Covid’s five-day moving average of Daily New Cases has been trending downward from 1,016,424 on July 22, 2022, to 430,155 today, but that is up from 404,414 five days ago, down slightly from 433,391 ten days ago. Unfortunately, that is up a lot from 399,144 fifteen days ago. I have been worried that the political situation here in the USA is so divisive people would ignore the safety precautions against COVID, and the significant increase was in the USA. The world total case rate is negligibly down from twenty days ago but down from 463,127 twenty-five days ago. The curve is flattening at about 400,000 cases per day after the peak, just like it has done four times earlier. After the rate drops to that level, people drop their safety measures, and COVID stabilizes. Then a new strain develops, and it surges again. Back on October 15, 2020, a flat period for deaths started back up and went to its highest peak ever on January 25, 2021. On October 15, 2021, a drop hit a flat period until January 15, 2022, and then spiked up to the most recent peak on February 15, 2022. Probably because of social distancing and mask-wearing, the traditional flu seasons were relatively mild.
Today’s five-day-averaged death rate has decreased slightly to 1,141 from five days ago of 1,168, from the report ten days ago of 1,182 deaths. That was down negligibly from 1,186 fifteen days ago and only slightly from 1,299 twenty days ago but down significantly from 1,568 twenty-five days ago. So the 25-day drop from 1,299 to 1,141 is an actual drop, but as the case rate seen above has flattened, the death rate will, too, in a few weeks. If we are fortunate and the death rate drops the same 158, the total rate would drop below 1,000. That would be a grim celebration, but it is about as much as we can expect.
The other news coverage of COVID versus the rest of the media would include the stupid revenge on civilians by Putin in the Ukrainian public for temporarily incapacitating his birthday bridge. I find more satisfaction in the many wonders that Elon Musk is creating. This week’s announcement was a household humanoid robot that will help with home chores and factory work. It will cost less than a car, and it will work for 24 hours a day doing what you need to have done. Elon says it will end world poverty.