deaths – COVID-19 Trendlines

Are deaths among hospitalized COVID patients really plummeting?

A highly misleading graph has been floating around the Internet these past few days. Early days include only NY for hospitalizations but count deaths throughout the whole country.

Why aren’t deaths rising with cases?

Over the past week or so, there’s been quite a bit of discussion about why we haven’t seen a national increase in COVID-19 deaths alongside the national uptick in COVID-19 cases. There are several important factors that may be contributing to these patterns in the data (see this recent New York Times article for aContinue reading “Why aren’t deaths rising with cases?”