Analysis

A quickie post because it is late and I don’t know if I will do any posting tomorrow (Christmas eve) or the day after (Christmas Day!). At the end of my last post, I had planned on doing a status update of the direction of the pandemic but I forgot, so I thought I would…

Every night when I pull in numbers for the day, California just keeps topping the list. The data lately has been just eye-popping. California was the first state to impose some kind of lockdown and they’ve had some mask mandates and some restrictions on social gatherings, and yet, the case counts are in the stratosphere….

I got a chance to take a peek at those hospitalization data that the government has put out to see what is in there. The link to the site is https://healthdata.gov/agencies/department-health-human-services. This is the generic page and the screen comes up as: Scroll down the page until you see something about patient impact and hospital…

It doesn’t happen often, but every once in a great while, I will see something strange in the numbers or graphs. Generally, I’m not so good at catching these weird results; I find other people are better at spotting the possible errors, which is why I rely on Excel or a program to do that…

I read today that the hospital collapse has begun. That means that the death rate should start rising precipitously fairly soon. Last night, as I pulled data, I was seeing record numbers and I don’t believe we are yet at the point where Thanksgiving gatherings are appearing – that’s about another week for the Thanksgiving…

We’re deep into the third surge and it looks like the case infections are accelerating. This week we hovered around 150 to 170K in daily infection rate and deaths have been above 1000 per day which kind of roughly translates to a person dying somewhere in the US every minute. Think about that…every minute, a…