October COVID Update

 Here are the updates for the five county NY Capital District area. I don't trust the case data. Cases are under reported, but here is what is being reported.

Cases are trending up. This is worrisome because I have said I and others believe cases are underreported. Home tests are not being reported and mild cases probably aren't even being tested.

Hospital data may be more reliable. 

Hospitalization seem low, but the counties vary in population. 

Albany and Columbia counties have relatively high rates.

Luckily deaths are low.

Code for downloading data and producing plots is available on GitHub.