I predict the USA tops 50,000 cases today.
“I predict the USA tops 50,000 cases today.”
Just topped it yesterday - 55,132.
Case numbers are accelerating pretty quickly now - hitting a steep part of the curve.
Hospitalizations are still accelerating, but they are not yet rising as steeply. Deaths still show the smallest rate of increase among the three.
That is how it is expected to be - hospitalizations lag after changes in cases, and deaths lag changes in the number hospitalized.
Hopefully, deaths won’t rise as much in proportion to cases and hospitalizations on this wave, because more of the vulnerable are vaccine protected. That is what we have seen with the Delta waves in Israel and the UK.
The next few weeks will indicate how far Delta is going to run in the USA, by all three measures.