This was originally a Facebook post of mine from 2020-8-8, 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 53,923 new cases of the novel coronavirus, down from 60,264 a week ago (Covid Tracking Project). The downward trend continues nicely.
We reported 1088 deaths today, down from 1172. The old seven-day average is (a little bit) lower than any of the previous ten days. If you look at the graph, we haven't seen any spectacular downward movement in deaths yet, but maybe a little bit of a decline starting to show up.
I'm seeing a lot of news stories about schools in a lot of places not opening back up.
What would be extremely helpful is if some team of people could keep track of when every counties' schools open and close, and then check those openings and closings against every county's case numbers and fatality numbers. I suspect that in about two months we'd probably be able to compare and say with a high degree of confidence exactly how much or how little effect opening schools has on Covid.
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