Our daily update is published. States reported 1.9M tests, 174K cases, and 3,577 deaths. 114k people are currently hospitalized with COVID-19 in the US. Only two weeks ago, that number was 131k.
The weekly view today shows cases down 21%, with more modest but very welcome drops in hospitalizations and deaths. The 7-day average for cases has returned to pre-Thanksgiving levels. Tests are slightly down, possibly because most of the backlogs have now been resolved.
The reporting backlogs from Nov and Dec holidays make the past six weeks of case numbers look jumpy, but the drop we’re seeing now is very encouraging—though we’re still seeing almost three times as many new cases each day as we did at the summer peak.
There are almost exactly twice as many people in the hospital with COVID-19 now as there were at the peak of the previous two surges, but hospitalizations are dropping very quickly.
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Our daily update is published. States reported 1.9M tests, 185k cases, 119,927 people currently hospitalized with COVID-19, and 3,889 deaths.
Over 400k people in the US have died of COVID-19. A reminder that our dataset does not include probable deaths reported in NY which is why this grim milestone lagged by a few days from other datasets. More details here: covidtracking.com/analysis-updat…
Despite the alarmingly high death numbers, there are encouraging trends in COVID-19 case and hospitalization data. Read more about our weekly analysis here: covidtracking.com/analysis-updat…
Our weekly update is published. Weekly cases are down 20%, and after 16 weeks of increases, weekly hospitalizations are down 4%. Yesterday’s record deaths brought the weekly total to 21,301―the 2nd highest number of deaths since the start of the pandemic. covidtracking.com/analysis-updat…
For the 2nd week in a row, LTC facilities reported the highest weekly death toll—over 7,000. It’s likely that winter holiday backlogs and a change in Iowa’s death reporting have influenced this high number.
On a more hopeful note, hospitalizations declined in almost every state over the past week. Only New York saw an increase in hospitalized patients (4% higher), while MA was essentially flat.
Our daily update is published. States reported 2M tests, 215k cases, 126,139 people currently hospitalized with COVID-19, and 3,695 deaths. The 7-day average for tests is at a record high.
After a major dip around the holidays, the number of reported tests has come back to record levels.
The case and hospitalization numbers are at very high absolute levels, but — at least for the past few days — both measures have leveled off in all regions.
Our daily update is published. States reported 2.3M tests, 244k cases, 127,235 people currently hospitalized with COVID-19, and 3,679 deaths. The 7-day average for tests is at a record high.
On a national level, it appears COVID-19 hospitalizations are on the decline. Note: there are still some jurisdictions experiencing an overwhelming amount of hospitalizations.
Some encouraging news: the 7-day averages for cases are declining in all 4 regions.
States reported 2 million tests, 223k cases, 128,947 people currently hospitalized with COVID-19, and 3,915 deaths.
After holiday disruptions, our core metrics stabilize at different rates. We believe the bulk of holiday-related case and death backlogs have been reported, but that we're only now seeing a lot of the test backlogs, hence today's new 7-day average record.
As the data normalizes, the U.S. is still reporting more than 200,000 cases and 3,000 deaths per day. These are the highest levels of the pandemic.
A month since COVID-19 vaccine distribution began, it is still impossible for the public and the media to track the rollout of vaccines in nursing homes, assisted living facilities, and other long-term-care facilities in most states.
As a reminder, less than 1 percent of US residents live in long-term-care facilities—but they make up at least 37% of the nation’s total COVID-19 deaths.
Last week, South Carolina released federal vaccine data that shows which long-term-care facilities have received doses. They are the only state providing this transparency on the vaccine process.
The CDC and other states should follow their lead.