Rounding out another week of #COVID data - might be a good time to do a deeper dive into the numbers.
Optimistic 🧵 ahead...
First up - it was a good week. Holiday lag may have had some impact, but cases, hospitalizations, and deaths all fell from a week prior. 1/
In our previous major hotspots, cases per million people have seen precipitous falls. Testing, while not at peak levels, has not fallen as much as cases (especially outside of Florida) 2/
Currently hospitalized populations support the case declines. Down nearly 70% in the latest hotspots, and trending down more gently outside those 4 states. 3/
cc: @EricTopol, @DemFromCT
Hospitalizations are heading in the right direction across the country, though that decline is only marginal in the Midwest of late. 4/
6 states are dealing with currently hospitalized numbers above 1,000 - that's down from 13 states in mid-July.
Arizona, for example, had 3,517 #COVID current hospitalizations on July 14. Now under 600 💙 5/
cc: @SaskiaPopescu @Garrett_Archer
The drop in reported deaths is real and sustained. 6/
Regionally, deaths have trended downwards as the hotspots cooled in August everywhere outside of the Midwest. Even there, however, deaths have stayed level rather than increasing. 7/
And finally - tests needed to find 1 case, nationwide. This figure is back around 20 tests per case.
The fight with this virus is by no means over - but we aren't in the fire of mid-July any longer.
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