Weekly Deaths Continue to Decline
by Calculated Risk on 5/10/2024 07:01:00 PM
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It is likely that we will see a new pandemic low for weekly deaths next week. That is welcome news!
For deaths, I’m currently using 4 weeks ago for “now”, since the most recent three weeks will be revised significantly.
Note: “Effective May 1, 2024, hospitals are no longer required to report COVID-19 hospital admissions, hospital capacity, or hospital occupancy data.” So I’m no longer tracking hospitalizations, however hospitalizations were at a pandemic low two weeks ago.
| COVID Metrics | ||||
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| Now | Week Ago |
Goal | ||
| Deaths per Week | 512 | 582 | ≤3501 | |
| 1my goals to stop weekly posts, ? Increasing number weekly for Deaths ✅ Goal met. |
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This graph shows the weekly (columns) number of deaths reported.
Weekly deaths have declined sharply from the recent peak of 2,561 but are still 4% above the pandemic low of 491 last July.
And here is a graph I’m following concerning COVID in wastewater as of May 2nd:
This appears to be a leading indicator for COVID hospitalizations and deaths.
Nationally, COVID in wastewater is now off more than 90% from the holiday peak at the end of December – and also at the lows of last year – and that suggests weekly deaths will continue to decline.
