Delta variant accounts for 58% of US infections; Missouri requests field hospital: COVID-19 updates
Elinor Aspegren, Steven Vargas and Grace Hauck, USA TODAY
COVID-19 fall surge begins early due to the rise of cases related to the Delta variant
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Cases and deaths from COVID-19 rose in more than half of U.S. states over the past week as vaccination rates slow and the highly transmissible delta variant spreads across the globe.
Forty-seven states reported more new COVID-19 cases last week than in the week before, and deaths rose in 30 states compared to a week earlier, a USA TODAY analysis of Johns Hopkins University data shows.