Based on the CDC’s Cases in the U.S. website, here is the FEHBlog’s chart of new weekly COVID-19 cases and deaths over the 20th through 35th weeks of this year (beginning May 14 and ending September 2; using Thursday as the first day of the week in order to facilitate this weekly update):

and here is the CDC’s latest overall weekly hospitalization rate chart for COVID-19:

Here is an important consideration reported by the Wall Street Journal:

Improvements in [COVID-19] treatments are leading to better outcomes, said Mercedes Carnethon, vice chair of the department of preventive medicine at the Feinberg School of Medicine at Northwestern University. “We’ve gotten better at treating it and the age group populations are younger,” she said, noting that younger people aren’t as likely to have severe or deadly cases of Covid-19.

Happy Labor Day weekend, everyone.