math or statistics question

Let X = 1046 be the 7-day average number of cases (using a 7 day average smooths out daily anamalies in testing, reporting, etc.)

Let Y be the total number of people. It is unknown.

Let F = X / Y be the fraction of people who caught Covid, on average.

Let Z = 1,000,000 * F be the number of infections per million people.

We know Z ~ 1182.

We can solve for Y using the equations above:

Y = X / F
= X / ( Z / 1000000 )
= 1,000,000 * X / Z
~ 1,000,000 * 1046 / 1182
~ 884,941

Ggood question and the correct answer is e-mail the CDC

In a straight 7-day average, you're taking whatever the population size is, say 900,000 people, and just averaging cases over 7 days.

In the 7-day average per million situation, you're also dividing by the total population, then multiplying by one million.

So if 1050 cases occur among 900,000 people, you do (1050/900000)*1000000 = 1167 cases per million.

So in my box, 60 people of 1.5 million, are diagnosed with the covid fauci gang fuu daily, and 1, or 0 deaths is the years avg. #'s here.

i odnt understandit either but anythingover 1 is bad

Population = 1046 * 1,000,000 / 1182

There's something missing here, or you're pulling data from two different sources.