By Steve Sailer
08/18/2020
According to this New York Times graph, the 7-day average number of new reported coronavirus cases has fallen 24% from the peak on July 25. Deaths are down 14% since the second hump’s peak on August 1, and are at about half the number of the deaths per day in April.
Basically, the first hump in March and April appears to have been in northern cities where it was too cold to hang around outside or open a window. Then hot states like Arizona got hit in summer because it was too hot to hang around outside or open a window.
There are still states that haven’t been hit much at all, like Vermont, or just mildly like Ohio, so there will likely be a third national hump when it gets to them.
A major question is how badly will places that have already been over their hump get re-hit. For example, cases are on the rise again in Illinois, but downstate, not in Cook County, which was already hit moderately hard in the spring.
Then how hard will it come back during the traditional winter cold-flu season before vaccines can start to have an impact?
The big worry back in March of overwhelming hospitals looks like a non-issue for the next three (?) months until winter comes around.
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