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7. January 4 report - 14 day changes: Minnesota: +70%, Hennepin: +197%, Ramsey: +144%
Wed Jan 5, 2022, 12:55 AM
Jan 2022

NYTimes has been updated with Tuesday January 4 data -- Minnesota daily new cases have surpassed their recent (Dec 7) peak and are now the higher than any time since last winter.
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2021/us/minnesota-covid-cases.html

7dma = 7 day moving average

(This Tuesday's numbers is the result of 4 days, not the usual 3 days that are reported from Tuesday)

Note that the 7dma new cases had recently fallen by 1/3 from Dec 7 to December 27 before moving up again.

14 day changes: Minnesota:+70%, Hennepin: +197%, Ramsey +144%. There new cases per 100,000 are 144 and 121 respectively, that's sky high.

Hospitalized and deaths still trending slightly down. (See U.S. overall below - hospitalizations have recently jumped).

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U.S. overall: daily new cases, 7dma, now double (2.2 X) their all-time peak set last January 11

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2021/us/covid-cases.html

Hospitalizations 7dma as of January 3 are 97,847, more than double their recent low of November 10. The upward trend began accelerating around December 26, and is currently (Jan 3) 35% above that point (8 days ago)

Deaths are trending up ever so slightly recently after having been essentially flat since early December.

The New York Times map has changed a hell of a lot in the last 24 hours

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WORLD: daily new cases, 7dma, now double their previous April peak. Deaths still declining.
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/world/coronavirus-maps.html

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