time2roll wrote:
rexlion wrote:
time2roll wrote:
US death rate hits a new record today. Not on the back side of the curve yet.
By "death rate," do you mean total number of deaths? Total deaths from Covid-19 will hit a new record every single day, for months to come, simply because if 1 person dies it's a new high in the total deaths (a new record). So that's meaningless, although it sounds impressive at first blush.
No. The rate is the daily rate. Total is total.
2035 died yesterday in the US. That is the highest daily rate recorded to date.
But, there were 33,752 new cases yesterday, 12,000+ less then the day before. Deaths lag the onset of Covid by at least a week.
You can expect the number of deaths to increase for a week, even though the number of cases (the backside of the curve) and the number of hospital admittance's are steadily declining.