Our daily update is published. States reported 1.5 million tests and 128k cases, making today the fourth day in a row the US broke its case count record. There are 56k people currently hospitalized with COVID-19. The death toll was 1,097.
A total of 715k cases were reported last week. This means that 1 in every 462 people in the US tested positive for COVID-19 last week. Hosp. are also spiking in all regions, and are now close to the totals we saw in the spring and summer surges.
Illinois reported an all-time high case count today—12k. Cases in the midwestern state have doubled in the past two weeks, pushing the per-capita case total to nearly 1,000.
Today, Puerto Rico switched from using antibody tests to antigen tests to identify probable cases. We matched the history of our probable cases to the new definition and removed probables defined via antibody from 4/24 onward. This caused a drop of 34k in cumulative cases in PR.
The change in PR’s probables is in line with August CSTE—Council of State and Territorial Epidemiologists—guidance, which allows classifying a probable case via antigen test without other evidence. Currently 18 states consider antigen tests enough to define a probable case.
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Our daily update is published. States reported 1.1 million tests, 103k cases, and 57k people currently hospitalized with COVID-19. The death toll was 462.
This is the largest number of cases ever reported on a Sunday—more than 25k more than last week—despite California not reporting by the time we published this data.
The 7-day average of deaths reported by states is now up 36% in the last 3 weeks. Here's a chart of deaths since July 1.
Our daily update is published. States reported 1.5 million tests and a record 126k cases. There are 55k people currently hospitalized with COVID-19. The death toll was 1,186.
Daily tests continue to rise, but it’s unclear how many are antigen tests. As we noted in our weekly update yesterday, @HarvardGH estimates a need for ~14 million daily tests. US daily tests have yet to exceed 1.5 million.
Deaths are increasing across the US, particularly in the Midwest. Today's national total is the highest since Sept 16. The 7-day average for deaths is the highest since Aug 31.
Our daily update is published. States reported record numbers of tests (1.5 million) and cases (116k). Hospitalizations continue their sharp rise. The death toll was 1,124.
37 states reported over 1000 cases.
North Dakota hit over 2,000 cases per million today, a record in our data for any state.
Many states have set new record highs for cases in the last week.
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 1.3 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.
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.