AZ Pandemic Numbers Summary for the Seven Days Ending June 1: Could it be Worse than it Looks?

 

Here are the Arizona pandemic numbers and graph of statewide cases for the seven day period ending yesterday:



Welp, last week I thought the early warning indicators might be leveling off but this week we see they are clearly headed back upward again. Hospitalizations are continuing to increase, but I don't think at the rate they were at the beginning of the year (I will try to compare the rates for next week's report).

Case rates are up. Last week I did a post about how I'm seeing so many cases in my social circle, really more than at any other time in the pandemic. 

In that post I cited a researcher who guestimated cases were eight times higher than what are being reported. Today I saw this rticle about a not-yet-reviewed study that says they are 30 times higher!

If that is true then we are at a case rate similar to January. And if so then the hospitalization rate looks pretty good.

A couple of notes about the table: I changed to a Mayo Clinic site for the positive test percentage because it looks like Sonora Quest quit updating their dashboard a couple of weeks ago. Also Mohave County has been added to the BioBot dashboard so I am including them in the table.

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