January 3 - Post - Script

Daily Cases for the United States

This letter was edited to add an explanation that the daily cases for January 3 on the Washington Post tracking service includes an undetermined number of cases resulting from testing performed over the New Year’s Day weekend.

January 3, 2022 - Post-Script

In my letter for today, I stated that the total for new reported Covid-19 cases in the United States today is 1,018,170. That is the actual number shown on the Washington Post website daily tracker for the United States for January 3, 2022. https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2020/national/coronavirus-us-cases-deaths/?itid=sn_coronavirus_1/&state=US . It must be noted that the 1,018,170 new U.S. cases attributed to January 3 includes an undetermined number of cases that were the result of testing performed over the New Years Day weekend. The daily average for the 3-day period from January 1-3 is 486 new cases per day. The 7-day moving average for the weekly period ending January 3 is 410,039 cases per day.