National numbers, December 12

Remember how, last week, I said that the dip in the CDC’s case counts was a vestige of Thanksgiving data delays—and we’d see more cases in the next week? Well, we’re seeing those cases now. Cases have increased by 37% from last week to this week, and they’ve increased by 55% in the last month.

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National numbers, November 28

As is typically the case on holidays, Thanksgiving has made COVID-19 reporting a bit wonky. Still, cases seem to continue trending up at the national level. The U.S. is now reporting close to 100,000 new cases a day, and holiday travel is likely to push this number up further.

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National numbers, Dec. 6

Over 100,000 people are now hospitalized with COVID-19 (it’s 101,200 as of yesterday, twice the number of patients at the beginning of November). Meanwhile, the deaths of 15,000 Americans were reported last week—the highest number of any week in the pandemic thus far.

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