Thread by @JasonSalemi

1. Based on this week's @CDCgov transmission levels, it's not getting better.

Last week - 72% of people lived in high transmission areas, 89% in substantial or high.

Now, those numbers are 86% and 94%, respectively.

A quick 🧵

2. Approaching half of the population living in an area with medium or high risk (based on hospital capacity and COVID hospital admission rates).

15% of the US population now lives in a "high" level area in which the CDC recommends masking in public indoor settings.

3. Here's where we are now based on both @CDCgov measures.

4. You can see the weekly progression of transmission in many states. So many places now have >90% of their populations in a high transmission area (including Florida).

5. Also seeing more and more people living in medium or high level areas, even with the hospital-based levels. But that progression was to be expected based on the more leading edge indicators: community transmission.

6. How transmission has changed over the past 3 months...

7. How hospitalization-based risk has changed over the past 3 months...

8. Here are the actual reported case rates by state since 3/1/22, based on data released yesterday.

9. And here are the actual hospitalization rates by state, based on data released yesterday.

update for FL 👇👇👇👇👇

This @HealthyFla report, released today, fills in some of the Florida gaps that, for some reason, the CDC was missing in calculating community risk levels.