The number of new cases is down. New hospitalizations are down. Deaths are also down, but they show worrying signs of stabilizing at levels higher than I would want to see.
No weekly COVID-19 post for last week
Too much going on around here with the end of the school year and working from home. I'll have an update this week, likely published this weekend.
Governor Polis’ COVID-19 mitigations worked
Contrary to what the anti-stay-at-home activists claim, Governor Polis' mitigations were effective. They worked. And they saved lives.
Weekly COVID-19 update for the 5/7/2020 dataset
Another week of data, another update to the COVID-19 observations on data variability, backdating noise, and maybe - maybe - a little bit of very cautious optimism.
COVID-19 cases, hospitalizations, and deaths continue to not justify Gov. Polis’ “safer-at-home” approach
Backdating continues to confound Colorado COVID-19 data to the point that we still can't justify the relaxation of the statewide stay-at-home order.
Governor Polis beware – the last week’s COVID-19 data is too unstable to use for policy decisions
No COVID-19 data from the last week should be used to make any irreversible decisions about COVID-19 policy in the state of Colorado, and based on the analysis below, data from as far as two weeks ago should be considered suspect.