US numbers via @COVID19Tracking. A weird one.
Newly reported deaths
Today: 1,259
Yesterday: 629
One week ago (5/27): 1,402
Newly reported cases
T: 19K
Y: 16K
5/27: 21K
Newly reported tests
T: 286K*
Y: 302K
5/27: 405K
Positive test rate
T: 7%*
Y: 5%
5/27: 5%
* See next tweet
Newly reported deaths
Today: 1,259
Yesterday: 629
One week ago (5/27): 1,402
Newly reported cases
T: 19K
Y: 16K
5/27: 21K
Newly reported tests
T: 286K*
Y: 302K
5/27: 405K
Positive test rate
T: 7%*
Y: 5%
5/27: 5%
* See next tweet
* Test numbers *dropped* by ~74,000 in Georgia, which I assume means they removed antibody tests from their testing numbers (good!). Without GA, there were 360K tests reported, a fairly typical number for recent days, for a positive rate of 5%.
The other thing is that I thought we'd get some states reporting large numbers of deaths and cases because of reporting lags after the 3-day weekend. But, actually not *that* bad. While 1,259 deaths is way up from the weekend, it's down from 1,402 last Wednesday.
The 7-day average death toll has fallen below 1,000 for the first time since April 2. The 7-day average case count has also ticked down slightly after plateauing last week. The weekend may still be skewing the numbers a bit, though, so possible we'll get bad news tomorrow/Friday.
More context on Georgia. Actually, 78K antibody tests, which they still include in their totals but which you can easily back out of the numbers since they now list them separately, as it looks like @COVID19Tracking is doing.
