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Coping with COVID: Mo. seven-day moving average nears new high for COVID-19 daily death count

By Madison Parry

Nationwide, the rolling seven-day average of case fatalities reached its fall peak on Tuesday. Missouri inched closer to its own new high Tuesday with a weekly average of 48 daily deaths, just shy of the state’s Oct. 31 record of 49.

Continued spread of COVID-19 across the U.S. has impacted nearly every region of the nation concerning new cases and deaths.

Numerous sources indicate the Midwest has become a hot zone in new cases. In Missouri, the climbing case trend has led to an elevated death count as well.

On Tuesday, Missouri reported 138 daily deaths, a new high according to data from Worldometers.com.

For a more accurate gauge however, Worldometers also displays the seven-day moving average across daily deaths, displaying an average of 48 daily deaths as of Tuesday.

This count falls just short of the state’s current high from Oct. 31 at 49. Nonetheless, as the holidays and cooler weather settle in, a probable rise in both cases and deaths may soon set new highs not just in Missouri and the Midwest, but nationwide.

In the neighboring state of Kansas, Worldometers shows daily deaths at nearly half of its record high from Nov. 20 at 84 down to 46 just three days later on Nov. 23. The seven-day moving average for daily deaths did reach a new high on Monday however, bumping up to 27 from its previous 22.

On a national scale, the rolling seven-day average of case fatalities reached its fall peak on Tuesday, at 1,657. That’s the highest level since 1,739 on May 12, as the first wave was receding. Overall, the highest peak for that metric was 2,259 on April 21.