by Calculated Risk on 8/16/2022 08:57:00 PM

Wednesday:
• At 7:00 AM ET, The Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA) will release the results for the mortgage purchase applications index.

• At 8:30 AM, Retail sales for July is scheduled to be released.  The consensus is for 0.1% increase in retail sales.

• At 2:00 PM, FOMC Minutes, Meeting of July 26-27, 2022

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	98,229	111,892	≤5,0001
Hospitalized2	35,139	37,284	≤3,0001
Deaths per Day2	415	422	≤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.