US daily numbers via @COVID19Tracking

Newly reported deaths
Today: 757
Yesterday: 854
One week ago (7/4): 306

Newly reported cases
T: 63K
Y: 67K
7/4: 52K

Newly reported tests
T: 634K
Y: 823K
7/4: 642K

Positive test rate
T: 9.9%
Y: 8.1%
7/4: 8.1%
The comparison to last Saturday is somewhat misleading since it was a holiday weekend. But the number of deaths *two* Saturdays ago was 509 and we are also way up from that. Just no good news here, and the positive test rate keeps climbing.
And keep in mind that when the numbers were rising in the spring, at least we knew that lockdowns meant they would probably eventually start to come back down. Not the case this time.
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