Covid-2019 - 2021-12-28

Again, post-holiday numbers are horribly distorted to the upside by lagged and clustered reporting. We have smoothed it out on most charts, but only on some tables.

Making such things worse... Oops. In Recommended Reading: "According to agency data, omicron accounted for about 59 percent of all U.S. infections as of Dec. 25. Previously, the CDC said the omicron variant comprised 73 percent of all cases for the week ending Dec. 18. But that number has now been revised to 22.5 percent of all cases." The bulls**t that launched a thousand hysterical articles about "wildly transmissible" and "ripping through the population" and so on.