{"id":2978,"date":"2020-06-24T11:48:11","date_gmt":"2020-06-24T11:48:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=2978"},"modified":"2020-06-24T11:48:11","modified_gmt":"2020-06-24T11:48:11","slug":"daily-covid-19-deaths-in-the-u-s-have-fallen-dramatically-since-april","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=2978","title":{"rendered":"Daily COVID-19 Deaths in the U.S. Have Fallen Dramatically Since April"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>\n\n&#8220;The&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/covid19-projections.com\/#view-projections\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">seven-day rolling average<\/a>&nbsp;of daily deaths, which peaked at 2,210 on April 18, had fallen to 605 as of yesterday\u2014a 73 percent drop. The downward trend has continued for more than a month since mid-May, when the impact of post-lockdown infections should have started to show up in fatality figures. In&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/covid19-projections.com\/us-tx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Texas<\/a>, for example, the seven-day average fell from 58 on April 30, when the statewide lockdown was lifted, to 20 on June 13 before climbing to 30 as of yesterday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Some states, including Texas, have seen&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/reason.com\/2020\/06\/17\/what-do-recent-covid-19-trends-tell-us-about-the-merits-of-lockdowns\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">notable increases<\/a>&nbsp;in confirmed cases and hospitalizations since late May. Those increases, which cannot be fully explained by expanded virus testing, may be related to Memorial Day gatherings and the mass protests against police brutality triggered by George Floyd&#8217;s death. The spike in cases that states such as Texas have seen can be expected to result in more deaths during the next couple of weeks than otherwise would have occurred. But if epidemiologists are correct in thinking that superspreading events on and after Memorial Day explain recent surges in infections\u2014which makes senses given the timing\u2014the resulting rise in daily deaths should be temporary.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/reason.com\/2020\/06\/22\/daily-covid-19-deaths-have-fallen-dramatically-since-april\/\">https:\/\/reason.com\/2020\/06\/22\/daily-covid-19-deaths-have-fallen-dramatically-since-april\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;The seven-day rolling average of daily deaths, which peaked at 2,210 on April 18, had fallen to 605 as of yesterday\u2014a 73 percent drop. The downward trend has continued for more than a month since mid-May, when the impact of post-lockdown infections should have started to show up in fatality figures. In Texas, for example, the seven-day average fell from 58 on April 30, when the statewide lockdown was lifted, to 20 on June 13 before climbing to 30 as of yesterday.<\/p>\n<p>Some states, including Texas, have seen notable increases in confirmed cases and hospitalizations since late May. Those increases, which cannot be fully explained by expanded virus testing, may be related to Memorial Day gatherings and the mass protests against police brutality triggered by George Floyd&#8217;s death. The spike in cases that states such as Texas have seen can be expected to result in more deaths during the next couple of weeks than otherwise would have occurred. But if epidemiologists are correct in thinking that superspreading events on and after Memorial Day explain recent surges in infections\u2014which makes senses given the timing\u2014the resulting rise in daily deaths should be temporary.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[588,409,483,53],"class_list":["post-2978","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-corona","tag-coronavirus","tag-covid-19","tag-deaths"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2978","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2978"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2978\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2979,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2978\/revisions\/2979"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2978"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2978"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2978"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}