Daily Status, October 5: All good trends must come to an end

Daily Status, October 5 Reminder: any sections that are unchanged since yesterday are grayed out. Note: Yesterday's update did not occur because the state failed to complete the update of the databases. Unfortunately, the processing did not include the data for yesterday. On Saturday, I eluded to a political commentary. I have worked hard to try to focus on data and knowledge in these reports, avoiding political statements. However, I am presenting the attached link with my rationale for November, which I believe is consistent with the message presented here. A political statement. Situational Awareness Over the last two days, Virginia has added a total of 1754 (1067 yesterday and 687 today) newly diagnosed COVID cases, which which is very close to our two day average of 1740 cases. And I have reason to suspect some of the cases (~50) are the result of irresponsible political activity both in Newport News and Northern VA.. If we look at 7 day numbers, we have average