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Coping with COVID: Weekly death toll recedes

By Madison Parry and Dennis Boone

For the first time since Nov. 5, 2020, the U.S. seven-day average for daily deaths has dipped below 1,000. This is down 71.75 percent from its peak on Jan. 27, 2021. Regionally, the same metric shows Missouri at its lowest seven-day rolling average since July 13, 2020.

Data from Worldometer notes that this week on Tuesday, March 23 was the first time since Nov. 5, 2020 that the nation’s seven-day rolling average for new daily deaths fell below 1,000.

According to data tracked since mid-March of 2020, Tuesday’s count is down 71.75 percent from a Jan. 27, 2021 peak.

The same metric for Missouri, it’s seven-day rolling average at 579, is the lowest since July 13, 2021. This is down 88.6 percent from a Nov. 20, 2020 peak of 5,058.

As for Kansas, the timing of some reports produced a zero-death seven-day period on March 16, down from a peak of 58 on Feb. 10 and the first stretch of no new deaths since March 30, 2020.