Before the daily data, our weekly update is published.
COVID-19 cases fell in almost every state. Hospitalizations are down another 10% from last week, though still above levels seen in previous surges. Deaths, which lag, remain high and rose 7%.
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COVID-19 cases fell in almost every state. Hospitalizations are down another 10% from last week, though still above levels seen in previous surges. Deaths, which lag, remain high and rose 7%.
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In long-term-care facilities, cases and deaths both fell from a week ago—the first time these two metrics have fallen together so far in 2021.
On a more granular level, there were 515 counties on Dec 20 that were seeing 7-day average cases above 1 per 1,000 ppl. Now that figure is down to 287—a decline of over 44% in a month.
This decline in cases is borne out by drops in hospitalizations across the country. Only VT saw COVID-19 hospitalizations increase this week—from 46 to 47 patients, which was an increase of 2%.
While some jurisdictions are seeing an uptick in the percentage of variant cases among tested samples, we won't know whether the variants are to blame for any increase in COVID-19 cases or hospitalizations until states are able to perform significantly more genomic sequencing.
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