by Calculated Risk on 7/18/2022 09:18:00 PM

Tuesday:
• At 8:30 AM ET, Housing Starts for June. The consensus is for 1.586 million SAAR, up from 1.549 million SAAR in May.

On COVID (focus on hospitalizations and deaths):

Hospitalizations have almost quadrupled from the lows in April 2022.

COVID Metrics
	Now	Week Ago	Goal
New Cases per Day2🚩	122,639	110,404	≤5,0001
Hospitalized2🚩	31,463	31,169	≤3,0001
Deaths per Day2🚩	336	320	≤501
1my goals to stop daily posts, 27-day average for Cases, Currently Hospitalized, and Deaths 🚩 Increasing 7-day average week-over-week for Cases, Hospitalized, and Deaths ✅ Goal met.

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This graph shows the daily (columns) and 7-day average (line) of deaths reported.

Average daily deaths bottomed in July 2021 at 214 per day.