I’ve now been tracking the spread of COVID-19 in the U.S for 52 weeks. A Year One update thus seemed appropriate.
The U.S. has seen ~30M COVID-19 cases with ~530K resultant deaths.
My latest video shows weekly new cases per capita by state to help visualize the relative spread across the U.S. over the past year. The darker the shade, the higher the per capita new case count. I use a low threshold of 0.05% to allow a white color to imply a controlled (if non-zero) per capita infection rate in a given state.
The U.S. has approved three COVID-19 vaccines, two of which are currently being distributed and both of which require two doses. 26M people have received both doses so about 8% of the U.S. population has been fully vaccinated. Another 26M people have received their first dose. (Two U.S. Vaccine Rollout links have been added to my COVID-19 links page.)
Overall, while things have improved since the holiday season peak, trends now appear to be headed in the wrong direction again. Despite some state governments (such as Texas) declaring a very premature victory, I don’t have a good feeling about this.
Yogi Berra was absolutely right. It ain’t over ’til it’s over.