re: #5 Dread Pirate Ron

I think today will be a record setter, a lot of big numbers of new cases today.

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My county (~720,000 people) had its big peaks early on, as you’d expect for NY state. Then we got our numbers WAY down - by September and early October we were down to new cases in single digits. We went more than a week (two weeks, I think) without anyone dying, and we got down to 3 ICU beds in use.

Then the schools reopened and outdoor dining moved indoors. The 7-day rolling average as of today is 66 new cases a day. We had another death today (still averaging only 2 or so a week, thankfully), and we’re back to 14 ICU beds in use. Still way under capacity and way under our hospitalization peaks at the beginning, but every number continues to move in the wrong direction.