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The Worst Week for Deaths Since the Pandemic Began The COVID Tracking Project
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Updated at 10:00 a.m. ET on January 15, 2021.
For 16 weeks, throughout the fall and then straight through the data disruptions around Thanksgiving, Christmas, and New Year’s Day, the number of people currently hospitalized with COVID-19 has risen. On October 13, there were 36,000 people with COVID-19 in U.S. hospitals. Yesterday, on January 13, there were 130,000.
This week, after two weeks of holiday-muddled death data, the inevitable consequence of these rising hospitalizations arrived. States reported 23,259 COVID-19 deaths this week, 25 percent more than in any other week since the pandemic began. For scale, the COVID-19 deaths reported this week exceed the CDC s current estimate for flu-related deaths during the
The Most Reliable Pandemic Number Keeps Getting Worse The COVID Tracking Project
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In the first week of 2021, the United States reported more cases of COVID-19 than at any other point in the pandemic so far, and the second-highest number of deaths. Holiday data-reporting slowdowns from Christmas and New Year’s are likely still affecting most metrics most notably reported tests, which are still well below pre-holiday levels. Hospitalizations, our most stable metric through the holidays, continue to march upward. © Provided by The Atlantic
The Pandemic Is Crashing Through the South and the West The COVID Tracking Project
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We’ll begin with the good news: In every midwestern state and in several others COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations are declining. Elsewhere, however, the picture is mixed. In several large states, already large outbreaks appear to be rapidly worsening and despite intense interest in how Thanksgiving gatherings affected reported cases, even public-health experts have found it difficult to interpret the numbers we’ve seen.
Other news this week is tragically easy to interpret: As of yesterday, December is already the deadliest month since the beginning of the pandemic in the United States. The 3,379 deaths states and territories reported yesterday pushed December’s total to 57,638 COVID-19 deaths, for an average of 2,506 deaths reported per day in Dece
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