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12 Dec, 5 tweets, 2 min read
Our daily update is published. States reported 2.1 million tests, a record 232k cases, and 2,749 deaths. There are 108k people currently hospitalized with COVID-19, also an all-time record. The 7-day average for all four metrics is the highest it has been. 4 bar charts showing key COVID-19 metrics for the US over ti
NV leads the nation in currently hospitalized patients per million people, followed by SD and AZ, which is close to its own summer peak. A line chart showing currently hospitalized with COVID-19 pe
North Dakota has now suffered one of the 5 highest death rates per million people. A line chart showing the rank of each US state in deaths per
Today, we changed our source for CO’s deaths metric from “deaths due to COVID” to “deaths among cases.” Since September, the share of deaths among cases unrepresented in CO’s deaths due to COVID figure has quadrupled, likely indicating a processing lag.
This change follows a similar revision to ND’s deaths sources last week. As we dive deeper into fatalities reporting, we’re learning many reasons these two figures diverge – sometimes in the opposite direction. We’ll be sharing our findings in the future.

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