This was originally a Facebook post of mine from 2020-8-7, 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.
Today, the United States reported 61,520 cases of the novel coronavirus, down from 70,784 a week ago (Covid Tracking Project). This drop in cases that started about two weeks ago is still going strong.
As for deaths, we reported 1333 today, up just a tad from 1308 a week ago. Regardless of the day-to-day fluctuations, overall deaths have been basically flat for the last nine days.
We have learned over the last couple months that a "post-lockdown" world comes in several different flavors, and that in some situations the case numbers (and death numbers) can drop in a post-lockdown world, and in other cases they can rise. This is useful knowledge. It helps us know what it will and won't take to beat the virus back between now and whenever we come up with medical means to beat it back definitively.
What we will be learning next is what happens, in a post-lockdown world, if you try to send kids back to school. We should know a lot more about that in a month or so.
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