Our daily update is published. States reported 1.8M tests, 219k cases, 130,383 people currently hospitalized with COVID-19, and 4,022 deaths.
COVID-19 deaths are up by 10% or more in 25 states across the US. Today is the third time deaths have been above 4,000.
Starting today, we will be capturing Oregon’s data the day after it is published, as they regularly update their COVID-19 pages and dashboards after we release our daily update. We have shifted their entire timeseries accordingly.
Our daily update is published. States reported 2.1M tests, a record 310k cases, 131,889 COVID-19 hospitalizations, and 3,777 deaths. The 7-day averages for cases, hospitalizations, and deaths are at record highs.
NJ reported nearly 20K probable COVID-19 cases and CA reported over 50K cases. Both states greatly influenced the large uptick in today's total cases.
16 states reported their highest number of COVID-19 hospitalizations this week.
Our daily update is published. States reported 1.9M tests, 266k cases, 132,370 COVID-19 hospitalizations, and a record 4,033 deaths. The 7-day average for deaths is now over 2,750, also a record.
California, Florida, and Texas alone reported 80 thousand cases today.
But some small states have severe problems, too. Alabama, Arizona, and Nevada have very high hospitalization rates per capita.
In the first week of 2021, US states and territories reported more cases of COVID-19 than at any point in the pandemic so far, the second-highest number of deaths, and the most people currently hospitalized.
38% of the nation’s COVID-19 deaths in 2020 were among long-term-care residents and staff. December was the deadliest month in long-term-care facilities since we began tracking the data in May.
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.