Our daily update is published. Our daily update is published. States reported 2.1M tests, 155k cases, 104,303 people currently hospitalized with COVID-19, and 4,011 deaths.
Hospitalizations fell by over 3,000 today. There were big drops across all the major outbreak states.
Hospitalizations are falling because cases are falling in every region. The West is back to pre-Thanksgiving levels. The Midwest is confirming fewer cases than at any time since mid-October.
Deaths remain very high nationally, driven by record numbers of deaths reported in the South and West.
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Our most recent look at the race and ethnicity data available from states has been published. The continued lack of consistent, comprehensive data makes it impossible to fully understand who is being infected with and dying of COVID-19.
More Black Americans have died of COVID-19 since the pandemic began than there are names on the Vietnam Memorial. More Black or Latinx people have died than the number of people commemorated on the AIDS Memorial Quilt. The loss to the country is on a catastrophic scale.
The race and ethnicity data reported by states shows declining—but persistent—inequities. 1 in 6 Latinx people in Rhode Island and Utah has tested positive for COVID-19 since the pandemic began.
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%.
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.
Our daily update is published. States reported 1.7M tests, 144k cases, 108,957 people currently hospitalized with COVID-19, and 3,734 deaths.
The U.S. hit 25 million confirmed cases in our data today. This is only a fraction of the real number of infections, which modeling experts estimate is at least several times higher.
The number of hospitalized COVID-19 cases is falling nearly everywhere in the country. (Among the outliers: Hawaii and Vermont numbers are quite small, and Kansas's data regularly bounces around.)
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.
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…