This was originally a Facebook post of mine from 2020-11-14, 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.
After several requests to put the old coronavirus charts back up, I wound up agreeing to put them up once a week on Saturday. The attached charts are from the Covid Tracking Project.
Deaths are up some, and have been having about 1,000 deaths per day lately. The very worst of the spring outbreak was about 2,000 deaths per day. However, deaths usually trail hospitalizations by a few weeks.
People who die of covid usually go to a hospital first. [A sentence has been redacted to preserve someone's medical privacy.] So if you want to know where the deaths are going, a good idea is to look at the hospitalizations.
In the last two big jumps in cases, we reached just under 60,000 hospitalizations, and then by that time we turned the virus transmission back and saw things go back down. In this third jump, we're now at 69,000 hospitalizations, the highest number yet.
The writing on this page is released under the CC0 1.0 license. The graphs of hospitalizations, cases, and deaths were produced as part of The Covid Tracking Project, which released its work under the CC-BY-4.0 license. The positivity graph is from JHU.