Here’s the latest from the COVID19 Johns Hopkins website as of 3PM Friday. The U.S. numbers continue to bounce around and, for the second day in a row, today’s number of new-cases jumped up. There were 6000 more new cases than yesterday. Rounded to the nearest thousand, there were 35,000 new cases today vs. 29,000 new cases yesterday. The 5-day average growth rate climbed to 1.1, i.e., new case numbers are increasing on average 10% per day. The rate of increasing new cases (slope of the curve) are now the same as they were 2-weeks ago. If this trend continues, re-opening dates will be pushed out another 2-weeks. These numbers are based on U.S. totals and local data will be different.
RE Stocks: I have some invested in this rally, but for the most part, I am out of the market.
