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. 4 bar charts showing key COVID-19 metrics for the US over ti
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. 4 bar charts showing key COVID-19 metrics for the US over ti
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. 4 bar charts showing key COVID-19 metrics in Illinois over t
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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