This was originally a Facebook post of mine from 2021-10-15, 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.
The news is good with Covid this week. This week, an average of 82,000 cases per day were detected, down from 95,171 the week before, down from about 162,000 at the beginning of September. Deaths averaged 1248, down from 1399 the week before after over 1700 in late September. New daily hospital admissions are running about 6659 per day, down from 7303 the week before.
Genomic surveillance shows that about 99.9% of current US cases are of the Delta strain -- meaning that no newer strains have shown up yet in any significant numbers.
At this point, 95.5% of people 65 and older have had at least one dose of vaccine. About 5 million shots are being given per week at this point, and about 1.5 million of those are people getting their first shot.
Everything is moving in the right direction, as far as the national statistics go, which continues what we've seen every week since the beginning of September.
(The numbers are from the CDC's Covid Tracking pages.)
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