by Calculated Risk on 4/25/2025 06:55:00 PM
Note: Mortgage rates are from MortgageNewsDaily.com and are for top tier scenarios.For deaths, I’m currently using 4 weeks ago for “now”, since the most recent three weeks will be revised significantly.
Note: “Effective May 1, 2024, hospitals are no longer required to report COVID-19 hospital admissions, hospital capacity, or hospital occupancy data.” So, I’m no longer tracking hospitalizations.
| COVID Metrics | ||||
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| Â | Now | Week Ago |
Goal | |
| Deaths per Week | 442 | 444 | ≤3501 | |
| 1my goals to stop weekly posts. 🚩 Increasing number weekly for Deaths. ✅ Goal met. |
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This graph shows the weekly (columns) number of deaths reported since Jan 2023.
Although weekly deaths met the original goal to stop posting in June 2023 (low of 314 deaths), I’ve continued to post since deaths are above the goal again – and I’ll continue to post until weekly deaths are once again below the goal.
Weekly deaths are now decreasing following the winter pickup and are heading towards the lows of last June.
And here is a graph I’m following concerning COVID in wastewater as of April 24th:
This appears to be a leading indicator for COVID hospitalizations and deaths. This has been moving down.
Nationally COVID in wastewater is “Low”.
