{"id":2775,"date":"2021-08-25T14:22:14","date_gmt":"2021-08-25T14:22:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wp.cov19longhaulfoundation.org\/?p=2775"},"modified":"2021-08-25T14:22:14","modified_gmt":"2021-08-25T14:22:14","slug":"it-finally-peaked-the-delta-of-delta-turns-negative","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cov19longhaulfoundation.org\/?p=2775","title":{"rendered":"It Finally Peaked: The Delta Of Delta Turns Negative"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Authors: BY TYLER DURDENWEDNESDAY, AUG 25, 2021 – 08:26 AM<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ten days ago we said that, according to Morgan Stanley calculations<\/a>, the Delta wave will peak in 1-2 weeks. Well, golf clap <\/em>to Morgan Stanley’s Matthew Harrison who, with uncanny precision, was spot on and exactly <\/em>at the midpoint of “1-2 weeks later” the ascent of Delta variant new cases in the US has now peaked, and it’s all downhill from here. <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

According to Bank of America’s Hans Mikkelsen, evidence – such as the University of Washington\u2019s IHME model – suggests “the US is now past the peak level of daily COVID-19 infections caused primarily by the Delta variant.”<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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To be sure, there are a few caveats here: while daily new cases \u2013 a subset of new infections \u2013 also showed a small decline yesterday <\/strong>(to 147,294 from 147,550 the prior day on a 7-day average basis), BofA warns that this data is noisier due to varying levels testing activity and potentially Hurricane Henri.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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But even the “much cleaner data” for number of people hospitalized with COVID-19 confirms that the peak is now in the rearview mirror: while the number rose “just” 7.8% the past week which, due to its lagged nature and very rapid pace of decline, Mikkelsen notes that this “is consistent with the US being past peak level infections.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Moreover the recent one-percentage point decline in the COVID-19 test positive rate to 9.32% \u2013 another indicator that the US is now past peak level infections \u2013 highlights one driver of high daily case counts is merely more testing activity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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What does this mean for markets, if not the economy and political propaganda?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Well, if the US has not already seen peak COVID-19 case numbers, BofA is confident that reaching that milestone is “imminent.” More importantly, with the UK as guide, the decline in case numbers on the other side could be rapid<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The IHME model forecasts a 50% decline from peak level daily infections by October 11th, <\/strong>and by September 22 \u2013 the timing of the next FOMC meeting \u2013 the predicted decline is nearly 40%<\/strong>. This, according to BofA, bodes well for reopening trades that underperformed so far in 2H21 as the US COVID-19 situation deteriorated; it does not bode well for those who are praying that the delta variant will force the Fed to delay tapering.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As for what it means for US society that the media and politicians will no longer be able to scaremonger with the Delta variant, that’s beyond the scope of this post, suffice to say that we fully expect the “independent media” to quickly shift their focus to the “unexpected” emergence of the lambda or some other, even “deadlier” variant, which politicians will immediately weaponize in their neverending quest to convert the US into one giant authoritarian nanny-state.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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