7 because many states and local jurisdictions did not announce new data on Labor Day.ĭelaware added many deaths from previous months. The daily count is artificially low on Sept. The state indicated that many of the 289 deaths announced were from previous months. Minnesota added more than 8,000 cases from previous months representing people who were infected twice.Īrkansas added many deaths. 11 because many states and local jurisdictions did not announce new data on Veterans Day. The daily count is artificially low on Nov. 25 because many states and local jurisdictions did not announce new data on Thanksgiving.

25 because many states and local jurisdictions did not announce new data on Christmas. The daily count is artificially low on Dec. 17 because many states and local jurisdictions did not announce new data on the Martin Luther King Jr. The daily count is artificially low on Jan. The cumulative number of deaths decreased because Massachusetts removed many previously reported deaths. More about reporting anomalies or changes The Times has identified reporting anomalies or methodology changes in the data. case and death total in order to account for irregularly timed case and death reports at the state level. This average may not match the average when calculated from the U.S. national case and death count averages, the average is the sum of the average number of cases and deaths in all states and territories each day. Certain days with anomalous total case or death reports are excluded from the average or have a portion of their cases and deaths which correspond to data backlogs removed from the average calculation. When calculating rolling averages, these days representing multiple day's worth of data are always included together, which means that in instances of irregularly timed reporting, the seven-day average may be an average over more than seven days. Data from days following non-reporting days is averaged over that day and the non-reporting days that precede it. For case and death seven-day averages, if there are days within that range with no data reported, the period is extended to older days until at least seven days of data are included. Cases and deaths data are assigned to dates based on when figures are publicly reported. Department of Health and Human Services and are subject to historical revisions. Hospitalizations and test positivity are reported based on dates assigned by the U.S. viral test specimens tested by laboratories and state health departments and reported to the federal government by the 50 states, Washington D.C. Hospitalization numbers early in the pandemic are undercounts due to incomplete reporting by hospitals to the federal government. Dips and spikes could be due to inconsistent reporting by hospitals. Figures for Covid patients in hospitals and I.C.U.s are the most recent number of patients with Covid-19 who are hospitalized or in an intensive care unit on that day. The seven-day average is the average of the most recent seven days of data. Department of Health and Human Services (test positivity, hospitalizations, I.C.U. Still, deaths today are far lower than they were a year ago, when the Delta variant was causing nearly 2,000 deaths per day.Ĥ13 About this data Sources: State and local health agencies (cases, deaths) U.S. Data on new virus deaths is volatile at the moment because of the lingering effects of Labor Day weekend, when many states did not report.Fewer than 35,000 people are currently in American hospitals with the coronavirus each day, a decrease of 11 percent over the past two weeks. Hospitalizations have also seen sustained improvement.More than a dozen states and territories have seen cases decrease by 40 percent or more since the start of the month. Cases are flat or falling in nearly every state, and in many places, the declines are significant.Fewer than 70,000 coronavirus cases are currently announced each day in the United States, the lowest level seen since early May.30 that booster doses are sometimes misclassified as first doses, which may overestimate first dose coverage among adults. About this data Sources: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, state governments, U.S.

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