THREAD: Nationwide new covid19 cases and hospitalizations, excluding data from New York tristate area, continue to rise. Once declines in the New York area are added to recent trends, we still see a persistent, multi-week plateau at about 30,000 new cases a day and 2,000 deaths. 
The data in these charts below adds back the trends from New York tristate area, which has shown steady declines in new cases and hospitalizations. These New York area declines offset rises in other parts of the nation and have the effect of flattening the overal national trend.
The result is we’ve reached a plateau in national trends. Some of rise in new cases are being driven by increased testing: we’re capturing more cases. The hospitalizations, however, are also rising, although they’re a lagging indicator of infections that occurred week or more ago
