{"id":327,"date":"2020-11-06T08:21:52","date_gmt":"2020-11-06T16:21:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hardythoughts.com\/?p=327"},"modified":"2020-11-06T13:39:33","modified_gmt":"2020-11-06T21:39:33","slug":"pressing-on-the-gas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/hardythoughts.com\/index.php\/2020\/11\/06\/pressing-on-the-gas\/","title":{"rendered":"Pressing on the Gas"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>This is just a quick update to drive home the point that COVID infections are not just at record highs, they are also accelerating.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Yesterday saw 121,888 new cases.&nbsp; That\u2019s 19,000 more cases than the day before and 32,000 more than the previous Thursday.&nbsp; It brings the 7-day average up to 94,626.&nbsp; There were 1,210 deaths reported, bringing that 7-day average up to 895.&nbsp; It appears that deaths are also starting to accelerate.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Keep in mind that 7-day averages are lagging indicators, they tell us what has been going on in the past.\u00a0 In a rapidly accelerating situation they will under-report the current state of affairs.\u00a0 Imagine having a speedometer in your car that reported your average speed over the last 7 seconds.\u00a0 That might be OK when your speed is relatively stable.\u00a0 However, it will be lower than your current speed when you stomp on the gas pedal and higher than your current speed when you slam on the brakes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u00a0Here\u2019s the shortened graph starting Aug1 so that you can see the acceleration more clearly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img src=\"https:\/\/lh6.googleusercontent.com\/dIQ7QNWoU1G13k7KinNml9k7P0oLYL8xVNjhRujUYxxRmGDTARQ-O1bAhZ8qxGR8S_kXwuPpGAZYj4XVK_pQPoHdEq0WRqgn-nXU8gTPRorDbalZ3TrKryWAUatkxnPHL9sSTCuz\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Fridays&#8217; numbers tend to be higher than Thursdays&#8217;.\u00a0 I\u2019ll post a longer update sometime in the next few days.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is just a quick update to drive home the point that COVID infections are not just at record highs, they are also accelerating. Yesterday saw 121,888 new cases.&nbsp; That\u2019s 19,000 more cases than the day before and 32,000 more than the previous Thursday.&nbsp; It brings the 7-day average up to 94,626.&nbsp; There were 1,210 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/hardythoughts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/hardythoughts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/hardythoughts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hardythoughts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hardythoughts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=327"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/hardythoughts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":330,"href":"http:\/\/hardythoughts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327\/revisions\/330"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/hardythoughts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=327"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hardythoughts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=327"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hardythoughts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=327"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}