Lowest daily cases since May 10 (18,905)
Lowest daily deaths since Mar 25 (373)

I know the weekends are lower, but this low?

Brazil forget to check in today?

I clicked on some of the states and some of the higher population counties didn't have reported numbers today. Texas, NJ, and CA were missing a lot of counties. Illinois numbers are a lot lower than they have been. These protests will be a good indicator for how things are going to go.

Beginning with Easter week (April 19th-25th).

Daily average deaths in the US in the 7 weeks since Easter:

2,143.57
1,884.00
1,799.14
1,384.00
1,224.29
983.00
899.57

Aust Ag said:

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I feel like this will be the week to finally get a good feel for this thing once and for all, after everything that has gone on the last week or two.

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It will only help, but if people can't see what is going to happen after all the graduation parties, Memorial Day weekend, beach/lake/park attendance, and close proximity biz openings, then I don't know what will.

All that matters in the short run is the trend where you live.

Agree, what counts is your area. I follow state dashboard of inpatients. Houston area has a sharp rise. Dallas fairly flat. I suspect this is our future for sometime, watch your personal location and adjust accordingly.

Aust Ag said:

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I feel like this will be the week to finally get a good feel for this thing once and for all, after everything that has gone on the last week or two.

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If only I hadn't heard this statement for the last 3 months I would be right there with you. Unfortunately that's all we have heard with no proof that this bug is what they thought it would be. We were lied to so in my opinion you get busy living or you get busy dying.

Yep. The disease preys on the infirm, and there are only so many.

The past two flu seasons have been quite mild. That left a larger-than-usual pool of vulnerable. Combine that with the cohort that was otherwise trending toward death in the coming year, and that's the bulk of victims.

What COVID has generally done is squeeze a lot of deaths that "could have" or "should have" occurred in the previous 18 or so months and a lot of deaths that "would have" occurred in the next 18 or so months into a very narrow band of a only few months.

I have little doubt that had COVID hit two years ago, after the intense 2017-2018 flu season, US deaths from COVID would be fewer by the tens of thousands.