It looks as though there may have been (very slightly) fewer reported deaths from covid-19 in the US yesterday than the day before? Which doesn't mean we've peaked, but does show that the numbers climbing upward is not an inexorable fact.
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Worth keeping in mind that the deaths are a time-delayed effect of earlier events so any ups and downs in the rate of change is not about what we're doing now or yesterday, but stuff going back as far as two weeks.
And there were a number of things that happened between about March 15th and yesterday that make me think the death toll is going to accelerate again.
Also worth keeping in mind that the numbers we're looking at are deaths. I know that seems obvious, but if we talk about "fewer deaths yesterday" we're still talking about hundreds more dead people. The death toll rose yesterday, even if the rate of rising decreased.
Oh, more context.
So, yeah. Basically, almost all of the pictures and news that made you anxious or angry about how people were treating it for most of the month of March is still either just now coming into play in the death toll, or waiting in the wings to make its debut.
So it's only a small hopeful note if the new death count yesterday was lower (I'm speaking conditionally because I don't actually know if they're done counting? I haven't been awake enough in the morning to check it this early for like a week). But still hopeful.
