The graph my local news just showed depicted deaths, and I’ll try and find it, but scroll down to the “New Cases By Day” chart; it exhibited the same pattern that the death chart did.
https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/cases-updates/cases-in-us.html
In short, the cases are running in cycles that are about a week in length.
Here’s another source with similar results.
Not clear what you are seeing in these graphs, but if its the regular weekly slight drop in numbers, its going to be a weekend effect, when some parts of the testing-clinical care-reporting chain have a few well-deserved days off. Its often matched by a slight boost on the following two days when they catch up on the data.
Its why the more useful reporting uses a 7 day running average to smooth out daily peaks and troughs that have less to do with the disease than the people managing it.
But, if you have another pattern in mind, please ignore my Dopesplaining and expand your thoughts.
Yes, what Banksiaman says – I believe this is universally expected and accepted. I think it’s mostly got to do with when the reporting happens, but there could also be some cycling in actual medical status itself, too, as so many human phenomena depend at least a tiny bit on our weekly schedule shifts.
I posted this story on another website, which has some people there who know way more about this than I do, and several of them pointed out the same thing - that it’s more about reporting than actual incidence. The pattern was still incredibly consistent, which was why I posted it here.
The frequency of Sundays has, historically, been incredibly consistent. It’s like clockwork.
Almost like once you get rid of it, 144 hours later it comes back.
Astonishing regularity. I read somewhere that this even predates COVID 19.
You don’t say. Surely you jest. You do realize then that if we can prove it predates the Commies, we’re going to have to blame the Jews?
We got very similar spikes here in vic.au, but on a 5 day cycle. I think that apart from the 7-day effect, the spread is actually very spiky.
Look at the US Daily cases chart and think of a stock chart.
The last 2 weeks in the US represents a pullback in an uptrend.
Labor Day weekend + opening schools in person = next spike will be higher than the late July one. Probably new highs in late October/early November. Hope I’m wrong.