The end of the pandemic has officially ended.

This makes two weeks in a row that both daily new cases and daily deaths have increased. This is especially discouraging, since at this time last year we were at only 234 deaths per day; they didn’t get above that level for 5 more weeks. So I want to officially declare that we’re on the upswing again, driven by the latest Omicron variant, BA.5 (although I don’t doubt that in a few weeks there will be another contender for Omicron variant of the Month. Those Omicrons – they’re real competitive siblings!).

But what’s really chilling is comparing case numbers. In this week last year, we had 14,000 daily new cases; now we’re at 131,000 – and just to remind you, this doesn’t include any home testing results. We’re being swamped with new cases, but everyone’s fat, dumb and happy. Of course, people will remain happy until the hospitals fill up again and the deaths really start climbing.

I’m definitely going to keep wearing a mask when indoors with more than a few people. And avoiding crowded venues altogether.

The numbers

These numbers were updated based on those reported on the Worldometers.info site for Sunday, July 3.

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 2020

59,812

1,994

1,474%

Month of May 2020

42,327

1,365

71%

Month of June 2020

23,925

798

57%

Month of July 2020

26,649

860

111%

Month of August 2020

30,970

999

116%

Month of Sept. 2020

22,809

760

75%

Month of Oct. 2020

24,332

785

107%

Month of Nov. 2020

38,293

1,276

157%

Month of Dec. 2020

79,850

2,576

209%

Total 2020

354,215

1,154

 

Month of Jan. 2021

98,604

3,181

119%

Month of Feb. 2021

68,918

2,461

70%

Month of March 2021

37,945

1,224

55%

Month of April 2021

24,323

811

64%

Month of May 2021

19,843

661

82%

Month of June 2021

10,544

351

53%

Month of July 2021

8,833

287

84%

Month of August 2021

31,160

1,005

351%

Month of Sept. 2021

56,687

1,890

182%

Month of Oct. 2021

49,992

1,613

88%

Month of Nov. 2021

38,364

1,279

77%

Month of Dec. 2021

41,452

1,337

108%

Total 2021

492,756

1,350

158%

Month of Jan. 2022

65,855

2,124

159%

Month of Feb. 2022

63,451

2,266

96%

Month of March 2022

31,427

1,014

50%

Month of April 2022

13,297

443

42%

Month of May 2022

11,474

370

86%

Total Pandemic so far

1,040,947

1,248

 

 

I. Total deaths (as of Sunday)

Total US reported Covid deaths as of Sunday: 1,040,947

Average daily deaths last seven days: 370

Average daily deaths previous seven days: 307

Percent increase in total deaths in the last seven days: 0.2%

II. Total reported cases (as of Sunday)

Total US reported cases as of Sunday: 89,778,720

Increase in reported cases last 7 days: 920,983 (131,569/day)

Increase in reported cases previous 7 days: 826,419 (118,060/day)

Percent increase in reported cases in the last seven days: 1.0% (0.9% 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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