from Active calculated risk 06/22/2022 20:13:00
Tuesday:
• At 8:30 am ET, the initial weekly unemployment claims the report will be released. The consensus is 225 thousand, down from 229 thousand last week.
• At 10:00, Testimony, Fed President Jerome Powell, Semi-annual report on monetary policy to CongressBefore the Financial Services Committee, United States House of Representatives
• At 4:30 pm, the Fed will release annual bank stress test results.
On COVID (focus on hospitalizations and deaths):
| COVID metrics | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Now | Week does |
objective | ||
| Percentage fully vaccinated | 66.8% | — | ≥70.0%1 | |
| Fully vaccinated (millions) | 221.9 | — | ≥2321 | |
| New cases a day3 | 99.365 | 103,646 | ≤5,0002 | |
| Hospitalized3🚩 | 24,470 | 24,213 | ≤3,0002 | |
| Deaths a day3 | 248 | 295 | ≤502 | |
| 1 Minimum to obtain “herd immunity” (estimated between 70% and 85%). 2my goals to stop daily posts, 3Average of 7 days for cases, currently hospitalized and deaths 🚩 Increase in 7-day weekly average for cases, hospitalized and deaths ✅ Objective achieved. |
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This graph shows the daily (columns) and 7-day (line) mean of reported deaths.
Average daily deaths bottomed out at 214 per day in July 2021.
