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29 Oct, 6 tweets, 2 min read
Our daily update is published. States reported a record number of cases—88.5k—and 1.3 million tests. 46k people are hospitalized. The death toll was 1049. 4 bar charts showing key COVID-19 metrics for the US. First,
The number of people per capita hospitalized in the Midwest has now surpassed its own spring peak, as well as any time in the West.
The per-capita case numbers in the upper Midwest are extremely high.
Attention API users: As part of our ongoing work to provide more comparable data across states, we're switching 4 more states numbers in our totalTestResults field: DE, UT, VT, WI.
In all cases, the previous unique-people data remains available in our API and on our website. In our cumulative topline data, these changes will add 1.8 million test results, the bulk of that (1.1 million) in Wisconsin.
For more information on why we've been making these changes over the last few weeks, see our post from August: covidtracking.com/blog/counting-…

And you can track our progress in this migration here: covidtracking.com/about-data/tot…

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29 Oct
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