COVID-19 Update: Confirmed Cases Trending Lower

Despite a rough doubling of COVID-19 tests over the past two weeks, the number of confirmed cases is trending lower according to this graph (above) produced on the Virginia Department of Health (VDH) COVID-19 dashboard.

Meanwhile, the number of COVID-19 patients currently being hospitalized is drifting higher, as the chart below from John Butcher indicates. But Virginia’s hospital system is not remotely facing a capacity crisis.

— JAB