We will start with Leading Indicator of Positivity rate.
* Antigen Positivity has peaked and is declining.
* PCR Positivity is still climbing.
* Based on history, PCR follows closely behind Antigen, within days, so a peak should be imminent.
Next, cases.
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As mentioned in 1/n, huge case dumps in Bexar & Harris, over 6K of the 13K really skewing things. Bexar does just once a week, but did a second one of 2K today.
2021 Summer Cases are running hotter than 2020 now. No way there's not a crap-ton of breakthrough cases.
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Hospitalizations:
Both General Beds and ICU are climbing at a lower rate and are now running slightly behind the 2020 Summer wave. Still only 8%+ of the beds in use in the state are tagged as C19 patients, and less than 20% of the ICU beds.
Fatalities next.
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Fatalities Part 1
* I will post this morning's primer on modeling date of death reporting
* 1st 2 charts show fatalities running behind the 2020 summer wave, both cumulative & 7DMA
* 3rd chart is the full Fatalities over Hospitalizations
* Read the primer
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Fatalities Part 2
57 Fatalities reported today. After reading primer in 7/n, you will better understand the significance of this table.
* Fatalities are coming in quicker and in lower quantities than my model projects.
* Only 10 that were 2 weeks and older
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Primer on Fatality reporting, modeling arrivals, and why I am asserting that so far, this Delta wave is not as lethal as the Summer 2020 wave.
Casedemic is here. Cases are way ahead of the 2020 Summer Wave pace, while general hospitalizations, ICU, and fatalities are running increasingly behind 2020.
Antigen Positivity Rate had a bunch of revisions, but still is trying to crest. PCR Positivity doesn't look to be far behind. Is 20% the magic number, as it has been in 2020 Summer and Winter waves, or will it crest below that?
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Cases -
Running way ahead of 2020 pace now. Remember these 2 waves are 13 months apart to the day.
Second day in a row and 3rd out of 4 above 10,000 cases.
As mentioned yesterday, 35 reported C19 deaths for the day. The breakdown of those 35 is below as is the main hospitalization over fatalities Chart. The divergence at the far right is due to fatality arrivals to the state, and what appears to be reduced lethality of Delta
How am I making this still very early assertion about Delta's lethality? Several reasons to combine to explain:
1) Per my other daily thread the 2021 summer wave is almost identical thus far to the 2020 summer wave, 13 months apart, from a case & hospitalization perspective
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2 days ago, I posted this thread regarding projection of fatality arrivals to the state, the model I built & how the actuals over the 1st week of this project were coming in below projections. Its a solid model built off past Texas reporting.
Last week I made projections based on how death certs arrive to the state. Projected days 7-28 going back from 7/20. 22 projections. Fatalities are coming in below projections, and divergence from hospitalizations is significant - so far.
Gonna geek out a little. You have to read this chart & see comments.
Last week I projected 7-28 days back from 7/20, using the arrival estimator. Those projections are now 14-35 days back. 17 of 22 projections in green haven't made or were revised downwards this week.
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Stay with me. So based on my 7/20 projections I projected the graph, showing fatalities starting to rise following the hospitalization curve. Here is what I projected last week vs actual from yesterday (full chart in 1/n)
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This will be a thread, no way to put it in 1 tweet. Fatalities are reported by Date of Death. Death Certificates arrive to the State over time. This arrival can be charted, below is charting from Aug 20.
1/n Stay with me
Every day, the state reports the number of fatalities, but each day's report is comprised of anywhere between 1 & 60 days worth of fatalities. Each Death Cert takes a different amount of time to process.
Again from August, the report for 8/23. This goes on every single day.
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Going back to the Aug 20 arrival charts, I charted every day's report. Basically if a day is X number of days in the past, Y% of the deaths have come in for it.
Today minus 14 days - 57% of the fatalities have been reported for that date.
- 21 Days - 79%
- 28 Days - 90%