Our daily update is published. States reported 1.6M tests, 214k cases, a record 131,195 COVID-19 patients, and 3,478 deaths.
We are almost at our 7-day average peaks for cases and deaths. The next few days are likely to be worse, as the pandemic continues to rage across most of the country and states catch up on posting holiday-delayed data.
Hospitalizations in the South and West are now worse than the Midwest's peak. And the East is close and rising, too.
A large chunk of the South is experiencing record hospitalizations today.
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Our daily update is published. States reported 1.6 million tests, 178k cases, a record 128,210 people hospitalized, and 1,545 COVID-19 deaths. The ongoing holiday effects are reflected in these figures.
The holidays have had a major impact on testing data. As a result, testing is falling in 33 states across the US.
Despite testing data dropping, the 7-day average for COVID-19 cases is higher than pre-holiday figures and increasing in many states across the US.
Our daily update is published. States reported 1.2 million tests, 173k cases, 125,057 people hospitalized, and 2,534 COVID-19 deaths. More than 20 states did not provide complete data today.
As you can see here, there is a mix of states reporting very high numbers, probably due in part to backlogs, and other states reporting nothing for the day.
California reported 585 deaths today. Before today, New York and Pennsylvania were the only states to have reported more than 500 deaths in a day.
CA, the most populous state, now also has more people hospitalized than NY did at the spring peak.
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 1.6 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.
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.