Our daily update is published. States reported 1.7 million tests, 189k cases, and 3,131 deaths. There are 117,777 COVID-19 patients currently hospitalized. 4 bar charts showing key COVID-19 metrics for the US over ti
California is now reporting so many cases that it has kept the country on a case plateau, even as the Midwest declines bring the rest of the country's cases down.
But this view masks the seriousness of the situation in the three largest southern states. Hospitalizations are rapidly rising in Texas, Florida, and Georgia.
Today, we publicly released our source notes—a detailed set of notes on where we locate all our data points. Read more about how we source our data here: covidtracking.com/blog/how-we-so…
Our project is not tracking vaccine data, but the CDC is now reporting two topline vaccination metrics for the US. We’re also looking at the kind of vaccine data states have published so far and have outlined our hopes for federal reporting:

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