02 February 2022

Cold Covid - part the twentieth, verion 4

Well, we get a testable prediction from the CDC
An ensemble forecast from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention published Wednesday predicts that over 62,000 more people could die from Covid-19 over the next four weeks.
Let's keep track from week to week. Here's the count as of 12 January
842,754
Here's the count as of today, 19 January
857,672
Here's the count as of today, 26 January
874,002
Here's the count as of today, 2 February (Groundhog Day, of course)
891,485
So, an increase of 48,813 deaths since 12 January. Three weeks come and gone, and we 'need' 13,269 deaths in the next seven days to meet the prediction. For context, 17,483 is this week's delta. As it has been over the pandemic, deaths are a lagging variable and display rising deltas up to the top of the roller coaster. Looks like we have a winner; we'll top 900,000 body bags next week!

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