Tomorrow based on historical trends there will almost surely be an “increase”. The real question is will it be less than last Tuesday — it is important to realize that the peaks appear to cyclically happen based on day, but the are consistently decreasing.
If the infection rate continues to be at or under 20,000, and deaths remain around 1,000 (even given the possible and probables which they will report) then we are certainly on a steep decline.
I tend to agree with Pence that this is in our rear view window by Memorial Day as our ICUs are empty and our hospitals are empty
So, we were sold the extraordinary “lockdown” as a means to keep the hospitals and healthcare system from being overwhelmed by an inrush of patients.
One unintended consequence is that many hospitals and smaller medical practices are on the ropes financially.
Did we just destroy the village in order to save it?
Remember that the decrease in the number of new cases is despite a dramatic increase in testing. We are now testing more than two times as many people every day then we did back in the beginning of April. And yet the number of new cases is less than half of what we had a few weeks ago.