year |
Deaths as
percentage of previous month/year |
Month of March 2020 |
4,058 |
131 |
|
Month of April |
59,812 |
1,994 |
1,474% |
Month of May |
42,327 |
1,365 |
71% |
Month of June |
23,925 |
798 |
57% |
Month of July |
26,649 |
860 |
111% |
Month
of August |
30,970 |
999 |
116% |
Month of Sept. |
22,809 |
760 |
75% |
Month of Oct. |
24,332 |
785 |
107% |
Month of Nov. |
38,293 |
1,276 |
157% |
Month of Dec. |
79,850 |
2,576 |
209% |
Total 2020 |
354,215 |
1,154 |
|
Month of Jan. 2021 |
98,604 |
3,181 |
119% |
Month of Feb. |
68,918 |
2,461 |
70% |
Month of March |
37,945 |
1,224 |
55% |
Month of April |
24,323 |
811 |
64% |
Month of May |
19,843 |
661 |
82% |
Month of June |
10,544 |
351 |
53% |
Month of July |
8,833 |
287 |
84% |
Month of August |
31,160 |
1,005 |
351% |
Month of Sept. |
56,687 |
1,890 |
182% |
Month of Oct. |
49,992 |
1,613 |
88% |
Month of Nov. |
38,364 |
1,279 |
77% |
Month of Dec. |
41,452 |
1,337 |
108% |
Total 2021 |
492,756 |
1,350 |
158% |
Total Pandemic so far |
847,408 |
1,272 |
|
I. Total deaths (as of Sunday)
Total US reported Covid
deaths as of Sunday: 847,408
Average daily deaths last
seven days: 1,365
Average daily deaths previous
seven days: 1,504
Percent increase in total
deaths in the last seven days: 1.1%
II. Total reported cases (as
of Sunday)
Total US reported cases
as of Sunday: 56,142,175
Increase in reported
cases last 7 days: 2,919,731 (417,104/day)
Increase in reported
cases previous 7 days: 1,456,730 (208,104/day)
Percent increase in reported
cases in the last seven days: 5.5% (2.8% last week)
I would love to hear any comments or questions you have
on this post. Drop me an email at tom@tomalrich.com.
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