In this week's covid report Grant County has experienced COVID peaks, and the three most recent ones have each been worse than the one before. Grant County and Silver City, while not doing well, are perhaps doing a bit better than other areas in the state; please continue to take care. State and county workplace cases sadly rose more than hoped; please check the Grant County list in the report. Tables and charts now highlight if a new daily or weekly case high has happened, and better recent histories are shown. NM DOH reported a massive jump in raw daily cases due to a data processing issue, so don't panic at the 6,830 new raw cases. As always, check the trends and not the data. I have added new case and hospital bed usage charts for our adjoining states, AZ, CO, and TX; they are all under stress. I was asked why I showed Colorado positivity as around 29% when the Becker report had it around 96% (Jan 13). Becker's list uses Johns Hopkins (also well respected) and Johns Hopkins uses 5 different ways of calculating positivity. For AZ, NM, and TX they use one method, but for CO they use a different method; apples and oranges stuff. I added an article "RECONCILING POSITIVITY RATES BETWEEN CREDIBLE SOURCES" in the back of this report showing what happened with screen prints.

See report in PDF form below: