Our daily update is published. States reported 1.4M tests, 78k cases, 80,055 people currently hospitalized with COVID-19, and 1,309 deaths.
While the weekend effect is most often reflected in Monday data, today's number of COVID-19 cases is still the lowest since Oct 27.
The number of people currently hospitalized with COVID-19 has dropped by 21k in 10 days. In the last week, hospitalizations have decreased by 10% or more in 40 states.
A persistent issue throughout this pandemic has been that there is still an insufficient amount of COVID-19 testing. For comparison, we've seen more cases in the last 8 days than in all of June, while the 7-day average for tests continues to decline.
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Our weekly analysis is up. Week over week, we saw cases, hospitalizations, and deaths decline nationally. Absolute numbers for these metrics remain very high, but the trends are good. covidtracking.com/analysis-updat…
Regional outbreaks have moved at different speeds through the fall and winter, and some are still in the early stages of easing. In the Midwest, case numbers have returned to levels we last saw in Sept and Oct.
Since January 1, COVID-19 hospitalizations have declined in every US region, though to widely varying degrees.
Our daily update is published. States reported 1.4 million tests, 117k cases, 91,440 currently hospitalized, and 3,685 deaths.
We have seen the 7-day average for new deaths decrease for over a week. At the same time, states are reporting an average of 3,000 people dying per day. The data is hopeful and devastating.
We continue our rolling updates to the metrics tracked in our original totalTestResults API field. We updated test metrics for Pennsylvania today, resulting in a ~28k daily increase and ~4.8 million cumulative increase in new tests. Follow our progress: covidtracking.com/about-data/tot…
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.