This was originally a Facebook post of mine from 2020-10-4, and is archived here as a curiosity. Minor changes to formatting, as well as basic copy-edits, may have been made in the transition from Facebook post to web format.
For the past two weeks, the number of covid hospitalizations has been very slowly but steadily rising, from 28,608 on September 20th to 29,942 now. The testing positivity rate is bouncing around in the 4.5% to 5% rate with no clear direction.
I will no longer be posting updates on the virus, but you can check in any time you want on the same basic numbers I've been tracking anytime you like from the following sources.
For a variety of state and national numbers, along with charts of daily new tests, new cases, current hospitalizations, and new deaths, you can go here.
For the graph that shows testing positivity rates over time, see here.
For countries outside the US, see here, on a cheaply-designed website by a shadowy company that somehow seems to be doing a very good job of aggregating the official numbers from around the world: Worldometers.
For Youyang Gu's website, which will be making its last update tomorrow, see here. Gu has been doing an unusually good job of estimating what will happen next with coronavirus throughout the epidemic, but he now thinks the issue is well-covered to the point where he's not adding much. And for me, spinning up graphs on a little Python program I wrote is also not adding much now that the whole internet is filled with similar charts, so I'll leave you with the links above, which contain everything I've been posting and more.
As always, day-to-day news, which tends to focus on one individual detail or another, often won't give you a good general idea about where things are headed. For that, longer-term graphs are useful, and you'll want to follow not just one number, but several.
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