COVID-19: With 55% weekly new-case growth, the US is again back at uncontrolled spread rates
I've been watching the Covid story since mid-January, 2020, and one of the initial quite-worrying signs was viral infections doubling every 8--10 days early in the China emergence.
Checking at Worldometers right now, the US is reporting a 55% weekly growth rate, which is the same as doubling every 8.9 days. That means that with vaccines and masks, the virus is once again spreading effectively without resistance through the population.
This is not a good sign.
As with earlier cautions of rising rates, the real questions are when will effective measures to control spread be implemented, how widely will they be adopted, and when will their impacts be felt. As before, there seems to be roughly a two-week lag between implementation of effective measures, and their effect on spread being visible.
https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/weekly-trends/#weekly_table
