Amid ongoing COVID-19 surges in long-term care facilities, some hope was restored. This week, the @CDCgov Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices recommended that LTC facilit...

The Midwest remains the epicenter of COVID-19 in long-term care facilities. The region has seen the highest number of reported LTC cases & deaths every week since mid-November....

In November, about 1/3 of all US states and territories reported their highest long-term care case numbers since the start of the pandemic. https://t.co/R0xTnFhmjg

One caveat to our LTC update this week: Many states had irregular data reporting over the week of Thanksgiving, so our update is almost certainly an undercount. Despite this, we *s...

Long-term care facilities surpassed 100,000 known COVID-19 deaths last week. As a reminder: LTC residents are disproportionately affected. They make up about 40% of the nation’s ...

The holiday effect is still noticeable as some states are only providing partial data updates.

Today's COVID-19 death count is the second highest on record after May 7th. It is also the first time deaths have exceed 5k in a 2-day period. https://t.co/2Ej14q2lpG

CA reported over 20k COVID-19 cases today. This is the highest daily case count for a state to date. https://t.co/W1gaCVlVqY

Our daily update is published. States reported 1.4 million tests, 196k cases, and 2,733 deaths. There are 100,226 people currently hospitalized with COVID-19 in the US —the first...

We’re now tracking deaths among cases, the most prominent deaths number ND reports. This change increased the all-time number of deaths we record in North Dakota by 222. You can ...

Today, we changed our source for North Dakota’s deaths metric. We previously tracked individuals with COVID-19 on their death certificate to align with federal standards, but ND�...

A handful of states reported data for more than one day today, a result of data disruptions caused by the Thanksgiving holiday. On the other hand, CO, NJ, TX, WA, and WY only publi...

Indiana and Nevada are now reporting more than 500 currently hospitalized per million people, along with South Dakota. For reference, the highest value of hospitalizations per mill...

As the number of current hospitalizations approaches 100k people, daily deaths have begun to rebound, after a post-holiday drop. We saw the same pattern after Labor Day. https://t....

Our daily update is published. States reported 1.3 million tests, 177k cases, and 2,473 deaths. There are 99k people currently hospitalized with COVID-19 in the US, a new record. h...

We're excited about a major update to our charts page at . You can now view topline data at a glance as well as carousel through 20 custom built visuals. Many thanks to @thatkev...

For this week's media call on Thursday at 1pm Eastern, we'll look at the post-Thanksgiving data, with a focus on hospitalizations. If you're a journalist, you can sign up here: ...

Zooming out to the monthly view, November was a very bad month, even with the data wobbles at the end. All things considered, it was probably the worst month of the pandemic outsid...

It's important to remember that these are not deaths from Thanksgiving. They occurred days to weeks ago, but are only now becoming part of the public record.

As we see the data catch up, we are expecting to see much higher numbers over the next week. This is especially true for deaths, where it seems likely we'll see more daily deaths r...

The data disruptions that we're seeing are expected around a holiday. So far, things have played out more-or-less as we thought they would. Here was our pre-Thanksgiving analysis: ...

Hospitalizations have doubled since November 1 and tripled since October 1. We should see 100k hospitalizations in the next couple of days. https://t.co/pGpyCPlnXF

Our daily update is published. Our testing, case, and death statistics continue to be affected by the Thanksgiving holiday and weekend. Hospitalizations are less affected by the da...

Looking at regional hospitalizations, we see three regions moving up fast, as the Midwest possibly slows. In California, the number of hospitalized patients has doubled from 4k Nov...

The data problems will not go away tomorrow. Even after a normal weekend, Tuesday-Saturday numbers are substantially higher than Sunday and Monday. This is true for tests and cases...

The data wobbles don't consist only of some states not reporting at all—though that's happened a lot—but that most or all states that are reporting do not have a full data pipe...

Our daily update is published. Our testing, case, and death statistics continue to be affected by the Thanksgiving holiday. Hospitalizations are less affected by the data slowdown ...

Today marks another new high for current COVID-19 hospitalizations. Hospitalizations have gone up every day since Oct 25 except for yesterday, and yesterday’s decrease was probab...

Many states are reporting two days of data today, while others aren’t updating many of their metrics. We continue to advise extra caution in interpreting the data this week. ...

Our daily update is published. States and territories reported 1.7M tests, 152K cases, 91,635 current hospitalizations, and 1,202 deaths. 5 jurisdictions didn’t report today and ...

The last time hospitalizations decreased was Oct 25. Deaths are also noticeably low for a Friday - 26% lower than last week. https://t.co/vjg4X5TOj6

We're beginning to see signs of the holiday effect. Today's inflated totals for tests and cases are due to several states reporting 2 days worth of data. We expect the data to cont...

Our daily update is published. States reported 2.1M tests (record), 194k cases (record), 89,834 current hospitalizations, and 1,374 deaths. https://t.co/1O4pmBC2Vy

We couldn’t bring you a single data point without the thousands of people in labs, state and local health departments, test sites, and hospitals who record every single number we...

Reminder that we expect the data to be weird for several more days. Tomorrow may be big when some states come back online, or it may stay closer to a normal Friday. ...

The following jurisdictions did not report today: AS, CT, FL, KS, KY, LA, MA, MI, MN, MP, NC, NH, OH, RI, SC, SD, UT, VI, VT, WY. 10 more reported partial data. Some will report tw...

Our daily update is published. States reported 1.2M tests, 125k cases, 90,481 current hospitalizations, and 1,319 deaths. 20 states/territories didn’t report; 10 did partial repo...

All of the previous data remains on the state of Wyoming's page and in our API, but we changed our default presentation. This post lays out why we've made these changes over the la...

As part of our continuing project to create a cleaner, more comparable dataset across states, we switched to a new time series for the state of Wyoming. It resulted in an increase ...

As the Thanksgiving holiday approaches, we expect significant disruptions in state reported data. We will continue to collect and report daily data and provide disclaimers as neces...