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Friday:
• At 8:30 AM ET, The New York Fed Empire State manufacturing survey for April. The consensus is for a reading of 2.0, up from -11.8.
• At 9:15 AM, The Fed will release Industrial Production and Capacity Utilization for March. The consensus is for a 0.4% increase in Industrial Production, and for Capacity Utilization to increase to 77.8%.
• At 10:00 AM, State Employment and Unemployment (Monthly) for March 2022
On COVID (focus on hospitalizations and deaths):
| COVID Metrics | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Now | Week Ago |
Goal | ||
| Percent fully Vaccinated | 65.9% | — | ≥70.0%1 | |
| Fully Vaccinated (millions) | 218.7 | — | ≥2321 | |
| New Cases per Day3🚩 | 31,391 | 26,357 | ≤5,0002 | |
| Hospitalized3 | 9,594 | 10,411 | ≤3,0002 | |
| Deaths per Day3 | 409 | 485 | ≤502 | |
| 1 Minimum to achieve "herd immunity" (estimated between 70% and 85%). 2my goals to stop daily posts, 37-day average for Cases, Currently Hospitalized, and Deaths 🚩 Increasing 7-day average week-over-week for Cases, Hospitalized, and Deaths ✅ Goal met. |
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This graph shows the daily (columns) and 7-day average (line) of deaths reported.
Hospitalizations and deaths are declining. The 7-day average deaths are the lowest since last July (the low last July was 214 per day).
New cases are increasing.
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