Cases continue to rise in Georgia, but we may be nearing a peak. As I described last week, test positivity continues to increase, but other metrics are not following the same trajectory as the increases in positivity like they have during past waves. You can see this clearly in the graph below. Previous waves all …
Cases are still rising in Georgia – the little dip on May 3-4 was just a reporting blip as I suggested it might be. Test positivity is continuing to rise well over 5%, but as I mentioned last week, our thresholds for “good” test positivity likely needs to shift. For the first time, positivity is …
Cases continued to rise over the past week in Georgia. There was a small decline in the cases by report date on May 3 and 4, but it’s too early to tell if that’s a real signal of slowing case increases or just a hiccup in data reporting. Test positivity rose over 5% this week, …
Cases have been rising in Georgia but are still at a low level. Test positivity is also rising, though still under 5%, and with testing volume decreasing. With less asymptomatic testing, our thresholds for “good” test positivity will need to shift. The biggest case increases have been in the Metro Atlanta region, but other regions …
IMPORTANT NOTE: Friday, April 15 marked the last day of daily Covid reporting by Georgia DPH. They are now updating once a week, on Wednesday, as of April 20. I think this change is long overdue, and I am full support of it. While I’ve updated my graphs daily, I have said for a long time …
Cases are rising again in Georgia, but from a very low level. Recent cases climbed for the second week in a row, and test positivity is rising as well. Deaths are still falling, and are still artificially high due to data reporting lag from the Omicron wave. For the past two weeks, only about 1/4 …
You have probably heard about the recent correction in pediatric death data by the CDC. This is related to issues I have been fighting about with the CDC since May 2021, and there has been a lot of confusion around the topic, so I wanted to provide an explainer. Where are pediatric deaths tracked? The …
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Recently, due to complaints about how data is presented on Georgia DPH COVID Dashboard, they added a section showing new data reported daily, along with the ability to graph cases and deaths by date reported. Previously, they only shared totals for cases/deaths/etc., not daily changes. They also only showed graphs of cases by date of …
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There’s been a lot of recent discussion and confusion regarding how Georgia reports their lab testing. I’ve tried to answer questions about it on Twitter, but I clearly need more than 140 characters to fully explain it. There are two main elements that are at the center of the confusion – cases vs testing. We’re …
I’m starting to focus less on new cases and testing numbers. I’ll keep posting that data, but won’t discuss it on a daily basis, unless there is something of interest to note. Basically, we have seen a fairly stable rate of increasing cases when testing goes up, and decreasing cases when testing goes down. But …