Our daily update is published. States reported 1.6 million tests, 226k cases, a record 125,220 hospitalizations, and a record 3,903 COVID-19 deaths. Holiday reporting delays are still markedly affecting testing, case, and deaths figures.
Today's record death count includes a backlog of "roughly 200" deaths reported in WA. Even without this backlog, today's total would still be the highest to date.
The 7-day average for current hospitalizations is now close to 121k.
Louisiana reported a record 6,754 COVID-19 cases today. The state department of health notes that this does not include a backlog of cases or multiple days of reporting.
We continue to urge caution when interpreting current figures and trends in COVID-19 data. We also expect ongoing disruptions in reporting with the New Year holiday weekend.
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Our daily update is published. States reported 1.7 million tests, 221k cases, a record 125,379 people hospitalized, and 3,255 COVID-19 deaths.
Holiday reporting delays are still markedly affecting testing, case, and deaths figures. Of our four topline metrics, only hospitalizations counts remain relatively stable through holiday data disruptions.
Even with all the data pipeline disruptions, every week in December saw more deaths from COVID-19 than any week earlier in the year. December was the deadliest month of the pandemic by far. The 76,580 reported deaths in the month surpassed the heights of April (55,267).
Our daily update is published. States reported 1.3 million tests, 124k cases, and 1,541 deaths. There are nearly 119 thousand people hospitalized with COVID-19.
The numbers are strongly affected by holiday reporting.
20 states provided no update: AK, CA, CT, DC, ID, KS, KY, LA, MA, MI, MN, MP, NC, ND, NH, OH, RI, SC, SD, UT, VT.
7 other states made partial updates.
We'd also like to recognize the shift leaders who have carried us through the holidays: Hannah Hoffman and Brian S.-K. Li.
They are brilliant and dedicated. We could not thank them enough.
Our daily update is published. States reported 1.9 million tests, 203k cases, and 2,938 deaths. There are a record 120,151 COVID-19 patients currently hospitalized.
The majority of states that updated their data today reported more than 500 new cases per million residents. Twenty reported a higher number of cases per capita than New York had at its spring peak.
The Midwest, and more recently the West, are showing a declining number of average deaths each day.
Our weekly update is published. With more than a week remaining, states have reported more deaths in December than in any other month. covidtracking.com/analysis-updat…
New cases and current hospitalizations are declining in the Midwest, a hopeful sign.
Cases are rising sharply in California and several states in the South. Nearly 300k new cases have been reported in California in the past week; 56% of all cases in California during the pandemic have been among Latinx people.
Our daily update is published. States reported 1.7 million tests, 221k cases, and 3,379 deaths. There are a record 119,463 COVID-19 patients currently hospitalized.
The 7-day average for hospitalizations is at a record 115k.
With 8 days remaining in the month, December has already proven to be the most deadly during the pandemic.
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.
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.