Thread by @prchovanec

The US reported +241 new coronavirus deaths yesterday, bringing the total to 629,315. A great many states is not report. The 7-day moving average rose slightly to 321 deaths per day.

The US reported +51,898 new confirmed cases of COVID-19 yesterday, bringing the total to over 35.7 million. As mentioned, many states did not report. The 7-day moving average rose to 74,986 new cases per day, its highest level since February 17.

The big news yesterday, of course, was Florida, which reported 21,683 new cases, a new record.

New hospital admissions in Florida due to COVID-19 are up a further +50.7% from a week ago, and are now well above the previous peak in January.

New hospital admissions in the US due to COVID-19 are up +34.4% from a week ago.

The latest map from nytimes.com shows where the spread of COVID-19 has been concentrated over the past week:

Here are the hardest-hit states in the US, in terms of new COVID hospital admissions on a per capita basis:

By comparison, here are the states with the highest vaccination rates and how they are doing:

Here are the hardest-hit counties in the US, in terms of new hospital admissions per capita:

And here are the US counties with the highest vaccination rates, by comparison.

The US administered 712,000 vaccine shots yesterday, bringing the total to 346 million, or 104.1 doses per 100 people. The 7-day moving average rose to 657,000 shots per day. At this rate, it will take another 7 month to reach 75% coverage of the population.

The number of Americans getting their first vaccine shot has rebounded slightly, but is still below the levels initially achieved in January, as the vaccination campaign was just ramping up.

With 54.0% of its population vaccinated, the US has now fallen behind China (57.8%), as well as the UK, France, Germany, Austria, Italy, Chile, Ireland, Spain, Israel, Bahrain, and UAE.

It's interesting that while many people tout Israel as a vaccination success story - and evidence that vaccines don't prevent the spread of COVID - in fact after soaring initially, Israel's campaign largely plateaued, with the vaccination rate now standing at 61.6%.