Our daily update is published. States reported 2M tests, 147k cases, 97,561 people currently hospitalized with COVID-19, and 2,972 deaths.
Today’s update includes no data from CT, KS, LA, or RI, and no data except hospitalizations from AL. The MA update includes data from approximately 24,800 PCR tests not reported yesterday due to a technical problem.
In the weekly view, cases are down 14% and current hospitalizations are down 12%. Tests are down about 3%, and reported deaths rose about 2%.
The number of people currently hospitalized with COVID-19 in the US is now below 100k for the first time since December 1. Almost all US states are seeing hospitalizations decline or flatten, and CA, FL, and TX all posted big drops today.
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Some important news about CTP: After a year of collecting, analyzing, and interpreting COVID-19 data for the United States—and months of preparation for what we’re about to announce—we’re ending our data compilation work on March 7. covidtracking.com/analysis-updat…
We didn’t come to this decision easily, but we have believed from the very beginning of the project that the work of compiling, publishing, and analyzing COVID-19 data for the US properly belongs to federal public health agencies.
The CDC and HHS are now publishing data that is much more comparable to the figures we have been compiling from states since last spring. Gaps and inconsistencies remain, and we will continue to analyze federal data and document what we find through the end of May.
Our daily update is published. States reported 1.7M tests, 118k cases, 95,013 people currently hospitalized with COVID-19, and 2,055 deaths.
January saw the most deaths of any month so far at 95,211, nearly 20k more than in December. On average, more people were hospitalized than in any other month.
At the same time, the 7-day average number of new cases is more than 40k fewer than at the beginning of the month and more than 100k fewer than at their peak on January 12. The number of people currently hospitalized is more than 37k fewer than at its mid-month peak.
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.
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.
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.