Our daily update is published. States reported 1.3 million tests and 83k cases. 48k people are currently hospitalized with COVID-19. Today's death toll was 476.
The outbreak in the midwest continues to outpace detected cases in the Northeast and South. There are now 478 cases per million people in the region.
The new 7-day average for cases is above 80k. This figure has increased by 10k each week for the last 3 weeks.
A note to our data users about the reporting trends observed by day of the week. Currently COVID-19 case data reported on Fridays and Saturdays is nearly double the figures reported on Sundays and Mondays.
Thanks to our tireless team working on long-term care data, we've updated our state pages with long-term care data figures and state-specific notes.
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Our daily update is published. States reported 1.2 million tests and 103k cases - the highest daily case count to date. 52k people are currently hospitalized with COVID-19 and today’s death toll was 1,116.
There are 34 states reporting over 1,000 cases — a new record.
Hospitalization numbers peaked in 16 states today. 20 states have over 1,000 people currently hospitalized with COVID-19.
Our daily update is published. States reported 1.1 million tests and 74k cases, almost 10k more than last Sunday. 48k people are currently hospitalized with COVID-19. Today's death toll was 388.
Today, Arkansas did not update any of its metrics except for hospitalization figures. In addition, Minnesota has not updated its hospitalizations and ICU figures since Thursday.
South Dakota reported 1,506 new cases per million people, surpassing North Dakota's count. The Dakotas have had the highest counts for this metric for more than two months now.
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.
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.
Our weekly update is published. The United States set a new weekly record for reported cases, breaking 500K for the first time in the pandemic. We see no evidence that any state in the current surge has reached its peak and begun to decline. covidtracking.com/blog/weekly-up…
The rise in cases cannot be attributed to an increase in tests; 47 of the 50 states, along with D.C., have seen cases rise faster than reported tests since October 1. 25 states have set records for new cases this week.
The average number of people hospitalized with COVID-19 rose to 42,621, an increase of about 40% from one month ago. Given the current trends, and what the past has taught us, we should expect deaths to continue to rise in the coming weeks.
Our daily update is published. States reported 1 million tests, 79k cases, 45k currently hospitalized. The COVID-19 death toll was 1,025 today.
Currently hospitalized figures peaked in 13 states today.
In the absence of national COVID-19 data standards, the state data we compile is not always comparable. Comparing test positivity across states and territories without considering the unit of the denominator will not yield useful results. We explain here: covidtracking.com/blog/test-posi…
As COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations once again rise across the United States so, inevitably, will deaths. But there is reason to hope that we will not see the devastating fatality rates of the initial spring surge. A brief thread.
Earlier we shared a post highlighting the relationship between cases and hospitalizations. Here we take a closer look at the relationship between hospitalizations and COVID-19 deaths. covidtracking.com/blog/deaths-ar…
In the past week, US states and territories have reported all-time highs in new cases of COVID-19. An alarming trend which we expect to be reflected in hospitalization data. But "another NYC" is far from inevitable.